Meizhou Linshan Palace

Meizhou Linshan Palace

Meizhou Linshan Palace is a cultural heritage site protected at the provincial level in Fujian Province.

Linshan Palace is located at No. 185, Linshan Road, Gongdou Natural Village, Xiashan Village, Meizhou Town. Also known as Xiashan Palace, it was first built in the seventh year of the Hongwu era during the Ming Dynasty (1274) and renovated in the second year of the Daoguang era of the Qing Dynasty (1822). Facing southwest and situated northeast, it has a total width of 27 meters and a depth of 34.4 meters, covering an area of 523 square meters. It is a two-courtyard corridor-style building, with structures along the central axis arranged in sequence as the front courtyard, front hall, and main hall, and along the secondary axis as the front courtyard, front side hall, front patio, rear side hall, rear patio, and palace rooms. The front hall features a double-eaved hip-and-gable roof, with an interior caisson ceiling and a width of three bays; the main hall has a single-eaved hanging roof, a width of three bays, a depth of four pillars, and a structure where the central pillar is omitted under the beam in the central bay. Inside the palace hangs a plaque inscribed with “Sacred Traces Grow Ever More Evident,” written in the fifth year of the Daoguang era by Fang Chuansui, acting administrator of Taiwan Prefecture under the Fujian Tingzhou–Zhangzhou–Longyan Circuit. This serves as important evidence of cultural exchange between Fujian and Taiwan. Linshan Palace was designated as a Fujian Provincial Cultural Heritage Site in 2009.

Further Reading:

· Seventh Batch of Fujian Provincial Cultural Heritage Sites