The Peng Family Ancestral Hall

The Peng Family Ancestral Hall

The Peng Family Ancestral Hall is a cultural relic protection unit of Hubei Province.

The Peng Family Ancestral Hall

Located in Pengjiawan Village, Menggusi Town, Fang County, it was built during the Guangxu reign of the Qing Dynasty as the family ancestral hall of the prestigious local Peng clan. Oriented east to west, the structure has a rectangular floor plan covering an area of approximately 500 square meters. It features a courtyard layout, consisting of a front hall, main hall, and side chambers on the left and right. The front hall also functions as the entrance vestibule of the ancestral hall, with a gate adorned by a facade-style memorial archway—four pillars, three bays, and three stories—towering above the front hall’s eaves. The archway’s lintel is inlaid with a stone plaque inscribed in intaglio regular script with the characters “Shengzong Ci” (Sacred Ancestral Hall). The main hall shares a similar design with the front hall, both being brick-and-timber structures with three bays in width, a flush-gable roof covered with gray tiles, and a mixed post-and-lintel and Dougong (bracket arm) construction system. The ridge beam of the front hall is painted with colorful patterns of the Eight Trigrams, ruyi (scepter), and bats, accompanied by ink inscriptions. The central courtyard is paved with cobblestones forming a distinctive herringbone-patterned floor. The ancestral hall is well-preserved, and its wooden structural forms and roof ridge decorations are quite unique, making it representative within northwestern Hubei and one of the more intact Qing Dynasty ancestral halls in the province, holding significant cultural heritage value.

Source: Hubei Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau

Further Reading:

· Sixth Batch of Hubei Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Units