Grand Canal Museum of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Grand Canal Museum of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Huaibei China Sui and Tang Grand Canal Museum (formerly known as Huaibei Museum) is located in Huaibei, a national garden city with beautiful scenery and rapid changes. It is far away from the municipal government, adjacent to century square and sports center. The museum opened in September 2004, covering an area of more than 40 mu, with a construction area of 10670 square meters. Founded in 1976, the new museum was built in August 2001. It was designed by Qi Kang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering and an architectural expert of Southeast University. It has a new and unique shape, which fully reflects the characteristics of Xiangcheng's regional culture. As a national 3A scenic spot, the museum will soon be declared as a national 4A scenic spot.

architectural composition

Huaibei China Grand Canal Museum of Sui and Tang Dynasties is an ingenious combination of coal culture and Sui and Tang canal culture. It is designed by Professor Qi Kang, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and architecture expert of Southeast University. It symbolizes that Huaibei, an emerging industrial city, is just like a ship riding the wind and waves, marching forward bravely in the history and the long river and heading for a bright future. Its architectural style has both historical vicissitudes and modern rhythm. The name of the Grand Canal Museum of Sui and Tang Dynasties is inscribed by Luo Zhewen, the head of the ancient architecture expert of the State Administration of cultural relics and the honorary president of the Chinese society of cultural relics. There are more than 10000 cultural relics in the collection, with an exhibition area of about 5000 square meters. Huaibei Museum has seven fixed exhibition halls: Sui and Tang Dynasty porcelain hall, Han Dynasty stone portrait hall, twelve famous people hall, canal rhyme hall, Song Dynasty porcelain hall, calligraphy and painting hall, planning hall and ancient treasure hall, which respectively display the cultural relics unearthed in Huaibei area and the collected calligraphy and paintings of national celebrities. In particular, the Sui and Tang Dynasty porcelain hall, the canal charm hall and the Song Dynasty porcelain hall represent the prosperity of Liuzi wharf, the old canal road in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Precious collections mainly include ancient wooden boats, Cizhou kiln white glaze black pot, Han Dynasty "heaven and earth" portrait stone, Shouzhou kiln yellow glaze holding pot, etc. The museum also has two temporary exhibition halls, which organize and hold exhibitions from time to time, such as "Huaihai battle Exhibition", "insect specimen Exhibition", "marine Specimen Exhibition", etc., all of which produce great social benefits, play a positive role in enriching people's spiritual life, carrying forward excellent history and culture, and are the window of spiritual civilization construction in Huaibei City.

Related history

Huaibei City has a long history and rich cultural relics. As early as 7000 years ago in the Neolithic period, the ancestors lived on this land. Later, about 4000 years ago, at the end of the primitive society, Zhuan Xu, one of the "Five Emperors" in ancient China, built a city in Xiangshan, where Huaibei municipal government is now located. In the 21st century B.C., the 11th ancestor of Shang and Tang Dynasties moved his capital here. Built in the southern foot of Xiangshan, Huaibei City xiangshan, Xiangcheng named. In the spring and Autumn period, the state of song moved its capital to Huaibei City to avoid floods for more than 90 years. The government of Sishui County in the Qin Dynasty, Pei County in the Western Han Dynasty and Pei state in the Eastern Han Dynasty were all located in Huaibei City. Hundreds of ancient tombs and cultural sites have been found and cleared in Huaibei area, and a large number of precious cultural relics have been unearthed. These cultural relics have attracted worldwide attention for their distinctive style of the times and local characteristics. During the Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties, due to the excavation of the Tongji canal of the Grand Canal, Liuzi in Huaibei became an important economic town connecting the north and the south.

Huaibei Museum, with 34 cadres and staff, is a provincial and municipal patriotic education base and a secondary key fire protection unit.

Future prospects

In November 2008, the national development and Reform Commission approved the "feasibility study report on the construction project of heritage protection facilities in Anhui section of the Grand Canal". The main content of the project is the construction of Huaibei Sui and Tang Grand Canal site museum. Relying on the site museum project, Huaibei City will strive to maintain the traditional style of historical blocks and historical buildings along the canal, focusing on scientific protection and supplemented by appropriate utilization, and create a national first-class "canal site culture park" integrating historical culture, traditional culture, scientific culture and leisure culture, integrating information exchange, entertainment and tourism The city has built an archaeological tourism park integrating scientific research, tourism, sightseeing and entertainment to benefit the general public. " Chen Jianhua, chairman of the Huaibei Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, said, "Huaibei played a representative role in the application for world heritage of the Sui and Tang Dynasties canal section. It is of great significance to increase the relevance between the Grand Canal's" application for World Heritage "and Huaibei City, and to further do a good job in the protection of the Grand Canal and other related work.

Visit information

geographical position

1 Museum Road, Xiangshan District, Huaibei City, Anhui Province.

Opening Hours

From Tuesday to Sunday, 8:30-11:30 a.m.; 14:30-17:00 p.m. (winter); 15:00-17:30 p.m. (summer); closed on Monday (except national legal holidays).

admission ticket

Free Admission

Explanation: 50 yuan / time

Voice guide: rent 15 yuan / set; deposit 100 yuan / set (with valid ID card).

remarks:

1. The school organizes (team) primary and secondary school students to visit and study patriotism and give free explanation.

2. The army organizes (team) active servicemen to visit and study and give free explanation.

3. If you make an appointment to explain (including free explanation, you need to make an appointment one day in advance until the amount is full.) Please visit on time. The service will be cancelled after 40 minutes.

4. Group requirements: in order to ensure the quality of the visit, each explanation team should not exceed 20 people, more than 20 people are recommended to be divided into more than two teams. (Group standard: 10 or more)

traffic

Take bus No.10 to the station of the Municipal Agricultural Committee, and walk 500 meters east to the museum.

Take bus No.8 or No.16 to the municipal procuratorate station, 300 meters southeast to the museum.

Take bus No.8 or No.21 to Century Square Station, and walk 100 meters southwest to the museum.

Take bus No.9 and get off at the municipal administration service center station, 600 meters southeast to the museum.

Address: No.1 Museum Road, Xiangshan District, Huaibei City, Anhui Province

Longitude: 116.79829

Latitude: 33.951797