Hualong Pavilion and Hualong Pool

Hualong Pavilion and Hualong Pool

Hualong Pavilion and Hualong Pool are protected as cultural heritage sites at the prefectural level of Xuancheng City.

Hualong Pavilion and Hualong Pool

Located on the eastern side of the Jixi Confucius Temple. Hualong Pavilion was originally named “Yuyi Pavilion” and was renamed “Hualong Pavilion” in the ninth year of the Wanli era (1581) during the Ming Dynasty. The pavilion is situated in the center of Hualong Pool. Its lower section is made of stone foundation piers, and the upper part is a pavilion with a hip-and-gable roof, covering an area of 51.48 square meters. It features square stone pillars, bracket sets that support the overhanging eaves, floral-patterned bricks forming the ridge, and a roof covered with small blue tiles. The central, vertical, and diagonal ridges are decorated with ridge ornaments shaped like mythical ao fish and other auspicious beasts. The pavilion has mù'ěr kào (ornamental railings) on all four sides, with flat stone bridges on the east and west sides providing access to the pool edge. Hualong Pool is rectangular and man-made, with its surrounding embankment constructed from dry-laid stone blocks. It is 1.30 meters deep and spans an area of 886.60 square meters. No exact historical records document its initial construction date, but the Jiaqing-era county annals of the Qing Dynasty state that during the Ming Chenghua period, imperial censor Li Tingshou, while exiled and serving as chief clerk in Jixi, built a structure known as “Qingfeng Pavilion.” By the seventh year of the Zhengde era (1515) in the Ming Dynasty, it was called “Yuyi Pool” and “Yuyi Pavilion.” In the ninth year of the Wanli era (1581), the pool featured a pavilion named “Hualong Pavilion.” In the ninth year of the Yongzheng era (1731), education intendant Tang Xianzhong replaced the wooden pillars of Hualong Pavilion with stone ones, a project that most likely involved a full reconstruction. In the seventeenth year of the Jiaqing era (1812), it was renovated, but no other records exist after that. In 1966, Hualong Pavilion was still standing, and photographic records show it had square stone pillars and a single-eave hipped roof with gablets, matching its appearance after the Yongzheng reconstruction—thus believed to be from that era. After 1966, the pavilion was demolished, leaving only the base for over 30 years. In 2003, the government funded the full restoration of both the pool and pavilion, with the reconstructed versions closely resembling the originals.

In 2005, it was designated as a county-level cultural heritage site under approval document Jizheng [2005] No. 41; in 2016, it was listed as a municipal-level cultural heritage site under approval document Xuanzheng Mi [2016] No. 219.

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