Shilong Museum

Shilong Museum

1. Handan City dragon shaped stone (Handan stone dragon) Museum. Ten stone dragons were unearthed in 1988, and a museum was established later.

2. Dragon fossil Museum. Xingwei paleontological fossil Museum in Anshun City, Guizhou Province is a museum of new Chinese dragon fossils.

3. The museum in Shilong Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, with a 6-storey building and a construction area of 3800 square meters, is a combination of Shilong historical and cultural exhibition and Ming and Qing furniture exhibition. In order to inherit and protect the long history and culture of Shilong, show the history of Shilong ancient town, achievements of reform and opening up and folk collection culture, Shilong began to build Shilong Museum in 2007.

Handan Shilong Museum

Handan City dragon shaped stone (Handan stone dragon) Museum.

Ten stone dragons were unearthed in 1988, and a museum was established later. Stone dragon is a geological wonder. The hot broadcast of the special film "exploring the Chinese dragon formation" has aroused people's concern.

CCTV science channel has made documentaries. Experts believe that: not artificial, nor animal fossils, but the ancient river sand condensation products. There are big dragons in the middle, five small dragons on the left and four on the right, forming a regular "stone dragon array". Some geologists have measured it with remote sensing instruments. The dragon is 394 meters long and the little dragon is 180 meters long. These stone dragons are made of brown sandy rocks, which are very different from the nearby stones in texture. According to local people, the dragon was empty, and there was still running water when it was dug out. There are no such stones in the vicinity for 300 or 400 kilometers. There are bluestones 30 meters to the north and the same to the south. At that time, experts were very surprised that these stones were yellow on the outside and gray on the inside, much like bone marrow.

How did it come into being? Professor Wang Dayou, a famous scholar of dragon culture in China, has made an investigation. He believes that the stone dragon formation is not man-made; it is not a fossil, because the bone is not so thin; he believes that the stone dragon is formed by the sediment of the seabed mud and sand, and the stone dragon is actually a huge spine shape gradually formed by the natural dehydration, consolidation and contraction of the ancient sea sand. Professor Li Qingchen and other experts from Hebei Institute of Geographical Sciences, after detailed investigation and argumentation, finally speculated that the origin of the ancient stone dragon was a natural ancient channel calcium fossil.

Anshun dragon fossil Museum

Xingwei paleontological fossil Museum in Anshun City, Guizhou Province is a museum of "new Chinese dragon" fossils. After careful dissection by experts, a pair of symmetrical "dragon horns" appeared on the head of the dragon, which is very similar to the mythical Chinese dragon, attracting the attention of paleontologists and many tourists.

"New China dragon" is an aquatic reptile that lived in the Triassic ocean 220 million years ago. Paleontologists said that the "new China dragon" lived in the Triassic sea more than 200 million years ago. Amphibians and aquatic reptiles can live. Although they can crawl freely on land and lay eggs on land, they still live in water most of the time. The Dragon swims in the water with strong oar like limbs and a long stout tail. It mainly preys on fish and small aquatic reptiles. Chinese dragon is a magical animal in ancient Chinese mythology. It is the totem worshipped by the clan of Huangdi, the ancestor of the Chinese nation. Therefore, the Chinese people of later generations are called "descendants of the dragon". In the past, paleontologists have always believed that the Chinese dragon with long horns is a fictional image of Chinese ancestors, which only exists in myths and legends.

Dongguan Shilong Town Museum

brief introduction

The museum in Shilong Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, is located in Shilong people's Square, with a 6-storey building and a construction area of 3800 square meters. It is a combination of Shilong historical and cultural exhibition and Ming and Qing furniture exhibition. In order to inherit and protect the long history and culture of Shilong, show the history of Shilong ancient town, achievements of reform and opening up and folk collection culture, Shilong began to build Shilong Museum in 2007. For more than a year, from social survey to compilation of exhibition outline. From collecting cultural relics to decoration construction, it has been strongly supported by city and town leaders and many experts, and has been donated by social enthusiasts.

Introduction to the Museum

The first floor of the museum serves as a temporary exhibition hall. On the second floor of the museum is the exhibition hall of Shilong history and culture, including the preface hall, the exhibition hall of Ming and Qing famous towns in Yihe Sanbu, the exhibition area of advocating culture and emphasizing education, the exhibition area of Shilong fighting the rebellion against the East, the exhibition area of the light of Science in the period of the Republic of China, the exhibition area of the new spectrum of the Chinese chapter of the motherland, and the exhibition area of the fruitful achievements of reform and opening up. 3、 The fourth floor is the exhibition hall of Ming and Qing furniture museum, which is divided into hall, study, furniture, knowledge, screen cabinet, table and chair, boutique exhibition hall; the fifth and sixth floors are mobile exhibition hall and staff office.

At present, the museum has a collection of nearly 4000 pieces, with 10 exhibition areas. There are more than 300 ancient masters' plaques and couplets, including Liu Yong, Wang Wenzhi, Weng Fanggang, Prince Cheng, Liang Tongshu, Yi bingshou, Jinnong, Zheng Banqiao, Mi Fu, Wang Shishen, Chen Xizu, Li Zonghan, Li Wentian, he Shaoji and other works. In addition, there are furniture, porcelain, calligraphy and painting, mainly Ming and Qing furniture. Among them, the "black lacquer Shoushan stone with nine pictures and five screens" in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, identified by national experts, "is an extremely rare traditional decorative handicraft with important historical value, artistic value and collection value."

Achievements

In the past five years since its opening, Dongguan Shilong Town Museum has received visitors from the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Singapore, the United States, Germany and other countries and regions, many of whom are furniture manufacturers and dealers. Many of them are celebrities, such as Shi Shuqing, a famous contemporary historian and cultural relic appraiser, LV Jimin, former president of the Palace Museum and director of the State Administration of cultural relics, Yang Jingrong, an expert in porcelain identification of the Palace Museum, Mo Peng, deputy director of the museum, and Zhao Ziqiang, an expert in cultural relic identification of Guangdong Province. Lu Ji summed up the exhibits of the museum with the four words of "collection gathering", believing that the collections in the museum have "high historical value and artistic value It has accumulated valuable cultural wealth for society and social development. "

development history

In the long process of adapting to social development, museums have formed a multi-functional cultural complex. With the development of society, the function of museum is still developing and changing. New functions, new forms, new methods and new collection objects of museums are constantly emerging. Therefore, the internationally recognized definition of museum is constantly being revised. In order to give a definition acceptable to all countries, the International Association of museums has done a lot of work and spent a long time discussing and revising it many times. In November 1946, when the International Association of museums was founded, it was put forward in its constitution that museums are institutions of art, crafts, science, history and Archaeology collections open to the public, including zoos and botanical gardens. In 195, 1962 and 1971, the International Association of museums discussed and revised the definition of Museum for many times. It was not until 1974 that the Constitution adopted by the Eleventh Congress of the International Association of museums clearly stipulated that a museum is a non-profit, social and social development service, and a permanent institution open to the public for the purpose of research, education and appreciation, Collect, preserve, research, disseminate and exhibit the witness of human and human environment. Many people think that this is a more appropriate definition at present, but others think that this is only a general international definition, and countries still treat museums according to their own understanding.

Visit information

Admission: Free

Scenic spot category: Cultural Exhibition Hall

Address: Shilong District

Address: People's Square, Taiping Road, Shilong Town, Dongguan City

Longitude: 113.855498

Latitude: 23.111012

Ticket information: free.

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