Modern Chinese Literature Museum

Modern Chinese Literature Museum

The Museum of modern Chinese literature was founded in 1985 at Wanshou temple on the West Third Ring Road. Located at No.45 wenwenguan Road, Shaoyaoju, Chaoyang District, Beijing, the new museum was opened in May 2000.

The modern Chinese Literature Museum is the information center of modern and contemporary Chinese literature, which integrates the functions of literature exhibition hall, literature library, literature archives, literature theory research and literature exchange. Its main task is to show the development history of Chinese modern and contemporary literature and the literary achievements of important writers and literary schools, so as to help improve the national cultural taste; to collect, keep, sort out and study the works, manuscripts, translations, diaries, letters, collections and other literature archives of Chinese modern and contemporary writers, as well as relevant works reviews and modern and contemporary literature books and periodicals, so as to help promote the development of Chinese modern and contemporary literature It is beneficial to the transmission of advanced culture.

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Introduction to the library

Modern Chinese Literature Museum is a national key cultural unit. It is the first literature museum in China and the largest in the world. It mainly shows the development history of Chinese modern and contemporary literature and the literary achievements of important writers and literary schools, which is the front of modern and contemporary literature research.

The Museum of modern Chinese literature is inseparable from Mr. Ba Jin. Mr. Ba Jin is a pure modern writer. In his later years, he realized that he had the responsibility of inheriting the mark of an era. He hoped that there would be a special organization to collect, collect, collate, study and display the works of modern writers. On February 14, 1981, Mr. Ba Jin initiated the establishment of the Museum of modern Chinese literature in his 11 Memoirs of creation, about the cold night, and postscript of Memoirs of creation, written for Wen Wei Po of Hong Kong. This initiative was officially published in people's daily on March 12, 1981, and immediately aroused strong repercussions at home and abroad. On April 20, the enlarged meeting of the presidium of the Chinese Writers Association discussed and approved the decision to prepare for the construction of the Chinese Modern Literature Museum, which was reported to the Central Committee for approval.

The museum now has a collection of more than 600000 pieces, including books, manuscripts, letters, photos, calligraphy and paintings, physical objects, audio-visual materials, etc. A library named after the author has been established for the literary materials donated by the author in bulk. The Chinese mainland English, Ba Jin library, Zhang Tianyi library, Zhou Yang library, Yu Pingbo library, Ding Ling library, Xia Yan library, Ah Ying library, Hui library, library, library, library, library, library, English library, Linhai English library, bu Shao Fu library, and Library of Chinese library, Ba Jin, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas have been established. There are more than 100 libraries of Chinese writers.

Successive curators

Yang Li (the first curator): 1985-1991

Liu Lin (deputy curator): 1985-1991

Li Jun (second term curator): 1991-2000

Shu Yi (executive deputy curator) Tenure: 1995-2000

Zhou Ming (deputy director): 1995-1999

Wu Fuhui (deputy curator) Tenure: 1995-1999

Liu Zelin (deputy curator): 1999-2007

Shu Yi (the third curator) Tenure: 2000-2004

Chen Jiangong (the fourth curator) Tenure: 2004-2013

Li Rongsheng (executive deputy director) Tenure: 2004-2009

Wu Yiqin (deputy director, executive deputy director) Tenure: 2009-2013

Zhou Jiyi (deputy curator) Tenure: 2007-2009

Wu Yiqin (the fifth curator) Tenure: 2013-2016

Liang Haichun (deputy curator) Tenure: 2012-2018

The current leader of the Museum

Li Jingze (the sixth curator) Tenure: 2017——

Liu Fang (executive deputy curator) term of office: 2018——

Liang Fei (deputy curator) Tenure: 2018——

Li Rongfei (pen name: Li Er)

Term of office: 2019——

Historical evolution

On October 13, 1981, the Preparatory Committee for the construction of the museum was established. Kong luosun served as chairman of the Preparatory Committee. Members of the Preparatory Committee include Ba Jin, Bing Xin, Hu Qiaomu, Zhou Yang, Cao Yu, Ai Qing, he Jingzhi, Yan Wenjing, Tang Zhen, Wang Yao, Feng mu, Zhu Ziqi, Zhang Yu, etc. other members include Li Feng, Wang Naijin, Cao Lin, and Wu Fuhui.

In 1982, with the assistance of the central government and the relevant departments of Beijing Municipality, the West courtyard of Wanshou temple in Beijing was selected as the temporary site of the literature museum. On November 16 of the same year, the founding meeting of the Preparatory Office of the Chinese modern literature museum was held. Hu Qiaomu and other comrades attended the meeting and listed the "preparatory office". The government allocated 1.5 million yuan for the renovation of the library and the purchase of basic equipment. Mr. Ba Jin donated 150000 yuan as the fund of the Chinese Modern Literature Museum.

In 1984, the renovation work was basically completed, and "Mao Dun's life and creative life exhibition" and "Lao She's life and creative life exhibition" were held in the museum.

On January 5, 1985, at the fourth member congress of the Chinese Writers Association, the Chinese modern literature museum was officially established. Yang Li was the first director of the literature museum. On March 26 of the same year, a grand opening ceremony was held. Mr. Ba Jin personally presided over the ceremony. Hu Qiaomu and Wang Meng delivered speeches. More than 200 famous writers from all over the country attended the opening ceremony.

In 1996, as the old museum Wanshou temple could not bear the increasing number of cultural relics and books, and considering the degree of protection of letters and manuscripts, we hope to build an independent new museum. With Mr. Ba Jin's active efforts again, the state opened up a new site for the literature museum in Shaoyaoju District, Chaoyang District, and the new library plan was implemented.

The project started at the end of 1997 and was completed at the end of September 1999. The new museum opened on May 23, 2000. After the completion of the new literature museum is a symbolic cultural building with a strong literary atmosphere.

In 2008, on the basis of the original blocks a and B, the new building of Block C was expanded again to expand the scale of exhibition and research. In 2010, block C was completed and put into use.

New pavilion

The modern Chinese Literature Museum belongs to the Chinese Writers Association. Ba Jin and Kong luosun were honorary curators. Bing Xin, Yang Hansheng and Xiao Qian were consultants.

The new museum project was designed by China architecture standards design institute and completed in October 1999. It is located at No.45, wenyuguan Road, Shaoyaoju community, Chaoyang District, Beijing. It is a landmark literature building with strong literary flavor. It is a group of new and unique, garden style and strong national style buildings advocated by Mr. Ba Jin and Mr. Bing Xin. Now it is the world's largest Literature Museum and literature research and exchange center.

The Museum covers an area of 46 mu, with a total construction area of more than 30000 square meters. The appearance of the museum is mainly red walls and blue tiles, and the various flower reliefs outside the walls show their own charm, reflecting the artistic conception of a hundred flowers in full bloom. The glass frescoes, oil paintings in the main hall, garden statues and stone Museum emblem are all arranged in a unique way. The whole architectural layout is ingenious. In architecture, the traditional national style is combined with modern technology, showing the new trend of architectural aesthetics. With its unique cultural charm, the Museum of modern Chinese literature has added new scenery to Beijing.

In the overall layout of the new museum, the traditional Chinese central axis symmetrical courtyard combination and the gardening techniques of Jiangnan garden architecture are combined, and some western culture such as colored lights, undercurrent, Yongquan and oval social square are integrated. Around the green buildings, there are bronze statues of literary masters scattered among them, making the plane and space of the whole building group lively and changeable, and full of modern sense It also has the literary flavor of history. The design of the roof is more unique: the traditional roof with two slopes and four slopes can not reach the top, eliminating the useless space of the top part, opening up various shapes of daylighting ceiling on the top, greatly enriching the indoor space and the changes of light and shadow; from the outside, it forms a double roof ridge or triangular roof ridge, and combined with the nose of the traditional roof ridge, greatly enriching the external shape of the building Elephant.

Permanent exhibition

1、 Modern and contemporary Chinese Literature Exhibition: mainly displays the development of modern and contemporary Chinese literature since the 20th century and the works of representative writers.

2、 Author's study Exhibition: it mainly displays the cultural relics and books donated by writers, including Zhang Tianyi's study, ye Junjian's study, Yao xueyin's study, Yang Hansheng's study, etc., which are replaced from time to time.

Nine unique buildings

A unique giant stone screen wall

At the front door of the literature museum stands an 8-meter-long, 2.5-meter-high, 50 ton giant stone screen wall. The giant stone is a cherry blossom stone from Laizhou, Shandong Province. A passage by Mr. Ba Jin is engraved on both sides of the wall, which brilliantly illustrates the mission of Chinese new literature. Positive: "what a rich literary treasure we have is the number of masterpieces left by writers who support us, encourage us, and make ourselves kinder, purer, and more useful to others." On the back: "our new literature is a rich mine to express the soul of our people, a factory to shape the soul of young people, and a school to train revolutionary soldiers. Our new literature spreads fire

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