Gao's Wenchang Pavilion

Gao's Wenchang Pavilion

Gao's Wenchang Pavilion is a cultural heritage site protected by Fuzhou City.

Gao's Wenchang Pavilion is located at No. 134 Shanghang Road, Shuanghang Subdistrict, Taijiang District.

The main gate faces Shanghang Road, with the front section being the ancestral hall of the Gao family, built in the early Qing Dynasty. The structure consists of two courtyards, rising with the contour of the hill, with both main buildings featuring a width of five bays and a depth of seven pillars. The screen door of the first courtyard hall is engraved and gilded with the Family Instructions of Master Zhu, which was preserved during the Cultural Revolution by being covered with newspapers.

The rear Wenchang Pavilion was built during the Jiaqing reign of the Qing Dynasty. Originally a study for the Gao family, it faces south and is a two-story building with a width of three bays and a depth of five pillars (6.5 meters), featuring an upper floor with a rolled shed roof. The surrounding balcony is equipped with traditional Chinese railing seats (mei ren kao), and it employs a post-and-lintel construction method with a double-eave hip-and-gable roof, covering an area of 180 square meters. The Wenchang Pavilion is a two-story wooden building with a double-eave hip-and-gable roof and a post-and-lintel structure. The first floor has three bays in width and five pillars in depth, with the central area as the main hall and side rooms on both sides. The eastern, southern, and western eaves of the first floor are supported by three-tiered bracket sets bearing spandrels and purlins, with diagonal hips on both sides. The second floor has one bay in both width and depth, with the center as a room and a surrounding corridor featuring mei ren kao. The rooftop has decorative ridge beasts and upturned eaves on both sides, with layer upon layer of scrolling grass-patterned paintings. To the west of the main building, across the courtyard, lies the kitchen. The second floor of the Wenchang Pavilion originally enshrined the Wenchang Emperor, believed to be the deity in charge of scholarship and literature, as well as the guardian deity of scholars taking imperial examinations. A small garden is situated in the small open space to the south of the pavilion, featuring rockeries, a fishpond, stone tables, and stone chairs.

It was designated as a cultural heritage site protected by Taijiang District in 1988.

It was designated as a cultural heritage site protected by Fuzhou City in January 2015.