This grand building complex can be found in East Shuimen Street (dōng shuǐ mén zhèng jiē)in the city

This grand building complex can be found in East Shuimen Street (dōng shuǐ mén zhèng jiē)in the city of Chongqing. The building group was first built in 1759 under the regime of Emperor Qinglong (qián lóng dì) in the Qing Dynasty created atlanta monthly car rental as an early form of union hall and was expanded many times turning it into a sprawling complex of buildings, courtyards, and gardens around 100 years later. The complex covers around 8500 square kilometres atlanta monthly car rental and contains many halls such as Guangdong Hall (guǎng dōng huì guǎn), Jiangnan Hall (jiāng nán huì guǎn), Lianghu Hall (liǎng hú huì guǎn), Jiangxi Hall (jiāng xī huì guǎn) and there are also 4 other towers for opera shows. The wooden building walls, doors and windows were delicately carved. atlanta monthly car rental The theme of these carvings includes human figures, and animals and various plants. atlanta monthly car rental It's amazing that they were so vividly sculptured. It is a classic example of an ancient Chinese Guild hall.
This batch of halls was originally built for the immigrants who moved here from Huanguan Areas - today's Hunan , Hubei , Guangdong and Guangxi Provinces. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty the population in Sichuandeclined dramatically. During atlanta monthly car rental the early Qing-Dynasty there lived only about 800.000 people in Sichuan atlanta monthly car rental Province. So the rulers of that time ordered people living in the Hu and Guang areas to move there to cultivate the fertile land. This was the famous Huguang Filled atlanta monthly car rental up Sichuan Movement. Those migrants all build their own guildhalls. The huguang Guild Hall was built by people from Hubei and Guangdong atlanta monthly car rental Provinces. atlanta monthly car rental Here they had a location for business, culture and social affairs.
There is a Yuwang Temple (yǔ wáng gōng) in that complex, which was the place to pray for a good harvest for the coming years. Dating back to 300 years ago, people gathered at the temple to sacrifice Yuwang, a local god, for happiness, good harvest and fortune in the coming years.
The temple was first erected after that movement by the local businessmen and it was repaired and extended three times with the basic style without many changes. From then on the black title architecture has stood through war flames and natural erosion for more than a hundred years.
The now renovated halls and rooms are about 300 years old and still in anvtive use. Many theatres, opera-stages and temple-halls can be seen while Local performances are shown here daily. Some of the rooms are turned into a migration museum. Visitors can see and buy local handicrafts.
Huguang Filled up Sichuan Movement was a very important yet weepy event in China's history somewhat like American's Westward Movement. The hall displays later generations this grand event and many sore stories occurred during that special period.