Shen Hall

Zhouzhuang must punch in the attractions, the Ming Dynasty rich enemy country Shen Wansan's descendant Shen Benren built in Qing Qianlong seven years (1742), covering an area of more than 2,900 square meters, sitting east and west, seven into five gates, a total of more than 100 houses. The brick carving gates and wood carvings are exquisite and elegant.

When it comes to Shen Hall, you have to mention Shen Wansan. Shen Wansan started his career with agriculture and animal husbandry, and later gained a lot of assets, and Shen Wansan gradually carried out export trade in the future, and became the first rich man in the south of the Yangtze River in a short time. Shen Hall is Shen Wansan's descendant Shen Benren completed in Qianlong.

Shen Wansan's former residence Shen Hall has three parts. The front is the water wall door and the river, which are specially for the family to dock ships and wash clothes. It is a special building in Jiangnan Water Township; the middle is the wall door building, tea hall, and main hall. It is a place to pick up and drop off guests and handle weddings and funerals and discussions. The back is the lobby building, the small hall building and the back hall house, which is the place of living. The whole hall is a typical "front hall and back hall" architectural pattern. The front and back buildings are connected by the cross-street building and the aisle pavilion, forming a circular walk-horse building, which is rare for similar buildings.

Zhouzhuang can stand out first in a large Jiangnan town of course has his uniqueness, Shen Hall is the main reason, this is the first rich Shen Wansan's ancestral house in the early Ming Dynasty, is the largest preserved walking horse building in Jiangnan water town.

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