Dongguan Foods Custom Museum

Dongguan Foods Custom Museum

Dongguan foods custom Museum is a leisure and consumption museum with the theme of Dongguan local food customs, which displays and promotes Dongguan traditional food culture. It is subordinate to Dongguan guanxianglou Food Service Co., Ltd. It is the first local food customs Museum sponsored by social investment and enterprises in China, and won the title of "Dongguan popular science education base" in October 2009.

architectural composition

Now the exhibition hall of the Museum covers an area of 923 square meters, with 4000 pieces of cultural relics, and about 1800 pieces are on display. The museum is divided into Dongguan (fishing, farming, firewood) landscape area, (sugar, oil) exhibition area, snack production exhibition area, (bowls, chopsticks, wooden) exhibition area and (wine, tea) exhibition area. Entering the museum, you can see a large-scale topographic map of Dongguan. From this topographic map, we can clearly understand the terrain distribution of the towns and districts in Dongguan, as well as the terrain layout of Dongguan high in the East and low in the north. Located on the right side of the gate, the high wall with curved oyster shells is the background of white oyster shell fossils, which shows the earliest food of Dongguan people.

Development history

The current director of Dongguan food and custom museum is Mr. Huang Xikun, general manager of Dongguan Guanxiang Building Service Co., Ltd. It was officially opened to the public free of charge on January 18, 2006. It is in response to the proposal of Dongguan municipal Party committee and government that the "cultural city" is built by enterprises with a capital of more than 3 million yuan. The museum is located in Guanxiang building, No. 1, Jintai Road, Wanjiang District, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province The fourth floor is adjacent to Wanjiang bus terminal, South China Moore and city terminal.

Dongguan food custom museum takes the promotion of local food custom as the platform, collects and displays cultural relics with the characteristics of Dongguan food custom, so as to study the development trend of Dongguan food, advocate the behavior standard of food industry, and guide the healthy development of Dongguan food.

Chinese food culture has a long history. It is the embodiment of the natural climate, geographical environment, water and soil products, cultural tradition, values and lifestyle of a nation and a region. It is the result of people's long-term working together, living together and abiding by certain rules. There are two sayings in China since ancient times, one is "food is the most important thing for the people", the other is "enough food and clothing means honor and Disgrace". The industrious and intelligent Chinese people are not only good at eating, but also good at culture. Since ancient times, Chinese people have their own unique eating habits and customs, with superb cooking and all kinds of food processing skills. The discovery of Beiqiu site in Shenghe, nanheng District, Dongguan, which is known as "the first village in the Pearl River Delta" by archaeologists, tells us that people lived in groups in the Neolithic age, and opens a prelude to the study of the development of Dongguan's catering culture.

Since the reform and opening up, millions of professionals from all walks of life have gathered in Dongguan, which has accelerated the economic development of Dongguan. The material basis of Dongguan's diet is richer, and the diet customs are more colorful. The famous dishes and customs brought by the catering industry and migrant workers from all over the world have been mixed and subtly influenced. The food and customs in Dongguan are more brilliant. But at the same time, the traditional food customs and cultural relics in Dongguan were also impacted. We urgently need to excavate and rescue them, so the Dongguan food customs museum was established.

Exhibition

The museum exhibition is mainly divided into two parts. One part shows the people's working style, cooking utensils, delicacies and tableware in Dongguan over the past five thousand years. The other part shows the catering characteristics, traditional festivals, wedding customs and the development trend of catering culture in Dongguan. The exhibition starts from the origin of Dongguan's food customs, showing the topography, farming scenes and old kitchens of Dongguan with landscape; showing Dongguan's food with models; showing food customs, seasonal food, wedding and birthday food and tea drinking customs with pictures.

Basic Display

Through three ways of picture display, physical exhibition and scene restoration, Dongguan food custom museum can let the audience know the historical origin of Dongguan food culture and tell the folk customs of Dongguan water people from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. The total exhibition area is 923 square meters.

Dongguan (fishing, farming and woodcutting) Landscape: the exhibition hall skillfully uses the space design to move the exhibition content to the scene design without any trace. The exquisite and lifelike life scenes and farming scenes of Dongguan water people will recall the bitter memories of modern people's childhood. The exhibition hall will systematically introduce various cultural relics such as iron plow, iron rake, bamboo fence, Shau Kei, shoulder pole, old sprinkling bucket, old water truck, old straw bucket, clam rake, fish net, etc. It reflects the strong contrast between the old manual operation of agricultural production and the modern full mechanization in Dongguan.

Snack making exhibition and (sugar, oil) Exhibition: the content is more colorful. It is a collection of snack culture in the Pearl River Delta area, and specially made some models about eating in season. This part is the favorite and most wanted part of customers, including dongtuan, mage, xiantangwan, xianyulong, TANGHUAN, Youjiao, Ludui, liangbutuan, Baitang cake, Wanzai cake, meidou cake, etc. These famous traditional snacks are not only delicious, but also display a large number of cultural relics, such as pestle mortar, bamboo plate, bamboo sieve, gas dead ant double lip jar, big and small old hand basket, old rice barrel, old dishwashing basin, etc., which are made by Dongguan people for small food. The appearance of food coupons and meat coupons shows that the history of food culture in Dongguan is based on evidence, and Dongguan people are rich in heritage The pragmatic spirit of unification.

(bowls, chopsticks and chopsticks) Exhibition: there are many items on display, including flower bowls, Jigong bowls, kuikou double series green glazed bottles, Shuangfeng bottles, Guxi soup cups and ginseng cups, green glazed bottles, multicolored cans, Ming and Qing series, Douqing series and chopsticks tubes of various periods. These are all early edible utensils. It can be seen that the ancestors did not regard diet as the need for food, but also included it in the category of culture and art. According to reports, Chinese restaurants are everywhere where there are Chinese in the world today, which shows the strong influence of China's catering culture and can be called a shining pearl in the treasure house of Chinese culture. China is a country of etiquette, which has always attached great importance to customs. Louyao of Song Dynasty once said: "the vitality of a country lies in the customs, and the foundation of customs is actually the outline of the times. Zheng Xiaoze of the Ming Dynasty said: "the so-called customs of a husband's life are applied to the imperial court, spread all over the world, and run through the people's hearts. They are related to Qi luck, and should not be ignored." After thousands of years of evolution, Chinese food customs have played an immeasurable role in people's life. And these tableware are the witness of history.

Collection Management

Dongguan food and custom museum broadens the channels of collection acquisition through various legal channels. There are donations from the masses and individuals and purchases from collectors. By the end of 2007, the number of collections on display was about 1800. The museum pays attention to the safety and protection of cultural relics collection, and makes unremitting efforts in delaying natural aging, preventing damage, physical and biological factors and other aspects. The museum is equipped with ultraviolet ray sterilization, carbon dioxide gas fire extinguishing, constant temperature and humidity and other functions. The temperature and humidity should be kept at about 20 ℃ and 50% - 55% respectively, and insecticides and moistureproof agents should be placed every year according to the situation.

Scientific research team

At present, there are nine professionals in the museum. Among them, there are 1 general manager, 1 deputy general manager and 1 curator of the company, 2 representatives of business owners, 4 people with intermediate technical titles and 2 people with college education or above.

Mr. Zhang tiewen is deputy research librarian, director of Guangdong Folk Culture Research Association and Dongguan collector. It mainly studies the folk culture of Lingnan area, Dongguan history and the protection and utilization of Dongguan intangible cultural heritage.

Exchange and cooperation

Fenghuang weekly, Guangyin Guangshi, hometown of Dongguan, cultural weekend, Guangdong cuisine and global cuisine all reported the food culture of Dongguan food custom museum. Mr. Huang Xikun, the founder of Dongguan food custom museum, has participated in various food culture exchange meetings and on-the-spot investigation and research work at home and abroad from time to time, and has made unremitting efforts to promote Dongguan food culture. Every year, the museum selects its staff to participate in various academic seminars and training courses held by cultural and Museum units inside and outside the province and at the municipal level, so as to improve its professional level and actively train its technical personnel.

publicity and education

Through media publicity, the museum has achieved good social benefits. Dongguan TV station, Guangdong Radio, Dongguan radio, Guangzhou Daily and other media have spread all kinds of food and entertainment activities held by Dongguan food and custom museum. It also cooperates with the Propaganda Department, cultural center, Catering Association, Tourism Bureau, Education Bureau, culture, radio, television, press and Publication Bureau, primary and secondary schools, collectors association, Photographers Association, gourmet Association and other functional organizations and groups to hold various exhibitions and activities. Teenagers can visit them free of charge, and vigorously mobilize the general public to participate in various exhibitions and activities of Dongguan food custom museum In the activity.

In cooperation with the museum city of "entering Dongguan civilization" held in Dongguan, carry forward the humanistic spirit activities. Dongguan food custom museum went to the surrounding cultural and Museum units to participate in the activities to jointly promote the cultural and museum cause, and invited famous gourmets such as Weiling, Cai Lan, Liang Wentao and Zhuang Chen to participate in the food culture activities, and discussed the research on high-quality food culture.

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