Located on the back slope of Shuhe Street, it sits west to east, with its back on the hillside, facing the Hanjiang River in the south, facing Shuhe River and overlooking Shuhe Old Street. From front to back, it is the gatehouse, the music building, the pilgrimage hall and the main hall. Although the building is built in stages, it is symmetrical about the central axis, with distinct levels and unified and harmonious style. Huangzhou Pavilion is a traditional palace-style building with a strong architectural style of Southern School.
The temples are all brick and wood buildings in Qing Dynasty, which are beautiful and dignified. It was founded in the 12th year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1874). The width of the main hall is 1 1.65 m, and the depth is 7.69 m. There is a stone tablet on the left gable, which records the construction process in turn, with clear handwriting and good preservation.
Huangzhou Pavilion, formerly known as the Emperor's Palace, is a guild hall where Huangzhou businessmen live together. According to records, Huangzhou Pavilion was built three times before and after. Founded in the Qianlong period, it was built by Huangzhou firms and gangs engaged in commercial trade in Shu in turn, and it took more than a hundred years and generations of efforts to build it. There were only three halls. Later, in the twenty-seventh year of Daoguang, it took two years to complete the ceremony. Since the twelfth year of Tongzhi, the Music Building and the Gatehouse have been built.
Huangzhou Pavilion in Shuhe River is the largest and most exquisite southern palace-style building in Ankang, with an amazing cost. It can be seen from numerous inscriptions that besides Huangzhou merchants and shop names in Shuhe, there are more than 200 merchants in Kangjiawan, Hubei, Laohekou and Shuhe Gang in Laohekou. This can't help but make people lament the prosperity of Shuhe business in those days.
Huangzhou is a place with high cultural taste in China. She is famous all over the world because of Red Cliff and Su Dongpo, and also because of the famous sentence "A river springs water, a romantic figure through the ages ...". Huangzhou people moved to Shuhe to settle down and do business, and built a guild hall in Shuhe, a small town with profound historical and cultural heritage, which is even more famous.
Second, yangsi Temple.
Located on the upper cliff of Gudukou in Shuhe Town, it sits west to east and north to the hillside. According to the remains, this temple was built during the Qianlong period. Although it is called the boatmen's guild hall, it is named "yangsi Temple" because it commemorates the honor of ancestor Yang.
There is a statue of Master Yang in the Great Hall of the Central Plains, which is more than ten feet high and looks magnificent. There are stone tablets in the left and right corners of the temple. The left handwriting is undamaged and cannot be verified. On the right, the tablet is "Shipman's Notification Tablet of Yan Wharf in Zhiyang County", with clear handwriting. From the content, we can clearly see the historical role of yangsi Temple and the prosperity of Shu River traffic and trade at that time.