China lantern Museum

China lantern Museum, established with the approval of the State Administration of cultural relics, is a specialized institution for the collection, protection, research and exhibition of Chinese lantern. It is the only professional museum of lantern culture in China and even in the world. China lantern museum is located in Zigong Lantern Park, Sichuan Province, with a main building area of 6375 square meters and an area of 10.3 hectares. There are many buildings in the museum. The pavilions are high and the porches and windows are hidden. They are not limited to one style, but they are harmonious and unified. They form a huge group of colored lamp buildings with strong national style. Based on the introduction hall, Chinese lantern culture history, Chinese lantern culture and art gallery, Zigong Lantern history and development, Zigong Lantern boutique browsing, Zigong Lantern process, Zigong Lantern special materials, Chinese lantern grand view and multimedia demonstration, the museum presents a magnificent scroll of Chinese lantern culture. Since its opening in 1994, China lantern Museum has received more than 3 million visitors from home and abroad. It has been invited to visit more than 60 large and medium-sized cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Harbin, Urumqi, Hohhot, Guangzhou, Nanning, Guiyang, Kunming, Xi'an, Zhengzhou, Canada, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Countries and regions have successfully held hundreds of collection exhibitions and large-scale lantern festival activities, especially the "China Lantern Festival" held in Ontario amusement park of Canada from 2006 to 2008, which attracted 440000 visitors from North America and the Caribbean to watch the lantern and made a sensation in North America. It has achieved great social and economic benefits. It has become a great achievement of General Secretary Hu Jintao's visit to Canada, and has become a great success China's promotion of Chinese culture and cultural exchanges in North America is the largest, longest lasting, most influential and most successful activity, which has become a model of cultural exchanges between China and Canada and a benchmark for overseas exhibitions of Chinese colored lanterns. For more than ten years, China lantern Museum has always put social benefits in the first place. Through the realization of social benefits, it has achieved better economic benefits. It has successfully held "Kong Fansen's deeds Exhibition", "China Aerospace Exhibition", "Weifang kite exhibition" and other temporary exhibitions, which have won extensive social praise. Due to the establishment of the China lantern Museum and its extensive social influence, in November 2004, the Ministry of Culture named the China lantern cultural development park as the national cultural industry demonstration base; the advanced unit of "2006 foreign cultural exchanges (Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan)" awarded by the Sichuan Provincial Department of culture, and was approved by the Ministry of Commerce of the people's Republic of China and the Ministry of culture of the people's Republic of China The Ministry of chemical industry, the State Administration of radio, film and television, and the General Administration of press and publication of the people's Republic of China have awarded the title of "national key cultural export enterprise in 2009-2010". China lantern Museum has been rated as one of the "top 50 tourist attractions in Bashu", a national "AAA" tourist attraction (spot), a member of China Museum group, a foreign tourist attraction in Zigong City, a key tourism protection unit in Zigong City, and a patriotic education base in Zigong City. The museum has been praised as "the most oriental art charm and great development potential" by international tourism experts. As the State Administration of cultural relics pointed out in the document, the establishment of the China lantern Museum has increased China's professional transportation

China lantern Museum

China lantern museum is located at No.6 Gongyuan Road, Zigong City, Sichuan Province,

Approved by the State Administration of cultural relics (92) cultural relics Bo Zi No. 793, it is a specialized institution for "collection, protection, research and display" of Chinese lantern. It is a national institution at the county level. It is the only professional museum of lantern culture in China and even in the world. It is also the core of the construction of Zigong "nanguodeng city" and an important symbol of the image of "nanguodeng city".

Development history

In 1988, the judges from all over the country selected the lantern Museum scheme, and in the same year, the lantern museum was built in the place where the former Sports Committee of Zijing district was located.

The architecture of China lantern Museum adopts the national bidding design, which is presided over by the former senior consultant of the Ministry of architecture, the late master architect Dai Nianci, and built according to the design scheme of the Department of architecture of Southeast University. The whole building has a strong national style and the characteristics of the professional museum of lamp culture, which is praised as a model by experts in the construction industry. It was awarded the "Tianfu Cup" architectural Gold Award of Sichuan Province and the "Luban Gold Award" of the highest architectural design award of China.

social influence

The establishment of China lantern museum plays an important role in inheriting and carrying forward national culture, carrying out patriotic education and excellent cultural education for the people, protecting and studying the cultural heritage of the motherland, further exploring the connotation of folklore, and enriching the historical and cultural city of Zigong. China lantern Museum has carried out lantern displays in 24 large and medium-sized cities in China, which fully reflects the cornerstone role of the museum as one of the "three unique" historical cities.

China lantern museum is a group member of China Museum Society, a top 50 tourism unit in Bashu, a foreign tourist attraction in Zigong, a key tourism protection enterprise in Zigong, and a national "AAA" scenic spot.

China lantern Museum has a group of high-quality management personnel, including six full-time and part-time commentators in four languages, more than 10 members of China Museum Society and 12 members of the national folk (ethnic) Museum Professional Committee.

Exhibition hall introduction

In the Yellow scroll of Chinese traditional culture, the colorful and rich lantern culture is particularly dazzling. Chinese lighting products and colors of all ages are in various shapes and exquisite workmanship, which condenses the rich feelings of generations of working people and shines with the light of the wisdom of the Chinese nation. The sky lantern festival, Lantern Festival and the atmosphere of Chinese history are myriad, festive and peaceful, which condenses strong local customs and forms a profound cultural accumulation. The Lantern Festival in Zigong is well-known in China and goes to the world. It has made positive contributions to publicizing national culture and promoting cultural exchanges and development. In 1992, with the approval of the State Administration of cultural relics, China lantern Museum, the only professional museum of lantern culture in China, was established. As a specialized organization for collection, protection, research and exhibition of Chinese colored lanterns, it has the reputation of "the first lamp in the world, the first Pavilion in the world". The establishment of China lantern Museum has ended the history of thousands of years of lantern culture without special collection and research institutions.

scale

China lantern Museum covers an area of 2200 square meters, with a total construction area of 6375 square meters. The building takes the lamp as the theme, like a group of large palace lantern buildings. At night, the outline lights of the museum rise and fall one after another. The floodlights shine on the white wall from the same angle. The lights in the museum shine out and shine with each other.

Plaza in front of the Museum

The square in front of the museum is open. On the left and in the middle are the museum's name inscribed by Comrade Zhu Muzhi, former leader of the CPC's foreign propaganda group and director of the Information Office of the State Council, and the inscription of the famous calligrapher and poet Liu Qian from Zigong. Beside the inscriptions, the small colored lights of the Dieshui fountain are surging with the hemispherical and dandelion style fountains. It's refreshing and interesting to watch at night.

There are 8 exhibition halls in the museum

There are eight exhibition halls in the museum. It is divided into four parts: preface hall, Chinese lantern history hall, Chinese and foreign lantern customs hall, Zigong Lantern boutique hall, with dozens of units. From pottery used for lighting in ancient times, to large-scale colored lamps made by modern science and technology, from traditional crafts of paper, silk, silk, silk and satin, modern colored lamps made of glass medicine bottles, porcelain, cocoons and other materials, from all kinds of colored lamps in Zigong Lantern Festival to colored lamps showing the customs of dozens of cities such as Suzhou, Hangzhou, Guangdong, Beijing and Nanjing, as well as Japan, Singapore and South Korea China, the United States, France and more than ten other countries of the lantern, it can be said that the big world of lights, the big garden of lights.

Lantern Exhibition Hall

Zigong's Lantern products are displayed in four exhibition halls, displaying 13 groups of award-winning lantern products of Zigong's previous lantern fairs since the new era. For example, the large-scale water lantern group "Lotus Fairy", which is made with computer digital control technology according to the story of the fairy tale "Lotus Fairy", the lantern group "dragon and Phoenix show auspiciousness" tied with tens of thousands of porcelain, and the "dragon fly and phoenix dance" glued with more than 300000 cocoons 》The lamp group, the lamp group of "peacock work screen" tied with more than 100000 penicillin bottles, and the lamp group of "three friends of a cold year" made by glass blow molding technology, fully demonstrate the ingenious conception of the lamp group content, the unique creation in lamp making materials, and the originality in production technology of the modern Zigong lamp Festival, which has a strong ornamental value. Visitors from other places can visit Zigong at any time Here you can taste the artistic charm of Zigong Lantern Festival and appreciate the wonderful landscape of Zigong Lantern Festival.

Lobby

The preface hall is composed of colorful fountain "Moonlight in lotus pond", light wall "Chinese light rhyme", shallow relief mural "happy lantern in prosperous Tang Dynasty" and two groups of wooden relief sketches "song of spring" and "heaven and earth are long". The lamp wall "Chinese lamp rhyme" is made by mural, relief and modern lamp making technology. The above copper relief is a famous decorative and ornamental lamp with historical value. From these lamps, we can get a glimpse of the development of science and technology, culture and art at that time. The inlaid Abstract dragon symbolizes the eternal charm of Chinese lantern.

In ancient China, there was a saying that the Lantern Festival was held in prosperous times. According to textual research, as early as the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, the Lantern Festival was recorded in writing. By the time of Tang Zong, it reached its heyday. This shows that the Lantern Festival is closely related to the political situation of the country and the people,

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