Tongliang Museum

Tongliang County Museum

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Tongliang Museum generally refers to Tongliang County Museum

Tongliang County Museum, located in Tongliang County, Chongqing City, is a landmark building of Tongliang. It has four exhibition halls and more than 11000 cultural relics, including "Tongliang culture", bronze tripod, wooden plaque of China's first plaque corridor and Tongliang Dragon Lantern.

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Tongliang County Museum

Located in Tongliang County, Chongqing City, covering an area of 10000 square meters, with a building area of 7000 square meters, it is a landmark building with unique shape. There are more than 11000 cultural relics in the museum, including 121 national first-class cultural relics and 581 national second-class cultural relics.

There are four exhibition halls in the museum, which treasure the history and civilization of Tongliang for 20000 years. There are "Tongliang culture", bronze tripod, Ming Dynasty stone guard of honor figurines, wooden plaque of China's first plaque corridor and Tongliang Dragon lantern on display.

"Tongliang culture" is named by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is a cultural relic from the old time of 20000 years ago. This group of cultural relics include animal and plant fossils and stone artifacts of preys captured by ancient ancestors. The bronze square tripod of Shang Dynasty, the round tripod of Warring States, the Basu and the smoked stove of Song Dynasty can be regarded as rare treasures. They are small and exquisite, with gorgeous ornaments and great ornamental value.

The stone figurines of honor guard were unearthed from the tomb of Zhang Jiayin's parents, the Minister of arms of the Ming Dynasty. They are exquisite, exquisite and lifelike, and are the best of the cultural relics. CCTV and "people's Daily Overseas Edition" have reported and introduced it, praising it as a rare treasure comparable to the terracotta warriors and horses of Qin Shihuang.

"The first plaque Gallery in China"

”More than 100 wooden plaques from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China are displayed in the hall. The calligraphy art of these wooden plaques is simple and exquisite, and the contents are the true records of the political, economic, cultural and social life of Sichuan and Chongqing since modern times.

The dragon lantern hall displays the colorful culture with Tongliang characteristics. Here you can enjoy the dragon lantern products, taste the legend of the dragon, find the track of the development of dragon culture, and appreciate the vigorous and heroic posture of Tongliang Dragon Dancing in Tiananmen Square during the 50th anniversary of the national day.

Important events

Tongliang is a famous "hometown of Chinese folk art", famous for its dragon lantern art at home and abroad.

In 1984 and 1999, the capital held two grand ceremonies for the 35th and 50th anniversary of the founding of the people's Republic of China. The nine Tongliang dragons symbolized Kyushu China and danced in front of Tiananmen Square. They were reviewed by the second and third generations of Party and state leaders led by Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin, and were praised by the leaders. He has won ten national competitions and two international competitions.

There are many kinds of Tongliang Dragon lanterns, which are divided into two series: Dragon lanterns and colored lanterns. The dragon lantern series has a strong lineup, mainly including the magnificent Tongliang Dragon, the dignified Zhenglong, the fiery dragon, the simple and unconstrained straw dragon, the elegant lotus dragon, the sonorous bamboo dragon, and the colorful colorful dragon, the pole dragon, the bench dragon, the rolling dragon, etc.

The colorful lantern series are humorous and funny, mainly including big phoenix, bright lion, kaishanhu, yuyuelongmen, pig eating pumpkin, rhinoceros watching the moon, Shiba, santiaoshen, mussel shell essence, loach eating Tangyuan, rooster playing centipede, etc. All kinds of dragon lanterns and colored lanterns have different dances because of their different categories. They can be combined according to their needs. They can perform professionally on the stage or in the square.

There are more than 100 kinds of craft products with dragon as the theme. All of them are exquisitely shaped and ingenious. They are not only used for dancing, but also for decoration. They are exported to more than 20 provinces and autonomous regions in China, and more than 10 countries such as the United States, France, Italy, Russia, Japan, Canada and Mexico. Many fine arts and crafts are collected by museums, art galleries and individual lovers at home and abroad.

The dance routines of Tongliang Dragon Lantern are very rich, full of joyful and upward passion, reflecting the hot folk life and simple folk style. In particular, the well-known Tongliang Dragon is 50 meters long, with more than 30 routines. It can be leaped, rolled or shaped alternately. When dancing slowly, it is graceful and lyrical; when dancing fast, it is exciting and exciting.

Tongliang fire dragon is unique charm, playing hot metal, fire spray, people dancing in the fire, the dragon flying in the fire, the scene is extremely warm and colorful. This reflects the distinctive characteristics of tonglianglong: big dragon tools, big routines, combination of big scenes, reflecting the grand momentum; with cheerful traditional percussion music, fierce folk fireworks, set off a warm festive atmosphere. All kinds of dragon dances and lantern dances not only retain the traditional Bayu flavor, but also integrate the modern connotation, which often make the audience dizzying and overjoyed. Relevant experts commented: "Tongliang Dragon is majestic and has a sense of sacred dignity. It is the top grade of square art.".

Tongliang Dragon Lantern has a long history. According to textual research, it began in the Ming Dynasty, flourished in the Qing Dynasty, and is well-known today. In the Spring Festival, people play dragon lanterns to celebrate the new year, hold dragon boat races to sacrifice the river, and play huangjinglong to pray for rain in case of severe drought. They hope that the dragon and the Phoenix will live a happy life. From ancient times to the present, it has gradually evolved from belief to entertainment, which has bred Tongliang Dragon Lantern, the flower of Bayu folk art.

Tongliang Dragon Lantern is full of flowers, and the traditional event is the Spring Festival Dragon Lantern Festival. Every year from the first day of the first month to the 15th of the Lantern Festival, dragon dance teams from all villages and towns gather in the county, perform at all kinds of dragon lantern meetings, hold all kinds of art exhibitions, and combine culture and commerce. It lasts for half a month and is very lively. Tongliang Dragon Lantern Festival has developed into two major festivals in modern times. One is China Tongliang Dragon Lantern Art Festival, which is held in October; the other is China dragon hot spring tourism festival, which is held in May. During the festival, the top stars at home and abroad gave performances, dragon lantern competition, dragon dance and song all over the city, which attracted many national guests, businessmen and hundreds of thousands of audiences from home and abroad to spend the festival in Longxiang.

Recovery of cultural relics

In 2008, the silver box of national first-class cultural relics, which was collected in Tongliang County Museum, suddenly disappeared in the museum, causing an uproar in the cultural relic circles of the whole country. At the National Seminar on administrative law enforcement of cultural relics held yesterday, the administrative law enforcement officers of cultural relics in our city disclosed for the first time the truth that the silver box was "lost" and recovered.

According to the source, the national treasure silver box in Tongliang County Museum is a Ming Dynasty cultural relic. The whole box is the size of a matchbox, about 10 cm long and 5 cm wide. The exquisite box contains silver teeth and silver ear spoon which belong to the same level of cultural relics. For many years, the silver box has been treasured in Tongliang County Museum of our city. However, a citizen revealed "fierce information" to the law enforcement department of cultural relics. The silver box in Tongliang County Museum disappeared a few years ago.

After learning of the incident, Tongliang County Cultural market administrative law enforcement brigade immediately went to investigate. After many investigations by law enforcement officers, it was finally confirmed that the silver box was missing. Was the precious silver box stolen or let go? Investigators are in a mystery.

Subsequently, the police immediately began to investigate whether the silver box was stolen. On the other hand, the cultural relics law enforcement department sent law enforcement officers to carry out a carpet search on the Tongliang County Museum to find out the whereabouts of the silver box. After 13 days of intensive search, cultural relics law enforcement officers searched the museum's warehouse for tens of thousands of cultural relics, and finally found a national treasure full of dust - silver box in a pottery pot. It turned out that the silver box had never left the museum, but was accidentally put into the pottery pot which was not easy to find.

According to the national regulations on the administration of cultural relics, the state-level cultural relics should be strictly managed by special personnel and detailed lists should be established so that they can be found at any time, the person said. However, according to the investigation of relevant departments, Tongliang County Museum has replaced three curators. When the old curator left office, he did not hand over the cultural relics in detail with the new curator. In addition, he did not make a comprehensive inventory at ordinary times, so that the silver box disappeared quietly.

Relevant responsible persons of Tongliang County Museum have been dealt with, and the museum has carried out the cleaning and filing of cultural relics, and established and improved the daily management system of cultural relics.

Visit information

Transportation: there is a bus to Tongliang at Chongqing bus station

Opening hours: 8:00-19:00

Surrounding scenic spots

Longshui lake, Bayue mountain, xiaosanxia of Jialing River, Shuangjiang ancient town, Laitan ancient town, yangangong old residence in Tongnan, Qinglong lake, Yongchuan tea mountain, zhuhaibei hot spring scenic spot, Lukong ancient town, Chongqing wildlife world, Yongchuan satellite lake, Shengshou temple, fishing City, Tomb of General Zhang Zizhong, Songji ancient Town, Zhangguan tourist scenic spot, Jinyun Mountain, Tongnan Dafo temple, Dazu stone carving art group, pianyan ancient town, Tongliang zhonghualong hot spring resort, jinguoyuan, Yulongshan National Forest Park, Beibei dinosaur ruins, Jinyun temple, Jindao gorge.

Address: 169 Longmen street, Bachuan Town, Tongliang County, Yuzhong District, Chongqing

Longitude: 106.05458831787

Latitude: 29.836385726929

Tel: 023-45690046; 023-635

Ticket information: market price: 15.0 yuan

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