Linfen Guild Hall is located at No.105, Xida Mochangjie(St). There is a temple of local respectable person in the guild hall, so it is also called "Linfen Temple of Local Respectable Person". It is a business guild hall established in Beijing by Linfen merchants from five industries: paper, pigment, dried fruit, tobacco and groceries when they traveled to Beijing. The guild hall was built in the Ming Dynasty and rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty. Residents was moved away and the guild hall was renovated in 2015 and opened to the public in 2017.

Linfen Guild Hall faces south, and the main building is a quadrangle dwelling with three courtyards. The main building is tall and spacious, and courtyards are flat and rectangular. Its architectural layout basically brings the layout structure of quadrangle dwellings in Shanxi residential houses to Beijing, and many houses are organically combined into multi-level architectural groups. The architecture and layout highlight the hometown style to the greatest extent.

The original opera theater in the guild hall has not been preserved. On the west side of Dongmen Road, the inscription "May the lucky air come to your house from the East" still exists, which was left by the Republic of China. There are two stone carvings embedded in the east wall and west wall of the main landlord, Record of Rebuilding the East Pavilion of Linfen Guild Hall and Inscription of Linfen Township Ancestral Association. There is a wordless tablet at the doorway of the main house; There are two wooden tablets on the upper beam of the main house, which are engraved with the words "Righteousness exists in the Universe" and "Integrity and righteousness will always exist" respectively. A piece of inkstone slab was buried under the foundation of the posterior house, which recorded the destruction and reconstruction of the house in the late Qing Dynasty due to fire.

The renovation preserved the architectural remains to the maximum extent, restored the real history, and organically restored the architectural components, architectural system and cultural texture, including some historical traces such as inscriptions and beams, which has become the bearing space for the history of China ancient guild halls, architecture, local food culture, dialect culture and imperial examination culture.

Linfen Guild Hall, as the first cultural exhibition guild hall in Beijing, is divided into three parts under the name of "Homesickness--Exhibition of Beijing Guild Hall". The first part, "Years and Changes", tells the historical development of Beijing Guild Hall, which embodies Beijing's capital style of embracing all rivers and learning from others. The second part, "Mobile Place", shows the relevant culture of the guild hall in the past, such as speaking native dialect, tasting hometown dishes, offering sacrifices to hometown gods and listening to hometown operas. The third part, "Activation and Inheritance", shows the gratifying achievements and positive exploration in the process of repairing and utilizing the remains of the guild hall, and expounds the influence and function of the guild hall on the formation and development of Peking Opera and Putonghua, which is a useful attempt to inherit and spread the studies of Chinese ancient civilization.

Address: No.105, Xida Mochangjie(St), Dongcheng, Beijing

Surrounding tourist attractions

Qianmen Dajie(St)

Qianmen Dajie(St) is located on the central axis of Beijing, starting from Qianmen Moon Bay in the north and reaching zhushikou in the south, with a total length of 840 meters. It was called Zhengyangmen Dajie(St) from the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the Republic of China. In 1965, it was officially named Qianmen Dajie(St). Since the expansion of the outer city in the Ming Dynasty, Qianmen Dajie(St) has become a place where every inch of land counts in Beijing, with people and goods coming and going and merchants gathering for hundreds of years. Today, Qianmen Dajie(St) has become a commercial pedestrian street, recreating the architectural style of Qianmen Dajie(St) in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.

Qianmen Dajie(St) still retains many time-honored stores: Yueshengzhai, which has a history of more than 200 years, Shengxifu, which is famous for its hat culture, and Tongsanyi, which is famous at home and abroad for selling secretly-made autumn pear paste ...

The prosperity of Qianmen Dajie(St) are not only attributed to many time-honored shops, but also to the new development. The commercial format of Beijing Fun has brought new vitality to Qianmen. Pageone Bookstore is known as one of the most beautiful bookstores in Beijing. The presence of MUJI HOTEL has brought a richer hotel lifestyle, and Vivinevo Perfume Museum is worth visiting.

Address: Qianmen Dajie(St), Dongcheng, Beijing

Fayuan Museum

The Fayuan Museum is located in a quadrangle dwelling near Qianmen Dajie(St), which was the Jizhou Guild Hall in Jiangxi during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The building of the museum itself is also a part of the exhibition.

The word "Fayuan" originated from the Original Law of Construction written by the master of construction in the late Qing Dynasty, and the word "Yuan" here refers to "Folk architecture". Compared with official architecture, folk architecture needs to be adapted to local conditions, so it can better reflect the local regional culture and construction skills at that time.

The Fayuan Museum was founded by Zhu Xiaodi, a famous architect. It mainly displays the fine wooden structures of China folk architecture collected by him for 40 years, such as columns, beams, bucket arches, humps, carved angle brace,  hanging columns, hanging batten, hanging decorations and so on. These wooden works come from Shanxi, Shaanxi, Anhui, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and other places, and the audience can find the corresponding collections when they visit.

As a window to display and spread traditional architectural culture, Fayuan Museum introduces the evolution of traditional architecture in China, and tells the detailed information about traditional architecture and the stories behind the collection.

Address: No.85 Dajiang Hutong, Dongcheng, Beijing