Lingnan Guild Hall

Lingnan Guild Hall

The Lingnan Guild Hall is a Jiangsu Provincial Cultural Heritage Site.

Lingnan Guild Hall

Now a provincial-level cultural heritage site, it is located at No. 4-3 Xincang Lane in the city center. Originally built in the eighth year of the Tongzhi reign during the Qing Dynasty (1869), it was jointly funded by salt merchants surnamed Lu, Liang, Deng, and Cai. It was expanded in the ninth year of the Guangxu reign (1883). Facing south, the building has two east-west axes. On the eastern axis, there is a screen wall at the front, and the main gate features a brick-carved archway-style gatehouse. Inside, there is a front hall, a main hall, and residential buildings. The main hall has a flush-gable roof, nanmu wood beams and pillars, and a double-layered overhanging eave on the roof. It is three bays wide and seven rafters deep, with a front rolled shed. Four stone tablets, including the “Guild Hall Establishment Stele,” are embedded in the east and west walls of the courtyard in front of the hall. The main hall collapsed in 1999 and was restored in 2003. The buildings on the eastern axis no longer exist; the central axis is used as a school, while the western axis buildings serve as residential housing. In 2010, the city’s cultural relics bureau carried out repairs on the gatehouse, entrance hall, main hall, and second hall along the central axis.

Further Reading:

· Sixth Batch of Jiangsu Provincial Cultural Heritage Sites