Beijing Xuannan Culture Museum

Beijing Xuannan Culture Museum

Located in Changchun temple, Xuannan Culture Museum vividly displays the long history and rich cultural accumulation of Xuannan area with Xuannan culture as its theme. According to the research of experts, Xuanwu District is the birthplace of the city and capital of Beijing.

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Changchun temple was built in the 20th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1592). It was built by Empress Dowager Xiaoding of Ming Shenzong for the sake of supporting Shuizhai Zen master. Emperor Wanli gave the name "Changchun", meaning health and longevity. It was sometimes called "the first brake of the capital". After the middle of Qing Dynasty, Changchun Temple began to decline. In 2002, Xuanwu District government formulated and implemented the protection plan of Changchun temple, with an investment of nearly 200 million yuan. In 2005, Changchun temple, the Xuannan Cultural Museum of Beijing, was opened to the public. Changchun Temple scenic spot has become a beautiful landscape showing the style of Beijing's ancient capital. Youyou Xuannan exhibition hall: more than 3000 years ago, our ancestors lived and multiplied in the small plain of Beijing surrounded by mountains and rivers. The legendary "Youdu" was promoted by King Wu of Zhou Dynasty, who conquered Yin and rebelled against Shang Dynasty, and gave birth to the "Ji kingdom", thus the original city of Beijing. The history of chenxiong, the ancient capital of Beijing, has been interpreted from Jicheng to Qin and Han Dynasties, Yue and Sui and Tang Dynasties, Liao and Jin Dynasties, and Ming and Qing Dynasties. When we trace the historical evolution of Beijing, we should not forget youYou Xuannan.

Xuannan scholar village exhibition hall: Xuannan scholar culture rose in the Ming Dynasty and flourished in the Qing Dynasty. In the early Qing Dynasty, the banner and the people were divided, so the capital Nancheng was the place where the Han people lived. With the prosperity of the imperial examination, provincial examiners gathered in Xuannan. During the reign of Kang (XI) and Qian (long), the Department of erudite ci poetry was set up, and Han intellectuals were recruited to compile history books, compile and interpret ancient books, until the large-scale compilation of Sikuquanshu. Scholars from all over the world traveled to the capital and lived in Xuannan. In addition to his official career, he formed a broad and active academic atmosphere and a literary environment of association and harmony, resulting in the phenomenon of "Xuannan scholar village" under the capital city, which created a unique space for the cultural prosperity of the Qing Dynasty. In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, when the state affairs were difficult and dangerous, a group of thinkers, politicians and people with lofty ideals, who were determined to reform, advocated the prohibition of smoking, raised reform, promoted the newspaper industry, run education in Xuannan, and called for the survival of the nation. They performed a series of tragic and stirring historical dramas in modern China.

Exhibition hall of heroic footprints: on the fertile soil of Xuannan, many revolutionary pioneers stood in the forefront of the times, explored the road of national rejuvenation, and composed magnificent poems to save the country and the people and fight bravely with the reactionary forces. From Xu Xilin and Qiu Jin to Sun Yat Sen and Huang Xing, from Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao to Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai They all left brilliant footprints of life and fighting here. Liyuan Shengjing exhibition hall: after more than 800 years, Chinese opera has a long history and is one of the three classical dramas in the world. Xuannan is closely related to the Jin Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty drama, Ming and Qing Dynasty legend, Kun (Qu) Yi (Yang Qiang) prosperity, four Hui opera troupes coming to Beijing, Peking Opera coming into the golden age and becoming "national quintessence". The two hundred year history of Peking Opera has left traces in Xuannan, chapter by chapter. In this fertile land, generations of Peking Opera masters such as Cheng Changgeng, Tan Xinpei, Yang Xiaolou, Mei Lanfang and Ma Lianliang have emerged. Hundreds of famous actors live in the quiet alleys of Xuannan. Many opera classes represented by Fulian have trained thousands of excellent actors and supported the palace of Peking Opera Art for nearly a century. The scattered theatres provide a stage for the prosperity of Beijing opera. Excellent and unique instrumental music, props, costumes industry add luster to Peking opera performance. The "National Opera Society" promotes the academic research of Peking Opera, and the "Liyuan Association" condenses the spirit of the whole industry. Xuannan is a well deserved "hometown of Peking Opera".

Exhibition hall of Chengnan Paradise: the folk culture and folk art of the capital can be called beautiful and vivid. The temple fair and the temple fair of Jiangnan in Town God's Temple, one of the four largest temple fairs in Beijing, have disappeared in xuanan, but the factory and flyover are still reserved. For two hundred years, visiting Changdian in spring has become a custom of Beijing people. There were many scholars and ladies, and diabolo, windmill and sugar gourd were accompanied by laughter. There are so many amazing stunts on the overpass. The "eight monsters" of the three generations will always be remembered by people. Generations of art heirs started here, became masters, and were admired. Changdian and Tianqiao are the symbols of Beijing folk culture and folk art, and the unique brands of Xuannan culture. Exhibition hall: in the early years of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, a "Gallery" was set up in the prosperous commercial area of the capital to house shops; in the Qing Dynasty, Nancheng became a place for Chinese people to go to Beijing for business, study and business. Up to the officials and gentry, down to the common people, clothing, food, housing and other aspects of demand constitute a huge market. As a result, the Xuannan area has gradually formed a commercial district with various characteristics, such as Dashilan, Caishikou, Liulichang and Tianqiao, and a number of industrial commercial streets. There are various types of business, such as antiques, jade, catering and finance. For hundreds of years, many time-honored brands are famous for their unique cultural connotation and integrity of Confucian businessmen, which constitute a gorgeous landscape of Xuannan culture.

Exhibition hall of national unity: Niujie, Beijing, is a long history of ethnic minority areas in Xuannan. During the period of Youzhou in Tang Dynasty and Nanjing in Liao Dynasty, ethnic minorities from the north and western regions lived and multiplied here. After the Yuan Dynasty, more Hui people gathered here. The ancient Niujie mosque is famous in the Muslim world for its thousand year history and grand scale. The simple Hui people live and develop in Xuannan. In the research of religious classics, the popularization of culture and education, the inheritance of traditional medicine, and the management of jewelry and jade, food and snack industries, we have made unique achievements. For hundreds of years, ethnic minorities in Niujie area, such as Han, Hui, Meng, Wei and man, have lived in harmony and composed a chapter with distinctive cultural color in Xuannan.

Exhibition hall of Xuannan culture protection and development achievements: since the reform and opening up, Xuannan culture, as an important part of Beijing culture, has attracted wide attention from all walks of life. In the 1980s, Xuanwu District Party committee and government advocated the activity of "knowing Xuanwu and loving Xuanwu", which promoted the study of Xuannan culture. Many experts and scholars supported this work with great enthusiasm. The district Party committee and the district government have actively organized academic seminars, published monographs, formulated long-term plans to carry forward Xuannan culture and promote the coordinated development of economy and society, further strengthened the protection of the style and features of the ancient capital, created cultural tourism brands, prospered the cultural market, and promoted the development of cultural industry.

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Under 500 year old trees, spring, summer, autumn and winter of old Beijing life are displayed. Red walls and yellow tiles reflect typical scenes of historical and cultural celebrities On November 30, the Xuannan Cultural Museum, built on Changchun temple, the capital's first temple in the Ming Dynasty, officially opened to the public. From today on, through the all-round contact of vision, hearing and touch, the general public can feel the colorful and profound Xuannan culture. In the exhibition layout, Xuannan cultural museum breaks the simple display of cultural relics, pictures and text materials, and focuses on restoring and creating some typical scenes to show people a kind of cultural spirit. In youYou Xuannan exhibition hall, the famous historical geographer Hou Renzhi's inscription "Xuannan has a long history, Jicheng was granted in Zhou Dynasty, Zhongdu was built in Jin Dynasty, and Beijing was the ancient capital of Xuanwu District. It summarized the long history and profound cultural heritage of Xuanwu District; in Xuannan Shixiang exhibition hall, from Gu Yanwu to Liang Qichao, from advocating no smoking and reform to promoting newspaper industry and education, the capital city was built in Ming and Qing Dynasties The unique cultural phenomenon of "Xuannan Shixiang" seems to be in front of us. In the Liyuan Shengjing exhibition hall, people can not only understand the process of Peking Opera's birth, maturity and development in Xuannan through pictures, but also have a real addiction to play by playing traditional operas on touch-screen in front of the specially designed opera stage. In the Centennial Xingshang exhibition hall, there is an "old line" In the exhibition hall of Xuannan cultural protection and development achievements, in addition to the on-site display of a number of cultural relics collected by the district's cultural and Heritage Department for many years, Xuanwu District's cultural research and ancient capital landscape protection are also discussed This paper introduces in detail the positive attempts and fruitful achievements made in the aspects of brand protection, brand building and cultural industry development.

Compared with the eight exhibition halls, the wide courtyard of Changchun Temple provides another space for the exhibition of Xuannan culture. Among them, a 500 year old ancient tree in front of the Sutra Pavilion makes it unique. Around this ancient tree, there is a space for folk culture and leisure. Through four groups of bronze sculptures reflecting the contents of "playing chess, selling watermelons, kneading dough figurines, and going to temple fairs", people can experience the leisure way of old Beijingers in spring, summer, autumn, and winter, while the former courtyard is mainly a taxi In the human culture space, two groups of sculptures with the themes of "no smoking started in Xuannan" and "scholars' stories, visiting books and getting married" are lifelike, forming a unique cultural landscape. According to historical records, there used to be a precious Pagoda in the Sutra Pavilion of Changchun temple. Now the pagoda is in the Art Museum of Wanshou temple, but the base of the pagoda is still in the Sutra Pavilion. In the process of repairing the Changchun temple, the cultural relics staff unexpectedly found the stele of the pagoda, which recorded the details of the pagoda. Today, the monument stands in front of the main hall, witnessing the vicissitudes of Changchun temple.

In order to strengthen the overall protection of the ancient capital style and Xuannan cultural resources

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