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Architectural style
    Chen Ancestral Temple building known for exquisite decorative, stately Wealthy. A variety of decorative wood carving, stone carving, brick carving, clay sculpture, ceramics, iron crafts, all over the top of the eaves outside the cave, halls, courtyards, Gallery veranda. Both large scale production, there are also exquisite works of decorative style or bold outline or delicate tiny, distinctive, especially in the shape of the glazed tile ridge, is a classic story of Kwong Lo, to collect the local scenery, dazzling, beautiful, unique style. Temple before the intramural six scrolls large brick, each piece of brick up to 4 meters, is a good one a brick sculpture to be connected to one of the three-dimensional, multi-level screen myth legend, landscape garden, flowers and animals, Zhongding Yi-ming, etc., as is the general hospital of a folk. Chen Clan Temple Church after the 1958 renovation opened up the Guangdong Folk Art Museum. Comrade Guo left a Five-character poem in 1959 after the visit: "day workers on behalf of the artificial day is better. Really made the world better than reading ten books. Chen Ancestral Temple building decoration process as early as the 1920s, at home and abroad construction experts and scholars seriously, German and Japanese architectural art monographs already in presentations. 1959 Pijian for the Guangdong Folk Art Museum (after 1994 renamed as Guangdong Folk Art Museum to present).

    National earmarked rebuilt again in 1980

    Chen Family Temple various halls, galleries, homes, doors, windows, railings, roof, brick walls, beams, shrines and other places, you can see the traditional wood carving, stone carving, brick, ceramics, plaster moldings, architectural decoration, as well as iron technologywares. Potter is concentrated in the 19 halls on the roof tile ridge; brick east, West inverted Block the external walls of the largest; gray plastic concentrated in the tile ridge and the hospital porch is made of the South China Sea, gray plastic artist; carvings in addition to the beams with the screen door and CentreStage Church, the back seat of the 11 double openwork shrine, tall body, "Guangxu 16 years", "back to Lan Kiu Yuen Cheong Street Taizo PROCEEDINGS made the inscription. The ancestral hall in a variety of decorative, colorful, wide range of topics.

National key units
     Built in two decades of Emperor Guangxu (1894), the Chen Clan Academy, Guangdong Province, 72 County, surnamed Chen, a native of joint venture. Purpose-oriented family around reading to provide accommodation to Guangzhou to participate in the civil service examinations. Chen Clan its architectural decoration embodies the essence of the Guangdong Folk Art Deco cleverly uses the technology of wood, brick, ceramics, copper, iron, etc. are decorated building in a variety of carved decoration, mainly by the builders to the provincial within the county organization to employ a large number of craftsmen concentrated in Guangzhou production. According to available information, the artists participating in the brick system Huang Nan Mountain in Panyu, Young Kam tribunal, Li-walled bamboo, Nanhai Chen Zhaonan, Liang Cheng, Liang into the other. The largest number of carved yellow Nanshan, carving is also very delicate and intricate artistry, very famous. Chen Clan Academy, in Guangdong existing largest, best preserved and most exquisite decorative art of the ancient building, now the Guangdong Folk Technology Museum. Is a national key cultural relics protection units.