Dongba Cultural Museum

Admission: No, but the maintenance fee of Lijiang ancient city is 80 yuan.

Opening hours: 9:00-17:00

Transportation: take No.4 or No.13 bus to Lijiang. You can also walk north along the new street.

Dongba Cultural Museum

Dongba Culture Museum, with Dongba culture as its feature, covers an area of 7 mu, which is a comprehensive national folk custom museum including history, nature and art. The main building form of the museum is the imitation of the ancient Naxi quadrangle. According to the terrain and landform, it makes full use of the landscape environment to form the ancient buildings with the group courtyard as the main building belt.

brief introduction

Dongba Culture Museum, founded in 1984, formerly known as Lijiang County Museum, is the first county-level Museum in Yunnan Province. It was officially renamed in July 1999. The museum now has a collection of more than 12000 cultural relics. Over the years, it has made great contributions to the protection, inheritance and promotion of Dongba culture and the promotion of Lijiang.

The main building form of the museum is the imitation of the ancient Naxi quadrangle. According to the topography, the museum makes full use of the landscape environment to form an ancient building group with the courtyard as the main building belt. According to the development of Naxi folk houses, the Naxi Dongba Culture Museum in Lijiang has developed traditional dwellings in different stages from north to south, such as cave dwelling, nest dwelling, semi cave dwelling, tent dwelling, Ganlan dwelling, mulengfang house, Sanfang yizhaobi, Sitai wutianjing, etc. by using Yuquan water source and the natural landscape at the West foot of Xiangshan. The exhibition reflects the production of Naxi people in different periods Folk cultural relics at the level of strength.

Set up folk and religious ceremony scenes such as "sacrifice to heaven", "sacrifice to wind" and "sacrifice to department" (NATURAL God) to perform Dongba sacrifice ceremony for the audience. In addition, you can also see all kinds of pictures and text about Dongba culture, as well as material materials such as scriptures, paintings and sacrificial instruments, as well as ancient production and living utensils of Naxi people. It is one of the most valuable museums in Yunnan Province.

Development history

This is an ordinary town, but it has a very poetic name - Liangzhu: beautiful water island, "beautiful island". In 1936, a discovery made by Shi xingeng, a native of Liangzhu, made this beautiful and poetic

The name of Liangzhu is well known to more people, and Liangzhu has been well-known ever since.

This discovery of Mr. Shi xingeng is the "Liangzhu Culture" which was named by archaeologists after the earliest discovery place "Liangzhu".

Since Mr. Shi xingeng excavated the Liangzhu site in Liangzhu, subsequent archaeologists have uncovered the long-standing history of Liangzhu culture with their shovels, and a concept has gradually become clear: about 5300-4200 years ago, Liangzhu Culture lived and multiplied in the vast land of Taihu Basin in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River More than a thousand years. After fully absorbing the nutrients of Majiabang culture and Songze culture, Liangzhu culture has created a splendid chapter of 5000 years of Chinese civilization and ushered in a new era of civilization which can be called a nuclear Revolution: ploughing rice farming, fine and developed handicraft industry, large-scale construction projects, complex social structure, complete etiquette system, and outstanding culture represented by jade, lacquer and black pottery My artistic achievements Although there are still many unsolved mysteries about Liangzhu culture, thousands of years ago, scholars and experts were fascinated by the spirit charm of Liangzhu ancient country. They praised that the dawn of Chinese civilization rose from Liangzhu!

architectural composition

The main building form of the museum is the antique Naxi courtyard.

According to the development of Naxi folk houses, the building of Naxi Dongba Culture Museum in Lijiang, using Yuquan water source and the natural landscape at the West foot of Xiangshan Mountain, has opened up cave dwelling, nest dwelling, semi cave dwelling, tent dwelling, Ganlan dwelling, mulengfang house, Sanfang yizhaobi, Sitai wutianjing and other traditional folk houses in different stages from north to north, and exhibited in them to reflect the production of Naxi people in different periods Folk cultural relics at the level of strength.

Set up folk and religious ceremony scenes such as "sacrifice to heaven", "sacrifice to wind" and "sacrifice to department" (NATURAL God) to perform Dongba sacrifice ceremony for the audience. In addition, you can also see all kinds of pictures and text about Dongba culture, as well as material materials such as scriptures, paintings and sacrificial instruments, as well as ancient production and living utensils of Naxi people. It is one of the most valuable museums in Yunnan Province.

of far-reaching significance

The so-called Dongba culture is actually a traditional Naxi culture, which has been preserved in Dongba religion for nearly a thousand years. Dongba religion is the primitive religion of Naxi people, which is characterized by ancestor worship and nature worship. It believes that all things have gods. They are the main inheritors of Naxi traditional culture. They are called "Dongba" by their followers, which means "wise men". Dongba hieroglyphs, with more than 1400 words, are still preserved among the people. They are known as the "only living hieroglyphs" in the world today. There are more than 20000 volumes and 1500 kinds of Dongba scriptures recorded in Dongba hieroglyphs. Their contents include philosophy, history, religion, medicine, art, etc., which can be called the "Encyclopedia" of ancient Naxi society. As early as the 19th century, Dongba culture attracted the attention of foreign scholars. Nowadays, Dongba scriptures are collected in 17 countries and regions, including the United States, Britain, France and Germany. They have been systematically translated, sorted and studied from the aspects of writing, history, religion, music and dance.

However, due to various reasons, Dongba activities have disappeared in many parts of Lijiang. Except for a few experts and scholars and a few old Dongba, most people know little about Dongba culture. Dongba culture is facing the danger of becoming a "dead culture" that only exists in museum exhibitions and library materials.

Therefore, whether in Lijiang or in the pulpit of foreign universities, Li Xi kept on crying out for the rescue and protection of Dongba culture. In his opinion, Dongba culture is a traditional Naxi culture, not just an ancient culture or a simple religious culture; Dongba culture originates from the folk, inherits from the folk, and the writing of Dongba scriptures is hieroglyphic The commonly used expression of "Naxi Dongba" is not accurate, so it should be renamed "Naxi hieroglyphic"; the identity of Dongba should be redefined. Dongba is first a wise laborer, and then a priest who presides over various Dongba ceremonies.

The future development of Dongba culture should follow the direction of "academic research is the leader, industrial development is the driving force, folk inheritance is the foundation", keep pace with the times, and develop, enrich and progress with the development and progress of the whole nation; as the traditional Naxi culture, Dongba culture has a very strong folk side to a large extent, which not only exists in the life of ancient Naxi people The people are the key to the preservation and development of Dongba culture.

Significance of construction

Based on the unique connotation of Liangzhu Culture and its significance in the origin of Chinese civilization, the Liangzhu Culture Museum broke ground in 1992 and officially opened to the outside world on May 28, 1994. Since then, it has undertaken the glorious mission of inheriting and carrying forward Liangzhu culture. Covering an area of 9000 square meters and a building area of 2000 square meters, the museum was inscribed by then Chinese President Jiang Zemin. The main building is divided into two floors. The top corner of the roof is made of jade Cong, a typical jade of Liangzhu culture, which makes the whole building not only integrate the elements of Liangzhu culture, but also look simple and chic.

Liangzhu Culture Museum is a comprehensive reflection of Liangzhu Culture Archaeology and research results of the thematic museum, located in the town of Liangzhu Xunshan, surrounded by ponds between the mountains, quite beautiful island flavor. The museum has a preface hall and three exhibition halls, displaying more than 400 Liangzhu Cultural Artifacts (groups). The four gilded characters of "dawn of civilization" inscribed by Mr. Zhao Puchu are the most striking in the preface hall. The walls of the whole preface hall are made of stone blocks, and different colors are used to indicate three stages of social development: the lowest level represents the late Neolithic age, the highest level represents the bronze civilization of Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, and the middle level highlights the jade of Liangzhu culture Culture, each layer is engraved with the representative patterns and artifacts of each period. The inscription of Zhao Puchu, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference at that time - "dawn of civilization" is embedded on the stone wall. As the name of the basic exhibition, it plays an important role in guiding the contents displayed in the museum.

Design features

1. Interior and exterior space and function design

In terms of architectural style, the museum not only embodies the advanced contemporary architectural design concept, but also reflects the continuation of the inner spirit of Liangzhu Culture in time and space. It not only has distinct personality characteristics, but also fully integrates into the natural landscape. It has a proper dialogue with the surrounding environment and becomes a "natural" landscape. In terms of the composition of the internal unit, the requirements of the contemporary advanced Museum in three aspects of education popularization, academic research and collection and storage are fully considered. There are basic exhibition room, temporary exhibition room, film and television lecture hall, academic conference room, audience service facilities and rest area, VIP reception room, reading room, technical room, administrative room, etc. At the same time, through the appropriate means of gardening, the inner and outer space is naturally transitional, and the inner scene and the outer scene echo each other. In terms of display means, archaeological relics display, multimedia demonstration and scene simulation are adopted

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