Located at No.2 Tiexiang, Yi 'an Road, Xiangqiao District, Jilue Huanggong Temple was built in the 13th year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1887). It is a courtyard with a width of15.4m and a depth of 25.7m.. The roof truss of the gatehouse is decorated with exquisite stone carvings. The front door reaches the Huanggong Temple in Himeji Road, and the back is engraved with "the principle of filial piety". It's a bit like Huanggong Temple, with a patio between the main entrance and the back hall, a porch on both sides, and a treasure in the back hall, forming a pattern of four halls facing each other. The central trough roof truss of the back hall is a typical "35 papaya 18 blank" structure.
Jile Huanggong Temple is a veritable Chaozhou woodcarving art hall. Both ends of the beam are decorated with auspicious animals with different images, such as dragons, phoenixes and lions. Dramatic legends and folk stories such as "Tongquetai", "Zhangyu Boiling the Sea" and "Shuijinmanshan" are the main themes of woodcarving creation, and the local scenery of "Beautiful Scenery of Hanjiang River" is also reflected.
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When we walk through Yi 'an Road in the ancient city and come to Tiexiangtou, we can see Himeji Huanggong Temple. First of all, you can see the front appearance of the ancestral hall, with a concave Doumen building in the middle, engraved with "Himeji Huanggong Temple" on the front and "Filial piety and reason" on the back. There are four engraved words and two engraved pictures on the front of the gatehouse, which is the Ode to Hijiru Huanggong Temple by Wen Zhonghe, a man from Jiaying.
The horse-faced slope roof truss of the gatehouse is equipped with comic strips and stone carvings of the characters' stories in the Romance of the Gods. These stone ornaments, with rigorous figures, vivid expressions and natural transition, depict a magnificent historical scene in the ancient Western Zhou Dynasty. At the same time, craftsmen carved the main girder in relief according to the structural requirements at that time, which did not affect the structural stress; The other sculptures are installed together, which not only meets the structural requirements but also suits the aesthetics, and fully embodies the ingenious conception of skilled craftsmen.