Hu Family Ancestral Hall in Qiawan Village, Nanfeng, Jiangxi

The Hu Family Ancestral Hall in Qiawan is located in Qiawan Village, Qiawan Town, Nanfeng County, Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province. Facing the Canglang River and backed by Maopeng Mountain, construction began in 1608 (36th year of Wanli reign) and was completed in 1620 (48th year of Wanli reign).

The ancestral hall faces south and sits north, with the Canglang River in front and Maopeng Mountain behind. It measures 35m wide and 53m deep, covering an area of 1,600 square meters. The complex features three halls and two courtyards, with seven rooms across its width, and a hard-top roof built in brick and wood structure. The main entrance has three parallel doors with a hard-top, double-slope roof in an outward-spreading design. A pair of stone lions stands beside the middle gate. Each side gate features a pair of drum-embracing stones carved with flowers representing the four seasons - spring, summer, fall, and winter. The front courtyard measures 14m in length and width. On both east and west sides of the courtyard are corridors supported by 4 stone pillars and 3 moon beams. The middle hall features a beam-lifting wooden structure in the center, with four-room-wide through-tenon wooden structures on both east and west sides. The upper hall serves as the Hu family temple, housing ancestral tablets of past generations, and shares the same structural design as the middle hall, with a beam-lifting wooden structure in the center and three-room-wide through-tenon wooden structures on both sides. Corridors connect the middle hall and the courtyard.

The ancestral hall preserves a Ming Dynasty stone imperial edict tablet. The stone tablet measures approximately 90cm in length and 45cm in width, with traditional Chinese characters for "Imperial Edict" clearly and powerfully engraved on both sides. It is designated as a key cultural relic protection site in Jiangxi Province.

Post by VictoriaMcDermott99 | Apr 3, 2025