{"id":12867,"date":"2020-10-06T03:26:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T19:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/?p=12867"},"modified":"2020-10-06T22:10:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T14:10:45","slug":"shanshaangan-guild-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/henan-travel\/kaifeng-travel\/shanshaangan-guild-hall","title":{"rendered":"Shanshaangan Guild Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plan your Kaifeng travel<\/strong><\/a> on your Henan tour<\/strong><\/a>? Kaifeng is listed as one of the seven great ancient capital cities in China.\u00a0 In Kaifeng, you can see some authentic relics and old architectures. Shanshaangan Guild Hall is an interesting place you cannot afford to miss if you are going to appreciate\u00a0\u00a0its ornate carvings out of stone, brick\u00a0 and wood done over 200 years ago.<\/p>\n

Shanshaangan Guild\u00a0Hall was the former lodging and meeting place for the merchants from Shanxi Province, Shaanxi Province and Gansu Province.\u00a0\u00a0It was first built\u00a0from the ruins of Xuda Palace\u00a0in 1775 during the reign of Qianlong Emperor\u00a0 in Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).\u00a0 Xuda was one of the founding fathers of Ming Dynasty ( 1368-1644).\u00a0 The name of the road where the present Guild is located is called Xuda Palace Road.<\/p>\n

The past 200 years have seen Shanshaangan Hall going through numerous ups and downs.\u00a0 What we we see today is a small part of the original guild. Or more exactly it is the only remaining Guangdi Temple building inside the original guild hall. The whole temple architecture is rife with exquisite carvings out of stone, brick and wood, which vividly tell the Buddhist stories and folk tales with great artistic value.<\/p>\n

The remaining Guangdin Temple is mainly composed of\u00a07 parts-\u00a0A huge screen wall, Opera Tower, \u00a0Bell and Drum Tower, East Wing\u00a0and West\u00a0Wing Halls, Traditional\u00a0Pailou (decorated archway), the Great\u00a0Hall.<\/p>\n

Well, let’s have a close look at those seven delicate pasts of Shanshaangan Guild or more exactly the well preserved Guandi Temple.<\/p>\n

The entrance to Shanshaangan Guild Hall – a left side gate with a huge screen wall.<\/p>\n

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The entrance to Shanshaangan Guild Hall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Entering the side gate, you will see a spacious compound with the huge screen wall on the south and the back of the opera tower on the north. First look at the screen wall. The whole screen wall is a trove of incredible carving arts out \u00a0of stone\u00a0 and brick.\u00a0 The huge screen wall is 8.60m high,\u00a0 16.5m high and 0.65 thick and composed of three parts\u00a0 – base, body and

In the middle of the screeen wall is a large stone carving of two dragons playing one spider.<\/p>\n

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a large stone carving of two dragons playing one spider<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the upper part of the screen wall\u00a0elegantly\u00a0carved with\u00a0 Chinese fairy tales.\u00a0 The vase, flowers and lucky clouds.<\/p>\n

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The vase, flowers and lucky clouds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now we\u00a0 are in a compound or a courtyard surrounded by the opera tower on the south, the\u00a0 decorated pailou,\u00a0 two wings building and the north great hall.<\/p>\n

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The Opera Tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

North of the Opera Tower is the Pailou and the Great Hall flanked by East\u00a0 and West Wing Houses,\u00a0\u00a0 Bell Tower and Drum Tower.<\/p>\n

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North of the Opera Tower is the Pailou and the Great Hall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Drum Tower<\/p>\n

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Drum Tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now let’s look at the wood carvings on the roof of the West Wing Building. This is “Nine Lions play ropes”,\u00a0 indicating 9 generation family.<\/p>\n

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Nine Lions play ropes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A vivid wood carving of folk custom – 25 figures, playing pipa,singing, listening….<\/p>\n

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A vivid wood carving of folk custom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Decorated Archway with two three-legged poles supporting the Pailou. On the archway is carved with tales about Guan Yu.<\/p>\n

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The Decorated Archway with two three-legged poles supporting the Pailou.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is the northern tip of the Guild – the Great Hall dedicated to Guan Yu. The Great Hall is the highlight of the wood carvings in the compound. It has seven layers of wood carvings. From the top to the lower, you will have the first layer – Bats (\u00a0refers to \u00a0happiness and Wealth ); second layer: lucky clouds.<\/p>\n

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you will have the first layer – Bats ( refers to happiness and Wealth )<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The third layer is Two dragons play one spider<\/p>\n

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The third layer is Two dragons play one spider<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The fourth layer is\u00a0the carvings of \u00a0animals – deer, horse, elephant….<\/p>\n

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The fourth layer is the carvings of animals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two dragons play one spider<\/p>\n

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Two dragons play one spider<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Any questions, just drop a line.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plan your Kaifeng travel on your Henan tour? Kaifeng is listed as one of the seven great ancient capital cities in China.\u00a0 In Kaifeng, you can see some authentic relics and old architectures. Shanshaangan Guild Hall is an interesting place you cannot afford to miss if you are going to appreciate\u00a0\u00a0its ornate carvings out of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1904,600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henan-travel","category-kaifeng-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12867"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25074,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12867\/revisions\/25074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}