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Qijia Hall

Published: 2026-11-15 👁 100 views
Last updated 2026-11-15 — Era: Ming Dynasty Address: Located in Yapu Second Village, Yapu Town, Wucheng District, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province. The hall faces south and has a square layout, consisting of...

Qijia Hall

Qijia Hall
      Era: Ming Dynasty

      Address: Located in Yapu Second Village, Yapu Town, Wucheng District, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province

      The hall faces south and has a square layout, consisting of a screen wall, courtyard, front hall, rear hall, and wing rooms. It features a square floor plan. In front of the front hall is a screen wall, the upper part of which is adorned with carved floral motifs using polished bricks, and the base is decorated with brick moldings. The screen wall is integrated with the gable walls of the side wing rooms, each of which has a large door at the gable, topped with carved brick lintels. The front hall is three bays wide, with a total width of 13.36 meters and a depth of 28.32 meters. The central bay of the roof truss features a seven-rafter post-and-lintel system with front and rear corridors, while the side bays use a mixed post-and-lintel and through-tenon style. Between the crossbeams and the eaves purlins of each bay, there is a bracket set with a single dougong. The side rooms are arranged symmetrically. At the junctions where the front and rear halls meet the side rooms, there are...

      The existing architectural layout is intact, with standardized materials and a simple structure. It was designated as a Zhejiang Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Unit in August 1997, and as a seventh batch National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit in May 2013.

Qijia Hall is a National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit.

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