The two giant stone drums at the entrance were set up by Chen Botao to flaunt the third place he got in the imperial examinations. The place wasn’t overly busy the day I visited, although I was there on a Wednesday afternoon. If you have some time to kill while in Guangzhou, I would definitely recommend a visit to the Chen Clan Academy for some culture and history. Perhaps one of the most well-known tourist places in Guangzhou, I had passed by the Chen Clan Academy a number of times before finally deciding to pay the 10RMB entrance fee to visit this place. On Wednesday of the third week of each month, you can get free entry to the temple; however, there is one exception, which is in June. In this month, you can enter the museum freely on the second Saturday since it’s National Cultural Heritage Day.

The handrails of the gazebo are carved out with images of different fruits, flowers and birds. The chapiters of the handrails are hollowed out with pictures of Lingnan fruits such as pineapple, carambola, peach and else. This kind of images shows the chen clans’ pious worship to their ancestors and gods. Situated in the northeast of Fengyuang Road, Liang Clan Ancestral Hall was recorded to be first built in the Ming Dynasty (1368 – 1644) according to the stone inscription, and now becomes one of the ancestral halls reserved in a complete way in Pantang. With a width of 3m, Liang Clan Ancestral Hall appears regular and symmetrical, and has a broad courtyard. You can also visit the Litchi Bay Steam in front of the ancestral hall, where you may enjoy the picturesque sceneries of Xiguan and listen to the Yue Opera performed by Sihuo Troupe.

The complex consists of 19 buildings with two yards, five rooms and nine halls. With its ingenious decorative folk art architecture and decorative art it is known as the "three carvings, three plastics, one cast iron" and also as the "Bai Yue Guan Yu". The hall is representative of the traditional architecture in Lingnan style. In addition to the architecture, the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall, as a national first-class museum, houses over 20,000 items (sets) of precious cultural relics and modern craft masterpieces, including nearly 3,000 national-level relics.

The pottery sculpture on the ridge of the roof – 27 meters long and 4.2 meters high – was found to be a work by Wenrubi, a famous Guangdong pottery company during the Qing Dynasty. The granite's light gray color starkly contrasts with the dark tone of the wooden structures to create a clear, well-arranged aesthetic. Each gray brick, polished fine and smooth in the province's city of Dongguan, was carved one by one in advance, and then pieced together to form a complete picture. As the most common surname in southern China, people surnamed Chen can find their origins in Chen's Lineage Hall in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province.

It has 19 buildings with nine halls and six courtyards that are connected in a symmetric pattern. On the main axis are the Main Entrance (头门), the Assembly Hall, and the Rear Hall (后堂). The principal ridges of the chen clan ancestral hall guangzhou Clan Ancestral Hall are decorated with 11 strips of pottery cresting, the amount and scale of which reflect the wealth of chen clans at that time. The cresting of the Gathering Hall is 27m long and 2.9m high, with a total of 224 figures on it, which is the largest scale of cresting in Chen Clan Ancestral Hall. These figures include the eight immortals, Li Jing and other characters from the Chinese legend. The outside wall on the right side of the hall is decorated with 6 big brick carvings made by black brick from Dongguan.