Wu is a famous family in southern Anhui, since it moved to the Northern Song Dynasty. It is the first family in Jingxian County. Maolin Wu's Grand Ancestral Hall was built in the temple of Ming Dynasty, which belongs to the place where the family worships their ancestors and sages. Now it is a provincial cultural relics protection unit. Ancestral temple represents an excellent cultural form of family ancestor belief, which has great influence and historical value.
The main body of the ancestral hall has five rows and three entrances, with a building area of 1 13 1 square meter. According to Wu's genealogy, in the early years of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty (1639), Wu Zeng, the political envoy of Huguang, advocated the construction. 194 1 When the New Fourth Army withdrew from southern Anhui in, a farewell party was held in this temple, which is also the former site of the revolution. Among the existing ancestral halls, the only one known as the "Great Ancestral Hall" is the ancestral hall of Wu surname in Maolin. The five characters "Wu's Ancestral Hall" on the gate of the ancestral hall were inscribed by Wu, a student of the Ming Dynasty. Calligraphy is ancient and unique, like a withered vine, supporting each other. Stairs and stones are stacked and self-linked. There is also a pair of gold-plated couplets on both sides of the gate, which was inscribed by Li Banghua, a scholar and magistrate of Jingxian County during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. The couplet reads: "Ten Ze in Yanling spread to the left of the river, and celebrities in Li Jing wrote about the west of the water".
The general layout of Wu's ancestral hall consists of three entrances: the entrance hall, the pleasure hall and the dormitory building, with wing houses on the east and west sides. In front of the gate stood a pair of drum stones and a pair of stone lions. There are 18 square white stone pillars and 64 round wooden pillars in the temple, and the roof is hard mountain type. There is a wing on each side of the main hall, followed by a square patio. An aisle is built in the patio with hemp stone, and cypress and osmanthus trees are planted on the flower piers on both sides, which means "evergreen all the year round". There are wide corridors on both sides of the patio, connecting the second hall. This hall can accommodate hundreds of people for sacrificial ceremonies and other activities. A horizontal plaque with the words "Xulun Hall" is hung high on the screen, and the four characters "loyalty, filial piety, chastity and righteousness" are embedded in the walls on both sides. The moon beam, melon column, archway and pan head in the temple are all painted with gold, engraved with grass rolls and cloud heads, as well as dragons and phoenixes, lion elephants, Kirin and figures. There are also exquisite carvings on the dado of the column base and corridor, which shows the characteristics of ancient family architecture. There is a rectangular patio behind the hall, a pair of golden pools below and a single-hole stone arch bridge in the middle. Jinshui Pool is protected by granite, with white stone pillars and blue stone pillars with lion heads, and the stone pillars are embossed with wishful patterns. The third entrance is a two-story building, with wooden shrines above and below, where ancestral tablets of past dynasties are placed, which is called "Bedroom". Hundreds of plaques are hung in the foyer, corridor and hall of the former ancestral hall, showing the representative figures of Wu's imperial clan in imperial examinations, official positions, filial piety and position selection.
(1) Wu's Grand Ancestral Hall in Maolin.
Scope of protection: the external wall of the residential building in the east (7.4m), the square in front of the shrine in the south (13m), the external wall of the residential building in the west (including the driveway, 3m) and the external wall of the May 3rd Memorial Hall in the north (5m).
Construction control zone: 40m east, 40m south, 40m west and 40m north.
(2) Xihong Wuci Temple.
Protection scope: outside the ancestral hall, east, south, west and north 10 meter.
Construction control zone: 40m east, 40m south, 40m west and 40m north.
(3) The gatehouse of Qiaowu Ancestral Hall.
Protection scope: east, south, west and north of the ancestral hall gatehouse 10 meter.
Construction control zone: 40m east, 40m south, 40m west and 40m north.