Chen Clan Ancestral Hall building is the Chinese Qing Dynasty, formerly known as Chen Clan Academy in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, Zhongshan seven road. The Temple scale, ornate, is relatively intact wealthy representative of the Guangdong region late Qing Dynasty folk architecture. In 1988 the State Council, People's Republic of China promulgated a national key cultural relics protection units.

Chen Clan Temple was built Guangxu fourteen years (1888), built in twenty years Guangxu (1894), covers an area of ​​15,000 square meters.Chen Clan Academy main building for three-five, nine and six homes, building area of ​​6400 square meters. Chen Clan to the door, to attract Church and the back seat for the axis, by Wun Lane, gallery, veranda, courtyard, by the size of 19 buildings building groups, between the various single building both independent and interrelated.

Chen Ancestral Temple building with elaborate decoration, grand splendid world-famous. Wood, stone, brick, clay sculpture, pottery, and other kinds of decorative cast-iron craft, spread between the top canopy inside and outside the shrine, hall, courtyard, gallery veranda. Both large-scale production, but also exquisite small works, decor or rough, uninhibited, or delicate delicate, distinctive, especially in the glazed tile ridge shape, it is widely Luo classical stories, collect local scenery, silver, beautiful, unique style. Walls in front of a large brick temple six scrolls style, each piece of brick up to 4 meters, is rejoined into one of the better carved with a piece of brick in the future, three-dimensional, multi-level screen, there are myths legend, landscape garden, flowers and animals, Zhong Dingyi-ming, etc., is like a folk general hospital. Pottery process focused on the 19 halls of the roof ridge tiles; brick east and west facades of the largest back seat; plaster tile ridge and concentrated in the hospital porch, gray plastic artists made the South China Sea; carvings in addition to beams and the outer door and screen Juxian Hall, rear of 11 double engraved shrines, tall body, the "Guangxu sixteen years", "back to Lan bridge Liu Dechang made" "the source Cheong Street Taizo" and inscription. Shrine in a variety of decorative and colorful, wide range of topics.

A variety of decorative carving Chen Clan buildings, mainly by the builders to hire a large number of craftsmen province county organization to concentrate production in Guangzhou. According to available information, the artist has participated in Panyu brick made of yellow Nanshan, Yang Jian Ting, Li bamboo wall, Nanhai County Chen Zhaonan Liang Cheng, Liang Jin and so on. Where the largest number of yellow Nanshan engraving, carving style is also very delicate, and intricate artistry, very famous. Chen Guangdong Academy is the largest existing, best preserved and most beautifully decorated ancient art of architecture, is a national key cultural relics protection units.

Chen Clan Temple Church after the 1958 renovation turned into Guangdong Folk Art Museum. Comrade Guo had left in 1959 after a visit to a Five-character poem: "Heaven on behalf of workers, labor day is better to really make the world better than reading ten books.." Chen Ancestral Temple architectural process as early as the 1920s for domestic foreign construction experts and scholars attention, Germany and Japan are already architectural monograph presentations. 1959 were converted into Guangdong Folk Art Museum, 1994 changed its name to Guangdong Folk Art Museum.

Scenic Area Address: Liwan District, Guangzhou, Zhongshan seven road Enron Lane 34

Car lines: take bus 17,88 to Chen Clan Academy Road Station; take subway line and get off at Chen Clan Academy station.