Museum of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

Nanjing Taiping Heavenly Kingdom History Museum is a special museum for collecting, storing, displaying, publicizing, investigating and studying the historical materials of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Located in Zhanyuan Road, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province. Luo Ergang, a historian of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, presided over the preparation in December 1950. On October 1, 1956, a memorial hall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was set up at the site of a palace of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Tangzi street. In May 1958, he moved to Zhanyuan road. In January 1961, it was renamed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom History Museum. The building of the museum has Chinese national style. Zhanyuan in the west of the exhibition hall is a unique classical garden in Nanjing. He was once the residence of Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, and Lai Hanying, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Xia Dynasty. Later, he was the residence of Xiao Youhe, the king of the West. Zhanyuan is a cultural relic protection unit at the provincial level.

Museum of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

Nanjing Taiping Heavenly Kingdom History Museum is located in Zhanyuan Road, Qinhuai District, Nanjing city. It is located in the core area of the Qinhuai scenery belt of Confucius Temple. It is a special museum for collecting, storing, displaying, publicizing, investigating and studying Taiping Heavenly Kingdom cultural relics and historical materials in China. It is also the only special Museum of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom History established by China.

Nanjing Taiping Heavenly Kingdom History Museum was established in December 1950 by Luo Ergang, a historian of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. On October 1, 1956, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom memorial hall was established at the site of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom palace in Tangzi street. In May 1958, he moved to Zhanyuan road. In January 1961, it was renamed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom History Museum. The architecture of the museum has Chinese national style. Zhanyuan in the west of the exhibition hall is a famous classical garden in Nanjing. It was once the residence of King Yang Xiuqing of the East and the office of Lai Hanying, Vice Prime Minister of Xia. Later it was the residence of King Xiao Youhe of the West. It is a key cultural relic protection unit in China.

Development history

Located on the west side of Confucius Temple in Nanjing, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom History Museum is the only special history museum of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in China. Zhanyuan is the only group of well preserved Ming Dynasty classical garden buildings in Nanjing, covering an area of 18000 square meters and a building area of 6000 square meters. On October 1, 1956, the Ministry of culture approved the establishment of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Memorial Hall at the site of a palace of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Tangzi street, Nanjing. It was moved to Zhanyuan in May 1958. In January 1961, it was renamed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom History Museum. After more than 40 years of construction, it has become a recognized cultural relics center, data center and Exhibition Center of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Taiping Heavenly Kingdom mural art museum and luoergang historiography museum are subordinate branches of our museum. Taiping Heavenly Kingdom mural art museum is located at the site of a palace of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Tangzi street. It is a key cultural relic protection unit in China. It preserves precious Taiping Heavenly Kingdom murals such as "fangjiang watchtower" and "jiangtiantingli". It has high artistic appreciation value and academic research value. Luoergang historiography museum is built in memory of Mr. Luo Ergang, the founder of our museum and the leader of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom historiography. It is another academic hall for the study of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom history.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom History Museum is a museum with a combination of museums and gardens. On the east side, there are five ancient buildings with magnificent momentum. The exhibition area is part of the exhibition area. On the west side, it is the classical garden of the south of the Yangtze River, known as the "Jinling first garden". It has been known as "the five famous gardens in the south of the Yangtze River" in the history with Shanghai Yu Garden and Suzhou Humble Administrator's Garden. In the early Ming Dynasty, it was the "Xipu" of Xu Da's residence, and in the Qing Dynasty, it was the office of Jiangning political envoy. During the period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it was the office of the East prince, Lai Hanying, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Xia Dynasty, and Youxi prince. After the reform of the Republic of China, it became the seat of the governor's office of Jiangsu Province and the Ministry of the interior of the national government.

The History Museum of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is a cultural museum with the largest collection of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom cultural relics and the richest historical materials in China. Since its establishment, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has extensively collected cultural relics and historical documents of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom throughout the country, and successively collected a number of rare treasures, such as the "tuanlong mandarin jacket" of the senior generals of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the "Regulations on the rank of imperial officials" printed by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the actual record of the Imperial Army, and the original printed edition of "the return of the imperial heroes". So far, our museum has collected more than 2800 pieces of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom cultural relics, more than 10000 photos of various cultural relics and sites, more than 2000 volumes of Qing Dynasty original archives and letters, more than 6000 books on the history of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and has sorted out and published more than 30 Taiping Heavenly Kingdom reference books with more than 7 million words.

Exhibition hall

The "exhibition of the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom" is the basic exhibition of the museum. There are four exhibition halls, which are divided into nine parts: Prologue, historical background, Jintian uprising, capital Tianjing, system and policy, persisting in struggle, resisting aggression, defending Tianjing and succeeding. It introduces the whole process of the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The mural art exhibition of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was held at the mural site of a palace of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Tangzi street. The museum also reproduces a set of historical relics of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which are on tour in major provinces, cities and regions throughout the country. The museum also introduces various types of temporary exhibitions such as "palace cultural relics of summer resort" and "Yuhua stone of Jinling". In 2000, with the support of the municipal Party committee and the municipal government, the museum invested more than 4 million yuan to make a major adjustment to the display pattern and content. Now the exhibition is welcoming the audience with a new look.

In terms of content distribution, the exhibition has changed the traditional "consistent system" general history model and adopted a new exhibition concept of combining brief history with special topics. The exhibition integrates the modern display design concept, and has a major breakthrough in content and form. The traditional "general history" mode should be weakened, and the history should be displayed from multiple angles and in multiple aspects by combining the concise, clear, complete and coherent brief history with the five major topics of military affairs, economy, art, foreign relations and influence. The exhibition not only uses a large number of the latest cultural relics, but also draws on the authoritative academic research achievements at home and abroad, which can be regarded as a masterpiece of the study of the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. More than 400 pieces of cultural relics are on display in the exhibition, including 29 first-class cultural relics, which are the most displayed in all previous exhibitions. Many of them are first met with the audience.

The brief history is divided into six parts: Jintian uprising, Dingding Jinling, northern expedition to the west, Tianjing incident, advancing into Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and Tianjing fall. Each part reflects the tragic and stirring process of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in 18 years with concise written materials. The topic takes the military, economy, art, foreign relations and influence of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom as the five themes to show the objective historical facts from various angles and sides and fully tap the historical connotation. The exhibition draws on the authoritative research results of the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at home and abroad, and many precious cultural relics are on display for the first time.

The exhibition of the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has become an excellent work to build a modern exhibition hall with ancient buildings. This exhibition was rated as one of the top ten national boutique exhibitions in 2000.

Collection

Nanjing Taiping Heavenly Kingdom History Museum has a collection of 1657 cultural relics, including 42 first-class collections, including the original official books issued by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, such as the imperial edict regulations and the actual records of the Imperial Army, and the imperial edict approved by the emperor Hong Xiuquan

Wooden seal, "ferry rules monument" and other treasures handed down from generation to generation. There are 427 important copied cultural relics, such as the jade seals of the heavenly king and the young heavenly king, the "shoutianpu imperial edict" personally written by Hong Xiuquan, and the huge murals of the "watchtower" of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

There are more than 8000 books and local chronicles of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the professional library of the museum. There are 11 large boxes of archives of Wu Xu, the Minister of Jiangsu Province in the Qing Dynasty. There are more than 200 letters from celebrities in Xianfeng and Tongzhi years, and more than 5000 negatives of cultural relics and relics of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Tuanlong mandarin jacket

Tuanlong mandarin jacket is the official dress of senior officials of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Yellow Satin texture, mandarin jacket style, jacket short sleeve fat. Four regiment dragons are embroidered on the front chest, back and sleeves. It is embroidered with peony, bat and Liuyun sea water. It is bright in color, exquisite in workmanship and well preserved.

This tuanlong mandarin jacket was obtained by Qing Dynasty official Xi Baotian when he captured Young King Hong tianguifu in Jiangxi Province in 1864. He regarded it as a treasure and left it to his descendants. After liberation, Xi Baotian's descendants donated it. Museum of the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Copper gun

The gun was built in 1855. The gun is made of copper, 96.5 cm in length and 6 cm in diameter. The gun body is engraved with inscriptions such as "made in the fifth year of Yirong of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, weighing two hundred Jin and nine Liang powder". The gun was found in December 1957 when the metal was recovered in Kunming. There was still gunpowder left in the gun. It was handed over to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom History Museum in 1958.

Rule stele

The stone tablet is 95 cm high and 46 cm wide, with regular script and Yin inscription. It's broken into three pieces. It was established on December 30, the fourth year of Jiayin reign of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (February 4, 1855). In order to ensure the smooth flow of the wharf and prevent the "obstinate boatman" from arbitrarily blackmailing the river crossing people, the charging standard was formulated, and it was stipulated that "anyone who has no money should fly across in case of emergency, even if it is one person.". This monument was found in Taiyanghe village, Jiangxinzhou, Dangtu County, Anhui Province in December 1955. Therefore, it is also called Taiyanghe ferry regulation monument. Museum of the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Town Treasury money

Brass casting, diameter 10.1cm, thickness 1.4cm, weight 810g. "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom" is engraved on the front and "Shengbao" is engraved on the back. Zhenku money was well cast and was a non circulating currency of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. It was found in February 1953 in a warehouse in Nanjing. Museum of the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

The history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is only 18 years, and its coins were made and circulated for a short time. Nevertheless, it is still full of charming charm. In 1853, the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was established

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