Jilihu Silk Museum

Jilihu Silk Museum was rebuilt from the old Nanxun chamber of Commerce. It was originally Nanxun history museum. It mainly displays the jilihu silk culture that Nanxun people are proud of.

Chinese and Western style building, a total of five exhibition halls, hall display a lot of silk, color is very bright.

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Jilihu Silk Museum

Nanxun jilihu silk museum is a Chinese and Western style building, covering an area of 950 square meters. Historically, it was the Nanxun chamber of Commerce. It was built by Mei Qizhong, President of the Nanxun chamber of Commerce, and others in 1926. After liberation, it has been the seat of Nanxun town government. In October 1998, the town government moved to Nanxun historical museum. In the first half of 2010, it was rebuilt into Nanxun jilihu Silk Museum. The museum is divided into five exhibition halls. Through a large number of detailed historical materials and real scenes, and with multimedia audio-visual technology, it fully demonstrates the historical origin of Nanxun and the World Expo, as well as the profound cultural connotation of Nanxun ancient town. It is a comprehensive exhibition hall integrating historical record, humanistic experience, popular science education, product exhibition and sales.

background

Nanxun is the first city in China to participate in the World Expo. In 1851, Nanxun took the first step of China's participation in the World Expo with jilihu silk, and held back the gold medal of the first London World Expo. Since then, Nanxun district has made great efforts to "connect with Shanghai and participate in the World Expo" as an important strategy to boost its own development.

In 2010, jilihu Silk Museum, built by Nanxun district Party committee, government and Tourism Department of Huzhou City, opened. The museum collects and displays a large number of historical pictures and objects related to Lake silk, introduces the origin, development, prosperity and decline of jilihu silk, and displays the honors of jilihu silk obtained in previous World Expos. In addition, in order to strengthen the research and publicity of jilihu silk, Nanxun town publicity and cultural center and Jili village committee jointly initiated the establishment of jilihu Silk Culture Research Association in 2012, which is committed to excavating the historical and cultural resources of hulihu silk and promoting the development and innovation of hulihu silk.

Exhibition hall

Jilihu silk is the link and bridge for Nanxun to connect with Shanghai and go abroad. In order to truly reflect its history, jilihu Silk Museum of Nanxun, with the theme of "hand in hand with the World Expo for a century, reappear the glory of hulihu silk", has set up five exhibition halls, namely "love Expo", "song of insects", "golden years", "rising Shanghai" and "charming Nanxun".

Exhibits on display

The museum will display silk weaving machines, baskets and tools, as well as copies of medals and certificates obtained by Nanxun in previous World Expositions, and use high-tech multimedia means to show the historical origin of Nanxun and World Expo through pictures and images.

Art in the Museum

Cotton pocket stripping technique

First, the cocoon is boiled in a pot to make it comfortable in warm water, then the cocoon is pulled out, the pupa is dug out, and then the uniform cotton film is pulled by hand, stretched on the egg shaped bamboo basket, and stacked layer by layer. After reaching a certain thickness, the cocoon is taken off for drying, and then the icy cotton bag is formed.

Silk reeling technique

The reeling process includes reeling, reeling, reeling, reeling, reeling, reeling, reeling, reeling, reeling, reeling and drying of raw silk.

The cocoon without thread was put into the suozu pot with high temperature soup at about 90 ℃ to make the suozu broom and the surface of cocoon layer rub against each other to get silk thread. Tussah cocoons are tied by hand, but not at the sealing position. Silk cocoons are called silk cocoons.

Remove the disordered threads on the surface of the cocoon layer, and straighten out the threads. The cocoon that has been straightened out is called Zhengxu cocoon.

The threads of several cocoons are combined and led out through the shaft hole of the thread connecting device. The thread collecting device can reduce the moisture content of the silk, reduce the knots and fix the position of the silk sheath.

After the sliver passes through the thread collector, upper drum and lower drum, the front and rear segments of the sliver are twisted to form a silk sheath (see vertical reeling)

In order to reduce the adhesive force between cocoons and silk, the cocoons are put into the reeling soup with the temperature of about 40 ℃. If the strength of the cocoon silk in the process of dissociation is less than the glue force between the cocoon silk and the cocoon silk, the cocoon silk ends will be broken. This phenomenon is called thread falling. Cocoon reeling to pupa lining and thread falling is called natural thread falling; reeling to midway thread falling is called midway thread falling.

When the cocoon is reeled or reeled, in order to maintain the size of raw silk and continuous reeling, it is necessary to add the thread of the cocoon with proper thread, which is called adding thread. Manual thread feeding is used for vertical reeling, mechanical thread feeding is used for automatic reeling, and thread receiving is completed by thread connector. In order to ensure the quality of raw silk, in addition to fixing the size of cocoon, cocoon matching must be carried out, that is, a certain proportion of thick cocoon and thin cocoon must be kept for each cocoon.

The silk drawn from the sheath must be wound in an orderly manner into a certain form. The raw silk wound on the bobbin is called the bobbin raw silk. However, no matter what kind of winding form, it should be dried during winding. On the automatic reeling machine, in addition to the above procedures, the supply of new cocoons, cocoon feeding, size perception, thread feeding and collection, transportation and separation of falling cocoons are all completed by machines. There are two kinds of tussah cocoon reeling: dry reeling and water reeling. Dry reeling is to remove part of moisture from the cocoon after boiling and bleaching, and place it on the table of dry reeling machine when the cocoon is wet; water reeling and vertical reeling are basically the same, and the cocoon after boiling and bleaching is directly placed in the pot of water reeling machine with hot water for reeling.

Pavilion influence

The exhibition hall is decorated with a large number of historical pictures, materials and objects. It shows the honor of jilihu silk obtained in previous World Expos, introduces the origin of jilihu silk, the history of its prosperity, improvement and decline, shows the rise of the earliest silk merchants in modern China in Shanghai, and also shows the inheritance of silk merchant culture in Nanxun, and promotes economic, social and cultural development It shows Nanxun's unique style of catching up with and surpassing the times and pursuing excellence.

Nanxun district Party committee, district government and Tourism Department carefully prepared to build jilihu Silk Museum, and chose to open the museum in full dress during the Shanghai World Expo. The purpose is to further explore the silk culture and Xun merchant culture of Nanxun, so that the world can pay more attention to the World Expo and have a deeper understanding of jilihu silk. It is reported that the opening of jilihu silk Pavilion is one of the important sub activities of the Fifth China · Nanxun charming ancient town tourism culture festival. Before that, Nanxun district has successfully held the launching ceremony of the gold medal experience tour of the World Expo, the inspection of the hometown of the World Expo Gold Medal, and the visit of the Expo curator to the hometown of the gold medal.

Address: Nanxi street, Nanxun district (near silk guild hall)

Longitude: 120.429473

Latitude: 30.879893

Tour time: 30 minutes

Traffic information: located in Nanxun ancient town, the traffic is as follows

1. It's within walking distance of the ancient town.

2. Taxis: there are not many taxis in Nanxun town. The starting price is 5 yuan / 2km, and 2 yuan / km after exceeding.

3. Tricycle: the local tricycle is one of the main means of transportation in Nanxun Town, which is convenient to travel. Tricycle charges about 3 yuan / km. Taian road bus station to the ancient town is usually 8 yuan, long-distance station 10-15 yuan.

Ticket information: included in the ticket of Nanxun ancient town.

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