|  | Chengkan 
                          village in Huizhou District, Anhui province is 
                          famous for the residential architecture of the Ming and Qing style. 
                          Baolun
 Hall in the Ancestral Temple of Luo's, built during 
                          the Jiaqing's
 reign, is a representative collection of typical Huizhou
 architecture.
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                      The temple covers an area of 5 mu (1/3 hectare), Baolun 
                      Hall were well-designed and
                      constructed with extreme delicacy. Through the first entrance, 
                      visitors reach "Tianjing" - 
                      a square dooryard with rooms on each side designed for enough 
                      lighting and draught. Secondly
                      , comes a great hall, in which four vermilion posts support 
                      the timber frame. Further across
                      a yard is the main hall - Baolun Hall. 
                    The design of this timber frame hall is delicacy and unique. 
                      Exquisite engravings of flowers
                      and geometric pattern on the bluestone parapets and creative 
                      colored paintings on the beams,
                      lintels and doorframe lure many foreign visitors. The colors 
                      remain bright and fresh although
                      throughout ages. A pair of wooden staircases ascends to 
                      the second floor on which though the
                      finely engraved casements, visitors can have a perspective 
                      of the Huangshan mountians. 
                    The residential houses in Chengkan village are of high 
                      value on the research of China's folk
                      architecture and have been designated as a provincial preservation.