Beihai shell Sculpture Museum

Beihai shell Sculpture Museum

Beihai shell carving museum is a national AAA tourist attraction, located in yunzang Road, Yunnan North Road, Beihai city. It is a theme museum focusing on the exhibition of shell carving skills.

brief introduction

Beihai shell sculpture museum is 4 km away from Beihai railway station, 7 km away from Nanzhu bus station, 6 km away from Beihai passenger port, 8 km away from Yintan and 20 km away from Beihai Fucheng airport. Convenient transportation and prominent location advantages. The main building of the scenic spot is Beihai shell Sculpture Museum.

Beihai shell sculpture museum one belt, one road cultural industry in 2016. The total planning area of the construction scenic spot is 7000 square meters, with 3000 square meters of parking lot, 1500 square meters of main hall, 800 square meters of shell products exhibition hall and 1700 square meters of supporting services. The planning structure of the museum is one center, two axes and ten districts. One center refers to the museum tourism as the center; two axis refers to the history of shellfish and shellfish carving art as the main axis for sightseeing experience; ten areas are the entrance service area of traffic and parking lot, welcome area (including guide service), historical and cultural origin area of shellfish carving, production experience area, physical product area, treasure area of town hall, honor area and commodity shopping area (Beihai Industrial Park) Art Street), office management area. Through a large number of pictures, text, multimedia and physical display, the museum shows the audience the history, protection status and inheritance of shell carving technology, which has distinctive characteristics of Maritime Silk Road culture.

Historical evolution

Beihai shell carving has a long history. The history of Beihai shell carving can be traced back to Qin and Han Dynasties. From the Beihai Hepu folk handed down the Ming and Qing Dynasty shell carving furniture, crafts and exquisite skills research, shell carving skills mature in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty. Beihai is known as "old county of South Pearl, famous District of Cape". A large number of pearl shells are left after Pearl carving. Pearl shells are the best raw materials for shell carving. Zhuxiang people wear small shells in a string as ornaments, and take the special shaped spiral shells as ornaments. This use and preliminary processing of the natural form of shells shows the rudiment of Beihai shell carving art. From the ancient Pearl City of Bailong and the shell ornaments unearthed from the Han Tombs in Hepu, we can see that Beihai shell carving has a long history with profound cultural, artistic and technological accumulation. After more than 400 years of continuous exploration, inheritance, development and innovation, Beihai shell carving artists have made Beihai shell carving art enter the treasure house of Chinese traditional culture and become a wonderful flower of Guangxi traditional handicrafts.

The development of Beihai shell carving originated from the Autumn Fair of Guangzhou Export Commodities in October 1963 (commonly known as "Canton Fair"). In the 1970s, with the increase of the export volume and the expansion of the market, a number of shell carving production enterprises, large and small, have been set up all over the country. However, Beihai shell carving, which has accumulated a lot of experience, is the best. At the end of the 1980s, Beihai shell carving was sold to more than 30 countries and regions in Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States, becoming a business card for Beihai and even Guangxi's foreign trade and exchange.

Since the 1990s, with the decrease of export market demand and the increase of raw materials and labor costs, the situation of shell carving industry in the whole country has taken a sharp turn. Beihai has become one of the few enterprises that are still on the edge of life and death. In 2006, with a history of 42 years, the old craft factory, which was once very popular, declared to stop production.

Innovation and development

In 2006, when Beihai shell carving was facing extinction, a private enterprise in Beihai city took over part of the equipment of the former Beihai arts and Crafts General Factory, recalled some technical personnel and workers, and took the initiative to inherit the shell carving skills. In the 21st century, the concept of pursuing green and environmental protection is rising day by day. Nature and original flavor are the future development direction. On the basis of retaining the original technology and production process, shell carving artists have made many technological innovations in shell carving processing technology, striving to meet the aesthetic needs of the new era. The first is to innovate the technology, search for colored shells through various channels, and change the colored shell carving into the primary color shell carving. The second is the strategy of big picture and high-quality products. He has creatively completed the "Golf heritage", "birds homing", "Pearl River back to Hepu" and other large paintings of exquisite shell carvings. Among them, the 19 meter wide exquisite shell carving mural "the heritage of golf" is known as the best in China.

Inheritance and protection

Since the beginning of the new century, with the continuous enhancement of comprehensive national strength, the Chinese government has attached great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage. At the beginning of 2003, the Ministry of culture, the Ministry of finance, the State Commission for democracy and people's livelihood and the China Federation of literary and art circles jointly launched and implemented the protection project of Chinese national and folk culture. It is planned that by 2020, a relatively complete intangible cultural protection system will be initially established, and the protection work will be basically scientific, standardized and institutionalized. In March 2005, the general office of the State Council issued "opinions on strengthening the protection of China's intangible cultural heritage", which established the guidelines and principles for the protection of intangible cultural heritage, and put forward guiding opinions on the tasks, objectives, requirements and measures of the protection work. In June 2005, the Central Propaganda Department, the Ministry of culture and other five ministries and commissions jointly issued "opinions on the use of traditional festivals to carry forward the excellent traditions of national culture". In December of the same year, the State Council issued the "notice on strengthening the protection of cultural heritage", deciding that the second Saturday of June every year will be the "Cultural Heritage Day" of China from 2006. The publication of this series of documents shows that the protection of intangible cultural heritage has become an important part of government work. Governments at all levels have begun to increase the support for Beihai shell carving from funds to policies. The Guangxi Second Light Industry Association, together with the Regional Department of culture, the Department of finance, the Tourism Bureau and other relevant units, has given key support to Beihai shell carving industry, and actively promoted Beihai shell carving to participate in various national arts and crafts exhibitions and cultural tourism product promotion activities. At the same time, Beihai shell carving Museum, Beihai vocational and technical school and Guangxi Ethnic secondary vocational school jointly set up Beihai shell carving skill training, strengthened talent training of reserve forces, and established "Beihai shell carving inheritance base".

collection

The museum is the only shell sculpture theme museum in China. There are mainly three types of collections. The first is more than 300 kinds of valuable shell specimens; the second is the historical value of shell carving accessories and furniture; the third is the exhibition of shell carving products. Among the 100 pieces of shell carvings in the collection, the most famous are "satisfactory", "door god", "Fuchun Mountain Residence" and "meibaochun".

Features of scenic spots

In addition to displaying the shell culture and the historical evolution of shell carving, the main hall of the scenic spot also makes a live production demonstration of the inheritance of shell carving skills, vividly showing the main production process of each shell carving work. There is a shell carving experience area in the museum, so that visitors can visit and understand the art of Beihai shell carving and make a beautiful shell carving souvenir by themselves.

Traffic in scenic spots

Take a bus from the airport to the Civil Aviation Hotel, walk 400 meters to Beihai Beihai Sculpture Museum; take line 102a from Beihai railway station to Yunnan Road bank of communications, walk 200 meters to the West. The self driving tour starts from the North-South (Nanning to Beihai) Expressway to Beihai Avenue, ends at Yunan Road, turns right to Yunan North Road, ends at defuxuan restaurant, and ends at yunzang Road 100 meters to the West.

delicious food

Defuxuan restaurant is mainly based on Sichuan and Guangdong cuisine, positioning in the middle end consumer market; the seafood stalls across Yunnan Road are mainly local seafood, fresh and iced, with moderate prices; there are also powder shops and snack bars with Guangxi characteristics around the scenic spot, which taste good.

get accommodation

The recent pearl themed hotel is a 4-star Nanzhu Palace Hotel with moderate price, morning and evening tea and buffet.

Tips

"Bei" has been related to money since ancient times, and occupies a very important position in Chinese traditional culture. Beihai shell carving is a pure handmade Beihai handicraft based on the promotion of traditional Chinese flower and bird and landscape meticulous painting, using the natural luster, texture and color of natural seashells. It has distinctive marine cultural characteristics and is the city card of Beihai. Beihai shell carving is the most distinctive product in Beihai. Small shell carving paintings and ornaments can be purchased as souvenirs and home decorations.

Address: No.6, Xijiu lane, Yunnan North Road, Beihai City

Longitude: 109.09887

Latitude: 21.466073

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