Brief introduction of Liaocheng Shanshan club theater

Entering the guild hall, after passing a mountain gate under the stage, you will see the magnificent theater, sitting east and west, facing the main hall. In the center of the back gable of the theater building, there is a tunnel that passes under the stage and leads to the courtyard, with a width of 2.16m and a height of 2.12m. The entrance is a brick-carved hanging door cover. There is a stone carving of "Cenlou Ningxia" above the cover. There is a stone wall on the left and right sides of the tunnel, with red-crowned cranes and conifers carved on the left and sika deer and flowers carved on the right, both of which are 2.08m high and1.15m wide. There is an exquisite stone carving screen frame under the zhaobi, and there is an exquisite brick carving wall cover on it, decorated with yellow peony, green unicorn and evergreen made of glass.

Between the gate and the theater, there is a rain-proof building connected, and the top is a single-eaves hard mountain type. The theater building is a two-story podium, with two double eaves, a top and a ridge, standing against the mountain, and then leaving the mountain left and right, forming a ten-wing corner, and the room is covered with blue-yellow glazed tiles. The stage is square, 2.3 meters high, the front stage is 9.6 meters wide and 5 meters deep, and the back stage is 8.6 meters wide and 3 meters deep. There are three platforms in front of the stage, five carved wooden foreheads under the eaves, with the story of "Fu Lushou" in the middle and dragons, flowers and figures on both sides. The four eaves columns are all stone carvings. Inline regular script Yang Wen: the palace merchants' banquet is the first wedding candle; Give full play to the role of written pleasure in saying that Ma Gaofan has a good wind. Inscription of outreach regular script: knot 50 thousand spring flowers to play elegant propaganda without coquettish is called outstanding structure; It is a miracle to paint a thousand colors in autumn and carve gold in the wrong color.

Inside the stage, there is a welcome screen to separate the foreground from the background. Four big flowers are painted on the screen, and Yang Wen couplets are engraved on the left and right wooden pillars: very sonorous, a song of nature; Singing over the snow, dancing all over the place makes the lotus flat. There is a woodcut plaque "Yunxuan Flower" hanging above the screen. On both sides of the stage front desk are splayed folding walls, and each wall is inlaid with 1.8m high and 0.5m wide stone carving meticulous paintings ... on the left is a mirage, and on the right is a rooftop view. There are cranes and auspicious clouds painted on the stage, which seems to imply that happiness is higher than the sky. Its delicate and complicated structure is rare.

There are three two-story single-eaved buildings on both sides of the theater, which are symmetrical in north and south and integrated with the theater. A roof rises in the middle, and there is an arch below to enter and exit. There is a stone tablet in the east gate, with "facing the moon" on the left and "looking at the sea" on the right. The small room on the second floor has windows of the East Garden on both sides. This used to be the dressing room and lounge for theater actors. Up to now, from the 25th year of Qing Daoguang (1845) to the 8th year of the Republic of China (19 19), the opera clubs in Shanxi and Shandong provinces and Yi Sushe, the Ministry of Education, were dissatisfied with the poems written by the "performers" and the Peking Opera, Shanxi Bangzi and Peking Opera.

Bell and Drum Towers The Bell and Drum Towers are symmetrical in north and south, which are located outside the folder building. They are all single-room two-story double-eaved cross-ridge buildings built on masonry platforms. There are 12 eaves columns on the second floor to support the eaves on the first floor. The door on the first floor is in the west. On the left is the "Bell Tower", and the second floor door faces south. On the lintel, there is a stone carving with a "deafening" banner, and on the stone pillars on both sides, there is a pair of couplets engraved with yin characters: its sound is loud and far, and its meaning is deep and long. On the right is the Drum Tower, and the door on the second floor faces north. There is a stone carving with the word "Jie" on the lintel, and there is a pair of couplets engraved in yin on the stone pillars on both sides: when you know how to listen and think, you must not ignore it.

There is a small courtyard under the bell and drum tower, with dense bamboo forests and a full moon door on the wall leading to the courtyard. The courtyard is 23 meters deep from east to west and 33 meters wide from north to south. There is a straight stone road in the middle, and there is a century-old locust tree on both sides of the road, shaded by trees. Under the steps of the main hall in front of the hospital, there are a pair of tall and vigorous stone lions, which are composed of three parts: lion body, sumeru seat and base, and are 3.25 meters high. The base is carved with eight magic weapons of Buddhism on all sides, and the sword and pestle are in front; On the left are umbrellas and towers; On the right are bells and baskets; Then it was printed with platinum to ward off evil spirits. There are vases, deer, melons and pomegranates carved on the upper part of Xumi Mountain, which means peace, prosperity, sweetness and children and grandchildren. Below is the peony, on the left is the lotus, on the right is the plum blossom, and behind is the chrysanthemum, which symbolizes auspicious seasons. In this pair of stone lions, the lion stepped on the hydrangea on the left and the lioness stepped on the cub on the right. According to records, the pair of stone lions came from Shanxi and spent 633 taels of silver.

The north-south watchtower is located on the west side of the bell and drum tower, on the left and right sides of the stage. It is a two-story veranda building with five rooms wide and one room deep. The building is 16.5 meters long and 5 meters deep, with a rolled shed at the top and covered with grey tiles. The first floor of Kanlou is paved with bricks, and the second floor consists of six wooden floor beams, wooden floor rafters and Shi Zhuan on the wooden floor. There are four beams on the second floor, including purlins, rafters, surface plates and tiles. Kanlou is an open gallery building where you can sit and watch the performances on the stage.

Kanlou is located on the north and south sides of the courtyard, with five rooms wide and two floors above and below. The building is16.5m long and 5m deep. The roof of the house is covered with grey tiles, which is a place for watching plays, drinking tea and talking about business. Looking upstairs, there is a stele pavilion, each with 3 bays, with an open front, and the cornice on the top of Washer Mountain is higher than the watchtower and the main hall. The forehead is wide up and down, each painting sunrise, dragons and tigers, melons and fruits, and people. There are four stone tablets and two wall tablets in each pavilion. The monument is 6.2m high and1.2m wide. The inscription records in detail the maintenance and construction of Shanshan Guild Hall over the years, and the names of various firms and the amount of silver donation are also engraved on the inscription. On the inner wall of the west end of Nanbeiting, there is also a title deed tablet carved by Qingganlong, which records in detail the number of steps, four directions, purchase price and the reasons for carving the stone to build the tablet. It is an important document to study the business thoughts of Shanxi merchants.

From the west of the title deed monument to the west, through the west gate of Nanbeiting, is the monument wall. It is inlaid with fifteen years of Jiaqing (18 10), twenty-five years of Daoguang (1840), six years of Tongzhi (1867), thirteen years of Tongzhi (1874) and twenty years of Guangxu (/kloc)