The Ancestral Hall of the Yan Clan in Huangqingyan

The Ancestral Hall of the Yan Clan in Huangqingyan

The Ancestral Hall of the Yan Clan in Huangqingyan is a cultural relic protection unit of Yuyao City.

The Ancestral Hall of the Yan Clan is located on Citang Lane, Huangqingyan Village, Ditan Subdistrict, Yuyao City. It is a brick-and-timber structure built during the Qing Dynasty. This ancestral hall enshrines Yan Ziling, a revered scholar of the Han Dynasty and one of the “Four Sages of Yuyao.” Historical records such as the "Record of the Guest Star Shrine" indicate that the hall was initially constructed in the early Western Jin Dynasty. It has undergone multiple renovations over the dynasties, with the current structure dating back to the Qing Dynasty.

The hall originally had three sections front to back, flanked by wing rooms, and featured a stage in the courtyard, but only the main hall remains today.

The main hall has a flush-gable roof and is five bays wide. As a shrine to Yan Ziling, the building also boasts rich carvings, giving it considerable cultural heritage value.

On September 23, 2014, the Yuyao Municipal People's Government designated it as a Cultural Relics Protection Unit in the sixth municipal batch.

Ditan Subdistrict: Located 12 kilometers due north of downtown Yuyao, Ditan Subdistrict borders Cixi’s urban area and Henghe Town to the east, Fengshan and Yangming Subdistricts to the south, Langxia Subdistrict to the west along Liangzhou Road, and faces Zhouxiang and Tianyuan Towns of Cixi across the Dagutang Dyke to the north. It spans 7.61 km from north to south and 9.137 km from east to west, covering an area of 43.226 square kilometers. The subdistrict administers 11 administrative villages — Yangshan, Lishan, Huanghu, Huangqingyan, Lucheng, Ditan, Tangjiazha, Muhu, Mojianshan, Zhengxiang, and Xizhengxiang — and 3 residential communities: Lishan, Zhihelu, and Zhengxiang. By the end of 2008, the total number of households… More detailed information about Ditan Subdistrict++

Further reading:

· The Sixth Batch of Municipal Cultural Relics Protection Units in Yuyao City