Qijia Hall

Qijia Hall

Qijia Hall is a National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit.

Era: Ming Dynasty

Address: Located in Yapu No. 2 Village, Yapu Town, Wucheng District, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province

The hall faces south and has a square layout, consisting of a screen wall, courtyard, front hall, rear hall, and wing rooms. The layout is square-shaped. In front of the front hall is a screen wall, with the upper part featuring carved floral brackets on finely glazed bricks and a base adorned with carved brick moldings. The screen wall and the side wing room gables form a continuous whole, with large doors set in the gable walls and brick-carved lintels above. The front hall is three bays wide, with a total width of 13.36 meters and a depth of 28.32 meters. The central bay of the beam frame uses a lifted-beam style with seven spans and front and rear corridors, while the side bays use a mixed post-and-lintel and lifted-beam structure. Between the architraves and eave purlins of each bay are inserted one dougong bracket sets. The side rooms are arranged symmetrically. In the front and rear sections, the side walls are closely connected to the wings, and at the junctions of the front/rear and sides, structural elements such as bracket arms are used.

The existing architectural layout is intact, with standardized materials and a simple structure. It was designated as a Zhejiang Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Unit in August 1997, and as a seventh batch National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit in May 2013.

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Further Reading:

· Seventh Batch of National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units