Wei Ancestral Hall, Shiqiu

The listing and its gazette batch

The Nanjing municipal list of protected sites records Wei Ancestral Hall, Shiqiu, as Qing, in Weijiacun, Shiqiu Subdistrict, 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. Wei Ancestral Hall, Shiqiu appears as item 34 in the "ancient buildings" section, with the period given as Qing and the address recorded as "Shiqiu Town, Lishui County". The notice predates the 2018 redesignation of Shiqiu Town as Shiqiu Subdistrict; the original wording is quoted.

Two villages of the same name

There are two villages called Weijiacun in the district, in different towns: one in Shiqiu Subdistrict, where this hall stands, and one in Jingqiao Town, where the Weijiacun Mound Tombs, a seventh-batch provincial protected site, are located. The two share a name but belong to different towns. This entry refers to the village in Shiqiu Subdistrict and has nothing to do with the one in Jingqiao Town. Any citation should name the town or subdistrict as well, never "Weijiacun" alone.

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 Wei lineage in the Shiqiu 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.