China Canal Culture Museum

Liaocheng China Canal Culture Museum

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China Canal Culture Museum generally refers to Liaocheng China canal culture museum

Liaocheng China canal culture museum is located in Liaocheng, Shandong Province, an excellent and beautiful ancient canal capital in Jiangbei City. It is adjacent to the Grand Canal in the East and the beautiful Dongchang Lake in the West. It is the largest comprehensive museum built in Liaocheng City in recent years, integrating cultural relics collection, protection, research, display, publicity and education, and the first one in China with canal culture as its core A large theme museum

The third batch of national second-class Museums

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Liaocheng China Canal Culture Museum has a building area of 16000 square meters and a display area of nearly 7000 square meters. The name of the museum was inscribed by Mr. Fei Xiaotong, a famous sociologist, anthropologist and former vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. The museum has five floors, one underground and four above ground. It is divided into three functional areas: exhibition area, collection area, research and academic exchange area.

The overall display of Liaocheng China canal culture museum takes "the canal promotes history, and the canal changes life" as the theme. It aims to collect, protect and study the canal culture from an all-round and multi angle, and reflect and display the ancient history, natural features and folk customs of the canal. The basic exhibitions are "canal culture exhibition" and "Liaocheng historical relics exhibition".

Construction background

Liaocheng is one of the important cities along the canal, Liaocheng and the canal have a continuous historical origin. The Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal excavated in the Sui Dynasty passes through the west side of Liaocheng. Huitong River in Yuan Dynasty ran through the hinterland of Liaocheng, which brought Liaocheng hundreds of years of economic and cultural prosperity and accumulated rich canal cultural resources.

In order to inherit and carry forward the excellent history and culture of the canal, Liaocheng proposed to build the Canal Museum during the Eighth Five Year Plan period, and included the Canal Museum in the eighth five year plan, and then successively included in the ninth five year plan, the Tenth Five Year Plan and the cultural city construction plan.

After more than ten years of efforts, the Canal Museum started construction in 2002 and completed the main construction in 2004. The main building of the museum is unique and majestic. From a distance, it looks like a huge boat sailing through the canal.

In the second half of 2004, the preparatory work for the exhibition of the Canal Museum began.

In August 2008, the leading group for exhibition arrangement of China canal culture museum was established to be responsible for the exhibition arrangement of China canal culture museum.

On May 1, 2009, Liaocheng China Canal Culture Museum held a grand opening ceremony, officially open to the public free of charge.

Exhibitions and collections

Green glazed pottery figurines of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Size: height: 29 cm

Wearing a round hat and a short shirt with a slanted collar, the terracotta figures sit on their knees with high arms and sleeves. They put a short hand in front of them and put a plate under them to make a knead face, which is vivid and lifelike.

White porcelain Buddha of Ming Dynasty

Size: height: 29 cm

Maitreya Buddha, under the lotus platform, xumizuo, white glaze Buddha, sauce line drawing, lotus platform, xumizuo, sauce glaze

Blue glaze four nose jar in the northern and Southern Dynasties

Dimensions: height: 23.5cm, diameter: 10.8cm, bottom diameter: 11.5cm

Round lips, straight mouth, short neck, wide shoulder, deep abdomen, flat bottom, shoulder with a circle of string pattern, four horizontal nose, green glaze to the abdomen, there are drip marks, the fetus is slightly red, there are clap print pattern below the string, there are small opening.

Black glaze furnace of Yuan Dynasty

Size: 23cm high

Collection: Liaocheng China Canal Culture Museum

It has square lips, straight neck, strip-shaped high plate ears, shoulders and abdomen hanging out, connected with four sides, black glaze, glossy glaze, silver edge, yellow edge, good combination of fetal glaze.

Baiyu people in Ming Dynasty

Size: 6cm high

Collection: Liaocheng China Canal Culture Museum

The jade material is better, and the carving is fine. The content is that the old man plays the Golden Toad. The characters are smiling and vivid.

Notice to visitors

Opening Hours

Tuesday to Sunday

08:30-11:30, stop entering at 11:00;

In summer and Autumn: 14:30-18:00, stop entering the museum at 17:30;

Spring and winter: 13:30-17:30, stop entering at 17:00.

Closed on Monday.

Ticket collection method

During the opening period, visitors can get free tickets at the ticket office window on the east side of the north gate of the museum with their valid personal identity documents. One person can only get one ticket and enter the museum with tickets. Minors must be accompanied by their guardians before they can visit the museum.

The scope of personal valid ID card: ID card, non paper temporary ID card, social security card, officer card, Sergeant card, police officer card, passport, Hong Kong and Macao pass, disabled card, senior citizen card, household register, driver's license, student card, etc.

Notice to the audience

1. The museum is free of charge except for special temporary exhibitions.

2. Please consciously abide by the relevant regulations and accept the management of the staff.

3. Spectators must register with valid certificates (ID card, driver's license, work card, student's card, senior citizen's card, police officer's card, etc.). Please make an appointment in advance for group visit. Preschool children must be accompanied by adults before they can visit the museum.

4. People with untidy clothes (slippers, sleeveless vest, etc.), drunk and pets are not allowed to enter the museum. Inflammable and explosive dangerous goods, controlled appliances and other legal dangerous goods are strictly prohibited.

5. No smoking or open fire is allowed in the museum.

6. It is forbidden to touch the naked cultural relics.

7. Please keep order during the visit. Do not touch the exhibits and display cabinets. Do not make noise or chase. Do not take photos without permission.

8. Please keep the public health in the museum. No spitting or littering.

Transportation address

Address: No.88, Dongchang West Road, Dongchangfu District, Liaocheng City, Shandong Province

Bus routes:

1. Dongchang Hotel Station (K2, K6, K9, K24, K25, K28, 23 road) about 150 meters east;

2. Cultural Square intersection station (No.16, No.139, no.437) about 100 meters southbound;

3. Fenghuang station (K3, 437 Road) is about 150 meters along the westbound of Dongchang Road.

Basic Display

Canal Culture Exhibition

Grand Canal Culture Exhibition won the first "top ten fine exhibitions of Shandong Museum Memorial"

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Canal, an important symbol of human civilization, is the crystallization of wisdom to transform nature and benefit mankind. Since ancient times, the canal has always been accompanied by the prosperity of one side's economy, showing its majestic posture and releasing its infinite charm of helping the world and the people. The connection of the canal shortens the distance of economic and cultural exchanges, and promotes the rise of urban belt, economic belt and cultural belt.

World canal exhibition hall

As early as the 19th century BC, ancient Egypt excavated a canal connecting the Nile River and the Red Sea. From the 16th century to the 18th century, Europe entered the high-speed period of canal construction. From the second half of the 18th century to the 1870s, deep-water canals were excavated one after another, the most famous of which are the Kiel Canal, the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal. The canals of different countries have different uses, so they also have different styles.

China canal exhibition hall

The Grand Canal of China was first excavated in the spring and Autumn period, formed in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is a monument in the history of China's water conservancy projects and plays an important role in China's political unity, economic development and cultural prosperity. In the process of digging and using the canal, the working people of our country have created rich material and spiritual wealth, formed a unique canal culture, and become an important part of the splendid culture of the Chinese nation.

Liaocheng canal exhibition hall

Liaocheng is one of the areas that benefited from and influenced by the canal earlier. Huitong River in Yuan Dynasty ran through the hinterland of Liaocheng, which brought historic development opportunities for Liaocheng. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Liaocheng, Linqing and Zhangqiu became important commercial ports along the canal. "There are Suzhou and Hangzhou in the South and Linzhang in the north". Linzhang here refers to Linqing and Zhangqiu. Liaocheng is known as "the throat of Cao Wan, the elbow and armpit of Tiandu" and "a metropolis in Jiangbei".

Liaocheng historical relics exhibition

Liaocheng historical relics exhibition won the top ten "fine exhibition" of the second (2013) Shandong Provincial Museum and Memorial Hall

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Liaocheng is a famous historical and cultural city in China. It lies on taidai in the East, Qin and Jin in the west, Wu and Chu in the south, and Yan and Zhao in the north. It has a vast fertile field, and is the capital of Commerce and trade.

Liaocheng is one of the earliest birthplaces of Chinese civilization. This ancient, beautiful, vast and magical land has bred generations of hardworking, intelligent, loyal and brave ancestors of Luxi. The people here used to create a high level of civilization with their hands.

Exhibition hall 1 prehistoric period

A large number of unearthed cultural relics show that the ancestors of prehistoric period lived in this land. The discovery of two groups of Longshan cultural city sites, jiaochangpu in Chiping and Jingyanggang in Yanggu, shows that the pyramid shaped three-level social organization structure of "capital, city and gathering" had been formed at that time, which provides important reference for the study of the origin of Chinese civilization. The legendary ancestor of Chinese culture, Chi you, Cangjie, Chaofu, Shun, Yu and other sages all left activities in Liaocheng

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