Zhongxiang Museum

The predecessor of Zhongxiang City Museum is the cultural relics exhibition room set up in Zhongxiang County Cultural Museum in the early 1950s. Its address is located in Shanshan guild hall of the old county. He moved to Wujun Academy in 1959 and County Hall in 1961. In 1977, with the approval of the people's Government of Zhongxiang County, Zhongxiang county library was established to work together with Zhongxiang County Library. In February 1979, Zhongxiang County Revolutionary Committee approved the establishment of Zhongxiang County Museum. In March 1980, the Zhongxiang County Museum and the library were officially separated. The site of the museum was moved to Yuanyou palace, an ancient building complex of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are exhibitions such as "national famous historical and cultural city - Zhongxiang historical and cultural relics exhibition", "Qing Dynasty female corpse Exhibition", "calligraphy and painting exhibition", "revolutionary cultural relics exhibition" and so on, which are open to the public all the year round.

Zhongxiang Museum

synonym

Zhongxiang Museum generally refers to Zhongxiang City Museum

Zhongxiang City Museum is located in the Northeast suburb of the city, by the beautiful Mochou Lake, with the front of Mochou Lake and the back of Chunde mountain. The surrounding hills are undulating, the water is open, the trees are shady, and the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant.

The predecessor of Zhongxiang City Museum is the cultural relics exhibition room set up in Zhongxiang County Cultural Museum in the early 1950s. Its address is located in Shanshan guild hall of the old county. He moved to Wujun Academy in 1959 and County Hall in 1961. In 1977, with the approval of the people's Government of Zhongxiang County, Zhongxiang county library was established to work together with Zhongxiang County Library. In February 1979, Zhongxiang County Revolutionary Committee approved the establishment of Zhongxiang County Museum. In March 1980, the Zhongxiang County Museum and the library were officially separated and moved to Yuanyou palace, an ancient building complex of Ming and Qing Dynasties. In June 2012, the new Mochouhu Road Museum of Zhongxiang City was completed and officially opened to the public.

Development history

The predecessor of Zhongxiang City Museum is the cultural relics exhibition room set up in Zhongxiang County Cultural Museum in the early 1950s. Its address is located in Shanshan guild hall of the old county.

He moved to Wujun Academy in 1959 and County Hall in 1961.

In 1977, with the approval of the people's Government of Zhongxiang County, Zhongxiang county library was established to work together with Zhongxiang County Library.

In February 1979, Zhongxiang County Revolutionary Committee approved the establishment of Zhongxiang County Museum.

In March 1980, the Zhongxiang County Museum and the library were officially separated and moved to Yuanyou palace, an ancient building complex of Ming and Qing Dynasties.

In June 2012, the new Mochouhu Road Museum of Zhongxiang City was completed and officially opened to the public.

architectural composition

The newly completed Zhongxiang Museum has a total investment of 70 million yuan, covering an area of 80040 square meters, of which the main building area is 10957 square meters, and the exhibition area is more than 3300 square meters. Its design concept takes the Ming Dynasty imperial culture as the theme, garden style, multi-function.

The whole theme building is like a seal in the natural landscape painting. The main hall in the shape of "sun" and the attached hall in the shape of "Moon" absorb the skeleton of Chinese character seal and look down from the air to form the structure of "Ming", highlighting the imperial culture of the Ming Dynasty. The whole theme building is immersed in the square landscape pool, forming the outer garden of the museum, the outdoor corridor and open space between the main hall and the attached hall, forming the inner garden of the museum, presenting the spatial image of "garden in the garden". The simple and elegant white main building, with a square shallow pool, one long, one high, one small, three boulders, takes the image of "mountain" in "water", as the finishing touch, expresses the theme of "between mountains and rivers, imperial seal", and becomes one of Zhong Xiang's landmark buildings.

There are five functional areas in the museum, which are exhibition area, public service area, collection warehouse area, technical protection area and administrative office area.

Basic Display

In the 3000 square meter exhibition area, there are five series of basic exhibitions, including the theme exhibition hall of Ming Dynasty emperor culture, Chu culture exhibition hall, ceramic calligraphy and painting treasures hall, longevity culture exhibition hall, Mr. Li Ji memorial hall, as well as temporary exhibition hall and multimedia hall.

The most distinctive one in the exhibition hall is Mr. Li Ji Memorial Hall. Li Ji, born in Zhongxiang, Hubei Province, is the first Chinese anthropologist to study in the United States. He is the founder of modern Chinese Archaeology and is known as "the father of modern Chinese Archaeology". He successively presided over the excavation of Yin Ruins in Anyang, Henan Province for 14 times, collected a large number of oracle bone inscriptions, changed the history of Yin Dynasty from legend to faithful history, and advanced the history of written records to 3000 years ago.

Collection

There are more than 20000 pieces (sets) of precious cultural relics in the collection, including 14 pieces (sets) of national first-class cultural relics, 70 pieces (sets) of second-class cultural relics and 372 pieces (sets) of third-class cultural relics.

Su Shi's Duan inkstone is rectangular, protruding in the middle, and the inkstone pool is oval. Fine workmanship, warm stone, purple. The inkstone is engraved with the word "Su Shi".

Buddha statues in Ming Dynasty. The left hand is placed horizontally on both knees, and the right hand bends upward.

The monument is 223 cm long and 70 cm wide. It was written by Mao Huijian of Changshu, Jiangsu Province, who lived in Zhongxiang in the Qing Dynasty, and carved by Ye Lian of the ancient city.

You Lan Tu is a rare subject in Zheng Banqiao's works. It is a precious work of art, with its intricate layout, light and salty ink, vivid description of the shape of orchid and its own calligraphy.

Visit information

Address: 28 Mochouhu Road, Yingzhong Street office, Zhongxiang City, Hubei Province

Transportation route: take bus No.6 to Zhongxiang Museum Station

Opening hours: 9:00-17:00 from Tuesday to Sunday;

Normal opening on legal holidays

Closing day: Monday

Postal Code: 431900

Ticket information

Free Admission

On February 20, 2020, Hubei announced that all A-level tourist attractions will be free of tickets for medical aid team members within five years. Zhongxiang museum is one of them.

Address: NO.48 Yuanyou Road, Zhongxiang City, Jingmen City, Hubei Province

Longitude: 112.594389

Latitude: 31.161421

Traffic information: take No.1 or No.2 bus to natatorium or Lishe bridge

Opening hours: off season 8:30-11:30, 14:30-17:30

8:00-11:30, 14:00-17:30 in peak season

Closing days: Monday and Tuesday

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