Huizhou Guild Hall is located in Kecheng District, Quzhou City, with a history dating back to the Qing Dynasty.
Huizhou Guild Hall was established by Huizhou merchants in Qu Dynasty. The guild hall is well preserved, large in scale, thick in materials, carved with arches and sparrows, and has high historical, artistic, cultural and scientific value. From 65438 to 0993, Huizhou Guild Hall was listed as a key cultural protection unit in Quzhou, and now it is the office of Quzhou Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
Huizhou merchants, as a group of merchants, have become the leaders and symbols of China merchants in the long history of nearly 500 years. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Huizhou Guild Hall was established in most big cities in China, which was a place for Huizhou merchants to meet and discuss important affairs. According to the Records of Quxian County of the Republic of China, in the old days, Quzhou was mostly the land of Huo Zhi, a Hui merchant.
Quzhou Huizhou Guild Hall is located at No.78, Xianxue Street, Fushan Street, facing south. The original site covers an area of about 629 square meters, and it is a three-in and two-out well structure with hard roof. The original intention of Huizhou merchants in Qu to donate money to establish Huizhou Guild Hall is not only to serve Huizhou merchants in business places and those passing through Quzhou, but also to provide accommodation and financial help to Huizhou people who are out of town, such as scholars who are rushing to take exams. It can be said that the guild hall is a gathering place for Huizhou merchants in a foreign land, where Huizhou people can find the feeling of home.
However, as time goes by, Huizhou Guild Hall, which once welcomed guests, has become increasingly depressed with the changes of the times, and the complicated scene seems to be gone forever. It was not until the arrival of Quzhou Federation of Literary and Art Circles that Huizhou Guild Hall was revived.
The wall of the main entrance of Huizhou Guild Hall is mottled, and a sign with black characters on a white background is hung next to the heavy red paint gate, which reads "Quzhou Federation of Literary and Art Circles", which is extremely simple. Across the street are lively cinemas and restaurants. The hustle and bustle of people coming and going increasingly highlights the silence and vicissitudes of Huizhou Guild Hall, and Quzhou Federation of Literary and Art Circles also means "hiding in the city".
Stepping into the gate, the blue bricks, tiles and bamboo windows are green, which makes the hearts of tourists calm instantly and the noise of the outside world has been isolated. Looking up, you can see layers of domes. Under the dome, there is a stage in the square space, which passes through the hall and seems to reproduce the past Huizhou opera in the ear.
The main hall is a building with double eaves and resting on the top of the mountain. Fishtail-shaped kissing animals generally mean "avoiding fire" On the roof, the words "peaceful country and peaceful people" are evenly distributed on the front. If you go around the back of the hall, it is the word "good weather". Without careful identification, this prayer of Huizhou merchants will be hidden in the dense tiles.
There is a plaque hanging in the hall, which says "Cui Wen Hall". Mr. Kelly, the former chairman of the Calligraphers Association, danced in the phoenix with vigorous brushwork. It used to be a place for Huizhou merchants to discuss major issues, but now it has become a place for writers and artists in Quzhou to meet and exchange, and many exhibitions of photography, calligraphy and painting are held in the hall full of ancient meanings. Cui Wentang really lives up to his reputation, with a collection of scholars.
Through the small door next to the hall, the passage between courtyards is deep because of the stone piers and windows placed against the wall on both sides. After a few days of rain, fine moss climbed up the cracks in the stone and poured into the blue-gray floor tiles. By the sound of the breeze blowing through bamboo leaves, the rain, snow, wind and frost experienced by Huizhou merchants are faintly described.
After traveling through the cloister, you will come across a small courtyard full of ancient rhyme. This courtyard, renovated in 2008, was originally an annex to the main building of Huizhou Guild Hall. On the lintel, the simple and naive word "Jinyuan" is printed with the original trace of the old gentleman Lai Shaoqi. There are three privet trees in the yard, one of which was broken by lightning last year. But the roots are broken, and in recent years, the lush branches have been re-drawn from the fracture, and the business is full. Maybe in a few years, the theory of "Three Treasures Tree" will shine again.
Different from the gathering and communication in Cui Wen Guild Hall, Jinyuan is reserved and contains the most cultural products with Quzhou characteristics. Yellow wax stone, silvery white porcelain, Jiangshan harmonious painted pottery and so on have entered the courtyard one after another. The quiet and leisurely Jinyuan has become a window for Quzhou's foreign art exchange, attracting art lovers from all walks of life to learn cultural nutrients here. Repair the old as before, and the overall structure of Huizhou Guild Hall has never changed. Quzhou Federation of Literary and Art Circles injected the ancient city culture into it in a new way, nourishing a place with natural connection.
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