In Guangdong Shunde Chen Family Temple
   

Chen Family Temple, namely sand Kau Chen Bunyan Church, Foshan Lecong Town Sand the Kau Management District East Village. Was built in the Qing dynasty, Yi Wei (1895), completed in the Boxer (1900). According to legend, the Temple by the local surnamed descendants to finance the construction, building format imitation of the scale of the Chen Clan Academy, Guangzhou City.

Chen Family Temple courtyard-style layout of the three courtyards, covers an area of over 4000 square meters, the main building are hard top, wide depth of three, lift beam and Chuan Dou beams structure. A large stone steps platform in front, next to Wai pillars railings Chinese board, and sophisticated technology. Both sides of the veranda gallery, carvings flying mask interval, all three birds, of fish, hollow sculpture gallery screen door, the cell-centered through flower colored glass, under the carved apron, Zhu Lan painting houses, Wealthy grand. Wing, posterior wall, five meters tall wood carving of the Pontianak to spend big screen, beautiful and quaint carving spectacular, the existing giant wood carving festival table, the first column of the beast foot, unadorned dignified. Head roof, the original double the gray plastic painted ridges, up to three meters and grand style, but unfortunately the early seventies was destroyed by a typhoon. Existing in, the back seat of the gray plastic painting ridge, still higher than the above - m, group painting plastic work is superb, strong, rough lines, quaint and vivid. The Cinei of woodcarving, stone carving, ceramics, brick, plaster moldings and other ancient decorative craft, although incomplete, but one should save all. Said: wood, Pontianak, teak, pear, Tokyo and other wood Chen Family Temple within a year overseas Chinese living in southeast Asia Chentai contribution, in order to buy good timber, he Yuandu to Thailand and other places, in-depth forest, personally selected, Finally arrived in Hong Kong via Singapore transshipment sand Kau.

Chen Family Temple is one of the the Shunde existing larger and better Guci, May 1991, the county people's government announced for the county cultural relics protection units.

Hangzhou Chen Clan Temple Church

Chen Clan Temple Church, the existing building for the Qing Emperor Yongzheng, Jiaqing years built, facing south, flat rectangular, along the central axis in order listed hall (the stage), the main hall, after the House into both sides of the breakdown of the property inspection, the wing. The total area of 600 square meters. Hall five bays wide, 15.10 meters wide pass, pass into the depth of 8.30 m relatively thick material, production of sophisticated, ancient moon beam shape, corbels, QT carved hard top, Shi Xiaoqing watt Shop yin and yang together, both sides of the seal The streaky gable. The main hall five bays wide, 15.10 meters wide pass, pass into the depth of seven meters, five out between the carrying beam with double step. After the floor of two story building, built on a high platform, five wide bays through 15.10 meters wide, through the depth of 7.90 m before and after distraction nine purlin and five columns, carrying Liang Chuan Dou hybrid beams, building rear set shrine for ancestral tablets. Construction of four weeks closure to the tall bank up a fire gables.

The complete layout of the Chen Clan Temple Church, arranged in order, workmanship, and a larger timber, quite fine architectural wood carvings, stone, brick, architecture has a distinct local characteristics.