Hetang Pan Family Mansion

Hetang Pan Family Mansion

The Hetang Pan Family Mansion is a cultural heritage site protected by Zhejiang Province.

The Pan Family Mansion is located at No. 15–16 behind the stage of Baishoumen in the old southeastern part of Hetang Town, Jingning She Autonomous County, Lishui City, Zhejiang Province. Its exact construction date is unknown, but it was built around the Ming Dynasty. The building faces south and covers an area of approximately 800 square meters. The overall structure spans 20.50 meters in width and 51 meters in depth, covering a total area of 1,045.5 square meters. It has three courtyards arranged in a quadrangle layout from south to north, consisting of a gate tower, entrance hall, sedan hall, and main hall. The first courtyard consists of a gate tower, a central courtyard, and an entrance hall. The gate tower features brick carvings of three-clawed dragons and cranes on its lintel, with flagpole bases in front. The courtyard is paved with pebble patterns. The entrance hall is five bays wide and two bays deep, with exquisitely crafted roof tiles and a flush gable roof topped with fire walls. A small door in the rear partition wall leads to the second courtyard. The second courtyard is the sedan hall, featuring two side rooms on the eastern and western sides at the front, connected by a floral-pendant gate to the western wing room. It is one bay wide and one bay deep. The sedan hall itself is five bays wide and two bays deep, with a hanging gable roof, where the central bay serves as the passage to the third courtyard’s main hall. The third courtyard is the main hall, featuring three side rooms on the eastern and western sides at the front, and two corridors at the rear. The main hall is five bays wide and two bays deep, with a hanging gable roof. The central bays of the entrance hall, sedan hall, and main hall all feature through-tenon beam structures. The Pan Family Mansion was the former residence of Pan Qin from the Ming Dynasty. Pan Qin (1424–1514), courtesy name Shunxian, style name Zhuxuan, was a native of Hetang. In the 12th year of the Zhengtong reign (1447), he was recommended to enter the Imperial Academy. In the first year of the Tianshun reign (1457), he passed the palace examination and was awarded the degree of Jinshi, later appointed as the Assistant Director of the Merit Bureau in the Ministry of Personnel in Nanjing, the Deputy Director of the Military Maps Office in the Ministry of War, and eventually as the Prefect of Xinghua in Fujian Province. He was known for his integrity and authored works such as “Ode to Summoning the Crane,” “Collection of the Bamboo Studio,” and “Mountain Residence Poems.” During the Jiajing era, memorial archways (the Second-Class Scholar Archway, the Jinshi Archway, and the Esteemed Archway) were erected in his honor.

Further Reading:

· Sixth Batch of Zhejiang Provincial Cultural Heritage Protection Units