Taicang Museum

Taicang Museum

Taicang museum is located at No. 100, Shanghai East Road, Taicang City, adjacent to Dongting South Road in the East, Banjing road in the West and Taicang administration center in the north, with a total investment of 126 million and a construction area of 14000 square meters.

brief introduction

Founded in 1987, the museum is one of the first county (city) level museums in Jiangsu Province. It is the only local comprehensive museum in Taicang. The museum has a collection of more than 2000 pieces of ceramics, bronzes, calligraphy and paintings, jade, etc.

Collection in the Museum

The cultural relics in the museum include pottery, porcelain, bronze, jade, coins, calligraphy and painting, etc.

Museum There are also five pieces (sets) of national first-class cultural relics, such as the sunflower shaped plate with blue and white twigs and flowers in Yongle of the Ming Dynasty, the clear cut volume of the Ming Dynasty's bamboo slips, the ancient and modern examination paper of the Ming Dynasty, the complete works of the Ming Dynasty's household necessities, and the hand copied album of the tomb of Shi Zhenshi and his wife, which can be regarded as national treasures; and a number of related cultural relics, such as the epitaph of Shengyuan, vice Marquis of Taicang Wei, general Wu Lue of the Ming Dynasty, and the epitaph of Zhang's family, are extremely rare It has historical research value and local characteristics; the celadon covered pot of Longquan kiln in Yuan Dynasty, the axis of "walking grass to Wang Yanke" in Ming Guizhuang, the axis of rain Ji painting in Dashi mountain of Guangsheng in Qing Dynasty, the blue and white doucai sea water dragon pattern plate in Qing Dynasty are extremely precious and rare.

A total of 48 pieces of modern cultural relics, including calligraphy by Zhao Puchu, Fei Xiaotong, Lu Dingyi and Zhang Aiping, works by Tang Yun, Xie zhiliu, Zhu Qizhan and song Wenzhi, books, handwriting, seals and living supplies left by Tang Wenzhi, a famous Taicang Sinologist and Yu Qingtang, a famous educator, are classified into calligraphy and painting, stone, metal and miscellaneous All the three national cultural relics are collected in the museum.

Museum structure

The overall shape of the museum is "round warehouse", which desalinates the "granary" type, takes the God of "container", integrates the Chinese national heritage of "tolerance is greatness", and contains the historical crystallization and humanistic essence of Taicang with a long history. There are four basic exhibitions in the Museum: fushe memorial hall, cultural relics exhibition hall, Taicang historical Hall of fame, and "Siwang" memorial hall. The first underground floor is the cultural relics warehouse area, processing workshop, large equipment space and underground parking lot. From the first floor to the fourth floor, there are 2 temporary exhibition halls on the first floor, 6 basic exhibition halls on the second and third floors (including "exhibition of cultural relics in collection", "exhibition of calligraphy and painting in collection", "special exhibition of Loudong painting school", "exhibition of Taicang culture and history" and other special exhibitions), and 3 planned exhibition halls on the fourth floor, with a total of 11 exhibition halls, with an exhibition area of about 7000 square meters.

The museum is also under the jurisdiction of the former residence of Zhang Pu and the former residence of Wang xijue. Among them, Zhang Pu's former residence was listed as a national key cultural relic protection unit by the State Council in June 2006, and Wang xijue's former residence is a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province. The main exhibition is located in the former residences of Zhang Pu and Wang xijue. Zhang Pu's former residence was built in the Tianqi period of Ming Dynasty. It has three entrances. The whole set of building technology is excellent, the layout is reasonable, the hall is corresponding, and the buildings are interlinked. It is commonly known as "tongzhuanzoumalou", which is similar to "labyrinth". Wang xijue once served as the first assistant of Wanli Dynasty in Ming Dynasty. His former residence was built in Wanli period. There is an existing gate tower with five rooms wide. The hall is unique in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.

The development of Museums

Taicang Museum always adheres to the tenet of "serving the public, serving the local politics and economy" and takes "carrying forward the Chinese history and promoting Loudong culture" as the working direction. In practice, it constantly explores new ideas, new ideas and new channels for the cause of cultural and Museum propaganda and education, and is committed to the bold attempt and innovation of museum service concept, striving to create Taicang local famous cultural heritage We should make unremitting efforts and struggle to promote the development and prosperity of Taicang culture. Over the years, we have actively carried out cultural relics protection, publicity and education, and strengthened the research on cultural relics, local history and maritime history. In addition, various temporary exhibitions are held from time to time.

Exhibitions and collections

Blue and white underglaze red plate

Qianlong of Qing Dynasty

Caliber: 20.3cm, bottom diameter: 15cm, ceramic ware

Underglaze red is a kind of traditional underglaze color, which is painted with copper on the porcelain body and fired in high temperature reducing atmosphere. The surface of the ware is red on white ground. It was first fired in Yuan Dynasty, and the underglaze red was more successful in Xuande of Ming Dynasty and Kangxi of Qing Dynasty. During the reign of Yongzheng and Qianlong, blue and white underglaze red was introduced. The two underglaze paintings were put together on the same utensil, covered by transparent glaze and calcined at high temperature, which changed the monotony of only painting one color before. The dish is a blue and white underglaze red ware, open, slightly skimmed, shallow arc belly, flat bottom, and round feet. It has a thin and delicate body, and its bottom is a six character seal script made in Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty. It is decorated with blue and white underglaze red, with double blue and white circles at the inner and outer edges, a folded peony at the center of the plate bottom, and three groups of folded flowers around, all of which outline the lace with blue and white, and the inner point is decorated with underglaze red color. This plate of green and red set off each other, it is particularly enchanting and pleasing to the eye.

Blue and white baby bowl

Tomorrow

Height: 6.4cm, diameter: 13.9cm, bottom diameter: 5cm, ceramic ware

Open, deep radian, lower abdomen closed, base heart protrusion, ring foot. Blue and white decoration: the inside mouth of the bowl is decorated with string pattern for a week, the bottom center is painted with children's Cuju figure, the outside mouth edge and ring foot are decorated with double circle string pattern, and the outside wall is painted with baby play figure. Children's shoulders are high, some fly kites, some blow trumpets, some dance guns, etc. The bowl has a thin body, white glaze and light hair color. In particular, the decorative patterns of baby plays are empty without background, exaggerated in shape and simple in brushwork, which have the characteristics of the late Ming Dynasty.

Blue and white grass dish

Ming Wanli

Caliber: 13.5cm, ceramic

In the late Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the blue and white materials were changed from the early green to the Zhejiang materials. The blue and white color was blue and gray, simple and quiet. This pair of blue and white saucers is open, shallow, round and flat bottomed. The glaze color is white with flashing green, blue and white with gray. From the blue and white hair color and decorative patterns, it should be the utensils in the late Wanli period of Ming Dynasty.

Blue and white pastel five inch plate

Qing Daoguang

Height: 2.3cm, diameter: 16.6cm, bottom diameter: 8.8cm, ceramic ware

Open, shallow arc abdomen, flat bottom slightly concave, ring foot outside oblique, straight inside. Inside the plate, there are a circle of blue and white flowers along the mouth and bottom respectively, and the lotus pattern is lightly depicted. Inside the belt pattern, there are peony, chrysanthemum, plum and other flower patterns. The blue and white patterns are fine and regular, and the pastel flowers are soft and elegant.

Pea green and pink grass insect pot

Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty

Height: 5cm, diameter: 14cm, bottom diameter: 7.8cm, ceramic ware

In the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, pastel ware was mainly popular. The petal shaped mouth, shallow inclined abdomen, flat bottom, high ring foot, octagonal outward. The inside of the dish is painted in gold with "rice" shaped branches. The branches are gradually scattered outward, and the grass and insect patterns are painted on it. The bottom foot and mouth edge are also painted in gold with continuous auspicious cloud patterns. The gold color depicted on the pastel ware is also a feature of Tongzhi pastel ware. At the bottom of the seal is the "Tongzhi year system"

Specific address

Address: No.100 Shanghai East Road, Taicang, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province.

Address: No.100 Shanghai East Road, Taicang, Suzhou

Longitude: 121.133424

Latitude: 31.456198

Tel: Reservation Tel: 0512-53890911

Ticket information: free.

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