Who is the Chenjia Temple in Guangzhou to commemorate?

It is the Chenjia Temple in Guangdong Province, also known as Chen Academy.

The Chenjiaci was built in the 16th to 20th years of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1890- 1894) and designed by Li Julin.

The whole building faces south, covering an area of/kloc-0.5 million square meters, and the main building is 6400 square meters.

It consists of 19 building, three entrances, five exits, nine halls and six hospitals.

Chenjiaci is famous for its exquisite decorative arts, and it is a collection of decorative arts of Lingnan folk architecture. It is famous for its "three sculptures, three plastics and one cast iron" and is known as the "Baiyue Official Temple".

Chen Academy faces south, with an open square in front and courtyards in front, back, east and west, covering an area of13200m2.

The main building is 80 meters wide and 80 meters deep, and the plane is square.

It adopts a beam-lifting building structure and a hard mountain-closing volcanic wall.

In general, the layout of "three entrances, three roads, nine halls and two compartments" is adopted, and the six hospitals and eight corridors are interspersed with each other.

Strict and symmetrical layout, spacious space, clear priorities.

In the treatment of architecture, the central axis is the main line, surrounded by low buildings and corridors on both sides, which sets off the majestic spirit of the main hall and forms a vertical and horizontal structure that highlights the main body.

There are blue brick walls around the building, forming a complex with closed outside and open inside, which is a typical Guangdong folk ancestral temple building.

Chen Academy is famous for its exquisite decoration technology. Wood carving, stone carving, brick carving, pottery sculpture, gray sculpture, mural painting and copper-iron casting are widely used in its architectural decoration.

The carving techniques are simple and extensive, and elaborate, reflecting each other, making the academy solemn and elegant and magnificent.

Chen Academy has the largest number of woodcarvings, the largest scale and the richest content.

The beam of the first entrance door is carved with wood carvings based on historical stories and folklore, such as "The Queen Mother's Birthday", "The Union of Practitioners" and "Wei Chi's Palace Zheng Shuaiyin".

Among them, the most prominent is a group of bronze finches in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which depicts Cao Cao sitting on the bronze finches to watch the battle between generals under the tinker, highlighting the scene of Huang Xu and Chu Xu competing for brocade robes after the battle. The characters are vivid and fascinating.

These works gather the achievements of wood carving techniques in Guangdong Province.

The four screen doors of the gate are exquisitely carved: there are three woodcarving paintings on each door, two of which are hollowed out on both sides, and the next one is embossed, with the contents of "Walking in the snow, Xun Mei" and "Three Yang (sheep) opening Thailand" respectively.

Brick carving: The art of brick carving in Chenjiaci is superb.

The "Liangshan Juyi Hall" and "Liu Qingfu Langju" on the left and right sides of the gate are his representative works.

His works reproduce historical stories by means of round carving, relief, hollowing out and hanging line brick carving in brick carving.

Pottery carving, gray carving, colored sculpture and iron casting: the roof decoration of Chenjiaci adopts the "three sculptures" process as a whole.

The top floor is pottery, and the bottom floor is gray.

Among the architectural techniques in Guangdong, the flower ridge of Chenjiaci is the largest and most exquisite part.

* * * There are 1 1 such ceramic flower ridges, and 1800 meters of gray plastic decoration, Guangzhou is the best.

After the completion of the ancestral hall, it has been used as a place for Chen's children to study and run schools.

In the 31st year of Guangxu (1905), after the imperial examination was abolished, the academy was changed to Chen Industrial School.

In the folk period, it was successively a model school, Guangdong Institute of Physical Education and Juxian Middle School.

Guangzhou Administrative Cadre School was established in 1950.

1957, approved by the Guangzhou Municipal People's Committee, is listed as a cultural relics protection unit in Guangzhou, which is fully maintained and managed by the Guangzhou Cultural Relics Management Committee.

1959 was opened as Guangdong Folk Arts and Crafts Museum.

1960 was approved by the provincial people as a cultural relics protection unit in Guangdong Province.

1988 was announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

Under the protection and management of the cultural relics department, this group of artistic buildings can be carried forward for people at home and abroad to watch.