Haikou Zeng Clan Ancestral Hall
The building was built entirely in accordance with the shape structure of the Ancestral Ancestral Hall of the Tsang Clan in Shandong
It is in the same line as the "Zongsheng" Zengzi
Maide, Haikou Jiangdong Historical and Cultural Ancient Village, founded in the Ming Orthodox years, more than 500 years ago, the village is ancient, ancient houses, ancient wells, ancient ancestral halls exude a quiet and ancient charm.
The Tsang Ancestral Hall is the essence of the architectural art in the village and the ancestral hall that condenses the clan culture.
Tracing back to the roots, the roots of the Zeng clan in Maide Village are in the same vein as the Spring and Autumn Great Confucian Zengzi more than 2,000 years ago.
Zeng Zi, surname Zeng Ming Ginseng, character Zi You; late Spring and Autumn Lu Guoren, today in the Wucheng area of Shandong, Confucius disciple, Confucian scholars, one of the seventy-two sages, one of the four pairs of the Confucius Temple, honored as "Zongsheng".
The building of the Meide Zeng Ancestral Hall is completely built according to the specifications of the Shandong Zeng Ancestral Ancestral Hall, continuing the ancient rhyme of zengzi's Confucian style.
Due to the uniqueness of the building and the longevity of the culture, in November 2015, the Tsang Ancestral Hall was listed as a cultural relics protection unit in Hainan Province.
Located in the northwest of Maide Village, the Tsang Ancestral Hall covers an area of about 1,000 square meters, with a rectangular shape as a whole, consisting of a three-entry and two-corridor building layout.
The ancestral hall was built during the Qianlong period and has been added in successive dynasties, the last time being during the Qing Guangxu period.
There is a vast courtyard in front of the mountain gate, on which stand two pairs of rectangular stone foundations with holes, which are used for erecting poles, and are cleverly designed to have a certain distance from the mountain gate.
The mountain gate is the façade of the ancestral hall, and the door is inlaid with a large character in zhengyi "Wucheng Clan, Lu National Style". It declares the style of the Maidzen clan and the ancestor Zengzi.
The stone plaque on the lintel is inscribed with four characters of "Zeng Clan Ancestral Hall", which was rebuilt in the nineteenth year of Guangxu (1893).
A pair of drum stones are placed on both sides of the mountain gate, which is also a necessary configuration to highlight the high-specification ancestral hall.
Erjin is the front hall, that is, the Jingxuetang, and the private school for teaching and educating people in Maide Village is located in the qiantang and named: Jingxuetang; the school began to be opened during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.
In front of the main entrance of the front hall, a plaque of "Youyuan" was hung, and Qing Jiaqing stood for the thirteenth year of Zeng Jingting, a student of the Zeng clan, who won the first place in yougong.
A wooden plaque inscribed with the words "Jingxuetang" inscribed during the Guangxu period hangs in the main hall. On both sides of the main hall are hung "Daya Rotary" and "Hanyuan Chuying", two gold plaques, which are erected in recognition of the elite of Maide Village.
In addition, the School of Classics also walked out of the late Qing Dynasty Hainan's last Xie Yuan Zeng Yan, academician Zeng Dechao and other famous figures.
The exquisitely carved front hall hall is equipped with a golden plaque, which reflects the brilliance of the century-old ancient school, showing the ancestral legacy of the Zeng clan chasing the far away and inheriting the past.
The flowers and grasses in the courtyard are full of greenery, the sun is shining in the wind, and the greenery embellishes the solemn and quaint ancestral halls, highlighting the beauty of architectural art.
The third entrance is the main hall, that is, the Zongsheng Hall, in front of the main hall there is a platform, and eight stone pillar foundations are left on the platform, which is the site of the worship pavilion of the ancestral hall.
At the beginning of the liberation, the baiting pavilion was destroyed by a strong typhoon together with the east and west corridors, and the exquisitely carved stone foundation was empty, and the elegant style of the baiting pavilion at that time can be seen from the remaining stone foundations, and also left an imperfect regret for the overall architecture of the ancestral hall.
The main hall is the core building of the ancestral hall, the sacred place where the ancestors are stored, and the materials and craftsmanship used in production
All presented in the most perfect way.
On the wall of the ancestral hall are several ancient stone tablets, which record the deeds of the ancestors of the Zeng clan in building the ancestral hall.