Desert Folk Art Museum

Under the misty Flame Mountain and by the lush mugou River, a large-scale cultural landscape with its unique artistic style stands on the west side of 312 national highway. It is Xinjiang flame mountain desert Art Museum, which opened to the public in May 1991. Its geographical coordinates are 89 ° 32 ″ 7 ′, 42 ° 56 ″ 8 ′, and its altitude is 140 meters. This is the five hundred arhat Valley in the hinterland of Flame Mountain, which is the treasure land of Buddha's light. As we all know, there are many famous mountain monks since ancient times, including Huoyanshan. The famous Buddhist site baizikrik thousand Buddha cave was excavated in this valley. In ancient times, it was the royal temple of Gaochang Uighur kingdom. At the beginning, it was also carved beams and painted buildings, resplendent and magnificent. Because of the religious war in history and the destruction of man-made and nature, it has already been devastated and beyond recognition, which has aroused people's infinite historical emotion and deeply touched the soul of artist Zhang Wenge. He vowed to make the western region culture reappear in Huoyanshan. He left his wife and son, went around to borrow money, and led his companions to build the Xinjiang desert local art museum after more than ten years.

Desert Folk Art Museum

Located at the foot of the smoky Flame Mountain and the Bank of the lush mugou River, the desert folk art museum is a large-scale cultural landscape with its unique artistic style. It stands on the west side of 312 National Highway and opened to the public in May 1991.

Environment

This is the five hundred arhat Valley in the hinterland of Flame Mountain, which is the treasure land of Buddha's light. As we all know, there are many famous mountain monks since ancient times, including Huoyanshan. The famous Buddhist site baizikrik thousand Buddha cave was excavated in this valley. In ancient times, it was the royal temple of Gaochang Uighur kingdom. At the beginning, it was also carved beams and painted buildings, resplendent and magnificent. Because of the religious war in history and the destruction of man-made and nature, it has already been devastated and beyond recognition, which has aroused people's infinite historical emotion and deeply touched the soul of artist Zhang Wenge. He vowed to make the western region culture reappear in Huoyanshan.

He left his wife and son, went around to borrow money, and led his companions to build the Xinjiang desert local art museum after more than ten years. It adds a bright color to the lonely flame mountain in the desert. The museum integrates architecture, frescoes and sculptures. Historical and cultural relics and natural landscapes complement each other. It organically combines the ground landscape and underground caves. It is bold and majestic, and displays the unique and majestic style of the desert incisively and vividly, so that the desert native art, which is famous both at home and abroad, can be carried forward in the special environment of Flame Mountain in Turpan.

tourist resources

Every year during the tourist season, the local art museum is full of traffic and tourists. Tang Seng hall, Kala and zhuoyongwu hall, Silk Road Castle, Wanfo palace, Xiangba art Inn, Centenary house, Monkey King's main carving, folk art heritage area, Flame Mountain ladder and other landscapes have become the best scenic spots for people to take photos in Flame Mountain scenic spot, and become one of the six famous tourist attractions with Jiaohe Ancient City and Putaogou. In more than ten years of opening up, it has received more than one million Chinese and foreign tourists, covering an area of 30000 square meters from 5000 square meters, and the number of scenic spots has increased to more than 20. The desert folk art museum, which reproduces the brilliance of ancient Buddhist art and displays the brilliant new look of modern folk art, has been highly praised by Chinese and foreign tourists.

Huoyanshan desert folk art museum is the first private art museum in Xinjiang and the development and production base of tourism souvenirs in Turpan. Its purpose is to base itself on the local, carry forward the past and carry forward the national cultural tradition, and integrate the functions of collection, display, performance and research. At the same time, it has also become a film and television shooting base in Xinjiang.

Buddhist art

Turning north from shengjinkou of national highway 312 to the tourist highway of thousand Buddha cave in bozikrik, you can see a tall ethnic style building group standing on the high slope behind a large parking lot of thousand square meters. In the middle is a 14 meter high brick gate, which is the main gate of desert Earth Art Museum. Entering the gate, you can see three interconnected domes. The top and surrounding of the domes are covered with small towers, just like the steel throne pagoda temple. This is the grand ancient Buddhist Art Museum, the ten thousand Buddha palace, which is the main project of the desert Earth Art Museum. This large palace is composed of three hole top buildings with a diameter of 10 meters and a height of 12 meters. It is the largest Buddhist art palace in Xinjiang so far. According to archaeologists, many Buddhist temples in Ancient Xinjiang adopted this kind of architecture. Interestingly, the world's three major religions: Christianity, Buddhism and Islam all have a special preference for cave top architecture. Entering the palace, there is a ten meter high painted Buddha. It is magnificent and extraordinary. It is based on the sculpture of Red Buddha unearthed in Yanqi. The murals in the East and west two halls are based on the murals stolen and seriously damaged from the Kizil thousand Buddha cave in Baicheng and the treasure dome of the baizikrik thousand Buddha cave in Turpan. The representative ancient Buddhist murals in Xinjiang, more than 1200 square meters, are all covered on the walls from the ground to the top of the palace. The project is huge and takes four years. Visitors can enjoy a panoramic view of ancient Buddhist art in Xinjiang without leaving the palace.

Ten thousand Buddha Palace

The ten thousand Buddha palace is the main project of the desert folk art museum and the largest Buddhist art hall in Xinjiang,

There are three parts: the Great Buddha Hall, the kuci hall and the Gaochang hall. Kuci hall and Gaochang hall are based on the stolen and seriously damaged murals of Kizil thousand Buddha cave in Baicheng and the treasure dome of bozikrik thousand Buddha cave in Turpan,

Based on the research of experts, more than 1200 square meters of representative ancient Buddhist murals in Xinjiang have been restored

. There is a ten meter high painted Buddha in the hall of the Great Buddha, which is based on the red clothes Buddha unearthed in Yanqi

Dacheng is currently "the largest Buddha in Xinjiang". The ten thousand Buddha palace reproduces the art of ancient Buddhism in different periods

Brilliant achievements, the context of its vicissitudes and changes can give the audience a panoramic view.

In the hall of the Great Buddha, there is a clay painted Great Buddha. He pinches it with both hands to make a double Dharma shape. This Buddha statue is based on

The statue of Buddha unearthed in Qigexing Grottoes in Yanqi County, Xinjiang, is enlarged and molded. The prototype is 66 cm high and is now a Buddha

It's like nine meters high. This Buddha statue is one of the representatives of the modeling characteristics of the ancient western regions. The top of the Great Buddha Hall

In the center of the Ministry is a lotus pattern, and the following is a Thousand Buddhas. This comes from the Buddha Sakyamuni's saying that "Buddha is like the sand system of Ganges River, everywhere and everywhere.". Thousand Buddhas means there are Buddhas everywhere.

Guanyin Hall

Guanyin hall is composed of the front courtyard tower Pavilion and the back courtyard hall, all of which are made of raw soil. Look at that high tower

The unique Buddha's tooth pagoda and semi-circular Pavilion, the dome and small tower of Guanyin hall and the curved Pavilion

The wall, high and low, big and small, curved and straight, complicated and simple, forms a contrast and organic combination, which has a great value

Strong western region sentiment. Inside the hall is a bronze statue of Avalokitesvara,

Dignified and beautiful, benevolent image depiction, with fine brushwork style of delicate, with other native

The ruggedness of carving and freehand brushwork forms a strong contrast. The bronze statue of Guanyin is the only one in Xinjiang

Yes, they are deeply worshipped by the faithful men and women among the tourists.

folk art

On the west side of the ten thousand Buddha Palace are four dome buildings, which are continuous like a string of sugar gourds. They are exhibition rooms for jade, hats, clothing, bronze ware, etc. The wood products exhibition room in the northwest corner displays a variety of rotary and painted wood products and earth machinery.

Through the Zhongting, you can visit the earthenware exhibition hall, where there are old-fashioned pottery wheels powered by pedals and a spectacular piece of earth steamed bread. There are two earthenware kilns in the north courtyard. One is transplanted from Yingjisha County, the hometown of earthenware in Xinjiang, and the other is the local nangkeng kiln in Turpan. Visitors can visit the whole process of making earthenware and watch earthenware utensils here.

After a step down, you can enter a semi underground and complicated residential building, which belongs to the typical Turpan style earth arch courtyard. The courtyard is warm in winter and cool in summer, covering an area of more than 400 square meters. It is enough for dozens of people to hold a "maxilaifu" folk song and dance party here. In the courtyard, the three suites facing north and South are arranged as Uyghur dwellings, with the living room in the middle and two bedrooms in the East and West. On the upper floor, there are carpet weaving exhibition room, printed earth cloth exhibition room, embossed felt exhibition room and Adlai silk exhibition room. On the back of the building, there are folk painting exhibition rooms in Xinjiang. Here, visitors can enjoy the essence of Uygur folk art.

The exhibits in the above 11 exhibition rooms are the epitome of Xinjiang folk arts and crafts. After visiting these exhibition rooms, you will have a certain understanding of the rich and colorful folk arts and crafts of Uygur people and the customs, history, culture and sentiment of the desert people in the western regions.

Xiangba art Inn

Xiangba art Inn was built by desert folk art museum in two years. It can be said that it is Xinjiang Uygur folk art

The essence of surgery is to make visitors enjoy the people of Xinjiang.

At the same time, you can also participate in folk handicrafts

The production process of the product. The exhibits include earthenware products, mulberry paper

National traditional clothing, shoes and hats, Adlai silk, local weaving machine

, printed cloth, felt, jade, Pallas carpet

Soil machine, wood products such as wooden box, shaker, rotary bowl soil machine,

Metal products such as copper pot, copper plate, etc. These folk art works were collected by the Museum of local art for ten years, and some of them have disappeared

Lost,