Rui Ancestral Hall, Honglan

The listing and its gazette batch

The Nanjing municipal list of protected sites records Rui Ancestral Hall, Honglan, as Qing, in Cangkou Village, Honglan Subdistrict, Lishui District. The municipal list gives only the level, period and location; it gives neither the width and depth 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. Rui Ancestral Hall, Honglan appears as item 33 in the "ancient buildings" section, with the period given as Qing and the address recorded as "Honglan Town, Lishui County". The address column still uses county-era wording; it is quoted as printed and not rewritten as today's "Honglan Subdistrict, Lishui District".

Three halls in one village

In the notice of the Lishui District People's Government on the third batch of district-level protected sites (Li Zheng Fa [2017] No. 197) two further halls in Cangkou Village are listed: the Fan Ancestral Hall and the Qiu Ancestral Hall, both recorded as Qing and district-level. With this entry, three ancestral halls in the single village of Cangkou are listed, the Rui hall at municipal level and the Fan and Qiu halls at district level.

Each is an independent protected site with its own protected area; this entry does not merge them, and it does not infer any relationship between the three lineages from the fact that their halls stand in one village.

To be added

The width and depth of the Rui 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 Rui lineage in Cangkou 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.