When visiting Chongqing, one must check out the ancient architectural complex located on the hillside
🏨 Huguang Guild Hall
📍Detailed address:
No. 1 Ba Jiao Garden, Changbin Road, Chaotianmen Street, Yuzhong District, Chongqing City
🕙Opening hours: 9:00~18:00, entry stops at 17:00
Ticket price: ¥25
🌟Highlights:
Walking along the eastern side of the peninsula where the old city of Chongqing is located, towards the direction of the Dongshuimen Yangtze River Bridge, not far away, you will see this very conspicuous group of buildings.
This is the largest existing ancient guild hall complex in China, the Huguang Guild Hall. The buildings face the Yangtze River and are built along the river slope, including the Yuwang Palace, Guangdong Guild Hall, Qi'an Guild Hall, and four opera stages.
❤Recommended reason:
After buying a ticket and entering the Huguang Guild Hall, you are immediately attracted by the architecture. The mountainous terrain provides the guild hall complex with a spatial beauty that is hard to achieve in flatland architecture. The decorations on the ridge, columns, beams, and windows are exquisitely detailed and worth savoring.
🗓Itinerary:
Yuwang Palace—Carving Museum—Qi'an Guild Hall—Guangdong Guild Hall—Yuzhou Academy—Immigration Museum
👍Most recommended:
1. Distinctive architecture
The guild hall mostly follows the layout of the courtyard houses from the Ming and Qing dynasties. The architecture not only inherits the typical styles from Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, and the Jiangnan region but also integrates the traditional architectural features of Chongqing.
2. Carving techniques
The guild hall's architectural relief and openwork carvings mainly feature stories of characters from Journey to the West, Romance of the West Chamber, Investiture of the Gods, and The Twenty-Four Filial Exemplars, as well as various animals and plants such as dragons and phoenixes.
Especially the opera stage of the Qi'an Guild Hall, which is the most complete and exquisite opera stage in the Huguang Guild Hall complex. The carvings on the stage are of a very high artistic standard.
3. Immigrant culture
The Huguang Guild Hall is a historical product of the 'Huguang Fills Sichuan' immigration wave. It was established based on the living conditions and psychological needs of the immigrants and serves as a hub for maintaining the sentiment among fellow townspeople.
The use of elements from the hometown and the immigrant land in the architectural decoration shows an inclusive immigrant spirit.
4. Intangible cultural heritage performances
If you like watching operas, in the afternoon, there are performances of 'Drunken Bayu', a cultural show rooted in Bayu culture with intangible cultural heritage as its core, on the most beautiful stage inside the guild hall.
Photo spot sharing:
The entrance of Yuwang Palace, the entrance of Qi'an Guild Hall, the interior stage is also great for photography, you can use red silk as a foreground!
The entrance of the Guangdong Guild Hall, the long staircase to the left of Yuzhou Academy, where you can capture the distinctive rooftops and Dongshuimen Yangtze River Bridge in the same frame, Dongshuimen Yangtze River Bridge, where you can take a panoramic photo of the Huguang Guild Hall!
📝Tips:
1. If you want to take photos of the architecture or portraits, it is recommended to go in the morning when there are fewer people
2. It is recommended to tour in a clockwise direction
3. Turn left at the exit, take the elevator, and go up to the 5th floor where you can stand on the Dongshuimen Yangtze River Bridge and overlook the Huguang Guild Hall
The large-scale Qing Dynasty ancient buildings are also very rare in the big cities in China. Friends who recommend to Chongqing can choose to visit this tour after visiting the two rivers. Among them, Zhangzhou Academy, Yuwang Palace, Guangzhou East Assembly Hall, Qi'an Club, including Yuxiu are worth slowly enjoying.
The building is very beautiful and worth seeing! Going too early in the morning, the Bayan show has not yet begun. I like the style of the building, the yellow wall, and the whole building can be overlooked from the bridge, which is more spectacular.
Step into the Huguang Assembly Hall, where the moths and dough arches and carved beams and painting buildings come, every wood carving and every masonry are quietly telling the past. The simplicity of Huizhou architecture and the ingenuity of Jiangnan gardens are perfectly integrated here. The pavilions and pavilions are scattered, one step at a time, which is dizzying.
Very good, especially with the baby, do not have to walk too much, not too tired, must watch the show, is a way to understand Bayan culture. The baby likes it very much, changes his face, grows his mouth, adapts Sichuan flavor rap, very good.
Chongqing Huguang Assembly Hall, located on the Yangtze Riverside of Dongshuimen, Yuzhong District, Chongqing, currently has Guangdong Assembly Hall, Jiangnan Assembly Hall, Two Lakes Assembly Hall, Jiangxi Assembly Hall and four theater buildings, including ⑨ Guangdong Public Office and Qi'an Public Office. The assembly hall group was built in the Qing Kangxi period, has a history of nearly 300 years, is an important part of Bayan culture, is the Qing Dynasty Chongqing as a prosperous business historical site, is also the Qing Dynasty early to the early years of the Republic of China Chongqing immigrant culture, commercial culture and architectural culture important symbol.
The scenery is good, the ticket price is OK, the terrain of Chongqing is very obvious when you arrive inside, and the feeling of the Chamber of Commerce came all at once. The yellow buildings are very characteristic. It is not monotonous to walk to this attraction, but it is not monotonous all the way.
After May 1st, I took my mother to Chongqing to travel, punched in the Huguang Assembly Hall, and it was within walking distance from the hotel. Feeling overall is good, there are many knowledge points. It is also the first time to have a wedding in the scenic area, and it is a new idea to generate revenue. 😄
Very distinctive architectural communities, especially the characters carved by each stage, flowers and plants are very vivid, the plants planted in the clubhouse grow very lush, and the yellow high wall photos are very good.