Brief introduction of Chen ancestral hall

Chen's Ancestral Hall is a Han ancestral hall building built in Qing Dynasty, which belongs to the place where Han people worship their ancestors and sages. Located in Ying Zheng Village, Baoxiu Town, Shiping County, Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan Province, it was built by Chen Heting, a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. This temple covers an area of 3427 square meters.

It is the perfect combination of quadrangle architecture of China classical monastery and folk diaojiao building. Its layout and structure are full of wisdom and exquisite skills. Its sculpture and structure are concise, accurate and harmonious in color, which is very consistent with the identity of the whole building as a ancestral temple and reflects the excellent internal quality of the ancestral temple builders. Its architectural theme is the close combination, embodiment and development of Confucianism, overseas Chinese in southern Yunnan and local ethnic architectural culture. The etiquette and enlightenment functions of ancestral temples have been expanded and sublimated in the new situation, and protecting traditional ancestral temples is the need of the times. Chen's ancestral hall is the Zongmen, Lianchi, attic, middle hall and main hall in turn along the central axis. The gate of the temple is an arched masonry structure, with a pair of stone lions in front of it, beautifully carved; There is a three-hole stone bridge on the lotus pond, which is engraved with pictures of the zodiac, and the buildings inside are also carefully carved. It is a national key cultural relics protection unit.