Zigong Xiqin Guild Hall is a guild hall building in () industry.

? Zigong Xiqin Hall is a salt industry hall building.

Xiqin Hall, also known as Guandi Temple, is located in ziliujing district, Zigong City, Sichuan Province. It was built in the first year of Qianlong (1736). The whole building complex covers an area of more than 3000 square meters. It was a fellow villager's guild hall built by Shaanxi salt merchants who went to Zigong to manage salt industry at that time, so it was called Xiqin Guild Hall.

Xiqin Guild Hall is mainly arranged on the central axis, surrounded by cloisters and other buildings, and has five courtyards with depth, hierarchy and the size of Beijing. There are hundreds of exquisite wood carvings, stone carvings, colored paintings and clay sculptures in the building of Xiqin Guild Hall, which are precious physical materials for studying social life, opera, song and dance, religious art and so on in Qing Dynasty. Collection of well salt business contracts, account books, drilling and rock mouth account books. , has important academic value.

architectural feature

Xiqin Guild Hall is exquisitely designed, which combines the styles of palace architecture and folk architecture in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The layout of the building complex is adapted to local conditions, and the whole building complex is divided into several building units. The main hall is built along the 86-meter-long foundation axis, surrounded by corridors, buildings, pavilions and some secondary buildings, forming a deep, three-dimensional and well-defined building complex.

The whole building complex is layered from front to back, rising gradually, giving people the feeling of clear hierarchy and orderly layout. Xiqin Guild Hall is also unique in modeling. It skillfully combines multiple roofs with different shapes into a composite roof, which increases the majestic spirit of the building.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Xiqin Club.