The Huang Family Ancestral House in Huanguixiang Lane

The Huang Family Ancestral House in Huanguixiang Lane

The Huang Family Ancestral House in Huanguixiang Lane is a cultural heritage site protected at the municipal level in Fuzhou.

The Huang Family Ancestral House in Huanguixiang Lane

Located in Huanguixiang, Gulou District, Fuzhou, and built during the Daoguang era of the Qing Dynasty, this house was the residence of the well-known traditional Chinese medicine doctor Huang Tingyi. The main gate faces west and is located on the east side, with a small courtyard situated directly behind it. To the east of the courtyard are three small rooms. The main building has two sections, one behind the other, both facing south and enclosed by walls all around, with double-pitched roofs. The front section has a stone-framed gate, surrounded by corridors on three sides, with lean-tos on either side, and a neat stone-paved courtyard in the center. The hall is three bays wide and five columns deep, with a post-and-lintel wooden frame. All the dougong (brackets), beams, arches, and supports are exquisitely carved. In the middle of the main hall are six push-polished lacquered doors with a red background and gold-leafed decorative panels. The window frames feature latticed carvings of classic antique motifs. The eight door panels are all made from high-quality red timber, and the carved lattice panels above the doors are crafted from boxwood roots. The second courtyard has a front courtyard and a rear lean-to. In the center is a main hall that is three bays wide and five columns deep. The first and second courtyards both have small side gates on the left leading to a small flower hall in the east, which consists of a garden, a sitting room, rockeries, and a fishpond. Upon entering the flower hall, there is a round moon gate in the north with a diameter of 2 meters, and on either side of the gate stand a hexagonal half pavilion and a square half pavilion. The garden is surrounded by corridors on three sides, covered with awnings, and fitted with “beauty’s leaning rails.” The garden is planted with golden kumquat, monstera, cactus, wintersweet, and osmanthus. To the south of the garden is a three-bay sitting room, with a central hall and side rooms. The front of each room has three lift-and-slide windows above, a large horizontal window fitted with glass in the middle, and nanmu (phoebe nanmu) paneling below the window frames. The walls of the side rooms have twelve latticed wall panels and eight doors, all made of nanmu. The doors, windows, latticed panels, and wall panels are all crafted from nanmu wood, and each wall panel features a famous painting accompanied by a poem. Behind the sitting room is a courtyard with rockeries, caves, and a fishpond, covering less than 20 square meters, yet arranged in an exquisitely orderly fashion, demonstrating the art of creating a world within a small space—a hallmark of Fuzhou-style gardens. There are seven wells scattered throughout the courtyard, positioned in the pattern of the Big Dipper, collectively referred to as the “Seven Stars Accompanying the Moon.”

Designated as a municipal-level cultural heritage site in 1992.

Antai Subdistrict: Antai Subdistrict is located in the southern part of Gulou District, within the historic southern area of Fuzhou. It is named after the ancient Antai Bridge in the area. It stretches from Wuyi Square in the east to Baima River in the west, borders East-West River of Chating Street in the south, and neighbors Antai River in the north. The subdistrict covers an area of 1.8 square kilometers and administers 17 neighborhood committees: Fuzhong, Guizhi, Longpu, Wushan, Daoshan, Nanmen, Jiayang, Baita, Madao, Shengmiao, Xinquan, Fahai, Douzhong, Douxi, Xiyinglei, Jiufu'an, and Zhuzifang. It has 7,529 households and a population of 23,200. The subdistrict office is located at No. 1 Fujiang Street, Shengmiao Road. The jurisdiction area includes key municipal and district government offices, such as the Fuzhou Municipal Committee and the... More details about Antai Subdistrict ++