Cizhou kiln Museum

Cizhou kiln Museum

Cizhou kiln museum is located in Cizhou kiln Museum Square, north of Cizhou Road, Cixian County, Hebei Province. It is a county-level special museum. Cizhou kiln Museum, with a building area of 5000 square meters, consists of two floors, with four main exhibition halls, a preface hall and a transition hall. The exhibition hall covers an area of 2524 square meters. The museum was completed and opened in December 2006.

As of August 2019, Cizhouyao Museum has 14000 pieces of collection, including 52 pieces (sets) of first-class cultural relics, 96 pieces (sets) of second-class cultural relics and 1899 pieces (sets) of third-class cultural relics.

Cizhouyao museum was selected as national AAA scenic spot in 2007 and national second-class Museum in 2009.

Historical evolution

In 1987, Peking University, Hebei Institute of Arts and the former Handan Institute of cultural protection of Hebei Province jointly excavated the Cizhou kiln site and unearthed a large number of Cizhou kiln artifacts and typical specimens.

In 2005, Cixian government approved the preparation of Cizhou kiln Museum.

On March 18, 2005, Cizhou kiln Museum started construction.

In December 2006, Cizhou kiln museum was completed and opened to the audience.

architectural composition

Cizhou kiln Museum covers an area of 7.8 mu, with a total construction area of 5000 square meters. The museum is designed by Hebei architectural design and Research Institute. The design combines the characteristics of Cizhou kiln. In terms of architectural form, it takes "kiln" as the center and "arc" as the exhibition line. It is divided into two floors, with four large exhibition halls, cultural relics storehouse, academic lecture hall, cultural relics restoration room and pottery bar.

As of August 2019, the exhibition line of Cizhou kiln Museum has a total length of 480 meters, with 400 cultural relics, 278 pictures and 186 other auxiliary exhibits on display. The exhibition of the museum consists of five parts: the first part: preface hall -- the art of black and white; the second part: the beginning of kiln fire -- the Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties; the third part: the transformation of black and white -- the song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties; the fourth part: the lingering charm -- the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the Republic of China; the fifth part: the origin of beauty -- firing technology.

Preface hall -- the art of black and white

The shape of the preface hall is the typical steamed bread kiln of Cizhou kiln, which is located in the center of the museum. The circular interior wall of the preface hall is decorated with fired wall bricks and saggers, highlighting the "kiln" atmosphere. On the wall in the middle of the building is a large-scale painting of "Guantai kiln site", with Mantou kiln, Zhanghe, Huangtu and the title of "black and white art". In front of the photo are black and white two connected rectangular stones, each engraved with a Chinese and English preface. The top decoration consists of two levels of white ground black flower dragon basin "dragon pattern" and Dragon Phoenix pot "sunflower pattern". The outer edge is radial aluminum alloy grille ceiling, implying that the soil of Cizhou is transformed into "black and white art" through the magic of Cizhou kiln. The light box belt hanging on the east wall and the TV combination on the west wall together with the front decoration constitute the second level of the preface hall. The east wall light box belt shows the Cizhou kiln collection of international and domestic museums. The introduction of Cizhou kiln museum is shown by the TV combination in Xibi. The whole hall uses dark pottery brick floor.

The first exhibition hall: kiln fire incipient combustion

The exhibition hall exhibits Cizhou kiln products from the Northern Dynasties to the Sui Dynasty. Most of the exhibits are northern folk kilns mainly producing white porcelain, black porcelain and celadon.

Exhibition hall 2 - Huajing black and white

The exhibition hall is the core exhibition hall of the whole exhibition, which gathers the Cizhou kiln cultural relics of various periods, especially the artifacts of the heyday of song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties. The exhibits in the exhibition hall include dragon shaped pots of Jin Dynasty, plum bottles of Jin Dynasty, dragon and Phoenix pots of Yuan Dynasty, etc. The exhibition hall also includes a porcelain pillow hall. This part shows more than 100 pieces of porcelain pillows in different periods of song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties.

Based on the traditional display of utensils, the exhibition hall deeply "digs" the connotation of porcelain in content design, and extracts 150 poems, 206 decorative patterns, 20 historical stories and 60 decorative techniques. The exhibition hall is equipped with four TV players to roll and play the above four contents respectively. At the same time, it turns from dynamic display to static display, that is, an electronic touch screen is set on the exhibition line to put the above four contents into the display for the audience to touch and search. Meanwhile, the exhibition hall is equipped with bookshelves to fix the books related to the above contents on the exhibition line.

The third exhibition hall

On the one hand, the exhibition hall shows the historical process that Cizhou kiln center of Ming Dynasty turned to Pengcheng kiln, and Pengcheng became the "northern porcelain capital". On the other hand, it combines field archaeology and museum display. The exhibition hall has a porcelain cabinet, a porcelain frame and a porcelain box that can be touched directly by hand. The large-scale ceramic tile walls show the stratum conditions of the four archaeological stages of Guantai kiln site, reflecting the stratum structure and stratum features of the kiln site. Connected with the porcelain cabinet, frame, box and porcelain wall is the simulated site scene. The area of the scene is 12 meters × 7.5 meters. The site is a frame glass plane with a height of 12 cm. Under the glass plate is the original site ground covered with porcelain and grass. The background of the site is 18 m × 3.2 M. in front of the background, there are structural drawings and archaeological site photos of different types of Cizhou kilns.

The fourth exhibition hall: the origin of beauty

Covering an area of 726 square meters, the exhibition hall shows the full scene production process of Cizhou kiln. With the ratio of 1:1, it shows the whole process of making porcelain by taking soil, refining mud, forming, construction, decoration and entering the kiln by means of material object, sculpture, model, background painting, projection, lighting, onomatopoeia, etc.

Collection

overview

As of August 2019, Cizhouyao Museum has 14000 pieces of collection, including 52 pieces (sets) of first-class cultural relics, 96 pieces (sets) of second-class cultural relics and 1899 pieces (sets) of third-class cultural relics.

Main collections

Cultural Activity

In February 2018, Cizhou kiln Museum cooperated with Beijing Zhengyangmen management office to hold clay sculpture exhibition.

In 2019, the Quyang clay sculpture of Cizhou kiln museum will be exhibited in Nanping Museum of Fujian Province.

Function value

Cizhou kiln museum is one of the county-level special museums in China. It is a classroom for Chinese traditional art education, a platform for academic research of Cizhou kiln, a cultural window for external publicity of Cixian County in Hebei Province, and popularizes Cixian history and Cizhou kiln art to the public.

Scientific research status

Zhao Xuefeng: the ceramic myth that goes through thousands of years, China Cizhou kiln, Huaqiao publishing house, 2017.

Zhao Xuefeng: excavation of Yezi kiln, China Cizhou kiln, Huaqiao publishing house, 2017.

Zhang Liping: talking about color boy, China Heritage daily, June 2017.

Zhang Meifang: Dynasty style concentrated on porcelain, collector, issue 3, 2017.

Qi Shouming: the influence of Buddhist culture in Jin Dynasty on the production of Cizhou kiln, China Cizhou kiln, Huaqiao publishing house, 2017.

Zu Shaoying: porcelain face beauty, collector, issue 7, 2017.

Honors

In 2007, Cizhouyao museum was rated as a national AAA tourist attraction.

In 2009, Cizhou kiln museum was rated as a national second-class Museum.

In 2012, Cizhouyao museum was rated as the national popular science education base.

In 2013, Cizhouyao museum was awarded the patriotic education base of Hebei Province.

Visit information

address

Cizhou kiln museum is located in Cizhou Road, Ci County, Handan City, Hebei Province.

Opening Hours

09:00-16:30 from Tuesday to Sunday.

Traffic routes

Take Handan no.802, 803 bus to Cixian, transfer to Cixian No.7 bus, and get off at Cizhouyao Museum Station.

Guide service

The museum gives free lectures to individual visitors at 10 a.m. every day.

Address: Museum West Street, Ci County, Handan City

Longitude: 114.38468243348

Latitude: 36.375637873415

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