From Hua Xue Gong Dacheng Hall

From Hua Xue Gong Dacheng Hall

From Hua Xue Gong Dacheng Hall is located at Conghua Middle School in Jiekou Subdistrict, Conghua District. The Confucian Temple’s Hall of Confucius within the academy was built in the eighth year of the Hongzhi reign during the Ming Dynasty (1495) by then-county magistrate Liu Hong. The hall stands 15 meters tall, is 12 meters wide, and 10 meters deep, with five bays in both width and depth. It features a double-eaved hip-and-gable roof, with blue-patterned glazed tiles on the eaves and roof ridges. Inside the hall are eight red wooden pillars with a diameter of 45 centimeters, and the beams and brackets retain their original painted designs of red backgrounds with blue-and-white dragons. The hall is surrounded by corridors, with six stone pillars in front, four stone pillars on each side of the left and right corridors, and four smaller stone rods in the middle, connected by stone slabs to form a railing.

The academy was originally a grand complex of buildings. Outside, there were palace walls, a memorial archway, a weapons gate, and a spirit gate; upon entering, there was a pool, a bridge over the pool, study rooms, a sacrificial courtyard, east and west side halls, and behind the three main halls were the Ancestral Hall of Local Worthies and the Memorial Hall of Distinguished Officials, all in the architectural style of the Ming Dynasty. After wars and turmoil, most of the facilities inside and outside the hall were damaged. In 1992, the Conghua County government decided to renovate the Hall of Confucius, investing 600,000 yuan.

In August 1993, it was designated as part of the fourth group of Guangzhou Municipal Cultural Relics Protection Units by the Guangzhou Municipal People's Government.