Xikou Museum

Xikou museum was founded in the Spring Festival of 1988. It was originally located in Wushan temple, a famous scenic spot in Xikou. It is a folk custom museum in eastern Zhejiang. Xikou museum is located in Wushan temple at the foot of dongshouwu mountain, Xikou Town, Fenghua City. Originally, it was a temple shared by the five surnames of Jiang, Zhang, Dan, song and Ren in Xikou town. It was used for weddings and funerals. Therefore, it is named Wushan temple, because it is located at the foot of the south of Wushan mountain. The structure of the temple house is complete, which is divided into two parts: the front and back, the East and west corridor, the middle patio with a stage, and the back corridor with Panlong stone columns, maintaining the architectural style of Jiangnan temple before the middle of the Qing Dynasty.

Xikou Museum

Xikou museum was founded in the Spring Festival of 1988. It was originally located in Wushan temple, a famous scenic spot in Xikou. It is a folk custom museum in eastern Zhejiang. With the approval of Fenghua municipal government, Xikou tourism group raised funds to build a new Xikou Museum on the west side of "Yutai salt shop" on Wuling West Road. In March 2009, the new museum entered the trial opening stage. On February 2, 2010, the new museum officially opened, and its name was inscribed by Mr. Jiang Weiguo.

Xikou Museum covers an area of 2250 square meters, with a building area of 5500 square meters and an exhibition area of more than 3000 square meters, with a total investment of 25.5 million yuan. The museum is divided into four basic exhibition rooms: Xianling Xuedou, the first mountain of Siming, yanyunwuling, an interpretation of the history of Jiang's father and son, Shanyuan, a folk custom exhibition in the period of the Republic of China, and a collection of cultural relics. In addition, in order to organically combine permanent exhibition with mobile exhibition, a temporary exhibition hall has been set up in the new museum to continuously organize and introduce temporary exhibitions with different themes. Xikou museum displays the history of Xikou for thousands of years with a large number of precious cultural relics. It is an important cultural institution in Fenghua City, integrating cultural relics collection and exhibition, cultural research and exchange.

architectural composition

Lobby

Display the miniature model of Sanli long street in Xikou; introduce the history, scenery and Fenghua specialty of Xikou. There are 47 pieces of Neolithic stone tools unearthed in Fenghua and bronze, pottery and porcelain of Tang and Song dynasties. The scenery of Xikou and the local specialties of Fenghua are introduced.

Festival Hall

It reflects the local folk custom characteristics in the south of the Yangtze River, and comprehensively reflects the solar terms of the lunar calendar from the first day of the lunar new year to the thirtieth of the lunar new year by means of wax figures, models and scenes, especially highlighting the grand parade of the rice flower festival. The boat drum, the prop of the rice flower festival, is a treasure of Arts and crafts in our city, which is a precious cultural relic. This paper introduces the handicrafts of Fenghua City. There are mainly spring bamboo ware, bamboo root carving, wooden bead curtain, rosewood inlay, glass lacquer painting, small animal model, bamboo weaving, embroidery, folding fan and so on.

Wedding hall

Display of Jiangnan folk use of wedding etiquette equipment, prominent are a thousand workers bed, ten thousand workers sedan. It is the main part of the museum to introduce the customs of Xikou and Ningbo. The contents are mainly festival customs and marriage customs, with 49 objects on display. In the real object, the boat drum, sedan chair, Qiangong bed, platform, pavilion, gongs and drums are carefully carved and exquisitely inlaid. Boat drum carving, double towers and pavilions, figures, flowers and birds are treasures of large traditional crafts.

Collection

Ship drum

Boat drum is a large folk handicraft, which is used in guild.

The drum is 250 cm long, 82 cm wide and 270 cm high. The drum is made up of boxwood carving, Zhujin wood carving, bone carving, metal carving, bone wood inlay and painted glass. The bow of the boat is the leading sea water, on both sides are 19 lions playing ball, crane and deer Changchun, dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang, and the stern is phoenix playing peony.

There are 10 layers on the upper part of the ship. The railings of each layer are inlaid with flowers and plants. The hanging surface is carved with Lei Yun pattern, Hui pattern and diamond pattern with bleached vermilion bone saw. It's black and white. It's really beautiful.

From the first to the third floor, there are 40 pieces of boxwood carving boards of different sizes on each floor. The first floor is the scene of local people's life, including spring ploughing, rain returning, weeding, dragon boat and so on. The second level is the life map of officialdom, with officials going on patrol, returning home in fine clothes, and the government trying cases. The third layer is the drama characters based on the romance of the Three Kingdoms. On the fourth to eighth floors, some flowers, birds, Cordyceps, birds and animals are carved, and the colored glass can illuminate people. The Ninth level is the "ten halls of hell", preaching the rules of life, do not do bad things. At the top are pavilions ranging in height from 30 cm to 60 cm, forming a well-organized ancient architectural complex.

Speaking of the drum, there is another story. One year, Fenghua county held a "rice flower fair" (held when the rice and grass are in blossom, praying for a good harvest), and the guild team went from the city to the outside. The villagers of shizhuxia village in the north of the city came out to watch the excitement. A child could see God. He was pushed and fell down, and went back to the village to cry to his mother. His mother is a widow, according to the old custom can not go to the bustle. Out of love for her son, and in order to compete, she sold 20 mu of land and hired skilled craftsmen. After several years, she finally built the best boat drum in Fenghua.

In 1963, shizhuxia village handed over the treasure to the county cultural center, and then transferred it to Xikou Museum as a national first-class cultural relic.

Guangci charity plaque

In 1918, Chiang Kai Shek emerged in the Guangdong military government and was highly valued by Sun Yat Sen. In this year, Sun Yat Sen inscribed a plaque of "broad benevolence and fraternity" for Jiang's mother. In 1990, Xikou Museum found this plaque. At that time, this plaque was used as the gate of the ancestral hall warehouse. Zhou Jinkang, the curator of Xikou Museum, was very glad: "shortly after the plaque was collected by the museum, the ancestral hall was destroyed by fire. How dangerous

Fengan Commemorative Medallion

The 76mm in diameter, 4.8mm in thickness, and 156g in weight, this bronze commemorative medallion of Dr. Sun Yat Sen's feng'an is a relief of the head of Dr. Sun Yat Sen on the front, and a design of the memorial hall and passage of the mausoleum of Dr. Sun Yat Sen on the back.

Nanjing collector Wang Guilu is the owner of the commemorative medallion. Mr. Wang has visited Xikou many times, and he has become a close friend with Zhou Jinkang, director of Xikou Museum. In order to spread his collection around the world, Xikou Museum has become a new home for most of Wang's collections. He also donated a number of valuable cultural relics of the Republic of China, such as the ink of the founding of the Republic of China and the bricks of the tomb of Zhongshan.

All kinds of food stamps

On the first floor of Xikou Museum, there is "the first Hall of China's food coupons". More than 4000 food coupons from the Hongwu Period of Ming Dynasty to the 1990s were donated by Mr. Wang Shishui, the first collector of China's food coupons. Among them, the most precious are the land rent rice tickets in the first year of Hongwu, the temporary rice tickets of the Chinese Soviet government, the Red Army's grain borrowing certificate, the rice tickets of the New Fourth Army during the Anti Japanese War, and the journey food tickets in the liberated areas.

Mr. Wang Shishui is a retired cadre of Fenghua Grain Bureau. He has collected more than 10000 grain coupons since 1955.

These food stamps are of cultural, historical and ornamental value. Some are printed with pictures of places of interest and historic sites, such as the Liuhe tower. Others have regional characteristics, such as a grain ticket in Shanxi Province is printed with coal mines. Some are printed with exquisite figures. For example, a grain ticket in Xinjiang is printed with singing and dancing Kazakh girls.

Visit information

Opening hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m

Route: take a minibus from Ningbo south bus station to Xikou, the fare is 12 yuan, and then take a local taxi (the fare is 5 yuan) to Xikou scenic spot. Xikou museum is on the west side of Yutai salt shop, the main scenic spot on Wuling West Road.

Ticket price: no separate ticket, Xikou scenic spot joint ticket is applicable.

Address: No.33 Wuling Road, Xikou Town, Fenghua City, Zhejiang Province

Longitude: 121.278845

Latitude: 29.680503

Opening hours: 8:00-17:30

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