Yuqing Hall

　　Address: Dudu Village, Dutong Subdistrict, Lanxi City, Jinhua, Zhejiang Province (Duyi Administrative Village)

　　The hall was constructed during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, facing west, with a three-courtyard-and-one-connecting-hall layout. A pair of Ming Dynasty stone lions still stand in front of the hall. The total floor area is approximately 860 square meters.

　　This ancestral hall was built in the 55th year of the Qianlong reign (1790) of the Qing Dynasty by Cheng Jiahe, a descendant of the Northern Song philosophers, educators, and Neo-Confucianism founders Cheng Yi and Cheng Hao. The corridor wall of the hall features a stele titled “Stele Record of the Construction of the Cheng Family’s Yu Hall,” erected in the 55th year of Qianlong. The stele stands 189 cm tall and 74.5 cm wide, recounting how Cheng Jiahe, a descendant of the Cheng family, “abandoned scholarly pursuits, pursued modest profits, and built the hall to honor his ancestors when his family business flourished.” The structure is a traditional three-sided courtyard, with the gatehouse located to the east, and the main hall facing south with five bays. The central bay features a post-and-lintel system supported by five-tier beams and flat beams, with accompanying purlin beams. The front porch has a raised roof section (xuan), and the beam heads are shaped like elephant trunks. The four front eave columns are melon-shaped, adorned with carved floral brackets. The xuan and gatehouse are decorated with scrollwork, double-dragon motifs, and the character for longevity (shou). The layout remains intact to this day, the structure is well-preserved, and the inscribed stele documents the construction history, making it a representative example of late-Qianlong-period ancestral halls.

　　On March 16, 2005, it was designated as a Zhejiang Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Unit, and in May 2013, it was listed among the seventh batch of Major Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the National Level.