Tao Yuanming (365-427) is the poet of "Jin Song" The Tao Yuanming's Ancestral Hall was moved from Yangshan to a northeast corner in Shahe Street in 1984 where the scenery is quiet, serene and beautiful. It was restored according to the original condition.
The ancestral hall floor space is approximately 250 square meters and was built in post and panel structure of the Ming and Qing Dynasties ancestral temple construction style. It is also like the ancient academy construction style where the hall and the twofold lobby are divided and the center separating the courtyard. There are side buildings which look simple and natural on both sides.
The hall was set up more than 2 meters high, overlooking Tao Yuanming's painting; the facial expression grave, the forehead wrapped in Lujiu turban, the hand grasping a volume "Shan Hai Jing". Two walls were engraved with Tao Yuanming's 41 generations. A man named Yiyangsheng in Ming dynasty had written "Tao Jingjie the ancestral hall to offer sacrifice to Article". Also academician, Liu Yanchen wrote the book with the inscribed horizontal tablet: "The xi emperor person", "looks the ancient remote collection".
There are stone plaque by the successful candidate in the highest imperial examinations of Ming Dynasty, Xue Yingqi, which read "Tao Jingjie the ancestral hall" at the main entrance. Two doors separated the chrysanthemum garden and the willow tree lane in Jiaqing year. Apart from the ancestral hall vicinity, there is also Tao Yuanming's memorial hall in the construction. The construction manifests the Chiangnan folk style of Ming and Qing Dynasty, the blue brick black eyebrow coloring tile, Zhu Zhu curls upwards the eave, the camel gable and the flower stone for the embellishment is quiet and tasteful.
In the hall exhibits "Tao Yuanming Collection" from all previous dynasties with over 20 types edition, monograph studies and various studies of Tao Gong, the ceramic timeline, Tao Gong's movement chart and also duplicate copies of the ceramic male idyllic life chart which the experience synonym painter drew up and taking Tao Gongjing festival as the theme creation calligraphy and painting and so on.



Name:Jiujiang Tao Yuanming's Ancestral Hall and Former Residence (Tao Yuanming Ci Ji Guju)
City:Jiujiang
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Admission:Free

This article was posted on 2007-09-25
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