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Tangyue Memorial Archways 棠樾牌坊群Tángyuè Páifāng Qún
National heritage site · Huangshan, Anhui
- Time needed
- 2–3 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Huangshan
- Region
- Anhui
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Tangyue Memorial Archways
Seven stone memorial archways, built between 1420 and 1820, stand in a line on the approach to Tangyue, the home village of the Bao clan, merchants in Ming and Qing times, honouring filial piety, widows' chastity, charity and high office. Beside them are the Bao clan's Dunben Hall and the Qingyi Hall, an ancestral hall for the clan's women, and the village keeps a dozen listed old buildings. The large Bao Family Garden, destroyed in the Taiping war and rebuilt in 2002, is visited with the archways as one part of the Ancient Huizhou Culture Tourism Zone.
How to get to Tangyue Memorial Archways
In Tangyue village, Zhengcun town, about 6 km west of Shexian county town and about 20 km north-east of Tunxi by road.
Nearby
- Huangshan (Yellow Mountain) 黄山 30 km
Granite spires, wind-bent pines and a sea of clouds straight out of an ink painting - Xidi 西递村 40 km
A quieter UNESCO twin of Hongcun: flagstone lanes, merchant houses and a Ming archway - Hongcun Village 宏村 40 km
A merchant village planned in the shape of an ox, mirrored in its own pond
Also within 20 km: Zheng Ancestral Hall, Zhengcun 郑氏宗祠 (under 10 km), Tangmo Village and Tangan Garden 唐模 (under 10 km), Choushu Memorial Archways 稠墅牌坊群 (under 10 km), Xieyuda Tea Culture Museum 谢裕大茶文化博物馆 (under 10 km), Shuyuan Memorial Archways 蜀源牌坊群 (under 10 km), Taiping Bridge, Shexian 歙县太平桥 (under 10 km).
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