Guansi Brick Arch
Guangi Brick Arch is located in Guangi Village, Dashi Township, Gangu County. Founded in the seventeenth year of the Republic of China (1928), it is the Zhenjie Ancestral Hall of Li Shanji's family in Guanzichuan, the ancestral hall covers an area of 342 square meters, sitting north and facing south, the front is the archway, the back is the ancestral hall, and the east and west are box rooms. The archway is a two-level three-brick archway building, 13 meters wide and 11 meters high. The famous supervisor rests on the top of the mountain, and the second is the roof of the temple, the brick carved head arch, the lintel of the pillar is substituted, and there is an arch under it.
Old photos of the archway
Introduction to the Archway
The ancestral hall is a hard hilltop building with table eaves. The entire ancestral hall is exquisitely crafted and simple in style, and is the only ancient building with brick and stone structure in the prefecture. It is a county-level cultural relics protection unit. The archway is an ancient architectural form, shaped like an archway, which was used in the old days to promote the so-called loyalty and filial piety of feudal etiquette. Gangu in the Ming Dynasty saw a large number of arches in the county records, and during the Ming Jiajing period, there were only 24 square meters in the fourth street of the urban area, which were all washed away by the flooding of the sand ditch embankment into the city. The Qing Dynasty built the "Depai Tiandi" and "Daoguan Ancient and Modern" two fangs in the South Street Confucian Temple, the Xiguan was the "Zuoren" Fang for the Scholar Envoy Wang Moxiu, the "Heart Ice Eye Torch" Fang for Wang Lansheng, the North Street for the Martyr Guo Clan "Jie Lie" Fang, and the Jie Nga Zhang Clan "Zhen Jie" Fang, none of which survive today. At present, there are only two arches in the county, "Shanshan Guild Hall" and "Guansi Li Family Ancestral Hall", and the Li Family Ancestral Hall is especially famous.
The Guansi Archway renovated in 2020
Archway structure
The Arch of the Lee Clan Ancestral Hall was built by Li Shanji, a squire of Dashi Township, for his Li Family Ancestral Hall. The stele is of the stele type, in addition to the carved lacquer gate wood, the entire stele is a brick carved structure, and the 12 stone steles are embedded in the lower part of the inner and outer brick walls. The design of the stele is unique, the proportions are harmonious, the construction is exquisite and generous, the style is delicate, and the pattern has a strong decorative interest. The upper part of the front has reliefs such as 24 filial piety, eight immortals into treasure, bangs and sprinkles of money, and the top cloud horn ridge beast comes to life. The inscription writing and engraving are extremely handsome, which can be described as a collection of calligraphy, painting, brick carving, stone carving, and architectural art. The Arch of the Li Ancestral Hall was built in the first month of the seventeenth year of the Republic of China (1928), when it was built, more than 60 people were labored every day, and it was completed in November of the nineteenth year of the Republic of China (1930). This is Li Shanji, a student of the Qing Dynasty, the first section member of Yin Gongxia of Weichuan Province, and the winner of the Special Gold Medal of the Ministry of Education, in order to commemorate his grandmother and great-grandmother, and to comply with the "Holy Will" of Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty, he asked Chang Fulin (Zi Yinman), an architectural master of Liuju Village in Beiguan, Gangu, to elaborately design and lead the crowd to build it with all his might. The ancestral hall covers an area of 342 square meters, south-facing, and the central axis is arranged from south to north as the front archway, the back ancestral hall, and the left and right are equipped with box rooms. The archway is 3 rooms wide, 13 meters long and 11 meters high, with a secondary heavy eaves, a bright intermittent peak, a second temple roof, and an archway under the archway. The brick carving process of the pillar of heaven, the finch, and the lintel is very exquisite. The ancestral hall is a single-eaves hard hilltop building.
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On both sides of the ancestral hall there are brick carved door links, linked to the clouds:
It is the famous gate of Weibei, the clothing set, the time food, the ancestral temple repair, the good follow-up and the good description;
It is called longxi wang clan, taibai poetry, changyuan wen, shaowen seal, passing on the son to the grandson.
There are also links:
Two generations of orphans, teaching Strict Yuci, Kumamaru Mo Zhongguang Guoshi;
A whole section, the merit of the adult retreat, Bai Zhou followed to Yaochi.
Old photos