China Shipping Culture Museum

China Shipping Culture Museum

China shipping culture museum is located in the eastern foot of Maji, Zhaozhong Road, Mawei District, Fuzhou City, adjacent to beimajiang sea battle martyrs cemetery (Fuzhou Zhaozhong Temple). The museum is a five storey building with a construction area of 4100 square meters. The facade is made of two warships riding the wind and waves. It is magnificent and has a modern architectural style.

The museum is China's first museum with the theme of shipping administration. There are a large number of precious cultural relics, pictures and models in the museum. It is composed of exhibition halls such as overview hall, Education Hall, industry hall and Navy foundation hall.

Founding background

Fujian shipping administration bureau and Fujian shipping administration school, established in 1866, played an important role in modern Chinese history. Among them, it also has an important impact on the development and reform of China's maritime military concept.

After the Opium War, with the sound of Western invaders, Chinese people of insight began to look for the way to save the country and strengthen the country. Wei Yuan's thought of "learning from foreigners and improving skills to control foreigners" blew the horn for modern Chinese to learn from the west, and the military self-improvement movement rose. The officials of the Westernization Movement began with learning from the western idea of "building strong ships and cannons". While setting up factories to make ships and cannons, they also focused on establishing various educational institutions to train Chinese modern talents. Fuzhou shipping school was the first modern naval school in China, and also the first Naval Education Institution in Chinese history.

The establishment of Fujian shipping administration shows that the position of coastal defense in China's national defense is beginning to emerge. China's traditional national defense concept of valuing land over sea is changing.

Since 2004, in order to promote the shipping culture, Mawei District government has invested more than 6 million yuan in the overall revision of the Chinese Modern Naval Museum and renamed it as the Chinese shipping culture museum according to the strategic plan of Fuzhou municipal Party committee to "explore the shipping culture and break through Fuzhou tourism".

Development history

China shipping culture museum is the first museum in China with the theme of shipping. Through a large number of precious cultural relics, pictures, models and various simulation scenes, the museum comprehensively shows the fruitful achievements of China's shipping administration in modern China's advanced science and technology, new education, industrial manufacturing, translation and dissemination of western classic culture, and vividly shows the great images and advanced ideas of many patriots and people with lofty ideals It reflects the Chinese nation's excellent traditional cultural concepts of being determined and enterprising, being open-minded and eager to learn, learning from others' strong points, being brave in innovation and being loyal and patriotic.

In 2006, Lien Chan, then honorary chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang, and his party visited the museum.

architectural composition

The exhibition hall is divided into preface hall, shipping administration overview hall, shipping administration Education Hall, shipping administration industry hall, Navy foundation hall and shipping administration hall of fame.

Collection

The first floor of the exhibition hall is the preface hall, which combines relief and round sculpture to show the general situation of shipping administration. The second floor is the "overview of shipping administration", which creates a landscape of shipping administration Yamen. The display board introduces the hardships of Zuo Zongtang and Shen Baozhen in founding shipping administration in the background of the rise of Westernization Movement. The third level is "ship administration education", which mainly introduces "Ship Administration School" and the ship administration elites. The fourth floor is the shipbuilding industry and technology, which sets up the landscape modeling of the shipbuilding workshop, makes the ship model showing the shipbuilding achievements, and introduces the development process and scientific and technological achievements of the shipbuilding technology. The fifth layer is the "naval foundation", which highlights the formation of the modern navy, the scale, number and status of the ships built by the 13 shipyards, and the naval generals trained by the shipyard.

In April 2006, Lian Zhan, the honorary chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang, who came to Fujian Province for ancestor worship, came to visit the museum. During his visit, he told reporters: "the Museum of shipping administration describes the modernization process of the whole construction and development of shipping administration, which is very difficult and has encountered many difficulties and setbacks. Therefore, the efforts of our predecessors give great enlightenment to future generations: how to jointly enrich the country and the people is the responsibility of our generation. " Before leaving, Lian Zhan wrote an inscription for the Museum: "learning from the East is for the body, learning from the west is for the use, and Majiang's great ship dominates the waves.".

Visit information

Address: east foot of Majie Road, Zhaozhong Road, Mawei District, Fuzhou City

Bus routes: take bus No.37, 73, 58, 116, 139, 140, 178, 180 to "Mawei District Party committee" station.

Self driving: go east along Bindong Avenue (Mawei direction), drive to the intersection of Zhaozhong Road (the first intersection after passing through the viaduct of shipyard), turn right into Zhaozhong Road, and go about 100 meters to our museum.

Address: No.7 Zhaozhong Road (near Majiang Naval Battle Memorial)

Longitude: 119.450319

Latitude: 25.983801

Tel: 0591-83983253

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