In 1957, the Guangzhou municipal government defined the hall as special construction. After the Cultural Revolution of China, there were some efforts to destroy this place as it was considered a symbol of the Imperials. But these efforts were not successful as intelligent local officials installed a print shop for publishing Mao Zedong’s works.

They were Cantonese people who had spent some time in America and started raising funds from different chen clan ancestral hall reviews lineages to build something with two functions. "People often had to visit Guangzhou for business dealings and imperial exams, so they were in need of a place to stay," explains Huang Haiyan, director of the Guangdong Folk Arts Museum, which was established in the ancestral hall in 1959. Later it was&nbsp