Chen academy is orientated north and south, as China's "SanJin three lk. Don LiangXiang Miao" courtyard layout, from 9 a hall hall, six yard, 10 a wing and corridor of lane, east of new lines of more than 17000 square meters of green square. Its whole structure layout is rigorous, the actual alternate with, hall demeanor, the courtyard capacious and quiet and tastefully laid out. Into the hall juxian hall in the center of the building for college, is held in spring and autumn people sacrifice or on the local party. Hall yu demeanor, the courtyard and capacious. DiaoLou bridge wearing fine, the hall of the huge screen placed, exquisitely carved, for wood products.

wood carving

  The woodcarving Chen academy. The largest number, the scale is also big, rich in content. The first into the head door beams carved on "the birthday", "practice and HuiMeng" based on historical stories and folk tales of the woodcarving. For outstanding is one of The Three Kingdoms "cao cao big meal in Taiwan a group of copper sparrow, cao cao sitting in on the sparrow describe copper watch JiaoChang each franchise duration of the scene, we XuHuang and make outstanding chu ratio to jin robe in the race for the scene and neck. In addition to checking the hall, go put the bridge of the gallery, and that a bird for more than 540 m eaves board carved various fruits, decorative pattern design, character, animal, all without exception to condense the guangdong woodcarving of essence.

stone carving

  Chen academy of stone is mainly the granite stone material. More in pillar, month beam, coupons door, baluster, dado, column and the place such as development steps. Juxian hall of the platform before the stone railing, is typical of the academy stone decoration craft, it well in the round, the high relief, reduced to relief, LouDiao and shade is engraved and so on many kinds of techniques, with all sorts of birds and flowers, fruits as subject matter, continuous bound with the performance of the design in the form of carve. And the double iron casting the flower column board embedded in the railings, so that the baluster of quietly elegant is gray in color deep iron casting YingTuo column board, comparative and bright, the subject is prominent, extremely rich adornment effect.

   In other stone carving decoration, such as the month, through the shelf, sparrow beam for, dado, eaves gallery railing and bring down the steps, has the strong local characteristics. And in front of the gate a stone lion (base has lost), the masons use of line carve concise and lively, look into the form of peace, deserves to be greeted with a smile RuiShou, this is the guangdong area representative of the stone lion modelling.

tile carving

  Main adornment in the wall YanXia, signage, head on the wall and other rhinoceros, as beautiful window decoration. Guangdong brick from timber techniques with the northern or all in the jiangnan region have some difference.

  Carved by artists before oefficients selected. Then based on the whole picture levels of how much, will be arranged by the layer of blue bricks, in turn, or parts out of the pattern, the last step by step embedded in the wall oefficients build by laying bricks or stones, forming a multi-level picture. The carving techniques in the round, often to the high relief, reduced to relief, hollow out with use, including especially profound techniques, line neat and flow chang freely, slender like silk, so it is also called "hang line brick".

Grey model

  Guangdong old houses, mostly in gables with lime pile on both sides of the simple careless grain. Says this "grass tail". In a rich a mansion or ancestral temple temple, grey model to the scope of application of with the specifications of the building and the expansion, it is guangdong folk of the main building decoration craft, due to the ash should be made on site, artists will be according to the needs of the subject matter and the space, give full play to its techniques, such as mountains and water jian with form through the wall paper scenery, or animal, flower until fashion into 20 to 60 cm out wall, three-dimensional effect is very outstanding. Form lifelike. Colour happy event with DaGongDaLu, richly variegated, full of rich folk artistic features.

CERAMIC SCULPTURE

  Chen academy chahai of colourful, full of beautiful things in eyes, vertiginous. The academy is the chahai ridge of foshan article 11. The first into five and juxian hall ridge decorations YuGuangXu respectively seventeen years (1891) (juxian hall ridge decorations in 1976 by typhoon pour, in 1981 remodeling) and 19 years (1893) fire, in article 4, and junior ridge decorations YuGuangXu 18 years (1892) fire, junior ridge decorations of the hall is complete YuGuangXu sixteen years (1890). Article 11 ridge decorations in juxian hall in the largest, the presidents of the 27 m, 2.9 m high, even the grey model base total of 4.26 m. The total 224 characters ridge plastic, topics include eight immortals HeShou, JiaGuanJinJue, qiu guest and excavate and so on, the ridge decorations like article a big stage. Other major themes of ridge decorations is longfeng, birds and flowers, RuiShou, landscape and the historical story and characters such as a group.

Iron casting
  Chen academy juxian hall stone railing are embedded in the before and after casting our board, namely TieHua foshan. The positive 6 pieces for kylin jade book phoenix figure, steps both sides is dragon playing a ball, and three Yang kaitai, annual and superabundant, etc. These iron casting pig iron casting by foshan, forge or casting and become, exquisite workmanship, the composition is exquisite.