The Chen Clan Academy Guangzhou 廣州陳家祠

陳家祠，又叫陳氏書院，係中國廣州嘅重要文物，喺中山七路。

喺清朝光緒十六年至二十年之間（1890年-1894年）起，

係嗰陣廣東省七十二縣陳氏宗親夾錢起嘅合族宗祠。

陳家祠係集咗嶺南咁多代建築藝術精華嘅典型代表，

包括咗前院、西院、東院同後院，佔地一萬五千幾平方米。

陳家祠嘅建築由深三進，廣五間，大細十九座建築物組成，

建築中心係高廿幾米嘅中進主殿「聚賢堂」。

陳家祠喺2002年列入咗羊城八景，叫做「古祠留芳」。

(資料來自維基百科)

The Chen Clan Academy is an academic temple in Guangzhou (Canton),

China built by the 72 Chen (It is usually romanised as Chan in Cantonese)

clans for their juniors' accommodation and preparation for the imperial

examinations in 1894 in Qing Dynasty.

Later it was changed to be the Chen Clan’s Industry College,

and then middle schools afterward. Now it houses the Guangdong Folk Art Museum .

Located at Zhongshan 7th Road, the Chen Clan Academy is a symmetric complex

consist of 19 buildings with nine halls and six courtyards.

Facing south, the complex forms around a north-south axis.

A large collection of southern China art pieces, for example,

wood carvings and pottery, can be found in the structure.

The Chen Clan Academy complex exemplifies traditional Chinese architecture and

decoration style, and has influenced cultural and architectural developments worldwide.

It was added in the list of "Cultural Relics of National Importance

under the Protection of the State" in 1988.

(Information from Wikipedia)

 

 

 

 

 

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