Yilue Huang Gong Ancestral Temple is at No.2 iron lane, Yian Road, established in 1887, is a two entrance courtyard, face width is 15.4 meters, 25.7 meters deep, gate floor frame adorned with fancy stone carving, forehead is “Yilue Huang gong Ancestral temple”, back engraved “Filial piety standard”. Between antechamber and back chamber is dooryard, two sides has corridor, back chamber with hold mansion, forming pattern that four halls directs each other. Back hall middle groove frame is typical structure “three and five pawpaw, eighteen flan”.
Yilue Huang Gong Ancestral Temple is embodying it worthy of the name. Those woodcarving adornment, adopt round carve, sink carve, float carve, hollow etc different tact on skill, Chaozhou woodcarving art palace that break through space and time limited, two ends of girder adorned with different dragon, phoenix, king of beasts etc those lucky animals, drama legend, folktale such as “Copper phoenix stage”, “Zhang Yu cook sea”, “Water overflow Golden hill” is the main theme of woodcarving creative, “Han River beautiful sight” local beauty, shows multilayer content visually, fully use three kind of techniques: black lacquer dress gold, five color dress gold, native color plane carving, make the whole building has different degree, arrangement clear, as a result praised as “First Chaozhou woodcarving miracle.” Yilue Huang Gong Ancestral Temple now ranked as cultural relics under nation protection.protection. |