Yang Ancestral Hall, Hefeng

The listing and its gazette batch

The Nanjing municipal list of protected sites records Yang Ancestral Hall, Hefeng, as Qing, in Yangjia Village, Hefeng Town, Lishui District. The municipal list gives only the level, period and location; it gives neither the size of the hall nor the year it was built.

The batch is now confirmed against the municipal gazette notice. Ning Zheng Fa [2006] No. 131 of 10 June 2006 published the third batch of 159 municipal protected sites. Yang Ancestral Hall, Hefeng appears as item 35 in the "ancient buildings" section, with the period given as Qing and the address recorded as "Hefeng Town, Lishui County". The address column of the notice still uses county-era wording; it is quoted here as printed.

Two halls in Hefeng Town

Hefeng is a town, in the south of the district. Two ancestral halls in it appear in the municipal list: the Yang hall in Yangjia Village, which is this entry, and the Zhu hall in Zhujia Village, both recorded as Qing. The two stand in different villages of the same town and are independent protected sites with their own protected areas; this entry does not merge them.

To be added

The width and depth of the hall, the dates of its construction and rebuilding, its hall name, the surviving buildings and the layout of its courtyard, and the arrival and growth of the Yang lineage in the Hefeng area all remain to be added. Nothing absent from the lists and the notice is supplied here: the notice settles the level and the batch, not the architectural data.