China imperial examination Museum

Founded in 1168, Jiangnan Gongyuan was the largest imperial examination hall in China at that time. In its heyday, it covered an area of more than 300000 square meters, with 20644 houses. Today, there are many cultural relics, such as mingyuanlou, Gongyuan stele, feihongqiao and so on. The Chinese imperial examination Museum, reconstructed and expanded from Jiangnan Gongyuan, consists of Jiangnan Gongyuan, the first floor of the underground exhibition hall and Mingyuan building, with a ticket of 40 yuan. It is worth mentioning that the museum also specially rebuilt 99 houses, which was the imperial examination room of that year.

China imperial examination Museum

China imperial examination museum is located in the east of Confucius Temple Academy in Qinhuai District of Nanjing City, and is located in the core area of the Qinhuai scenery belt of Confucius Temple. It is the center of China's imperial examination system, China's imperial examination culture and China's imperial examination cultural relics collection center. Some of the open venues include the three floors underground of the museum, the Mingyuan building, Zhigong hall, Hao she, tablet inscription and KuiGuang Pavilion in Nanyuan on the ground, including 11 exhibition halls. It is the only underground museum in China.

The Chinese imperial examination museum was reconstructed and expanded from Jiangnan Academy. Jiangnan Academy was the largest imperial examination hall in ancient China. In its heyday, it could accept more than 20000 examinees to take examinations at the same time. Its large scale and wide land occupation ranked the first among the provincial academies in China, creating the largest imperial examination hall in ancient China.

The museum extends to pingjiangfu road in the East, Gongyuan street in the south, Jinling West Road in the West and Jiankang road in the north, covering a total area of 66300 square meters.

The Chinese imperial examination Museum consists of the main museum, the South court of Jiangnan Gongyuan and the Ming yuanlou site. The main body of the museum is the concentrated area for the display and experience of the imperial examination culture; the South Garden of Jiangnan Gongyuan is the supporting area for the main body of the imperial examination Museum; the site area of mingyuanlou is mainly mingyuanlou, Zhigong hall, inscriptions of past dynasties and some number houses. Qinhuai gift shop, tourist service center and other supporting facilities are also built on both sides of the main body of the museum.

Development history

Jiangnan Gongyuan, the predecessor of China's imperial examination Museum, was built four years after the reign of emperor Xiaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty (1168 AD). It was a county school and a government school examination center at that time.

After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Jinling, the capital, was changed into a place for the local examination and the joint examination, and the scale expanded accordingly.

After Chengzu of Ming Dynasty moved his capital to Beijing, it was specially used as a local examination room.

In the heyday of Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were more than 20000 number rooms for examination, which could accommodate 20644 examinees at the same time. It was known as the largest imperial examination room in ancient China.

In 2012, the museum demonstrated, planned and constructed.

On August 11, 2014, the first phase project of China imperial examination museum was officially opened.

In October 2018, it was rated as the national research and practice education base for primary and secondary school students.

architectural composition

The main body of the Chinese imperial examination museum is 36 meters long, 36 meters wide and 20 meters high. The whole body sinks into the ground. The upper part is a square shallow pool. Visitors pass through the memorial archway of the Gongyuan, opposite to the Mingyuan building. The museum is like an ancient mirror, which includes the reflection of the Mingyuan building. The pool area in front of Mingyuan building is just 1300 square meters, which skillfully uses the horizontal area to imply the vertical history of imperial examination in the past 1300 years.

From the ground down, the museum has four floors, 130 meters in total, one meter for ten years, which just means the 1300 year history of the imperial examination again. After walking through the museum, we have gone through 1300 years of imperial examination history. The style of the building is square and square, like a square meter with edges and corners. The tiled exterior wall is like fish scales, and the interior wall is made of books. It has a strong sense of design and historical flavor.

All the way down, there are many words on the way to the main hall. The contents of these words are ancient four books and five classics, which the ancients should read and recite. After entering the main body of the imperial examination Museum, you can visit it from bottom to top and feel the historical changes. The first place to arrive is the archway of the Kedi family. This is a valuable treasure of the town hall. It is the archway awarded by the imperial court to Wu bozong, the first champion of the Ming Dynasty. In ancient times, it is a symbol of status and glory. From the archway to the inside is a courtyard, the atrium design is a collection of four books and five classics, and the four story high Kuixing hall. Looking up, Kuixing points to light up the four books, five classics and the collection of classics and history.

Main exhibition areas

Welcome Hall

The multi-media short films with the themes of "children in the village making trouble with school", "Gongyuan going to the exam", "haoshe Baitai" and "yuyuelongmen" vividly show the life picture of ancient scholars from kindergarten enlightenment to golden title.

Movie hall

The hall adopts the floating projection technology, and uses the theme film "Millennium imperial examination dream" to show the imperial examination system and the development process of Jiangnan Gongyuan.

The evolution of the imperial examination in the past millennium

The eight emperors who had an important influence on the development of the imperial examination in history were selected in this area. Taking historical relics as the main body, through art and multimedia, the historical process of the imperial examination from birth to prosperity to decline and abolishment was elaborated.

Imperial examination regulation area

After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the road to fame of scholars had to go through three stages: the county court examination, the rural examination, the joint examination and the palace examination. Through the exhibition of examination papers, rules and other cultural relics related to the imperial examinations at all levels, and on this basis, multimedia interaction, scene reproduction and other exhibition methods are added to fully present the ancient exam oriented road.

Golden list title area

The display area is the size of the gold list, as well as a variety of imperial examination plaque, sculpture and so on.

The great discovery of guanbang

In this module, Qiu Ying's guanbang Tu of Ming Dynasty is displayed with modern multimedia interactive technology. Through Knowledge Q & A, dynamic display, imperial examination idiom splicing and other links, the scene of ancient palace examination is vividly reproduced.

Celebrity District of imperial examination

This area shows the celebrities who have been baptized by the imperial examination and have made great achievements in their respective fields.

World influence area

This area displays the imperial examination cultural relics of neighboring countries such as Japan, North Korea and Vietnam, as well as the relevant works of European and American countries that learn from and evaluate China's imperial examination.

Number one scholar

The museum displays the examination papers of Zhao Wenkai and other famous top scholars in Qing Dynasty, presenting the life experience of Zhao Wenkai and the development process of Zhao's family becoming an imperial examination family.

Digital Hall

The hall shows the old photos of the imperial examination theme in the "old photos of the imperial examination" through the digital photo wall, and popularizes the knowledge of the imperial examination to the audience in the form of human-computer interactive Q & A.

Collection

The museum has carefully selected more than 10000 cultural relics from all over the country, and selected about 700 of them for permanent exhibition. In the imperial examination Museum, there were all kinds of examination questions, answers, examinees' supplies and so on. There were also many treasures and orphans. The answers of the first, second and third place in the imperial examination of that year.

Important events

On August 11, 2014, the ground site of Jiangnan Gongyuan and the "imperial examination culture exhibition" of China imperial examination museum were officially opened to the public, displaying 497 pieces of imperial examination related cultural relics.

On August 27, 2014, the Chinese imperial examination Museum received the Youth Olympic delegation from Taipei.

From November 22 to November 26, 2014, the imperial examination museum was invited to participate in the sixth 2014 "Museum and related products and Technology Expo" held in Xiamen and participated in a number of forums, lectures and promotion activities.

On February 28, 2015, Michael Huang, a descendant of Huang Yanpei, visited the Chinese imperial examination Museum.

In March 2015, a special exhibition of "imperial examination culture on ceramics" was held in xiguanluo, South District of Jiangnan Gongyuan. The exhibition shows the ancient ceramic versions with imperial examination culture paintings collected by members of Jiangsu Ancient Ceramic Research Association.

Venue features

The core of the Chinese imperial examination museum is Kuixing hall, which is engraved with the list of the number one scholars in the past dynasties (implying that the core of the imperial examination is to be a good scholar and an official), and the skin of the stone wall, which is engraved with a subset of classics and History (implying the content of the imperial examination), which is stratified by the historical changes of the imperial examination (SUI, Tang, song, yuan, Ming, Qing, etc.) Just like the imperial examination history album), the millennium history of the imperial examination will be collected and waiting to be opened.

The treasure box of the imperial examination museum is surrounded by a long and narrow space of a ramp. On one side is a scripture box full of words, and on the other side is a three-dimensional courtyard piled with debris.

The design provides a series of exhibition spaces of different sizes and heights for the exhibition of the imperial examination Museum, which can meet the needs of different scale exhibits and different types of equipment.

The design fully considers the needs of the disabled and carries out a complete barrier free design, so that visitors in need can easily get to all parts of the museum.

The design also provides special access for special guests. Provide convenience for VIP without affecting the public visit.

Considering the sustainable development and energy conservation and emission reduction, the design combines the climate characteristics of Nanjing, makes full use of natural lighting and ventilation from all aspects, reduces energy consumption and saves operating costs.

On both sides of Mingyuan building, 206 imperial examination sheds (one percent of more than 20600 examination sheds in the heyday of Jiangnan Gongyuan) were restored for outdoor live display.

Value significance

Jiangnan Gongyuan has provided a large number of outstanding people for the development of Chinese history and society. Celebrities from Jiangnan Gongyuan include Chen Duxiu, Fang Bao, Tang Bohu, Lin Zexu, Zeng Guofan, etc

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