Huaihua Museum

Huaihua Museum

Huaihua museum is located in Hecheng District, Huaihua City, Hunan Province, 350 Yingfeng Middle Road, next to Xiangzhou bridge, opposite Huaihua No.3 middle school, Yingfeng Road Primary School and old gymnasium. Postal Code: 418000

Huaihua style

[clothing] the clothing of ethnic minorities in the territory has its own characteristics. As for the Miao nationality, it is said in the national records of Customs of China that only the village has long hair, the rest of them are wrapped in a bun and removed their moustaches. The woman is short and barefoot. The man wears a blue cloth shirt with a blue cloth jacket in between, a red cloth bag around his waist, a red collar, colorful flowers around his clothes, lace around his feet, and green cloth around his legs. Women's clothes are longer than men's, and the collar is straight down. They use rope or embroidered flowers as the collar. There is no tie around the waist, and they don't wear middle clothes. They take brocade as the skirt. In the blue and red way, there are silver bells embroidered into flowers, or two or three waists, which is different from men's.

Bai people love to wear white, there is "to be pretty, a filial piety" said. The man wore a white cardigan with a black jacket, a peach blossom belt around his waist and a tassel pouch. He wore a white cloth towel and blue and blue trousers. The woman wore a white full bodied dress with a blue trunk on the side, a black collar coat on the top, an embroidered apron on the outside, and blue and blue cloth trousers on the bottom.

[jewelry] people in the territory always like to wear jewelry, especially ethnic minorities. According to the notes of laoxuean, Chen, yuan and jingzhouman, the unmarried men wear Jin Wuyu in a bun, while the unmarried women wear beads on their necks. According to the national chronicle of Customs of China, a man who is rich has his hair tied with a net scarf and four or five silver praises. He is as long as a dagger, flat at the top and round at the bottom. The left ear runs through silver rings like bowls, the neck is surrounded by silver rings, and the hands wear silver brocades. Women wear silver hairpins, necklaces and bracelets, but both ears run through silver rings. The rich wear big silver combs and wrap their bun with silver for honey. Unmarried person, the forehead hair is divided in the middle, after the knot braid hangs, take the seashell silver Ling medicine bead as the decoration. Children like to wear collars, locks, bells, Fugui cards, Arhats, Avalokitesvara, foot rings, hand rings, etc. Jewelry texture has gold, silver, copper, gemstones, diamonds, pearls and so on.

[ear piercing] it is a custom for women in China to wear earrings. Every year on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, it is the day for girls to wear their ears. When a woman is 12 years old, she wears earrings.

Development history

The museum is a garden style antique building and the famous Chinese painter Mr. Huang Yongyu's title is very eye-catching, known as a major landscape of Huaihua Municipal construction.

The exhibition building of Huaihua Museum started construction in October 1984, completed in 1985, and officially opened to the public on February 6 of the following year. In April 1992, a new root carving museum was built.

Collection

Huaihua Museum has more than 15000 sets of cultural relics and 1330 sets of precious cultural relics, mostly from underground excavation and folk collection.

The museum has published a brief introduction to Huaihua Museum, and has also made a useful exploration of the revolutionary history and the history of ethnic minorities in the region. It has published dozens of academic documents in newspapers and magazines at or above the provincial level.

Visit information

It is now open to all the people free of charge. It is open from 9:00 to 16:00 every Wednesday to Friday. You can get tickets with your ID card, student card and other documents.

Address: no.350, Yingfeng Middle Road, Hecheng District, Huaihua City, Hunan Province

Longitude: 109.99287292073

Latitude: 27.55053108552

Tel: 0745-2712434

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