The architectural characteristics of the Hall of Eight Faces of Huangshan

Huangshan eight-face hall overall layout near rectangular "back" shape, the existing building is divided into three roads and six courtyards, **** 64, building area of 2500 square meters. Intersected by a central axis and two horizontal axis constitutes the main building and ancillary buildings of the Hall of eight sides. Distributed along the central axis in turn for the flower hall site, foyer, hall, hall building, north and south of the central axis, respectively, there are two triad, the central axis of the four halls and the horizontal axis of the four compartment halls, the formation of eight halls, it is commonly known as the eight-sided hall .

Existing buildings in addition to the Hall in the eleventh year of the Qing Xianfeng (1861) was destroyed by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement of war only the ruins, the other seven halls are basically well-preserved. The foyer, hall and hall building are the ancestral hall building, which is the core of the whole building, and is the place for the Chen clan to hold rituals, gatherings, deliberation and all kinds of ceremonies, so it is extremely grand in scale and is covered with complicated and exquisite stone, brick and wood carvings. The triad on the horizontal axis is the home of the family, slightly rustic, in the structure, each courtyard has a main hall, rooms, corridors, patios, etc., a self-contained system. Halls and halls between the two opposite, but each with its own characteristics; foyer internal corridor walkway, corridor connected; portal 18 head, hall halls connected. Outside the size of the gateway 8, from any door to enter, can not wet feet walk through 8 halls. The whole layout is rigorous, neat, symmetrical and orderly, with the typical style characteristics of mid-Qing residential houses in Zhejiang, reflecting the ethical concepts of Chinese family life and the living habits of the family.

Huangshan eight-face hall design builder ingenuity, is located in the location of the surrounding mountains, the front of the Phoenix Creek from northwest to southeast from the eight-face hall before the flow and the back of the pillow yarn hat tip of the valley of the mountain, and the surrounding topography, the natural scenery can be extremely well integrated together. The pink walls and tiles, together with the changing horse-head walls, appear to be pure and elegant. While the design concept of front hall and back garden is commonly used in southern residential buildings, the Eight-face Hall places the garden at the forefront of the overall building, which on the one hand reflects the owner's unique aesthetic concepts and lifestyle, and on the other hand emphasizes the fusion with the surrounding nature, which is varied in accordance with the topographical environment.

Huangshan eight-face hall with exquisite materials, especially worth mentioning the rich artistic decorations, its exquisite wood carvings, stone carvings, brick carvings can be said to be ghostly work of art. Foyer on the facade of a large number of Taoist characters as the theme of the brick carving, smooth lines, vivid modeling; covered with baggage, stone stumble stone carvings, to entwined flowers, Taoist Eight Immortals, phoenix motifs as the theme, different forms, both abstract and realistic. And densely covered in the entire eight-sided hall of wood carving for the most of the three carvings, such as the foyer, hall beams, purlins, square, sparrow for the cow legs, grid fan, picking the head and the corridor a few legs cover, the ceiling and the door, windows, are covered with carvings, rich in subject matter, there are single characters, character stories, Buddha, Taoism, fairy, saint story, but also animal and plant images, buildings, landscapes, as well as a variety of designs and patterns, etc., is almost heavenly, earth, and underground, there are almost everything. Auspicious meaning, there are pictures must be intentional, intentional must be auspicious, such as the two fish auspicious celebration, the bottle born of wealth and prosperity, the age of three friends, everything is as good as it can be, gold and jade in the hall, LianYuYouYu, and the two immortals, auspicious celebrations of the surplus, the flat rise of three levels, the Five Fortunes of Longevity, the Dark Eight Immortals and other motifs, the form of lifelike, carving and exquisite. Carving techniques set line carving, flat carving, round carving, relief carving, pick carving, skeletonization, translucent carving is equal to the integration of vivid modeling, shape and spirit, lifelike, breathtaking. Huangshan eight-sided hall of three carving art, for China's architectural art on a bright pearl, is a temple of art, is a museum of carving art, is an outstanding representative of the south of the region of the Han Chinese residential architecture carving art