Tongcheng Museum

Tongcheng museum was established in 1984. It is located in Tongcheng Confucian temple, a key cultural relic protection unit in Anhui Province, covering an area of 7000 square meters. It has cultural relics protection department, group work display department, cultural and historical relics research department, security department and office. There are more than 4000 pieces of exquisite cultural relics, such as animal ear Zun in spring and Autumn period, bronze Ge in Warring States period, bronze Zhong in Han Dynasty, tiger son in Western Jin Dynasty, Lotus Society Zun in Six Dynasties, bronze mirror in Tang Dynasty, Longquan wash in Song Dynasty, porcelain fumigation stove in Yuan Dynasty, Donggua pot in Ming Dynasty, etc. Especially Fang Yizhi, Fang Bao, Yao Nai, Zhang Ying, Zhang Ruocheng and other famous painters in Tongcheng of Ming and Qing dynasties have unique local characteristics. Chen Duxiu's cursive middle hall, Li Hongzhang's couplet, Yan Fengying's handwriting and other modern cultural relics are also collected. Relying on its collection advantages, the Tongcheng School exhibition hall, which reflects the "authentic" Tongcheng School of literature in the Qing Dynasty, has been built and opened; the Yan Fengying art career exhibition room, which reflects the artistic practice of Yan Fengying, a famous performing artist of Huangmei Opera from Tongcheng, has received wide attention and praise from all walks of life, and has been specially introduced by news media such as Renmin daily and CCTV.

Tongcheng Museum

Tongcheng Museum, also known as Anhui Tongcheng Culture Museum of China, is located at No.2 longmian Middle Road, Tongcheng City, Anhui Province. The site of the museum is located in Tongcheng Confucian temple, a key cultural relics protection unit in Anhui Province. Founded in April 1984, the Museum covers an area of about 15000 square meters. It is not only a local comprehensive museum, but also a national third-class Museum, with an average annual audience of more than 40000.

As of 2017, Tongcheng Museum has collected more than 11000 pieces (single piece), including 7 national first-class cultural relics and 41 second-class cultural relics. The museum's collection features the calligraphy and painting of Ming and Qing celebrities in Tongcheng, especially those of Fang Yizhi, Fang Bao, Yao Nai, Zhang Ying, Zhang Ruocheng, etc.

Tongcheng museum is the national advanced collective of cultural work, the national excellent county-level Museum, and the patriotic education base of Anhui Province.

Historical evolution

In 1979, Tongcheng cultural relics management office was established.

In April 1984, the construction of Tongcheng museum was completed, which is located in Tongcheng Confucian temple.

On the afternoon of June 29, 2015, Anhui China Tongcheng Cultural Museum held a meeting to promote the exhibition of art and design.

On June 9, 2018, Zhang Geng, a calligraphy and painting expert from Tongcheng Municipal Cultural Committee and the head of Tongcheng Museum, went to Shanghai to accept 35 sets of calligraphy and painting works donated by Zhang yanru, a descendant of Zhang Ying. Among the donated cultural relics, the volume of the portrait of wenduangong, a former Taifu, fills the gap in the collection of Zhang Ying's portrait.

In November 2018, the State Administration of cultural relics allocated funds for the maintenance of Tongcheng Confucian Temple (Tongcheng Museum) and the national development and Reform Commission allocated funds for the protection of Tongcheng Confucian temple facilities.

On May 14, 2019, the construction contract for the renovation and maintenance project of Anhui China Tongcheng cultural museum was signed in Tongcheng public resources trading center.

On May 28, 2019, Tongcheng Confucian temple and Tongcheng museum were restored and reopened.

architectural composition

overview

Covering an area of nearly 15000 square meters, Tongcheng museum is an important venue for displaying history and culture. It is equipped with fixed exhibition halls such as Tongcheng fine cultural relics display, Tongcheng school cultural relics display, Confucius and other sages' large-scale clay sculpture restoration display, Yan Fengying's artistic career display, and Confucian temple ancient buildings display.

 

Tongcheng School exhibition hall

Tongcheng School exhibition hall is located in Tongcheng Confucian temple. Taking the rise and fall of Tongcheng school, the largest prose school in the Qing Dynasty, as the main line, the order of the important representative writers' apprenticeship, and the time background, literary exchanges, and academic contributions of the important representative writers' life as the blocks, the paper unfolds horizontally, combining the essence of cultural relics, historical heritage, works editions, and academic research in one furnace, so as to understand Tongcheng, recognize Tongcheng school, and study ancient times It is an important window in the history of literature.

 

Yan Fengying art career exhibition hall

Yan Fengying's art career exhibition hall is located in the West Wing of Dacheng hall. It takes Huangmei Opera as the theme, and Yan Fengying develops Huangmei Opera. It introduces Yan Fengying's art career from singing Caotai opera to Huangmei opera stage through more than 500 precious photos, hundreds of objects, materials and audio-visual materials.

 

Venue features

Tongcheng museum is characterized by the collection of famous calligraphy and painting of Ming and Qing Dynasties in Tongcheng. It displays famous calligraphy and painting of Ming and Qing Dynasties such as Fang Yizhi, Fang Bao, Yao Nai, Zhang Ying and Zhang Ruocheng. Chen Duxiu's cursive middle hall, Li Hongzhang's couplet, Yan Fengying's handwriting and other modern cultural relics are also collected.

 

Collection

Tongcheng Museum has a collection of more than 11000 pieces (single piece), including animal ear Zun in spring and Autumn period, bronze Ge in Warring States period, bronze Zhong in Han Dynasty, tiger son in Western Jin Dynasty, Lotus Society Zun in Six Dynasties, bronze mirror in Tang Dynasty, Longquan washing in Song Dynasty, porcelain fumigation stove in Yuan Dynasty, Donggua jar in Ming Dynasty, etc

 

It is characterized by the collection of calligraphy and paintings of Ming and Qing celebrities in Tongcheng. Among them, there are 7 national first-class cultural relics and 41 second-class cultural relics. The bronze animal ear Zun of the spring and Autumn period can be regarded as the treasure of the town hall; the blue and white porcelain Boshan aromatherapy of the Northern Song Dynasty and the white glazed melon ridge teapot of the Southern Song Dynasty are the best of the porcelain; Chen Duxiu's cursive middle hall and Yan Fengying's handwritten "Chairman Mao's latest highest instruction" are the representatives of the revolutionary cultural relics; Fang Yizhi's calligraphy scroll, Yao Nai's running script scroll, Zhang Ying's twelve true atlas, Fang Dongshu's Hanyan's solo painting, Deng Shiru's official script scroll Bian Shoumin's pictures of Lu Yan, Ruan Yuan's running script couplets and Lu Runyang's regular script couplets are popular among the audience.

 

Cultural Activity

Activity construction

Tongcheng Museum has successively organized and introduced such large-scale exhibitions as collection porcelain exhibition, collection bronze exhibition, collection calligraphy and painting exhibition, pan Yuliang painting exhibition, Taipei Palace Museum calligraphy and painting exhibition, Qin mausoleum terracotta warriors and horses exhibition, Taiping Heavenly Kingdom history exhibition, ancient coins exhibition, Ming Dynasty Baoen Temple eighteen Arhats exhibition, marine life exhibition, etc There are more than 40 exhibitions.

 

At the same time, the exhibition of the "cultural relic protection cup" Youth Calligraphy and painting competition of the city has been continuously launched, and the "Tongcheng revolutionary historical relics exhibition" commemorating the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and the 100th anniversary of the 1911 Revolution and other temporary exhibitions with rich contents have been held, with an average of more than four temporary exhibitions held every year.

 

On January 1, 2019, Tongcheng Museum launched the activity of sending the exhibition to liuchixiang community.

 

academic research

By the end of 2014, the publication of the Tongcheng Museum included "the essence of Tongcheng culture", "biography of famous scholars in Tongcheng" and "father and son Prime Minister family motto".

 

Honors

In 1991, the Ministry of personnel and the Ministry of culture awarded Tongcheng museum the title of "national advanced collective of cultural work".

 

In 1994, Tongcheng museum was awarded the title of "national excellent county-level Museum" by the State Administration of cultural relics.

 

In June 2012, Tongcheng museum was officially approved by the State Council and named as Anhui Tongcheng Culture Museum, becoming the third "national brand" Museum in Anhui Province after Anhui Culture Museum and Huangmei Opera Museum.

 

In 2013, Tongcheng museum was announced as the second batch of national third-class museums by the State Administration of cultural relics.

 

Organization setup

Tongcheng Museum has cultural relics protection department, group work exhibition department, cultural and historical relics research department, security department and office. Up to 2008, there are 24 staff in the library. Among them, 18 have college degree or above, 3 have deputy senior professional title, and 8 have intermediate professional title.

 

Visit information

Notice to visitors

admission ticket

Admission is free (but visit information is required)

Opening Hours

Opening days: Tuesday to Sunday (09:00-16:00)

 

Closing day: Monday

 

transport line

address

Tongcheng museum is located at No.2 longmianzhong Road, Tongcheng City, Anhui Province.

traffic

Bus: take Tongcheng bus No.1, 2, 3, 7 to the square.

 

Self driving: Tongcheng exit of he'an Expressway Tongcheng city square Tongcheng Confucian temple Tongcheng Museum.

Address: Tongcheng Confucian temple, Tongcheng City, Anhui Province

Longitude: 116.951091

Latitude: 31.051813

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