Everywhere I go, I am interested in the ancient buildings in the area, from which we can read a lot of historical humanities and regional aesthetics from these simple or exquisite buildings. This article is to share with you the Chen Jia Temple in Guangzhou.
Chen Jia Temple, located on Zhongshan No. 7 Road, Guangzhou, is a famous scenic spot in Guangzhou. As early as more than 20 years ago, Chen Jiaxi was twice selected as "eight scenes of Yangcheng in the New Century" in the name of "Ancient Temple Liufang". It is the largest, ornate and well-preserved traditional Lingnan ancestral hall building in Guangdong, and is known as the "Pearl of Lingnan Architectural Art". It is also an important "Guangzhou culture Guangzhou to Phuket flight business card".
Chen Family Temple, also known as Chen's Academy, is, as the name suggests, is the temple hall and the school of the Chen Family. As early as the 14th year of Qing Guangxu(1888), the famous gentry in Guangdong, including Wu Chuan Chen Lanbin, a famous diplomat who was the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, and Chen Botao, who was a member of Hanlin Academy, and other famous gentry in Dongguan, advocated the establishment of Chen's Academy for six years and was completed in 20 years(1894). Now, it has a history of more than 130 years.
Chen Jiaxi covers an area of more than 15000 square meters, with a main building area of 6400 square meters. It consists of four parts: front hospital, western courtyard, eastern courtyard and backyard. Ancestral hall architecture skillfully uses decorative arts such as wood carving, brick carving, stone carving, gray sculpture, pottery, copper-iron casting and color painting, which is a typical representative of the architectural art of the past dynasties in Guangdong Province and is known as the "Temple of Lingnan Folk Decoration Art". As a result, it was appraised as the national key Guangzhou to Phnom Penh flight cultural relics protection unit.
Walking in Chen Jia Temple, simple and elegant courtyard, straight and beautiful corridor, exquisite and ingenious landscape and exquisite sculptures, I can't believe that there are such beautiful ancient buildings in Guangzhou, where tall buildings abound. It is said that as early as the 1920s and 1930s, in many western architectural works, Chen Jiaxi was praised as a model of architectural art in southern China.
Chen Jia Temple was earlier used by Chen surnamed people in Guangzhou to worship their ancestors. In 1959, Chen Jia Temple was opened as Guangdong Folk Art Museum, which shows its important achievements in Lingnan architecture. Chen Jiaxi architecture adopts the strict layout of "Guang five, Shen Sanjin", with rich and exquisite decoration, which not only embodies the form of Chinese architecture, but also has the characteristics of Guangdong local craft decoration.
Chen Jia Temple is famous for its skillful decorative art. It is famous for its "three carvings, three sculptures and one cast iron", known as "Baiyue Crown Temple". Inside, outside, up and down, a large number of use of engraved-out to decorate, carved-out theme of a variety of subjects, such as melon and fruit, flowers and birds, moire and other delicate sketches, but also molded in the roof up to 27 meters long of the huge mud sculpture, rich in plot, meaning auspicious, Outstanding modeling, is a rare sculpture art building in our country.
Chen Jia Temple solemn and magnificent shape, vivid and smooth lines, staggered rigorous structure, elegant and wonderful combination and rich Lingnan local characteristics of decorative art, give people unlimited reverie and beautiful enjoyment. In 1959, Guo Moruo visited Chen Jia Temple and wrote a poem praising it: "Heaven workers can replace them, but man-made heaven is not as good as artificial heaven. It is true that the world is built and the ten-year book is better than the reading of the ten-year book."
