孝睦祠:广府小宗祠堂的典范

Xiaomu Ancestral Temple:the Classic Example of Canton Xiaozong Ancestral Temple

孝睦祠是明代中后期曲靖知府庞嵩所建,位于佛山南海弼唐,由南京礼吏兵三部尚书湛若水题匾,福建按察使卢梦阳撰碑记,福建巡抚庞尚鹏书丹。庞嵩创设了小宗祠堂的规制,得到了岭南著名学者屈大均的称赞并在其族中效仿。此后广府地区的小宗祠堂,遂以孝睦祠为典范。

Xiaomu ancestral temple was built in the middle and later periods of Ming Dynasty by Pang Song,the magistrate of Qujing.It is located at the Bitang village in Nanhai district of Foshan and its horizontal board was inscribed by the then general minister of the Rites,War and Personnel in middle Ming Dynasty.Lu Mengyang,the then Fujian provincial judge,drafted the tablet inscription and Pang Shangpeng,the then governor of Fujian,did the calligraphy on the tablet.Pang Song created the regulations for Xiaozong ancestral temple which was praised and practiced by the famous Lingnan scholar Qu Dajun in his family.Since then,the all the Xiaozong ancestral temples in Canton area have followed the example of Xiaomu ancestral temple.