On the north bank of the Han River, along Xiangyang's Riverside Avenue, stands the reconstructed Zhongzhou Guild Hall. It sits directly opposite the historic Longkou Wharf, where Henan merchants once moored their wooden barges. Beginning in the late Ming dynasty, these travelers pooled their resources to build a sanctuary. The construction required nineteen years of continuous labor.

The building survived centuries of change. It served as the Zhongshan Primary School after the Xinhai Revolution, housed salt piles as a government warehouse in 1935, and stored public grain after 1949. In 2004, workers demolished the original structure to make way for a modern road and housing estate. Following a decade of public appeals, artisans completed a meticulous reconstruction in 2018, scaling the complex to 1,270 square meters along a strict north-south axis.

Builders assembled the timber frame using traditional mortise-and-tenon joinery, joining beams without a single modern nail. Visitors can touch the cool, salvaged blue bricks from the 2004 demolition, now embedded in the new walls. The theatrical stage, measuring twelve meters by fifteen meters, smells of imported Canadian red pine. In front of the worship hall, four stone columns bear hand-carved inscriptions, replicated from paper rubbings of the original beams. These carvings mirror the text of an 1875 stele, which preserves the names of over one hundred and eighty merchant businesses who funded a historic post-flood repair.

Today, the guild hall is a quiet monument on the Great Tea Road. Rainwater slides off the roof's traditional board, cylinder, and drip tiles, mimicking the river currents outside. The building stands as a physical record of migration, labor, and community resilience.