Names of ancient houses:
1. Lingyan Pavilion
Lingyan Pavilion is a high pavilion with images of heroes built in the Tang Dynasty to commend the heroes. An inconspicuous small building located next to the Sanqing Hall in the Tang Dynasty Palace, later became famous as the "Twenty-Four Heroes of Lingyan Pavilion", but it was unfortunately destroyed by the war.
2. Tengwang Pavilion
Tengwang Pavilion, one of the three famous buildings in the south of the Yangtze River, is located on the east bank of the Ganjiang River along Yanjiang Road in the northwest of Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province. It was first built in the fourth year of Yonghui in the Tang Dynasty (AD 653). It was named after Li Yuanying, Prince of Teng, the younger brother of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty.
3. Penglai Pavilion
Penglai Pavilion is located in Penglai City, Yantai City, Shandong Province. It is an ancient building complex that embodies the wisdom and art of the ancient Chinese working people. The main building of Penglai Pavilion was built in the sixth year of Jiayou in the Song Dynasty (1061). It is known as a "fairyland on earth" and its legend of "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" and "mirage" wonders are well-known at home and abroad.
4. Wenyuan Pavilion
Wenyuan Pavilion is located behind the Wenhua Hall in the Donghua Gate of the Palace Museum in Beijing. It is the largest royal library in the Forbidden City.
It is the essence of ancient Chinese palace architecture. It faces the south and the north. The pavilion is copied from Fan's Tianyi Pavilion in Ningbo, Zhejiang. In the thirty-eighth year of Qianlong's reign (1773), Emperor Qianlong issued an edict to collect books, open the Sikuquanshu Library, and compile the "Sikuquanshu".
In the thirty-ninth year of Qianlong's reign, an edict was issued to build a library. In the forty-first year of Qianlong's reign (1776), the palace library behind the Wenhua Hall was built. Emperor Qianlong named it Wenyuan Pavilion for the purpose of storing the first refined copy of "Sikuquanshu".
5. Tianyi Pavilion
Tianyi Pavilion is located in Haishu District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province. It was built in the middle of the Ming Dynasty and was presided over by Fan Qin, the right minister of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty who retired at that time. Covering an area of ??26,000 square meters and with a history of more than 400 years, it is a representative work of Chinese book collecting culture.
Tianyi Pavilion is the earliest existing private library in China, the oldest existing library in Asia and one of the three earliest family libraries in the world.
Reference materials:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Lingyan Pavilion
Baidu Encyclopedia-Tengwang Pavilion
Baidu Encyclopedia-Penglai Pavilion
Baidu Encyclopedia-Wenyuan Pavilion
Baidu Encyclopedia-Tianyi Pavilion