Leshan ebony Museum

Located in Suji Town, Leshan City, 15 kilometers away from Leshan Giant Buddha, Leshan ebony treasures cultural museum is a special museum with ebony carving art as its main content, integrating ebony carving art, ebony collection, research and exhibition. With an investment of 120 million yuan, after decades of painstaking collection and careful preparation, the ebony Museum has created five firsts in the country: collecting more than 5000 cubic meters of ebony raw materials, ranking first in the country; the scale of the ebony Museum, ranking first in the country; the quantity and quality of works, ranking first in the country; the collection of 370000 pieces of Chairman Mao's portraits The number and scale of Tibet ranks first in China.

Leshan ebony Museum

Leshan ebony museum is located in Suji Town, Leshan City, 15 kilometers away from Leshan Giant Buddha. It is a special museum with ebony carving art as its main content, integrating ebony carving art, ebony collection, research and exhibition. 1、 The second and third phase project covers an area of more than 200 mu, with a construction area of more than 21000 square meters and an exhibition area of more than 10000 square meters. It is a national AAAA tourist attraction, a national cultural industry demonstration base and a national popular science education base.

Development history

geographical environment

Located in Suji Town, Shizhong District, Leshan City, Sichuan Leshan ebony treasures Culture Expo is a special museum with ebony carving art as its main content and collection, research and exhibition of ebony carving art. It is located on the green tourism channel of Leshan Giant Buddha Emei Mountain, a world natural and cultural heritage, 18 meters away from the center of Leshan City It is 19 kilometers away from Mount Emei. It is one of the key private enterprises in Shizhong District of Leshan City. It is also one of the key tourism supporting projects for the construction of "China's first mountain" by Leshan Municipal government. 1、 The second and third phase project covers an area of more than 200 mu, with a construction area of more than 21000 square meters and an exhibition area of more than 10000 square meters. It is the largest private museum in China, which adopts the style of green tile roof design of traditional Western Sichuan folk houses. The stone bridges, flowing water and flower beds designed to imitate the natural landscape form create elegant and simple residential garden scenery, spacious parking lot, chic corridor and exhibition hall with cornices and corners, making the museum magnificent. The scenic spot was officially opened to the public on April 19, 2006. The completion of the ebony Cultural Museum in Leshan, Sichuan, is of great significance for the collection and research of human natural and cultural heritage, and has added a beautiful landscape to China's cultural tourism industry.

History and culture

Ebony is the common name of the Sichuan people for overcast wood, not the living black wood on the ground of the African continent. Two thousand to ten thousand years ago, the celestial bodies in ancient Sichuan had a natural variation, and the plants and organisms on the ground were all buried in the low-lying places such as ancient river beds by earthquakes, floods and debris flows. Some trees buried in the mud are formed by carbonization process of thousands or even tens of thousands of years under the condition of hypoxia and high pressure, bacteria and other microorganisms, so they are also called "carbonized wood".

Ebony is hard in nature, mostly brownish black, black red, golden and yellowish brown. The cut surface is smooth, the grain is fine, and the polished method can achieve the mirror light. Some ebony is similar to red sandalwood in nature. It is an ideal material for making artworks and antique furniture.

Ebony is the witness and witness of the change of natural environment, the only natural remains of ancient primeval forest, the product of the geographical environment structure of Bashu, and the most important ecological and cultural heritage of ancient Sichuan. Through the analysis and study of ebony, we can understand the status of plant species in ancient Bashu, and understand the climate, water source and other related natural factors at that time.

Construction process

The second phase of the project started in July 2010, with a land acquisition of more than 60 mu and an investment of more than 80 million yuan. It mainly includes five hundred Arhats Hall of ebony fine carving, ebony art carving production center and related tourism, leisure, catering, entertainment, accommodation and other supporting facilities. After more than eight years of careful construction, the five hundred Arhats with ebony carving were opened to the public on New Year's day in 2009.

The third phase of the project was started in October 2012, with a land acquisition of nearly 100 mu and a planned investment of 500 million yuan. It is mainly to build a gate tower and three exhibition halls. The exhibition hall mainly includes ebony ruins hall, twelve zodiac hall, gujiazhou hall and throne hall, and further improves the related tourism infrastructure, mainly including: large comprehensive tourist center, a four-star tourist toilet, and related entertainment and leisure facilities. The third phase project was completed at the end of 2014 and opened to the public on New Year's day in 2015.

development planning

The operation system of Wumu museum is flexible and far-reaching. The combination of cultural industry and tourism not only fills the gap of introducing private capital investment into Leshan tourism industry, but also fills the gap of the marriage between Leshan tourism industry and national culture, and fills the gap of Leshan tourism industry without special tourist souvenirs for many years. In the next step, the ebony museum will create a series of ebony carving art products with the theme of "famous mountains, famous Buddhas, celebrities and famous cities", further enrich the cultural connotation of Leshan tourism for the construction of "the first mountain in China", and let tourists at home and abroad really enjoy the pleasure of "visiting fairy mountains, worshiping big Buddhas and watching ebony".

The scenic spot has been awarded the titles of Museum, national AAAA scenic spot, national cultural industry demonstration base and national popular science education base. We have received leaders and departments at the ministerial, provincial and municipal levels for many times, and won unanimous praise from the leaders. Since its opening, it has received more than 5 million passengers at home and abroad, and has achieved good economic and social benefits.

architectural composition

Ebony Culture Expo Garden is divided into exhibition hall on the first floor and exhibition hall on the second floor. The first floor is the main exhibition area. It is composed of 12 halls, including preface hall, time tunnel, ebony formation hall, central hall, original ebony forest hall, artificial site carving exhibition hall and ebony series products exhibition hall. More than 5000 cubic meters of ebony raw materials are collected in the museum, which ranks first in the country in terms of quantity and quality. The volume of individual woodcarving works is also the largest in the country. Among them, the ebony carvings with four famous Chinese literary works as the theme and nearly 300 natural ebony artworks and ebony carvings with different shapes not only highlight the beauty of China's traditional wood carving art, but also fully interpret the unique ebony culture in Sichuan.

The ebony Ruins Museum in the third phase of ebony Expo has changed the traditional way of exhibition, using modern scientific and technological means of sound, light and electricity to show the formation environment and conditions of ebony in the form of multimedia, so that people seem to go through the time tunnel, walk in the flood and famine years, and suddenly realize the ancient truth that human and nature are related and coexist.

Each piece of ebony art displayed in Leshan ebony treasures Cultural Expo Garden in Sichuan is made through more than ten procedures such as material selection, creativity, design, fine carving, fine grinding, artistic connotation exploration, as well as the organic comprehensive application of traditional and modern crafts. One of the four famous works of the town museum, the romance of the Three Kingdoms, is the best illustration. The work is carved by 80 skilled craftsmen in Putian, Fujian Province, after three years and seven months. It is made of a complete ebony with a diameter of 2.5 meters and an age of 850 years and a formation age of 8700 years. The work portrays nearly 500 characters, with grand historical scenes, showing three-dimensional magnificent war scenes, such as the battle of Lu Bu, the battle of Changbanpo, the borrowing of arrows by straw boats, the burning of Chibi and the empty city. With the help of the unique color, texture and luster of ebony, the charm of ebony with stone and the ancient elegance of wood, the work fully explores its characteristics of "thin, transparent, leaky, charming, grand and wonderful" and adds artistic exaggeration, glowing with charming light, vividly showing the sword light and sword shadow of the ancient battlefield of the Three Kingdoms, and showing people a magnificent historical picture, which can be called "the spirit of heaven and the treasure of earth" "Jue" means "Jue".

The twelve zodiac Museum of folk culture also uses multimedia and other modern scientific and technological means to display the mystery of the twelve zodiac and the twelve constellations, and uses ebony carving art to reproduce the historical scene of the animal head of the twelve zodiac in Haiyan Hall of Yuanmingyuan in Beijing, so that people can experience the long history of people at all times and in all countries, and strive to find ways to communicate with heaven and earth, space and time The harmony and unity of nature and human is the realm of harmony between man and nature.

Ebony Expo Park is the latest in the field of investment and the richest in cultural connotation of tourism products. It has developed nearly 200 kinds of ebony tourism products. It is a model of combining ebony carving art with Taoist culture, Buddhist culture, Confucian culture, traditional folk culture and farming culture. It is the most distinctive cultural tourism product.

Visit information

With convenient transportation, Leshan has formed an interconnected transportation network of railway, highway, waterway and aviation.

External traffic

High speed railway: Leshan is located on the south line of Chengdu Mianyang Leshan high speed railway. It takes only one hour to get to Leshan by Chengdu Mianyang Leshan intercity train. Leshan station of high speed railway is only 8.7km away from Wumu Museum, so the transportation is very convenient.

Aviation: Leshan downtown is only 150 kilometers away from Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, and the whole journey is a high-grade highway. There is a civil aviation ticket office in the urban area, which can purchase the air tickets sent to Chengdu and all over the country.

Railway: Chengdu Kunming railway runs through Jiajiang, Emeishan, Shawan, Ebian and other cities

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