History of Hunan Association

Hunan Huiguan was founded in the Ming Dynasty, and reached its peak in the Qing Dynasty. The Ming writer Liu Dong wrote in The Scenery of Imperial Beijing, "I have tasted that the guild halls were set up in the capital, which had not existed in ancient times, but began

Jia Long." The hall began during the Jiajing and Longqing years (1522 to 1572) is considered a corroboration. According to statistics, the earliest was built in the Ming Yongle period of Jiangxi Nanchang Guild Hall; built the latest for the construction of Hubei Daye Guild Hall in 1936.

Hunan Guild Hall was built in the thirteenth year of the Qing Guangxu (1887). It was initially used as a residence for Hunan students, officials and candidates who came to Beijing to take the examination. During the Republic of China period, it became a place for the activities of Hunan revolutionaries. *** There are 66 houses. The central part is a courtyard pattern, and the western part has the original Wenchang Pavilion, Huizhao Hall and the theater building. The existing buildings are: 10 east rooms, five purlins deep, one of which was opened as a wide bright gate; the main house 5 rooms, five purlins deep plus front porch, attached to the east ear room 2 rooms; east and west room 2 rooms, five purlins before the porch; south of the east room 3 rooms, west room 5 rooms, are five purlins deep; the southernmost inverted room 5 rooms, five purlins deep plus the front porch. All the houses are with tile roof and ridge ridge. Now it is used for the kindergarten of Aman Hutong, and it is still well preserved.

Before the Qing Yongzheng province, Hunan in Beijing, there is no hometown hall. In the eleventh year of the Tongzhi era (1872), Tan Jixun, the father of Tan Sitong, and several Hunan officials in Beijing purchased a government house in North Semi-Cut Hutong, which was used as a public property of Hunan Province. In August of 1887, Hunan officials in Beijing purchased a house in the south-facing Rotten Hutong in Caishikou, and set up the "Hunan Association Hall". In the west side of the middle of this Rotten Hutong, there is a six-storey courtyard, dozens of rooms of the county hall "Xiangxiang Hall", which was founded by Zeng Guofan, an important minister of the Qing Dynasty. Dozens of steps southward from Xiangxiang Huikuan is Hunan Huikuan, the provincial hall. According to "Beijing Hunan Guild Hall", "the hall ***36 rooms, there is a theater, a Wenchang Pavilion, the East Hall, Wangheng Hall, the West Hall and the atrium are spacious, for the usual collection of the place". Hall of the vermilion red gate squatting stone lion pair. South room wall embedded with the Guangxu ten years (AD 1884) Changsha Xu Shujun copy engraved Su Dongpo's book "Mingzhou Ayurveda Guangli Temple Chenkui Pavilion Tablet". There are two other public properties and two ancestral halls under the jurisdiction of the Guild. Beijing Hunan Association Hall for Hunan students to Beijing to catch up with the rest of the place, after the Republic of China has gradually become Hunan fellow townsmen, students go to Beijing to study or make a living in the sojourn. It is rumored that Mao Zedong also lived in Beijing Hunan Hall for a period of time.