Songyang Museum

Songyang Museum

Songyang Museum, founded in April 1986, is located in tanglan Office (Lanxi guild hall), a county-level cultural relics protection unit, No. 12, Zhongnong, chengxiping Town, Songyang County, Zhejiang Province. In 2009, it moved to the city square.

Development history

Tanglan mansion was built in 1809, which was a public activity place for meeting, business negotiation, culture and entertainment.

Songyang County Museum was built in April 1986. It was originally located in tanglan office, a county-level cultural protection unit. Due to the long construction period, poor conditions, and no exhibition hall open to the outside world, in order to meet the growing spiritual needs of the public and improve the cultural taste of Songyang, with the concern and support of the higher authorities, the construction of the new Songyang Museum started in 2007, the exhibition was completed in early 2010, and the "5.18 International Museum Day" was opened to the outside world on a trial basis.

The new museum is located at the foot of Wujiashan mountain on the west side of citizen square in Songyang County, covering an area of 2856 square meters and a construction area of 3600 square meters, including four exhibition halls, four cultural relics warehouses, one audio-visual room and other rooms. The basic display of the new museum is based on the traditional collection, combined with the local history and culture, the introduction of touch screen and other multimedia technology, integrating knowledge, education and interest, so that the audience can acquire knowledge in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere.

architectural composition

"Songyang basic cultural relics exhibition" is the main part of the exhibition in the new museum, which is divided into six units

The first unit "Gaoyu's Mansion -- the Peach Blossom Land in the depth of Kuo Cang" is the preface hall. When the audience walk slowly from the outdoor stairs of the museum into the second floor of the preface hall, the first thing they see is the huge panorama of Songyang carved in marble. In the picture, there are mountains and peaks, and the whole county is embedded in it, with crisscross fields and thousands of hectares of fertile land. SONGYIN river is just like a jade belt, winding through it, where the peach blossom is hidden, egrets are in groups, and the scenery is beautiful, which can be called "the Peach Blossom Land in southern Zhejiang". The words on the top of the picture give the best interpretation of the ancient city: "the place name is Songyang, the water name is Songyin, the negative Yin embraces the Yang, which creates all things, and heaven and man construct the same place; the immortal's mansion is pleasant, rich in resources, outstanding people, and blessed by the people; the mountains are thick and green, the pines and the wind in the valleys are clear, the scenery is charming, and the Green Valley is dense; the ancient city is picturesque and clear Huaiguan Road, static photo forget to seek, Taoyuan Shengjing not old love.

The second unit "the beginning of human culture - Neolithic period to Qin and Han Dynasties" introduces the general situation of Songyang's history from the prehistoric Neolithic period to the early Eastern Han Dynasty, and is divided into three parts: "collection exhibition of Neolithic period" mainly displays many Neolithic cultural relics, such as stone axes, stone arrowheads, stone rings, stone axes, etc., unearthed from Yingang mountain, zhan'an mountain, yingpanbei and other sites. According to the unearthed cultural relics, human activities in Songyang can be traced back to the Neolithic age four or five thousand years ago, which is one of the earliest human activities in southern Zhejiang. Why is Songyang called Songyang? "Songyang county is located in the south of Songshan Mountain, so it's named Songyang County," according to the Zhejiang volume of county names in Wanli period of Ming Dynasty "Wu Di Zhi" said: "the county is southeast of Daxi, there are pine trees, big 81 around, empty stomach, can accommodate 30 people to sit, so take this name." No matter what is said, Songyang has an indissoluble bond with pine trees. "The origin of the name of Songyang county" scene takes the standing Dushan, winding Songyin stream and open Songgu basin as the background, restores a huge simulated pine tree, and makes a hard-working statue of a family of three, which makes the whole scene vivid and spectacular. "Exhibition of the collection of Shang and Zhou Dynasties" displays a number of cultural relics of the Shang and Zhou dynasties in Songyang, including many fine works such as printed pottery, printed pottery pots and primitive porcelain beans.

The first part introduces the changes of Songyang county system: the system of Songyang was established at the beginning of each county in Chuzhou, which was originally subordinate to Kuaiji county. Since then, it has experienced many times of renaming, renaming, merging and restoring. In 1982, the State Council approved the restoration of Songyang County, which belongs to Lishui area (now Lishui City), and has continued to this day. The second part focuses on the representative collections in the history of Songyang, such as pottery stoves in the Han Dynasty, bronze mirrors in the Three Kingdoms period and chicken head pots in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. These cultural relics show the development of local handicraft industry. The third part focuses on the granary status of Songyang. Since ancient times, Songyang has been known as "Chuzhou granary" for its agriculture oriented and grain first, and the development of agriculture is bound to be inseparable from the developed water conservancy. This part takes Songgu plain and Songyin River as the prototype, takes the simulated vegetation and the vast field under the blue sky as the background, restores the "bamboo cage pebble dam" weir construction technology of the ancestors, and forms a vivid and easy to understand scene with keel water truck and other objects, giving people the feeling of being in the environment.

The fourth unit "cultural prosperity from Tang Dynasty to song and Yuan Dynasty" is divided into four parts, which introduces the prosperity of education, religion, economy and culture in Songyang in Tang, song and Yuan Dynasties. Driven by the development of agriculture, Songyang's economy and culture has achieved great prosperity, becoming the period with the most developed culture, the most concentrated talents and the most exquisite handicrafts in history. Songyang county school began in the fourth year of Wude of Tang Dynasty (621), which is the earliest local government school in Lishui area (now the Confucian temple is its former site). During the song and Yuan Dynasties, all kinds of academies flourished, and scholars came in droves. Su Shi and Li Yong left famous poems and inscriptions on cliffs. The first part "county school education" tells about this period of history. The second part "religion prevailing" focuses on the Yanqing Temple Pagoda, the only national key cultural relic protection unit in Songyang, and displays the pictures before and after the restoration of the pagoda, as well as the animal pieces, tile pieces, Buddha statues and other objects unearthed when clearing the base of the pagoda. The third part "mining and mining industry" restores the scene of blasting mining at that time, including simple tools, swaying fireworks, bronze sculpture miners It has a sense of historical vicissitudes and reality. The third part "rosin picking and making" shows various tools for picking and making rosin and the rosin unearthed from the tombs in the first year of Qingyuan (1195) of the Southern Song Dynasty, so that the audience can understand the long history of picking and making rosin in Songyang, and the present situation that rosin people in Songyang are all over the country, and rosin production accounts for one third of the country's total production. The fourth part "carving porcelain to make tripod green in water" is the focus of this unit. There are various types of porcelain with exquisite quality, such as Phoenix ear bottle, string pattern cap bottle, celadon melon edge holding pot, chrysanthemum pattern plate and plum bottle, among which there are many national treasures.

Unit 5 "the thoroughfare of Commerce and trade - Ming and Qing Dynasties to the Republic of China" mainly narrates the story of Songyang County in the period from Ming and Qing Dynasties to the Republic of China, which made the whole county in the stage of social stability and stable development. The first part "traffic" shows the land traffic of the four ancient post roads in Songyang and the waterway traffic of SONGYIN river through various kinds of pictures. Songyang Gaoqiang is one of the oldest operas in Zhejiang Province. It was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list in 2006. The second part "Songyang Gaoqiang" not only uses the traditional clothing, props, musical instruments and other physical display, but also uses modern means such as multimedia to play the relevant video materials. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Songyang had relatively stable society and convenient land and water transportation, which promoted the development of local agricultural production and the commercialization of agricultural products, and also increased the trade between Songyang and the outside world. At that time, there were many handicraft workshops and characteristic shops in the county, and the business was prosperous. It became a business center and circulation hub radiating Lishui, Jinhua, Quzhou, Fujian and Anhui. The third part "Ming and Qing ancient street" takes the preserved Ming and Qing ancient street in Songyang County as the prototype, combines the acrylic painting, wax model with the real objects, and restores the tea shop and cigarette shop in Songyang. As the audience walked through the ancient streets, there were cries, bargaining, ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding.

Unit 6 "dawn - Xinhai Revolution to Songyang liberation" focuses on the unremitting struggle of Songyang people against imperialist aggression and feudal oppression since the Opium War. No matter in the period of the old democratic revolution or the new democratic revolution, the people of Songyang took an active part in it, and a large number of people with lofty ideals and benevolence who bravely dedicated themselves to the revolutionary cause emerged, and wrote many moving deeds. This unit focuses on introducing the heroes and events in the history of Songyang revolution, displaying revolutionary cultural relics such as daggers, sabres, bugles and shotguns, and showing the surging revolutionary process of Songgu basin and Ruoliaoxian foothills. In order to show Songyang's past and present more comprehensively, concretely and vividly, the exhibition hall is also equipped with two multimedia interactive screens to assist in the introduction of ancient dwellings, water conservancy projects, bridge buildings, memorial archways and pagodas, folk cultural relics and Songyang today.

Yanqing Temple Pagoda in the county, known as "the Leaning Tower of Pisa in the south of the Yangtze River", was built in 999 of the Northern Song Dynasty, more than 100 years earlier than the Liuhe Pagoda in Hangzhou. It is one of the most complete preserved Song Dynasty buildings in the south of the Yangtze River, and is now a key cultural relic under national protection. There are also 2 provincial key cultural relic protection units, such as Huangjia courtyard and brother Jinshi memorial archway, 12 county-level key cultural relic protection units, and Songyang county is a provincial historical site Shicang, a famous cultural city, is a provincial historical and cultural reserve. The museum is responsible for the protection and management of cultural relics in the whole county. Through several years of efforts and with the care and support of the central, provincial, municipal and county departments in charge of cultural relics, the museum has rescued and protected a number of endangered cultural relics, including Yanqing Temple Pagoda, a provincial cultural relics protection unit,

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