Yang's Official Hall (Yang Clan Ancestral Hall)

Yang's Official Hall (Yang Clan Ancestral Hall)

Yang's Official Hall (Yang Clan Ancestral Hall) is a cultural relics protection unit of Chengbu.

Yang's Official Hall

Yang's Official Hall (Yang Clan Ancestral Hall) (county-level cultural relics protection unit) is located in Dazhuping Village, Rulin Town. Construction began in the fifth year of the Chongzhen era (1632) during the late Ming Dynasty, and its name was established in the second year of the Longwu era (1646) of the Ming Dynasty. Yang Qiaoran, the imperial-appointed Deputy Minister of the Court of Imperial Stables, Surveillance Commissioner and Military Inspector of Hunan, was ordered by the emperor to return to his hometown from the capital to pay homage at the ancestral tombs at Zhuzhi Slope, Denggongchong, and Popochong. He came with seven descendant families to build this ancestral hall and petitioned for its official naming. It was not completed until the first year of the Xuantong era (1909) of the Qing Dynasty, having been built in three phases. The hall features a palatial architectural style, simple and solemn. Inside stands a stone stele inscribed with “Yang Family’s Meritorious Deeds,” documenting the full story of Yang Qiaoran’s imperial mission to pay homage at Zhuzhi Slope. It has long served as a site for worship by local descendants of the Yang family.