Nantong Kite Museum

Nantong Kite Museum

With the theme of "Kite", Nantong kite museum is a comprehensive museum with the combination of "dynamic" and "static". In addition to the collection exhibition, it also serves as the name card of Nantong regional culture to undertake foreign cultural exchange exhibition activities. Let the museum from an elegant cultural palace more into the society, close to the public.

Development history

The kite museum has one of the oldest "big buzz" whistles, which can be traced back to the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. It has a history of 163 years. After generations of transmission, it is now completely preserved in the museum.

The "big buzz" of a kite collector in Tangzha has a history of 180 years, and the old man also sent this family treasure to the kite museum.

The collection of Nantong kite museum is full of exquisite products. The "Seven Star kite" with a history of more than 60 years, the "dragon and Phoenix showing auspicious kite" with a history of more than 50 years, the "Nantong Red Star hexagonal board kite" and various kinds of decorative kites painted with "five blessing holding peaches" and "auspicious celebration".

In the Nantong Kite Museum, you can also see anecdotes about kites and cultural celebrities, poems and kite stamps by famous poets of all ages. Kite culture has been fully interpreted here, and has gathered into a beautiful symphony in the wind, which has been echoed for a long time.

There is a long history of kite flying in Nantong. Nantong kite, commonly known as "Banyao", is one of the best kites in the world. It has always been famous for its beautiful shape, exquisite craft and unique sound effect. It is called "air Symphony" by foreign friends.

As a representative of Southern kites, Nantong Banyao was as famous as kites in Beijing, Tianjin and Weifang in the late Qing Dynasty. In 2004, sentry kite was officially designated as the first batch of national and folk protection projects in Jiangsu Province, which undoubtedly brought gospel to the inheritance and development of sentry kite.

On May 18, 2005, Nantong Kite Museum, the only kite themed Museum in the Yangtze River Delta region, opened ceremoniously. Its address is on the beautiful Haohe river.

Wang Jun, former president of Beijing Institute of international relations, inscribed the kite hall. Yuan Weimin, former member of the CPC Central Committee and director of the State General Administration of sports, Yu Yujun, member of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, President of the National Association of private enterprises, Luo Yimin, Secretary of the CPC Nantong Municipal Committee, and other comrades wrote inscriptions and prefaces for the opening of the kite hall.

Nantong Kite Museum vividly reproduces the origin and historical legends of kites, and records the beautiful poems of cultural celebrities' sustenance complex; there are 32 scientific inventions at home and abroad inspired by the principle of kite launching, and there are legends of traditional Chinese medicine for physical fitness, etc.; there are also teaching materials for students' quality education; there are more than 100 pieces of kites at all times and in all over the world, and they are featured by Nantong's characteristics The main species is harrier.

You can enjoy the static beauty of the combination of exquisite painting, carving, binding, pasting and stretching skills. You can also enjoy the wonderful whistle sound when the kite is lifted off, and the colorful dynamic beauty after the kite is lifted off. Here, you can feel the unique style of Nantong kite culture, which is accumulated by the long farming culture, contains profound River and sea culture, as well as the kite culture of teamwork, ambition, courage to fight and harmony between man and nature.

Venue features

There is a young Museum in Nantong. It is located in the middle Park of the five small parks founded by Zhang Jian at that time. Now it is the Nantong Kite Museum in the Cultural Palace of the working people.

"South kite and North kite" has a long-standing reputation in the world. Nantong whistle plate kite is the representative of "South kite". It originated in the Northern Song Dynasty. It integrates mounting modeling, color matching painting, temperament design and whistle carving. It inherits the wisdom and blessing of Jianghai people for thousands of years. It is not only a leisure product for entertainment, but also an art gift with ornamental and collection value. Its unique charm lies in the installation of whistles of different sizes on the board harrier. Once it flies into the sky, it will sing when it gets the wind, and its sound will rise with the wind. It has the reputation of "Symphony in the air".

British scholar Joseph Needham once listed kites in the history of Chinese science and technology development. Like China's "four great inventions", kites made great contributions to the development of global science and technology after they were spread to the West.

Various kinds of whistles send out rich music with strong sense of rhythm. What is displayed in front of us is the blue sky and white clouds. Free flying "crane", "Butterfly" and other types of kites seem to come to the open fields and enjoy the harmony between man and nature. It can be said that they dance and sing music to celebrate the spring.

"Nantong kite" is a real symbol of Nantong regional culture. The kite museum displays the kites, awards, certificates, technological innovation of kite artists and theoretical research monographs of kite lovers who have participated in many international competitions in the region.

It fully highlights the regional, inheritance, innovation and popularity of kite culture. At the same time, a brief introduction of kites and cultural celebrities, such as kites and Cao Xueqin, Mei Lanfang, etc., as well as poems by famous poets of past dynasties praising kite making and flying, are presented in the form of calligraphy, which makes visitors feel the breadth and profundity of Chinese kite culture.

architectural composition

The exhibition area of the museum is divided into four exhibition halls: the first exhibition hall: the thick kite culture; the second exhibition hall: the great kite contribution; the third exhibition hall: the wonderful kite world; the fourth exhibition hall: the unique Nantong Banyao, as well as the kite studio and the film and television hall. In the museum, there are a complete collection of air symphonies with a long history: "hum", "sipzi", "whistle", "HuLong" and other instrumental music. Dozens of traditional culture paintings, kite making equipment, tools, objects, photos and words are displayed.

In the kite museum, there is a special exhibition hall that attracts people like a magnet. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Nantong's economic prosperity, social stability, kite lovers are more and more, they are good at innovation, improve the traditional production methods, sculpture "son and mother HuLong", zhako foldable kite, portable light board harrier; they use Meteorology, geometry, acoustics, mechanics, aesthetics to summarize They use kite culture to build corporate culture, fight in the market competition with the spirit of flying kites, build corporate spirit with kites as the brand, gather team strength with kites, and take kites as the symbol to show the core competitiveness of enterprises. CCTV has gained more news value of today's Nantong kite from the famous Millennium "Nantong Banyao". In the third, fourth, seventh and tenth series of special topics of the Central Committee, they made publicity reports for about three hours. The 60 minute kite program was edited in the "TV hall" of the museum. On the screen, the kite culture, kite technology and kite art of Nantong were introduced more comprehensively, vividly and lively.

Collection

The great Harrier

It is the treasure of the kite museum. The net height is 2.56M and the net weight is 6kg. It was elaborately made by more than 40 kite artists over a month. Great unity has two meanings

The first is the great unity of 56 nationalities; the second is the great unity of Nantong Banyao art.

The shape of the great unity harrier is based on the eight diagrams. The traditional hexagonal harrier is a single body, and the geometric figures such as seven linked stars and nine linked stars are skillfully combined to form a 57 linked star with integrated skills.

The traditional whistle materials of Nantong Banyao, such as white fruit shell, chestnut shell and cocoon, are all protruded on the board, and the total number is 2005, implying that Nantong kite museum was established in 2005.

"Great unity harrier" takes folk auspicious pattern painting as the main body. Each Seven Star harrier is painted with seven national characters, and eight seven star harriers are combined to form 56 national characters, which are lifelike and full of vitality. With Tiananmen Square as the core, all of them stand upright. In addition, eight red bats are painted on each hexagonal Harrier, and a total of 448 bats are painted on eight seven star harriers, implying that all sides are blessed. It expresses the fine vision of 56 nationalities closely uniting around the Party Central Committee to build a harmonious society.

"Da Tuanjie Yao" scientifically positions 25 leads, overcomes the difficulties of the traditional board harrier in Nantong, which is bulky and windy, and integrates the artistic innovation of binding, stretching, painting and carving of the board harrier in Nantong.

160 years of buzz

According to archaeologists in Beijing, it was made in Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty. Its painting style and interface technology are the model of folk art in Qing Dynasty. It is the soul of Nantong whistle board harrier.

Good faith Harrier

As a moral category, honesty has three different meanings: honesty without deception, mutual trust and keeping promises. The six ancient thinkers and famous businessmen depicted in "the kite of good faith" are Yan Ying, a statesman in the spring and Autumn period. Yan Ying, a statesman in the spring and Autumn period, has the idea of combining business economy with morality and ethics, that is, "if you are righteous, you will benefit enough; if you are righteous, you will not benefit";

Mozi, a thinker and the first Confucian businessman of Confucius in the early Warring States period, said: "righteousness is also benefit. Unrighteousness is not rich, unrighteousness is not expensive, unrighteousness is not intimate, unrighteousness is not near. " Zi Gong, a businessman of the Wei state in the spring and Autumn period, said: "a gentleman means righteousness, a villain means profit." The motto of the book;

Liu Yan, a financier of the Tang Dynasty, said: "financial management is based on supporting the people." Yang Jimei, a representative of Shanxi merchants and a salt merchant of Huaihe and Huaihe rivers, "would rather take straight from the middle than seek from the middle." The proposition of the government;

Zhang Jian, a modern industrialist, abides by his faith in business and believes in "gentlemen love money and get it right.". The old will be replaced by the new. " Innovative business philosophy and so on for our insistence on honesty

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