China Water Transport Museum

China Water Transport Museum

China Water Transport Museum is located in the water transport square of Huai'an District, Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province. It is a national AAAA tourist attraction. Huai'an, as the "capital of canals", is planning to build the China Water Transport Museum to show the water transport culture. The site of the Governor General's office of water transport in Huai'an is one of the major archaeological discoveries in China in 2002. The construction of the water transport museum is integrated with the site of the Governor General's office of water transport to show the world the historical relics and history of water transport.

In February 2020, in order to pay homage to the medical workers who are struggling in the front line of "anti epidemic", the charging scenic spots in Huai'an City will be open to medical workers all over the country free of charge.

Development history

Huai'an, located on the Bank of Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal, is one of the national historical and cultural cities. Since ancient times, it has been known as "the first state in Southeast China with more tourists from Chu and Wu.". In addition to numerous places of interest and rich cultural resources, old Huai'an, with its outstanding people, passed through Chuzhou in the history of South to North Grain diversion and north to South salt transportation. Tracing back to history: since Sui Dynasty, the imperial court has set up a special water transport office in Huai'an (all referring to Huai'an District of Huai'an City). In Song Dynasty, the grain on the sixth southeast road went from huaishui to bianshui to the capital. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the government set up a water transport governor's office in Huai'an to supervise and urge the water transport and take charge of the water transport work such as the south to North Grain diversion. The office of the governor of water transport is the agency of the imperial court. The governor is generally held by the Lord minister, who not only manages water transport, but also serves as the governor. The office has a huge organization, with more than 20000 officers and soldiers from civil and military academies and various types. It has jurisdiction over warehouses, shipyards, etc. Located in the city center of Chuzhou (now Huai'an District), Gongshu, the governor of water transport, was the organization in charge of the national water transport in history. With the change of history, the grand scale and high historical value of this building was gradually destroyed, and the site was buried underground for many years. In 2002, during the construction of the city, the water transport hall, the second Hall and its affiliated buildings were found one after another, and a large number of architectural stone carvings were unearthed. After the discovery of the site of the governor's Department of water transport, it got the attention of the relevant departments and was announced as the fifth batch of provincial cultural relics protection units by Jiangsu provincial government in October 2000. In order to fully display and protect this important historical relic and further study the history of ancient water transport, the relevant departments of the state decided to build a new museum of Chinese water transport history on the basis of the construction of water transport square at the site of the former governor's Academy of water transport.

essential information

Huai'an, a prosperous city in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, was the main artery of China's economy during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the main form of transportation, material circulation and economic exchanges at that time. At that time, the highest institution of State Administration of water transport, the water transport governor's office, was located in today's Huai'an district.

Main exhibits

The water transport museum started construction in 2008, with a total construction area of 6300 square meters and two floors. The ground architecture adopts the architectural style of Ming and Qing Dynasties in China, and the overall layout is "pin" shape. The east side of the building is the temporary exhibition hall, the west side is the multi-functional lecture hall, and the middle is the hall and service space. Underground part of a floor, an area of more than 5000 square meters, there are three exhibition halls and office rooms and cultural relics warehouse. Here, there are concentrated displays of ancient water transport (canal water transport) tools and accessories, work and daily necessities in the water transport governor's office, and letters, letters, ink and daily necessities of former water transport governor and other water transport officials (such as Liu Yan, Vice Prime Minister of Tang Dynasty, fan Zhongyan of Song Dynasty, Li Sancai and Shi Kefa of Ming Dynasty, Shi Shilun, Qi Shan and Duan Qirui of Qing Dynasty) And the records, securities, measuring tools and substitutes of grain circulation in the past dynasties.

Main features

High tech makes history dance

The museum skillfully combines modern high-tech demonstration with cultural relics and historical materials to fully display the grand history and splendid culture of China's water transport. Visitors are so full of visitors every day that they are amazed and forget to return. The prelude hall, the creative combination of 180 degree huge projection scroll and art sand table model, presents a multi sensory visual feast, and restores the brilliant historical appearance of water transport culture in a concrete and powerful way.

The ship type super interactive table fully reflects the interaction between tourists and history. According to the shape of the boat, it arranges 10 pieces of water transport folklore, including the God of water transport, the God of the sea, the temple of heaven after heaven, the festival of water transport, the temple fair of Gaobeidian, the story of water transport and journey to the west, the dragon boat on the canal, the transportation of birthday, the ten time gongs and drums, and the folk songs of water transport poetry. When tourists choose the trigger point, the corresponding content on the table will change immediately, and all the changes of the screen will run through the entire desktop from any trigger position on the desktop.

As he approached the Huai'an hall, the static glass image of the door changed. A messenger from Xuzhou went to Huai'an quickly and sent an urgent secret letter to the governor of water transport. Accompanied by the voice over "imperial edict to open the gate.".

It's true and illusory to restore the real scene

In the history hall, there is a group of painted sculptures from Qingjiang shipyard. The workers are making a boat. According to their respective division of labor, they are making iron nail connection, curium reinforcement, splicing tenon structure, hemp wadding and tung oil mortar joint and ship bottom painting, which is just like a real person demonstration version of the boat construction process diagram.

In the hall of culture, a boat was scaled down and restored according to the relevant documents of Ming and Qing Dynasties. The bow of the boat is a huge "Lion" head, the wavy hair is like the surging canal water, and the stern is the totem emblem of Liangzhu culture, which means peace. This boat was a kind of official boat for transporting grain in late Ming and early Qing Dynasty. It was called "Taiping boat", also known as "Flying Tiger boat".

The ancient street under the river in Huai'an hall has an illusion of reality and illusion. Zhang Ji's copper shop is full of fire, huaifeng's rice shop is full of grain, huaibinlou's fine wine is fragrant, and the banquet in Qingxi hall is full of Huaiyang's famous dishes, such as soft bag long fish, Kaiyang Pucai, Pingqiao tofu, Qingong meatball, etc

On the history of water transport in tens of thousands of collections

Shiquan, Tiequan, Fangsheng and Fangdou, which were used as ancient weighing instruments, were the written evidence issued by the government after the payment of public grain, that is, the license to accept water grain. Yang Xifu, the governor of water transport in the Qing Dynasty, played the memorial of Emperor Qianlong. The preparation of the canal in Shandong Province in the Qing Dynasty, which was drawn by the officials of water transport, recorded the rules and regulations of the Department of water transport in the Qing Dynasty These are the cultural information carrier of water transport and the material evidence of the change and development of water transport culture.

In a window of Huai'an hall, there are tens of thousands of pieces of porcelain excavated from Longquan kiln, an ancient town in Hexia. There are more than 30 kinds of bowls, plates, lamps, stoves and high foot cups restored by archaeologists beside the porcelain pieces. On September 17, 2008, an archaeological team composed of Nanjing Museum and Chuzhou Museum discovered a large-scale fragment site of Longquan kiln of yuan and Ming Dynasties in Hexia ancient town, Chuzhou District, Huai'an City. 110000 pieces of 21.8 tons of Longquan celadon pieces were unearthed, including some fine pieces of Longquan kiln, which were used by the royal family. Longquan kiln is produced in Longquan County, Zhejiang Province. The concentration of such a large number of Longquan kiln porcelain in Chuzhou is closely related to its position as a water transport hub.

The exhibition area of water transport heritage mainly displays fine cultural relics unearthed in Chen Chuzhou (now Huai'an District), including ancient calligraphy and painting, ceramics, gold, silver and jade, etc. The collection of calligraphy and painting is represented by the calligraphy and painting unearthed from Wang Zhen's tomb, including the works of Xia Chang, Xie Huan, Ma Shi, Xia Zhi, etc. Among them, the blue and white double animal ear jar with peony pattern in Yuan Dynasty is a rare treasure of blue and white porcelain in Yuan Dynasty, which has high cultural and artistic value, including 27 national first-class cultural relics.

Construction layout

Architectural structure

After in-depth investigation, the architectural planning and Design Institute of Southeast University has designed two sets of planning schemes. The two plans are planned as a new scenic spot, one ancient and one modern, each with its own merits. However, the general principle is that the underground is the main, one floor above the ground, and the total height does not exceed Zhenhuai building, the landmark building of the ancient city of Chuzhou (now Huai'an District), without damaging the overall space effect of the surrounding area. Among the two plans, one is of classical style. The ground buildings are mainly built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and coordinate with the surrounding buildings and environment of the Heritage Park of the water transport governor's office. The building area is 5170 square meters, and the overall layout of the ground buildings is in the shape of "pin". The other scheme has a modern flavor. Its ground architecture adopts modern architectural style and integrates some traditional architectural elements. The total building area is 4678 square meters, and the ground architecture is in a "positive" shape.

Cultural relics Hall

The design concept is "to deduce ancient civilization with modern means, and to be real online with artistic language". The exhibition focuses on the cultural relics of Huai'an district from the Neolithic qingliangang culture to the ancient dynasties. It fully shows the historical and cultural achievements, rich cultural heritage and solid cultural accumulation of the ancient city of Huai'an.

Vision Hall

Huai'an has played an active role in the protection, inheritance and development of the canal's historical and cultural heritage. Huai'an used to be a bright pearl in the era of canal water transportation, and it will be the pioneer and forceful Walker of canal culture, which has promoted the development of the two Huaihe rivers and the Canal Zone and the tourism industry.

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