The Yangshi Lei Family: Imperial Architects of Qing Dynasty China (1662-1900)
The Yangshi Lei Family: Imperial Architects of Qing Dynasty China (1662-1900) Geographic Connections Heading northwest from Yongxiu County, Jiangxi, along the Xiushui River valley, you reach the ancestral village of the Lei clan. Continuing north some 100 kilometers brings you to Jiujiang Prefecture, then onward across Poyang Lake to Nanjing—这是 the traditional route from Jiangxi to Beijing in the early Qing. It was along this road that Yongxiu’s Lei Fada first entered the Forbidden City during the Kangxi era, beginning the longest family lineage in Chinese architectural history. ...