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Chengkan
village in Huizhou District, Anhui province is
famous for
the residential architecture of the Ming and Qing style.
Baolun
Hall in the Ancestral Temple of Luo's, built during
the Jiaqing's
reign, is a representative collection of typical Huizhou
architecture. |
The temple covers an area of 5 mu (1/3 hectare), Baolun
Hall were well-designed and
constructed with extreme delicacy. Through the first entrance,
visitors reach "Tianjing" -
a square dooryard with rooms on each side designed for enough
lighting and draught. Secondly
, comes a great hall, in which four vermilion posts support
the timber frame. Further across
a yard is the main hall - Baolun Hall.
The design of this timber frame hall is delicacy and unique.
Exquisite engravings of flowers
and geometric pattern on the bluestone parapets and creative
colored paintings on the beams,
lintels and doorframe lure many foreign visitors. The colors
remain bright and fresh although
throughout ages. A pair of wooden staircases ascends to
the second floor on which though the
finely engraved casements, visitors can have a perspective
of the Huangshan mountians.
The residential houses in Chengkan village are of high
value on the research of China's folk
architecture and have been designated as a provincial preservation.