Jinshi Archway

It was rebuilt in 2015 and inaugurated on October 1, 2015, at the launching ceremony of the 2015 Shunde Water Village Folk Culture Festival.

[1][2] According to Fengjian village's Song Zhaotao Liang Gong Genealogy (Chinese: 宋招讨梁公族谱), the Jinshi Archway was built in the 11th year of the Jiajing Emperor in the Ming dynasty (1533 CE).

The builder was Liang Qiaosheng (Chinese: 梁乔升), a Jinshi in the Xinsi year of Emperor Zhengde (1521 CE) and the head of the Ministry of Households, Criminal Affairs and Works (Chinese: 北京户刑工部主事) in Beijing.

Because of his meritorious service in the construction of the palace in Beijing, the emperor granted him the honour of returning home to build the Enrong Archway to honor his virtue.

It was a three-layer archway with teak as the main material, brackets and flying eaves.