Located at Wuyi Road 1 14, Taizhou City. It was built in the fourth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1576) and was dedicated to Wang Gen. After Wanli, it was renovated and expanded many times, and it was renovated again during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty. Originally, there were three axes: east, west and east. There were four entrances to the ancestral hall in the west, three entrances to the auxiliary rooms in the east and west, and a garden behind it. After liberation, it was used as a residential building and a factory building. 1986 check-in personnel and units move out. It was decided to build Chongru Ancestral Hall into a memorial hall of Wang Gen and Taizhou School, and to overhaul Chongru Ancestral Hall to restore the original appearance of the central part, with four central buildings.
The first entrance was rebuilt, embedded with the stone forehead of "Confucian Ancestral Hall", with stone drums erected on both sides of the door and splayed walls built on both sides. The second entrance is Libentang, with 3 rooms wide and hard mountain structure, which has been overhauled after falling off the frame. The third entrance is Yue Tangxue, built in the Ming Dynasty, with a girder-lifting frame, a basin-covered stone foundation and a rolled stigma under the column. The width of three rooms is10.5m, the depth of seven purlins is 6.05m, and the height of ridge purlins is 5.5m.. The original architectural style is still maintained after the transformation. The stone tablet of Mr. Xinzhai's ancestral hall in the seventh year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty was embedded in the wall of the east wall gallery, which was moved from the original second entrance to the west wall. The wall of the west wall gallery was embedded with the residual tablet written by Li Chunfang in the Ming Dynasty, which was unearthed during reconstruction. The Fourth Sage Hall is dedicated to carving the bust of Wang Gen and the newly carved marble Song of Happy Learning by Wang Gen, showing historical materials about Wang Gen's cultural relics and famous painters and calligraphers. 1995 has been designated as a provincial cultural relics protection unit. In 200 1 year, the ancestral hall of Confucianism was rebuilt, five Westinghouse buildings were demolished, the west axis of the ancestral hall of Confucianism was restored, and cloisters, rockeries, pools and inscriptions were added. Meanwhile, the central axis was renovated. In the second building, Wang Gen's research materials were exhibited. In the third building, a plasticized bronze statue of Wang Gen was built, which was arranged according to the original scene of offering sacrifices to Wang Gen, and graphic introductions of sixteen important members of Taizhou School were exhibited. Restoring the stone tablet of Li Chunfang, Prime Minister of Ming Dynasty. Fourthly, the exhibition "Wang Gen's Life and Taizhou School" was added, and Wang Gen's life, philosophy and members of Taizhou School were introduced in detail in an illustrated way.
200 1 10, Chongru Ancestral Hall was officially opened to the outside world after the second restoration. First of all, we received hundreds of representatives of "Taizhou School International Academic Seminar". After that, it will open to the outside world normally throughout the year and receive guests from all sides.
Wang Gen, the word "you stop" means "Xin Zhai". Born in June, 19th year of Chenghua in Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1 July, 483) and died in December, 19th year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (A.D. 154 1 year1month), from Anfengchang, Taizhou (now Anfeng, Dongtai, Jiangsu). He came from an ordinary family who made salt stoves, and eventually became a world-famous scholar and master, and became the founder of Taizhou School in Ming Dynasty. It occupies an important position in the ideological history of China in the Ming Dynasty.
Wang Gen's research can be divided into three periods: (1) self-taught period. (2) Wang Men's schooling period. (3) Self-reliance during the lecture period. In his research, Wang Gen was not credulous, did not blindly follow, insisted on independent thinking, and was always dissatisfied with the teacher's theory. As a thinker, he absorbed Wang Yangming's "conscience" theory; At the same time, he put forward some famous viewpoints, such as "Shu Ren knows for daily use" and "the country under heaven is the last". As an educator, he paid special attention to civilian education, carried forward Confucius' educational thought of teaching without distinction and put it into practice. His thoughts reflected the progressive requirements of the development of productive forces at that time, represented the thoughts of the middle and lower classes, and had a certain tendency of "enlightenment" and progressive significance of opposing feudal orthodoxy.