Nantong Textile Museum

Nantong Textile Museum

Nantong Textile Museum is the first professional textile Museum in China, located in Nantong City, Jiangsu Province. Nantong is a famous hometown of local cloth one hundred years ago, and it is also the base of modern national cotton textile industry and one of the birthplaces of textile technology education. The museum was completed and opened in October 1985.

brief introduction

Nantong Textile Museum is located at No.4 Wenfeng Road, Nantong city. It covers an area of nearly 20000 square meters, with a construction area of about 7000 square meters. It has 3500 cultural relics and 23 exhibition rooms. It is the first museum of textile science and technology in China integrating history, science and art. The Textile Museum was named the provincial popular science education base in 1998. Nantong Textile Museum is the first professional textile Museum in China. Since its opening in October 1985, it has received hundreds of thousands of Chinese and foreign guests. It is known as a textile Grand View Garden integrating history, science and technology, and garden. The basic exhibition in the museum shows the long history of textile industry in China and Nantong, as well as the production of hand-made textile and dyeing in the past.

Nantong Textile Museum

The Museum covers an area of more than 18000 square meters, with a construction area of 4500 square meters. It is divided into two parts: the main hall and the auxiliary hall. Founded in 1979, Nantong Textile Museum is the first textile science and Technology Museum in China. It attracts visitors in the form of dynamic and static, physical and landscape, education and science and technology.

architectural composition

Main hall

The main hall is composed of six exhibition halls, collections library and office building. The building adopts the form of Chinese national hall. The main exhibition hall consists of six exhibition halls, which are connected by veranda and separated by courtyard. There are sculptures, murals, pools, fountains, rockeries, flowers and trees. We can see the development history of China's textile industry from the rich cultural relics. The building adopts the form of Chinese national hall, so that visitors can enjoy the pleasure of the garden.

Auxiliary Library

Through typical restoration, the auxiliary Museum reproduces the historical features of Nantong cotton planting, local cloth production, commercial estate and modern textile factory in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Auxiliary museum is a series of Textile Economic and trade education activities in Nantong at the beginning of this century. Through typical restoration, the auxiliary Museum reproduces the historical features of Nantong cotton planting, local cloth production, commercial estate and modern textile factory in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.

Collection

Most of the cultural relics and historical materials in the museum's collection are local ones in Nantong. The more precious ones are the pottery spinning wheel unearthed in Qingdun, Hai'an, Zhang Jian's victory report in 1894, and the stocks, account books, trademarks and products of Dasheng textile factory in the early days. The samples of contemporary textiles are the products that have won gold and silver awards from factories all over the country. There are "Chinese textile extracts", "Nantong textile history", "contemporary excellent textile specimens" and so on.

The basic exhibition in the museum shows the long history of textile industry in China and Nantong, as well as the demonstration and participation projects of hand-made textile dyeing production in the past. The Pipa Lake with flowers and trees, the restored farmhouse, Road Pavilion, city gate, ancient street, memorial archway and bell tower are the main landscapes of the museum. In addition to the textile machinery, products and documents of the past dynasties, there are also a series of textile machinery introduced at the end of the 19th century. Roaming here can enhance the understanding of the development of textile history and get the beautiful enjoyment of returning to nature.

Blue calico

There is a famous blue calico in Nantong Textile Museum. Simple and primitive blue and white create a simple, natural, ever-changing and colorful blue and white art world. The patterns and patterns of blue calico are all from the folk, reflecting the people's love, reposing their yearning for a happy life and simple aesthetic taste. In terms of subject matter and content, the healthy and simple soul of the common people is perfectly unified in form and content in the folk blue calico, so the blue calico truly reflects a profound culture and art Accumulation of blood stasis.

Nantong blue printing cloth is one of the most representative folk crafts. "Nantong blue calico printing and dyeing skills" declared by Wu Yuanxin has been listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. Nantong has also been named the hometown of blue calico. These honorary titles are inseparable from Wu Yuanxin's continuous research in the field of blue calico for more than 30 years and his insistence on inheriting the tradition.

Nantong folk blue printed cloth began in the Ming Dynasty and has been handed down to the present. Through the unremitting efforts of generations of folk artists, especially the contemporary folk craftsmen, from a single homespun product to a variety of fabric products, from the practical life to practical, decorative various types, from the fields to the city, it has reached its unprecedented glory.

Four exhibition areas

Walking into the Nantong Textile Museum is like walking into a colorful textile Grand View Garden. It covers an area of 20000 square meters, with an exhibition area of 3000 square meters. It integrates the city walls, gardens, ancient streets, countryside, factories and school buildings. It has a panoramic view of the history of Chinese national industry and the colorful textile culture. Here are the earliest textile enterprises in China: Mr. Zhang Jian, the earliest "pioneer of China's textile industry and textile education" in the textile volume of Encyclopedia of China; the most primitive and oldest hand-made textile machine; the earliest listed folk textile stocks; the earliest textile enterprise, Nantong Dasheng yarn mill; the earliest textile Department of Nantong University.

Farmhouse Garden

In the farmhouse garden area, there are four groups of different styles of farmhouse and textile display, as well as on-site demonstration of cotton planting in the field, spinning in the farmhouse and weaving by zhiniang, vividly and intuitively representing the folk customs of "spinning in every family and weaving in every household" in the rural areas of Northern Jiangsu in modern times. There are cotton fields and indigo fields around the farmhouse. In the fields and farmhouses with fruit trees and sweet scented osmanthus, the sound of looms is heard all the time. When you are in the farmhouse, you can hear a pleasant textile idyll and appreciate the unique charming pastoral scenery of "hometown of local cloth" in Northern Jiangsu Plain.

Tongzhou City

Walking into the Tongzhou city wall, there is a street in Tongzhou City, where there are ten imitated shops and workshops. There are all kinds of century old shops, such as banks, dye shops, cloth shops, yarn shops and cotton collecting shops, which vividly and accurately represent the historical features of modern "flower gauze Street" in Nantong.

This ancient street is full of ancient charm and style. The architecture retains the local traditional characteristics and style of Nantong. Wandering in this ancient textile street, it seems that you have entered the ancient and civilized history of Nantong. Walking out of the ancient street, you can see a thriving and changing beautiful scene of Nantong port.

Founder Chen Weiji

Chen Weiji, founder, educator and social activist of modern textile science and technology in China. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, he served as the Vice Minister of the Ministry of textile industry for 33 years. He made outstanding contributions in establishing a complete education system for the textile industry, leading the formulation of the development plan of textile science and technology, promoting the progress of textile science and technology, supporting the cultivation of cotton varieties, establishing and perfecting fiber inspection institutions, developing textile publishing industry, and strengthening international cooperation. He is also the organizer and main leader of China Textile Engineering Society. He is a respected leader, expert and scholar in China's textile and science and technology circles. With his support, the first Textile Museum appeared in Nantong, Jiangsu Province. With the continuous deepening of the study of silk history. The Ministry of textile industry further deployed the research work of modern Chinese spinning history. Carry forward the textile culture and enter a new beginning. The establishment of Nantong Textile Museum is inseparable from Chen Weiji's hard work.

Adjacent scenic spots

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Honors

Known as "China's first Textile Museum", Jiangsu Nantong Textile Museum has become a "window" for Chinese and foreign businessmen and veterans to attend the 2002 Nantong Port Economic fair. It is the birthplace of China's national textile industry and the starting point of Nantong port economy. Nantong Textile Museum is the first Textile Museum in China. Since its opening in October 1985, it has received hundreds of thousands of Chinese and foreign guests. It is known as a textile Grand View Garden integrating history, science and technology, and gardens.

Address: No.4, Wenfeng Road, Chongchuan District, Nantong City

Longitude: 120.876498

Latitude: 32.010621

Tel: 0513-85597740

Ticket information: free.

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