Qing'an Assembly Hall in Ningbo
By admin on 2014-12-26

Qing’an Assembly Hall (庆安会馆) is a 3A tourist site in Ningbo, located on No.156, Jiangdong North Road, Ningbo. It was built in 1852 (the third year of Xianfeng reign (1850–61) of Qing dynasty), and served as an entertainment and gathering house for traders and laborers on the shipping route between Yongfu to North Ocean. It was also a place of worshiping God, and was called "the Queen of Heaven Palace in Yongdong" because shipping traders believed in "The God of the Queen of Heaven".

Qing’an Assembly Hall is one of the eight surviving Queen of Heaven Palaces and one of the seven surviving Assembly Halls. It is one rare preserved ancient architecture combining the style of Queen of Heaven Palace and the Assembly Hall.

The building faces west, and covers an area of 8,000 square meters. It was divided into two theaters one used for worshiping the god, and the other for the entertainment for traders. The entrance, Yimen, front drum theater, grand palace, back drum theater, back hall, front and back wing-rooms are all aligned to the middle line of the structure. The building used the traditional Ningbo craftworks, including brick carving, stone carving and red golden wood carving. It was an acclaimed masterpiece of local craftworks in modern times of Ningbo.

Go round: Take bus 2, 821, 215 to get there (the gate of Qing’an Assembly Hall); take bus 518, 506, 503, 8, 10 and 604 to the gate of Xingjiangsha, which is about 100 meters to Qing’an Assemble Hall of Ningnbo.