Huai'an Prefecture Office (Huai'an Prefecture Yamen)

Huai'an Prefecture Government Office was first built in the third year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1370) and is located at No. 38 Dongmen Street, Huai'an District, Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province.

The Huai'an Prefecture Government Office is connected end to end with the Governor's Office of the Grand Canal, Zhenhuai Tower, and Shanyang County Government Office to its south. It is located on the central axis of the ancient city, with a total length of about 1 kilometer and an area of ​​nearly 20,000 square meters.
There are more than 50 buildings and 600 rooms in the Yameng, which are divided into three roads: east, middle and west. The lobby building of Huai'an government office has the characteristics of official architecture, reflecting the clear form specifications and grade requirements of government office buildings in China during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and has the architectural cultural characteristics of the Huai'an area.

Chuzhou was the seat of counties, states, roads and prefectures in successive dynasties, from the establishment of Shanyang County in the seventh year of Yixi (411) during the reign of Emperor An of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. Historically, Huai'an Prefecture governed nine counties and two states. From the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, a total of 199 prefects served here. It once tried the "Li Yuchang Disaster Relief Case", one of the four major strange cases in the Qing Dynasty, which is related to the creation background of famous dramas such as "The Injustice of Dou E" and "The Case of Judge Shi".

Huai'an Prefecture Office

Post by balanced.leona | Mar 18, 2025