Zhao Ancestral Hall

The listing

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) the Zhao Ancestral Hall is recorded as Qing, at the place then named as Honglan Town, Guotangtou Village. Honglan Town became Honglan Subdistrict in 2018, so the address here uses the current form.

The district 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 notices for the first and second district batches have not been traced, so no other district listing can be inferred from this document.

Level and lists consulted

The Zhao Ancestral Hall appears in the third district batch of protected sites. In the Nanjing Municipal Cultural Relic Sites List consulted here, the ancestral halls in Honglan Subdistrict include the Honglan Rui Ancestral Hall, but no Zhao hall; among the place-name cultural heritage notices seen here, the ancestral halls in Honglan Subdistrict likewise include the Rui hall but not the Zhao hall. This shows only that the hall is absent from the municipal list and the place-name lists as read here; since that municipal list was not read in full, the point is a lead only and cannot be used to deny the hall some other, higher status. No record of a change in the hall's level has been found, and its protection level is given here as in the third district batch.

Halls listed in the same batch

Three ancestral halls in Honglan Town appear in the third district batch: the Zhao hall in Guotangtou Village, and the Fan and Qiu halls in Cangkou Village. All three were listed in the same batch and are recorded as Qing. This entry and the other two are independent protected sites and are not merged here.

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, the arrival and growth of the Zhao lineage in Guotangtou, and the formal published text of the third batch. A search of the municipal and provincial cultural-relic lists, of the district's batch notices, of the place-name cultural heritage notices and of press reports found no separate record of this hall, nor any information on its form or history. Nothing absent from the lists is supplied here.