A ticket for 107, just to see this? Huizhou's number one ancestral hall - Luodong Shu Hall
Known as the "Number One Ancestral Hall of Jiangnan", the Luodong Shu Hall boasts exquisite construction craftsmanship, integrating 'ancient, elegant, beautiful, and grand' into one, making it the largest in scale, most magnificent in momentum, and highest in taste among the ancestral halls in the Huizhou area. This hall was built by the 21st generation of the Luo family, Luo Jiezong, during the Jiajing era of the Ming Dynasty (1539), taking nearly ten years and costing 45 million taels of silver to complete. The reason for building the hall was to worship the 13th ancestor of the Luo family, Luodong Shu, and to promote ancestral virtue.
The architectural essence of the Luodong Shu Hall is the Baolun Pavilion above the sleeping hall, which stands 13.6 meters tall and spans 11 bays wide. It is recorded that during the Wanli era of the Ming Dynasty, a member of the Luo family named Luo Yinghe, who had held positions such as Imperial Censor, Deputy Minister of the Dali Temple, and Governor of Baoding, was highly accomplished in his political achievements, winning the emperor's favor and often receiving imperial rewards. To honor the imperial edicts and to store the treasured gifts from the emperor, the Luo family specially built this pavilion and named it Baolun.
The location of the Luodong Shu Hall, Chengkan Town, is also a famous stop on the eastern Huizhou tourism route. There's a saying, 'Tour Chengkan, and you'll have no troubles in life.' The tour route includes: scenic area entrance - viewing platform - Yongxing Lake - Sun Drying Autumn Square - ancient village (Huanxiu Bridge, Xiaowu, Luodong Shu Hall, Zhongying Tower, Yanyi Hall, Luodong Shu Hall), and finally, take a shuttle bus from the north gate back to the south gate.
🌲 Luodong Shu Hall: No. 78 Baolun Road, Huizhou District, Huangshan City
🚄 Transportation: You can take the high-speed train directly to Huangshan North Station, and a 20-minute taxi ride from the station will get you there.
🎫 Ticket: 107 per person, includes all attractions within the scenic area
Luo Dongshu, full name Zhenjing Luo Dongshu, is located in the village of Chengkan Town, Huizhou District, Huangshan City, Anhui Province (formerly Jixian County), is a brick and wood structure building in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, covering an area of 3,300 square meters. Luo Dongshu is built by the Luo clan for the sacrifice of his ancestor Mr. Luo Dongshu. It is one of the Huangshan Luoshi's ancestral halls, belonging to the class of the clan ancestral halls. The ancestral halls are large in scale and finely created. Its architecture integrates "old, elegant, beautiful and great". It is a model work of ancient architecture in Huizhou and is known as "the first place in the south of the Yangtze River".
During the blooming season, I went to Luo Dongshuxu, known as the first scorpion in Jiangnan. Picture one is the 400-year-old scorpion tree in the scorpion hall. Standing under the tree, the aroma makes people feel stinky. Picture two is to go to a Hanlin old house, the color painting is the window in the wedding room of Hanlin's doll when he was 14. Standing in Figure 3, overlooking the green hills and Huizhou villages, autumn is cool and refreshing.
Luo Dongshuxu was built in the Ming Jiajing years, the total project took nearly ten years, all of its layout according to the Shandong Confucius Temple format, the building is exquisite and rare, the name is "Jiangnan No. 1". The beam decoration and carving are extremely exquisite and complicated.
Chengkan ticket 107 yuan, this is the last attraction, close to the exit. According to the format of Confucian Temple in Shandong Province, there are four courtyards in total. The paulon Pavilion in the back bedroom is 13.6 meters high and 11 rooms wide. It was built in Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty (about 1539). Luo Dongshu, a famous scholar, poet and thinker at the end of Song Dynasty and the beginning of Yuan Dynasty. He was learned and had the ability to govern the country. Kublai Khan, the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, ordered him to be a high official many times, but he did not want to go because of his national integrity, which was respected by later generations. The stone piers on both sides of the gate are the gates, the circles show that the officials and eunuchs are households, and the square ones are the houses of businessmen and businessmen. There are four short log columns under the plaque, that is, household pairs. Only officials with four or more grades can have four household pairs. This plaque is the authentic work of Dong Qichang, a calligrapher of the Ming Dynasty. During the Cultural Revolution, the Red Guards climbed it several times because it weighed up to a ton and was not destroyed. Later, Luo's descendants put a note on the plaque - "Study hard and make progress everyday, so that it could be preserved. The tour guide introduced that the four pillars were made of Aucklandia australis, each of which was worth 300 million RMB. Ha ha, there was a place for women's plaques, which was very rare in the ancestral halls in the past.
In Anhui Province, Luodongshu Temple in Chengkan Bagua Village was built in the reign of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty. It was renewed in the thirty-fifth year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty and completed in the thirty-ninth year of Wanli. It took 87 years and spent more than 45,000 yuan of silver (Luodongshu, hermit in the late Song and early Yuan Dynasty, and descendants of Luo's family temple was built here to offer sacrifices to him). The temple is constructed according to the pattern of Confucian temple. The whole building includes Zhaobi, Weixing Gate, left and right stele pavilions, Yimen Liangbing, Baitai, Hedongtang, and dormitory. It has four courtyards in total, and one entrance is higher than one entrance. The highest Paulon Pavilion is simple and elegant, and beautiful.
Located in the scenic area of Shan Kan Bagua village in Shan Mei Shui Mei, the most prominent part of the scenic area is Bao Lun Ge, which is magnificent in architecture and laments the wisdom of the Chinese working people. It is too shocking.