The Qianzhuwu is one of the scenic spots in the Dongbai Lake Scenic Area of Zhuji City. It was built by Si Yuanru in the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty (1798). It is now inhabited by descendants of the Si surname. It is named after having a thousand pillars. The Qianzhuwu is distributed with 5 longitudinal axes and 3 transverse axes, presenting a courtyard-style group layout. With a total area of 6,850 square meters, it is a building built against the mountain facing north. It is 108.5 meters wide from east to west and 63.1 meters deep from north to south. The ratio of length to width is the golden section point. There are 8 quadrangles, 10 large patios, and 36 small patios inside the house. There are 121 buildings and 1,322 pillars. The pillars are made of miscellaneous woods. On the east and west sides, there are four gates centered on the main entrance, with a total of five longitudinal entrances. The lintel is made of bluestone, engraved with the four characters ‘Yu Si Wei Sheng’, which is a nine-fold seal script and is a copy of the calligraphy of Mi Fu, a calligrapher of the Song Dynasty. The periphery of the lintel is decorated with brick carvings of figures, landscapes, dragons and phoenixes. Passing through the gate tower is the main hall, with a five-frame lifting structure. On both sides of the main hall are ‘Conggui Hall’, ‘Shuanghuai Hall’, ‘Fushou Hall’, and ‘Renshou Hall’. The names of the halls are all engraved in regular script on bluestone and embedded on the wall. On the wall facing the main hall is a brick carving of ‘Hundred Horses Picture’. There are 53 white horses, made up of 21 blue bricks with a length of 0.34 meters and a width of 0.30 meters in bas-relief mosaic. The total length is 7.04 meters. It is rare in the country and is truly a national cultural relic protection. The tightly closed main door of the central hall is only opened under one circumstance, that is, when a clansman passes away. The residents in the Qianzhuwu still maintain this custom and cannot easily open the main entrance and can only enter and exit through side doors.
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The Qianzhuwu is one of the scenic spots in the Dongbai Lake Scenic Area of Zhuji City. It was built[...]