Li Bai Memorial Hall

Li Bai Memorial Hall

Libai memorial hall is a Tang Dynasty garden complex built to commemorate the great poet Libai of Tang Dynasty. It is located on the Bank of Changming River in the northern suburb of Jiangyou City, Sichuan Province, covering an area of more than 40000 square meters. The memorial began to be built in 1962 and opened to the public in 1982.

In 2009, it was named the national patriotic education demonstration base by the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee. At the end of 2012, the national quality rating committee of scenic spots issued an announcement, approving Libai Memorial as a national 4A scenic spot.

In February 2020, in order to pay tribute to the medical workers who are struggling in the front line of anti epidemic, the scenic spot will implement the preferential policy of free admission for medical workers within one year from the date of resumption of operation.

Historical evolution

In 1962, under the proposal of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, preparations for the construction of the Li Bai Memorial Hall began.

In 1963, a preparatory group for Li Bai Memorial was set up and began to collect materials.

In 1979, the Li Bai Memorial Hall broke ground.

In 1981, Li Bai Memorial Hall was completed.

In October 1982, Li Bai Memorial Hall was officially opened.

In 1984, Sichuan Libai Research Association was established, with Libai Memorial Hall as its secretary.

In 1989, the first Li Bai Cultural Festival was held in Li Bai Memorial Hall.

In 2008, two thirds of the buildings were damaged in the "5.12" Wenchuan earthquake.

In 2011, Li Bai Memorial Hall was reopened after Henan counterpart assistance.

In 2012, Li Bai Memorial passed the provincial inspection in September 2012 and the national inspection in December 2012. At the end of 2012, the national quality rating committee of scenic spots issued an announcement, approving Libai Memorial as a national 4A scenic spot.

Layout of exhibition hall

Jiangyou Libai memorial hall is located on the Bank of Changming River in the northern suburb of Jiangyou City, Sichuan Province, covering an area of more than 40000 square meters. On the left side of Changming river is the main scenic spot of Libai Memorial Hall. On the east side of qinglianchi, there is Zuixian tower. On the west side, from bottom to top, there are Gufeng Hall (exhibition of historical relics), Taibai book house (exhibition hall of Libai's life), hometown. On the north side, there are Dufu hall and Libai hall. On the left side of Du Fu hall, there are Poetry Garden and Linjiang fairy hall. In the middle reaches of the Changming River, there are Li Bai's poetic sculpture garden and Li Bai's famous sculpture garden. After the reconstruction of the Libai memorial hall after the May 12 earthquake, on the basis of retaining the garden style architectural style of the Tang Dynasty, it also expanded the display volume. Compared with the past, the rebuilt Li Bai Memorial Hall has more reasonable layout and more perfect functions. It is mainly composed of Memorial Exhibition Area, cultural relics protection exhibition area, Libai culture research and exchange area, Libai culture popularization area and tourism consulting service area.

 

Main attractions

Taibai Bookstore

Taibai bookstore, also known as Li Bai's life exhibition hall, is located on the left side of Lianchi in the Qing Dynasty. The exhibition hall tells the complete story of Li Bai from birth to death. Among them, the most precious is Li Bai's handwriting, which is said to be Li Bai's only handwriting. It was once collected by Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty and Emperor Qianlong of Qianlong. Li Bai Memorial Hall is surrounded by water on three sides. Behind Taibai library is Changming river.

Taibai Hall

Taibai hall is one of the main Memorial facilities of Libai Memorial Hall. It is located on the North Bank of Lianchi in Qing Dynasty. It is of Tang Dynasty palace style. It adopts a central axis symmetrical structure, and the plaque of "Taibai hall" was inscribed by Hu Yaobang in 1985. A pair of stone lions in front of the hall is 4.2 meters high and weighs 9 tons. It was carved by local artists around the second year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1863). The statue of Li Bai in the hall was created by Li Xiangqun, a famous Chinese sculptor and professor of the Academy of fine arts of Tsinghua University. The white marble relief art wall around Taibai hall, with a total area of 293 square meters, is composed of 22 pieces of pictures, each of which is 8.3 meters high and 1.65 meters wide. All his life, Li Bai traveled widely in famous mountains and traveled all over the country. According to the direction of southeast and northwest, the relief wall condenses the famous Chinese mountains with representative symbols. Each relief is relatively independent, but it is related to each other and meandering.

 

Gufeng Hall

"Gufeng hall" is Jiangyou historical relics exhibition hall, located in the southwest of Lianchi in Qing Dynasty, displaying Jiangyou historical relics from Neolithic period to Qing Dynasty.

Return Pavilion

The return pavilion was built by Taiwan scholar Cai Zhaoqi with a donation of NT $1 million. It is located in the North Bank of Lianchi in the Qing Dynasty. It is named after the sentence meaning of Du Fu's poem "Kuangshan reading place, toubai good return", which expresses the deep memory of Li Bai by the people in his hometown. On the first floor, Tian Jiyun, former Vice Premier of the State Council, improvised his brush when inspecting the Li Bai Memorial Hall, expressing the central leadership's praise for the patriotic enthusiasm of Taiwan compatriots. On the second floor, Wu Zuoren, a famous Chinese painter, presented the plaque in Beijing to show the mutual admiration of scholars on both sides of the Strait.

Du Fu Tang

Dufutang is located in the northwest of qinglianchi, which is a new building in the reconstruction. Li Bai and Du Fu are close friends, and the post earthquake reconstruction of Li Bai's hometown Jiangyou was aided by Du Fu's hometown Henan, which is a coincidence in history. The construction of Du Fu Tang not only reflects the glorious position of the two poets in the history of literature. The Ancient Ginkgo biloba trees in front of the hall are thousands of years old and have high natural and garden aesthetic values.

 

Poetry Garden

Located on the left side of Du Fu hall, the "Poetry Garden" is the site of the fine exhibition room of Li Bai Memorial Hall. It is a two-story building. This is a collection of the quintessence of Li Bai Memorial's cultural collection over the past half century. It displays the calligraphy and painting works of Qiu Ying, Zhu Zhishan, Yang Shen and Wang Shouren in Ming Dynasty, Shi Tao, Shangguan Zhou and Weng Tonghe in Qing Dynasty, Zhang Daqian, Pan Tianshou, Lin Sanzhi, Yu Youren, Xie Wuliang and Fu Baoshi in modern times.

Collection in the Museum

Collection summary

There are more than 4000 collections of Li Bai's poetry, calligraphy and paintings of famous artists in the past dynasties, and 80 editions and 700 volumes of Li Bai's works in yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are 2738 treasures of calligraphy and painting in Ming and Qing Dynasties, modern times and contemporary times. There are rare ink treasures, song steles, Li Bai statues, Kuangshan Taibai statues and inscriptions of poet Li Bai in the museum. There are also taohuatan, ximechi, dashishi, leimingyan in Ming Dynasty and other cultural relics.

Painting and Calligraphy

The collection includes plaques, couplets, Li Bai's poems, Qiu Ying, Zhu Zhishan, Zhang Daqian, Fu Baoshi, Pan Tianshou and other paintings written by Song Qingling, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yi, Hu Yaobang, Guo Moruo and Zhang Aiping.

 

stele

The museum has 16 steles of song, Ming and Qing Dynasties, including 3 first-class ones.

Paper

The collection includes manuscripts of Li Bai's poems in Tang Dynasty, annotations of Li Bai's poems in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and photos and rubbings of Li Bai's ink and relics. There are also the albums of Jiang Chenying's book "early departure from Baidi city" and "I heard that Wang Changling left moved to longbiaoyao and sent it here". Other modern and contemporary versions of Li Bai, books and materials 3300.

 

Collection Introduction (part)

Fu Baoshi's portrait of Li Bai

No.: 1-2-15

Texture: paper

Time: Modern

Dimensions: 138 cm in length, 68.8 cm in width

Author: Fu Baoshi

Content: meticulous painting depicts Li Taibai lying under the red plum tree, drinking to the moon alone.

Signature: right Title: "Li Bai." In February 1964, it was built for Jiangyou memorial hall, and Fu Baoshi recorded it.

Seal: Bao Shi's work (Bai Wen), left middle: Jia Chen's work (Zhu Wen), left bottom: often drunk (Zhu Wen).

 

Zhang Daqian's painting of the Song Dynasty people crossing the water in bintoulu

No.: 1-3-11

Texture: paper

Time: Modern

Dimensions: 115.5cm in length and 64cm in width

Author: Zhang Daqian (1899-1983), from Neijiang, Sichuan. His real name is Zhang Zhengquan, also known as yuan and Ji Yuan. He is also called Dafeng hall. Great master of modern Chinese painting.

Content: the master of yibintoulu, holding a dragon's head crutch, wades with a little apprentice. It's far away from the mountain and stone, and near to the ancient red maple vine.

Signature: "the painting of the master crossing the water in bintoulu of Song Dynasty" is similar to a brother's teaching. On the 25th of Jiashen Jiaping month, Zhang Yuan, a resident of Daqian.

Seal: Zhang Yuan's seal (in Bai), Da Qian's (in Zhu), and all the sufferings (in Bai).

 

(Ming) Qiu Ying's Pavilion

No.: 1-2-5

Texture: paper

Time: Ming Dynasty

Dimensions: 86cm in length, 172.5cm in width

Author: Qiu Ying (about 1490-1552), a native of Taicang, Jiangsu Province, is a real father. He is good at drawing figures, especially ladies. Together with Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming and Tang Yin, they are called "four schools of Ming Dynasty".

Content: the picture shows pavilions and pavilions with fine brushwork, the distant mountains are continuous, the attic, the path and the trestle are connected, and several people in the pavilion and the courtyard enjoy tea, view and play.

Seal: lower right corner seal: Shizhou (Zhu Wen)

 

(Ming) regular script album of Du Fu to Li Bai by Wang Shouren

No.: 8-15-985

Texture: paper

Time: Ming Dynasty

Dimensions: longitudinal 26cm, transverse 16cm × 32cm

Author: Wang Shouren (1472-1529), a native of Yuyao, Zhejiang Province, is a young man named Yun. His name is bo'an and his name is Yangming. He was granted the title of Xinjian Bo and his posthumous title is Wencheng.

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