Wang Anshi Memorial Hall

Wang Anshi Memorial Hall

Wang Anshi memorial hall is located at the south end of Gandong Avenue in Fuzhou City. It is built to commemorate Wang Anshi, a famous politician, thinker, writer of the Northern Song Dynasty and a reformer of China in the 11th century. It is one of the ten historical celebrities memorial halls in Jiangxi Province. The Wang Anshi memorial hall was built in early 1985 and held on November 11, 1986 on the occasion of the "academic seminar on Commemorating the 900th anniversary of Wang Anshi's death in Jiangxi Province" The museum opened.

Architectural features

Wang Anshi Memorial Hall covers an area of 20 mu, with a building area of 1560 square meters and a exhibition hall of 600 square meters. It is a garden style building complex imitating Song Dynasty mansion with Jiangnan garden artistic conception and Song Dynasty architectural charm. The ancient garden architecture style is elegant and detached. It is natural with the gate building, hidden wall, waterside pavilion, veranda, stele Gallery, pavilion, lotus pool, curved bridge, etc. it is full of traditional cultural connotation and exudes rich scholarly atmosphere everywhere.

The memorial hall is designed by Nanjing Institute of landscape design, covering an area of 13320 square meters and a building area of 1560 square meters. She has the characteristics of the lintel of the Song Dynasty mansion in the south of the Yangtze River, the entity of pavilions, and the consideration of two exhibitions. The main building is a two-story Pavilion imitating the Song Dynasty style. It is symmetrical and dignified with the eaves of Xie Shan, the tubular tiles, the flower windows and the garden columns. The pattern of other subsidiary buildings is harmonious and harmonious with the main building. It not only has its own shape, but also sets off each other. Although the modest and elegant gatehouse is not magnificent, the six characters of "Wang Anshi Memorial Hall" mentioned by Zhao Puchu, chairman of the Chinese Buddhist Association and calligrapher, make the gatehouse look very imposing and spiritual. As soon as you enter the gate, there are beautiful hidden walls on both sides. You can climb up the waterside pavilion along the corridor. Willows are blowing by the pool, fish are flying in the water, and elegant ancient music seems to take you to a fairyland. The winding corridor and stele corridor connect the gate tower, waterside pavilion, reception room, main building and Jinggong Pavilion, forming a beautiful place with "winding paths and quiet, thought-provoking". The cultural relics of the Song Dynasty in "Huaiwen hall" make people appreciate the culture and art of their ancestors, and the field path leading to the "grass Pavilion" reminds visitors of Wang Anshi's indifferent life after his prime minister's death.

The exhibition hall of the main building is divided into two floors and four parts. The concise "foreword" leads to Wang Anshi's birth, family background and his activities in his youth. Under the title of "outstanding statesman and thinker", Wang Anshi's achievements of local officials for more than ten years are displayed. The main contents of his famous "shangrenzong emperor's affairs", "three deficiencies theory" and "Xining new law" are displayed in the page. In the exhibition hall on the second floor, Wang Anshi's articles, poems and moral character are the main contents of the exhibition. His well-known prose and poems have attracted many scholars of later generations, and even his contemporaries' opponents admire his noble character. The calligraphy of Liu Haili and other famous artists, and the ten groups of Wang Anshi statues meticulously carved by Professor Wang Dajin and his disciples add a strong poetic and picturesque flavor to the whole museum.

Tourism characteristics

Wang Anshi Memorial Hall in Fuzhou is a historical celebrity Memorial Hall established in memory of Wang Anshi, a famous politician, thinker and writer in Northern Song Dynasty. It was completed and opened to the outside world in November 1986.

The memorial hall covers an area of 20 mu, with a construction area of 1560 square meters. It is a Song Dynasty style garden building. The gate building, hidden wall, waterside pavilion, stele Gallery, pavilion, lotus pool, curved bridge and the main building complement each other and form an integrated whole. There are garden landscapes such as wenyuexuan, tihuanyuan, Xinyi garden, Jinggong Pavilion, huaiwentang, etc.

Basic Display

The main building is a two-story exhibition hall, which introduces Wang Anshi's life and history. On the first floor, eight parts are displayed, namely, deep love for hometown, good governance of prefectures, Jinggong's new learning, and Xining reform. On the second floor, eight parts are displayed, namely, "literary attainments", "humanistic character", "eternal Jinling" and "eternal commentary". The whole exhibition hall shows Wang Anshi's life through photos, traditional Chinese paintings, sculptures and real objects. At the same time, it also shows the copies of Wang Anshi's "Leng Yan Jing Zhi Yao" written by Wang Anshi and his works of different times and versions, as well as the comments, writings and papers of later generations.

The exhibition of Wang Anshi's life story is set up in Xifeng building, which mainly includes eight parts: "deep love for hometown", "good governance of prefectures", "Jinggong's new learning", "Xining's new law", "literary attainments", "humanistic character", "eternal Jinling" and "eternal commentary". Each exhibition hall shows Wang Anshi's life achievement and reformer's courage through pictures, charts, traditional Chinese paintings, statues and objects The spirit and the style of a writer.

The museum collects more than 30 pieces of paintings and calligraphy presented to the museum by famous contemporary calligraphers and painters Liu Haisu, Xiao Xian, Lai Shaoqi, etc. The memorial hall receives many Chinese and foreign tourists every year, and becomes a place for the masses to visit, receive education, conduct cultural exchanges and spread friendship. In 1994, it was named "Jiangxi patriotism education base" by the provincial Party committee and the provincial government.

Xifeng building, the main building of the museum, is a two-story Pavilion imitating the Song Dynasty style. It is an exhibition hall for Wang Anshi's life and history. On the first floor, eight parts are displayed, namely "deep love for hometown", "good governance of prefectures", "Jinggong's new learning", "Xining reform". On the second floor, eight parts are displayed, namely "literary attainments", "humanistic character", "immortal Jinling" and "eternal commentary". The exhibition hall mainly displays Wang Anshi's life achievements, reformer's courage and literary style through exquisite photos, paintings, sculptures and real objects. In addition, it also displays the photocopies of Leng Yan Jing purport written by Wang Anshi in the eighth year of Yuanfeng, the records of prefectures and counties, the copies of genealogy and Wang Anshi

Different editions of works of different times, comments and works of scholars at home and abroad on Wang Anshi, calligraphy and painting pieces donated by celebrities, scholars, painters and calligraphers from all over the country for Wang Anshi memorial hall, etc. There is a second exhibition room in banshantang, which is specially used for temporary exhibition. It has successively exhibited "relics unearthed from tombs of Song Dynasty in Fuzhou" and "treasures left in Song Dynasty", etc., so that people can appreciate the splendid culture and art of ancient Fuzhou.

Traffic information

Address: no.1085, Gandong Avenue, Linchuan District, Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province

Bus information:

1. Take No.1, No.33, No.36 bus to Wang Anshi Memorial Hall.

2. Take No.2, No.7, No.11 bus to Linchuan No.9 small bus and walk 352 meters.

Address: south end of Gandong Avenue, Linchuan District, Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province

Longitude: 116.35852586595

Latitude: 27.969854787499

Tel: 0794-8222249

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