Chaozhou Museum

Chaozhou Museum

Chaozhou museum is located in the southwest corner of people's Square on Chaozhou Avenue, covering an area of 10000 square meters and a construction area of more than 13000 square meters. It has four floors above the ground and one floor underground. It is a composite building composed of a circular main building and a square auxiliary building. Hanbi building is located in Chaozhou West Lake Park. The original museum is located in the Confucian palace of Haiyang County, a provincial cultural relics protection unit on Changli Road, Chaozhou City.

In August 1983, the former Chaoan County Museum and Chaozhou City Museum merged. The museum was originally under the Municipal Bureau of culture, and was subordinate to the office of Chaozhou cultural relics management committee after October 1989. In 2010, the new Chaozhou museum was completed. At present, there are five exhibition areas in the new museum, including Chen Fuli's photography exhibition, Ming and Qing porcelain exhibition, Chaozhou wood carving exhibition, library collection painting exhibition and Chaozhou City's third national cultural relics survey new discovery exhibition. There are many national second and third level precious articles in the collection.

Development history

Chaoan County Museum was established in 1959. It is located in the former Confucian palace of Haiyang County, and works together with the county cultural center and library. In 1973, the museum resumed its activities and held a cultural relic exhibition in the scripture collection building of Kaiyuan Temple, a Tang Dynasty building in Chaozhou. There are exhibition rooms for ceramics, wood carvings, bronzes, ivory carvings, stone carvings, calligraphy and ancient paintings. In January 1977, "Hanbi building" was reopened. This is a two-story revolutionary site. On August 1, 1927, the Nanchang Uprising army moved southward and arrived in Chaozhou in September to establish a democratic regime for workers and peasants in Chaozhou. Comrade Zhou Enlai and the leading organs of the uprising army were stationed in the West Lake Hanbi building, where the headquarters of the third division of Hebu were also located. Seven days before and after the battle in Chaoshan, the people of Chaozhou called "Chaozhou seven days red", in memory of the death of Premier Zhou Enlai On the 10th anniversary of the founding of the people's Republic of China, the information display of "Chaozhou seven day red" was restored in the building, which was named "Chaoan County revolutionary memorial hall". In September 1977, Chaoan County Museum was established independently. In 1979, Chaozhou City was restored, and the county and city were separated. In February 1980, some personnel and cultural relics were transferred from Chaoan County Museum to establish Chaozhou City Museum. Hanbi building was set up in the museum, and the county museum was then unified into Chaozhou City Museum. The site of the museum was moved to the academic palace. Hanbi building was under the jurisdiction of the museum and became a revolutionary memorial hall.

architectural composition

Nancao, together with the auxiliary steps, is a broad and bright front corridor, which is rare in similar buildings. It is similar to the front corridor of the Virgin Mary hall in Taiyuan Jinci, which is the plane feature of the hall in the Northern Song Dynasty. In addition to the upper beam frame of the hall, the middle trough of the hall is the flat chess ceiling, and the rest of the beams are made completely. The method of angle breast bundle is not used in the structure of beam frame to mu, while the method of slanting arch is still used in the south channel beam frame. The Museum covers an area of 4600 square meters, including 410 square meters of cultural relics storeroom and other exhibition rooms and offices. Located in Chaozhou Changli road school palace, the museum is a local comprehensive museum. Its main functions are to collect, collect and study historical relics, hold exhibitions, disseminate historical and cultural knowledge, and provide social services and patriotism education.

Exhibition Profile

There are three theme displays in the museum exhibition hall, namely: Chaozhou general history display: with rich objects, charts and photos, combined with modern light and image technology, Chaozhou's important archaeological discoveries and unearthed cultural relics are divided and combined according to historical paragraphs, reflecting the development process of communication and integration between local culture and Central Plains and neighboring cultures, and showing Chaozhou's long history and splendor Colorful cultural outlook.

The exhibition of imperial examination in the past dynasties: it scientifically and systematically introduces the general situation and influence of the imperial examination system in Chaozhou in the past dynasties by using detailed and accurate materials such as statues, houses and pictures. This paper describes the active participation of Chaozhou's officials in the imperial examination, and tells the stories of eight outstanding officials, brothers and three scholars in the imperial examination. It also introduces a group of top-notch talents in the imperial examination, such as Lin Daqin, Wang Dabao, Yao Hongzhong, Lin Deyong, Huang Renyong and so on.

Exhibition of Confucius' holy trace: use precious pictures and statues to introduce Confucius' extraordinary life and his contribution to Chinese and even world culture. In the middle of Dacheng hall, there are statues of Confucius and four statues, and on both sides there are twelve sages. On the top of the statue is a huge plaque written by the three emperors of the Qing Dynasty. In the middle of the plaque is the "model of the world" written by Kangxi, and on both sides are the plaques of "living people are not there" written by Yongzheng and "with heaven and earth participation" written by Qianlong. The open front porch displays sacrificial vessels and musical instruments. From time to time, performances are held to offer sacrifices to Confucius, so that the audience can better understand the contents of the exhibition and appreciate the traditional dance art of the ancestors.

In addition, there is a display of Chaozhou seven day red historical relics, which is located in Hanbi building, the former site of the headquarters of the third division of Nanchang Uprising army on August 1. It systematically introduces the important period of Chaozhou modern revolutionary history from September 23 to September 30, 1927, with rich objects, documents, photos, charts and related materials. In 1927, the Nanchang Uprising army entered Guangdong from Fujian on August 1. Ye Ting and he long's army drove directly to Chaozhou and entered Chaozhou City on September 23. The headquarters of the third division under He Long's command was located in hanbilou, where division commander Zhou Yiqun and others directed the fighting. On September 30, the uprising army made a strategic shift, which lasted for seven days, and was known as "seven days red in Chaozhou". During this period, the Rebel Army established a red regime in Chaozhou, punished the counter revolutionaries, and sowed revolutionary seeds.

It's different. In addition to the building with a large folder, storage of valuable accessories, but also placed a variety of multi-storey shelves, storage of pawn goods. The wall base is made of granite with steel plates in the middle. The walls are very thick, all built with green bricks. Each floor of the cargo building is surrounded by narrow iron branch windows similar to "gunholes", and the four sides of the windows are made of granite. The architectural design of the whole cargo building aims to achieve the effect of fire prevention, waterproof, anti-theft and anti bandit.

Collection

The museum has more than 13000 cultural relics (specimens) and 10000 ancient books. There are a wide range of cultural relics with local characteristics, including jade, ceramics, copper, iron and tin, Chaozhou wood carving, embroidery, calligraphy and painting, local literature, folk cultural relics, revolutionary cultural relics, etc. Among them, porcelain is the most abundant. The pottery unearthed from the Tang and Song Dynasty kilns in Chaozhou is an important material for studying the "road of ceramics on the sea". Among them, the products of Chaozhou porcelain kilns in the Song Dynasty are the most characteristic. The big blue glazed porcelain bowl of the Tang Dynasty and the porcelain Bodhisattva of the Song Dynasty are all excellent. Porcelain Bodhisattvas were selected to be exhibited in Hong Kong and used as the cover of the book "ceramics unearthed from Tang and song kiln sites in Guangdong". The bronze seal of "Zhangzhou road army and civilian capital manager" in the Yuan Dynasty was the booty of the she and Han people's joint struggle against the Yuan Dynasty in Chaoshan area. The manuscript of Liu Xibi's story of the golden hairpin unearthed from the tomb of the Ming Dynasty in 1432 is the earliest Chaozhou Opera Performance edition found so far, which has attracted the attention of the drama circle and has been published. Chaozhou woodcarving, with its unique style in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, is even more famous for its fine carving and gilded lacquer. A special museum has been set up to display it all the year round. In addition, Ren Bonian's "wind and dust three Shaanxi" and Xugu's "chrysanthemum and butterfly" are all excellent collections.

He has published "Chaozhou scenic spots", "Linghai Mingbang dialect of Chaozhou", "Chaozhou Ranger", "cultural relics of Chaozhou City", "national historical city Chaozhou", "new collection of Chaozhou folk songs", etc.

Organization setup

There are five departments in the Museum: administration department, storage department, group work department, exhibition department and hanbilou management office.

Visit information

Opening Hours

The museum opens from Tuesday to Sunday, from 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. and from 14:30 p.m. to 17:30 p.m.

It is not closed at noon on holidays.

Location of the Museum

The site of the museum is located in the former Confucian palace in Haiyang county (Haiyang county and Shandong Haiyang county have the same name, and it was renamed Chaoan County in 1914). It was built in Song Dynasty and rebuilt in 1369, the second year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty. It has been repaired for more than 30 times in 600 years, but it still retains the architectural style of wood structure of the hall in eastern Guangdong in the early Ming Dynasty. The main building is Dacheng hall, with double eaves resting on the top of the mountain, five rooms wide on the body, four rooms deep, gold boxes, bottom grooves, and column network The second step and the second step have two steps each.

Address: Changli Road, Xiangqiao District, Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province, China

Longitude: 116.647862

Latitude: 23.667916

Tel: 0768-2231362

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