Photos of Jilue Huanggong Temple

Huang Gongci Temple was built in the thirteenth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1887), with a width of 15.4 meters and a depth of 25.7 meters. This is a second-entry ancestral hall, sitting from north to south. There is a patio between the first entrance and the back hall. There are corridors on both sides, and the back hall has a pavilion, forming a pattern of four halls facing each other. The trough roof truss in the back hall is a typical structure of "three-five papaya and eighteen blanks". On the forehead of the door, there are 5 characters inscribed "Yellow Huang Gongci", and the back is engraved with "Principles of Filial Piety". The entire ancestral hall has a unique architectural structure. The two sides of the gatehouse and the surrounding walls are inlaid with exquisite landscape stone carvings, especially the hollow double-sided carvings of the horse-faced slope roof trusses. The main hall is 3 wide, and the bright room is larger. The roof truss lift-beam structure, the hard top of the mountain, the hall lintel is decorated with gold lacquer paintings, and the two ends of the beams are decorated with dragons, phoenixes, lions and other auspicious animals; Theatrical wood carvings, such as Bronze Sparrow Terrace, Zhang Yu's Boiled Sea, and Flooded Jinshan Temple, are vivid and extremely elegant. Roof decorated with inlaid porcelain paintings. Exquisite carvings, landscapes, figures, flowers, birds, insects and fish are in various poses, with a high level of craftsmanship and artistic appreciation value. The whole building makes full use of the black lacquer gold, multicolored gold, and original pigment carvings unique to Chaozhou woodcarving. The three techniques make the buildings "different in weight" and have distinct layers. They are the concentrated expression of the Chaozhou carving art in the Qing Dynasty, and are known as "the first finely carved woodcut in South China".