In 1738, medicine merchants from Qichun gathered in Fancheng to pool their wealth. They traded in Qichun mugwort, a pungent herb carried along a lucrative commercial corridor stretching into the dry northwest. These traders, known as the Huangzhou bang, spent five years building their sanctuary at No. 52 Jiaotong Road. Today, this 950-square-meter, east-facing complex stands as the only surviving guild hall in Fancheng built by Hubei natives.

Passing through the cold, iron-plated main gateway, visitors enter a three-entry courtyard designed in the traditional Hui style. Symmetrical wing chambers flank a central walkway, leading to the main hall. Here, a four-pillar, three-bay layout features wooden carvings of birds and flowers. Overhead, the 28-meter-long stepped fire-barrier walls rise against the sky, their high-curved ridges painted with ruyi, floral, and grass motifs. During rainstorms, water cascades from the roofs into the central courtyard, a design known as "Four Waters Return to the Hall."

At its peak during the Jiaqing and Daoguang eras, the guild hall managed over ten mu of land, including eight mu of charity land. It oversaw more than 200 businesses trading in fabrics, cotton, and pharmaceuticals. The merchants established a charity school, which later became the Huangzhou Academy. Inside these quiet rooms, the scholar Shan Maoqian studied before passing the imperial examinations to become a Daoguang-era jinshi.

The architectural crown of the complex was its decorative theater stage. It stood on a stone platform, supported by a rare "one pillar holding up the sky" wooden framework. This engineering marvel, where a single column bears the immense weight of the roof, is one of only three such designs remaining in the Han River basin.

The structure underwent a major rebuild in 1869. Decades later, during the mid-twentieth century, the state pharmaceutical company used the halls as a warehouse, preserving the timber from destruction. Though a 1994 fire damaged the rear hall, restoration in 1998 saved the structural core. The hall remains a physical record of migration, commerce, and community survival along the Han River.