Nanshou Family School

Nanshou Family School

Nanshou Family School is located in the southern part of Chatang Village, established in the year of Ren Shen (1872). It faces west and features a main structure of three bays and two courtyards, with a side building serving as an auxiliary ancestral hall. The total width is 16.9 meters, the depth is 20.4 meters, and the building covers an area of 360 square meters. It has a gable-and-hip roof with "人" shaped firewalls, grey plastered antique-style ridges, plain barrel tiles, a bluestone base, and a red brick-paved floor.

The ridge grey plasterwork is well preserved. The front porch beams feature opera characters that are vivid and lifelike, with fine carving craftsmanship. The eaves boards are wood-carved with opera figures, flowers, birds, insects, and fish, all exquisitely crafted. An inscribed stone tablet titled “Preface to the Construction of Nanshou Family School” is embedded inside, authored by Tang Yushi, who was a scholar at the time.

Chatang Village: The Chatang Village Committee is located in the southern part of Tanbu Town, covering an area of approximately 3.13 square kilometers. It administers three natural villages—Chatang, Xincun, and Henghu—and consists of 11 villager groups, with a total population of over 1,930. The "Poetry School Street" of Chatang Village was built during the Qing Dynasty. Along the 336-meter-long pond, there are five ancestral halls, nine study rooms, four private schools, and one Hongsheng Ancient Temple, making it a provincial-level second batch of ancient villages. The Chatang Village Committee is 15 kilometers from downtown Xinhua and 2 kilometers from downtown Tanbu. The village is distributed along both sides of the Chantan Highway, with the Chantan Avenue running through the entire village area, and the entrance to the West Second Ring Expressway is located... For more detailed information about Chatang Village++