Yuchuan ancestral hall is the ancestral hall of Wang Sanwei Hall in Ziliujing, and it is also a typical representative of salt merchants' houses. Yuchuan Temple is located in Bancang Dam, Bancang Community, High-tech Zone, Zigong City, covering an area of about/kloc-0.07 million square meters. The whole building includes two courtyards, Yuchuan Temple and Chengde Hall. The layout of the quadrangle consists of a hall, two gates, a main hall, left and right wings, a backyard, a woodshed, a reception room and a wing. The length from east to west is about 1 10 meter, and the width from north to south is about 45 meters. There are more than 60 large and small houses and 48 patios. Due to years of disrepair, the whole building of Yuchuan Temple was partially damaged, but the original style of the ancestral temple building in Qing Dynasty was basically maintained.
Yuchuan Gongci was built between the first year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (185 1) and the second year of Tongzhi (1862). Wang Langyun, the richest man in Zigong, Wang Sanwei's family and prime minister, built the Yuchuan Temple (named in memory of his grandfather Wang Yuchuan) in Zuloucangba. Later, Wang Huitang, Wang Langyun's successor, built Chengde Hall.
From Zigong High-tech Zone Incubation Park, turn left and enter Bancang Industrial Park for more than 200 meters, then turn left and enter a path. After a leisurely walk of 1 km, you will come to the Yuchuan Temple, which has experienced many vicissitudes and is devastated.
Apart from being a rare building in the Qing Dynasty, Yuchuan Temple once had three auras shining in history: the cradle of modern education in Zigong and even southern Sichuan, the earliest school in Zigong to hire foreign teachers, and the first school in China to offer gymnastics.
In the twenty-seventh year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (190 1), the Qing court abolished the imperial examination and opened a school. Yuchuan Gongci immediately opened a private second-class school to train talents and accept students with foreign surnames. This is the first new school in Zigong. Therefore, Yuchuan Gongci became the cradle of modern education in Zigong and even southern Sichuan.
Wang Sanweitang's children, Wang Zuo Gan and Yu Wang, have successively studied in Japan, envious of the country's prosperity and strength, and want to imitate the Japanese education model and expand the second-class school in Shu Ren into Shu Ren Middle School. 1904, according to the reasons for the development of the school, they put forward a proposal to Wang Sanweitang, the prime minister of Wang Sanweitang. Due to the regulations on the memorial tablet, he reluctantly agreed. Wang Zuogan immediately wrote to the minister of the Qing court in Japan to file a case. After being approved, he bought books and musical instruments at a price of more than 30 thousand yen. 1907, Wang Zuogan and others hired Japanese Tsunejiro as a physics and chemistry teacher, Ye Ying Jinger as a natural and Japanese teacher, and Yamamoto Hanako as a music teacher. This is the earliest foreign teacher hired in Zigong. Since then, the history of foreigners teaching in Zigong has been opened.
Shu Ren School is the first school in China to offer gymnastics classes.
No matter from the architectural art, historical position and significance, Yuchuan Gongci needs us to protect this historical relic, hoping that Yuchuan Gongci, as a provincial-level cultural protection unit, can regain its elegance as soon as possible.
20 1910.719 Yuchuan temple was selected as the eighth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.