Zhu Ancestral Hall, Hefeng

The listing and its gazette batch

The Nanjing municipal list of protected sites records Zhu Ancestral Hall, Hefeng, as Qing, in Zhujia 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. Zhu Ancestral Hall, Hefeng appears as item 36 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.

The village

Zhujia Village is now part of Hefeng Town. In that same third-batch notice, two ancestral halls in Hefeng Town appear, one in Yangjia Village and one in Zhujia Village, which is this entry, both recorded as Qing. They stand in different villages of the same town and are independent protected sites; this entry does not merge them, and it does not infer the lineage's origins from the correspondence between the village name and the hall's surname.

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 Zhu 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.