Dujinsheng Brocade Museum

Dujinsheng Brocade Museum

It is located in dujinsheng silk weaving factory, Fengqi road. The Museum covers an area of more than 7000 square meters, including 500 square meters of exhibition rooms. This is the first tapestry Museum in China. This paper introduces in detail the development history of Chinese traditional brocade for more than 2000 years with nearly 1000 objects and pictures, and also shows the formation and development process of dujinsheng brocade. It is divided into four exhibition areas: exhibition room, raw material preparation workshop, brocade weaving workshop and product exhibition hall. At the same time, between the exhibition areas, there is a famous mulberry garden specially introducing sericulture knowledge, with five famous mulberry plants in China. Du Jinsheng was originally a personal name, then a factory name, and then a kind of handicraft. A tapestry Museum. As the first Brocade Museum in China, it has become one of the symbols of Hangzhou silk.

Development history

In the last century, with Leifeng Pagoda on the West Lake as the background, dujinsheng brocade, Kong Fengchun powder box, Mao Yuanchang glasses and Wang Xingji fan together almost condensed a whole era of Hangzhou. In other words, speaking from Du Jinsheng himself, his life can also represent an era.

Maojiabu, the West Lake, used to be the harbor where foreigners went to Lingyin by water to stop their boats. In the distance where people came and went in a hurry, the mountains of the west lake embraced a white old house, which contained many legends and glories, tears and sorrows. Du Jinsheng was born here on February 12, 1898.

He was born to weave brocade. Du Jinsheng is obsessed with the natural scenery of the West Lake. Draw, photograph and cut the West Lake. The corners of the West Lake left his footprints, while he left the pattern of creating landscape brocade in his heart.

Du Jinsheng studied in the weaving department of Zhejiang a industrial school, the predecessor of Zhejiang University of technology. At that time, there was an upsurge of boycotting Japanese goods, advocating the revitalization of national industry and saving the country by industry. In Du Jinsheng's view, "saving the country through industry" is not a slogan, but a parade. After graduating and staying in school in 1919, he chose the teaching job of fine arts, and in his spare time, he had the idea of weaving the beautiful scenery of the West Lake into a tapestry of scenery. In practice, he repeatedly studied, drew a blueprint, rolled the pattern in the school experimental workshop, and used his unique creative techniques to weave the artistic conception described by ancient literati on the loom with silk. At the age of 23, he had the world's first tapestry painting - "nine streams and eighteen streams". The streams are long and long, crossing the long river of history, showing Hangzhou's yesterday, today and future.

With the support of relatives and bank capitalists, he purchased a hand-held loom and hired a worker to start weaving in his Maojiabu home on May 15, 1922. Because the silk landscape paintings are novel and unique, and the price is not high, they are very popular in the society. Since then, he has taken the first step of "saving the nation through silk weaving".

In 1926, Du Jinsheng had nearly 100 hand-held machines, five gin machines, eight craftsmen and about 1340 employees. He became a factory worthy of the name. "The night tour of the imperial concubine" was exhibited at the Philadelphia International Fair and won the gold medal. It was well-known at home and abroad for a time and was exported to Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States. From 1928 to 1929, Du Jinsheng traveled to Japan for investigation. He obtained a new all iron electric machine made in France from his friends who studied in France. He also bought a cotton oil painting landscape made in France as a sample. He dissected and analyzed it with workers and technicians to develop new products.

After the September 18th Incident in 1931, driven by the Anti Japanese patriotic upsurge, Du Jinsheng stopped buying Nissan rayon in order to boycott Japanese goods and switched to Italian and French rayon. In July 1937, the Japanese imperialists launched an all-round war of aggression against China. In August, the Japanese bombed Hangzhou, and dujinsheng silk weaving factory was forced to shut down. As a result, 12 hand-held looms were transferred to the French concession in Shanghai to maintain small-scale production. In December of the same year, Hangzhou was occupied. The Japanese tried to work for the puppet government with the help of his fame and his experience of traveling to Japan, which was firmly rejected by him. The Japanese aggressors became angry and burned dujinsheng silk weaving factory and plundered the residence of Maojiabu. Unable to bear the harassment and destruction of Japanese soldiers, in 1939, the main workshop and all the new machinery of dujinsheng silk weaving factory outside Genshan gate in Hangzhou were burned down by Japanese invaders. Dujinsheng silk mill is constantly moving, which is difficult to maintain.

December 1941. After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese imperialists occupied the Shanghai concession, and dujinsheng silk weaving factory was forced to close down. In addition, the stores in Chongqing, Guangzhou and other places were bombed by Japanese planes. Dujinsheng was filled with grief and indignation. He saw his enterprise finally close down and died in 1943 at the age of 45.

A man who lived for Jin died for Jin. But it is gratifying that his brocade technology has been preserved forever, and his brilliance and the brilliant brocade, which embodies his whole life's efforts, have not come to an end. Dujinsheng people inherited and developed dujinsheng brocade, which brought dujinsheng silk mill back to life. After more than 80 years of vicissitudes, it has now developed into the largest silk production base in China. In May 1997, dujinsheng Brocade Museum opened.

Nowadays, Du Jinsheng's brocade has gone further and further, and its production technology is not what it used to be. Only in the dujinsheng Brocade Museum, some samples and ginning still lie there quietly, accompanied by those who walk hand in hand on the brocade machine, hand in hand on the loom, accompanied by the person who was born for brocade.

architectural composition

Hangzhou dujinsheng Brocade Museum is the first special Brocade Museum in China. It is located in the factory area of dujinsheng silk weaving factory, with six exhibition halls.

The first hall is the tapestry history hall, which displays all kinds of pictures of Du Jinsheng weaving cotton from the Warring States period, Qin and Han Dynasties to the present. It also introduces Mr. Du Jinsheng's life, the entrepreneurial history of Du Jinsheng silk weaving factory, and precious photos and materials of Premier Zhou Enlai and other party and state leaders accompanying foreign heads of state to visit the factory.

The second hall is the technological process hall. Starting from the ancient mulberry breeding and silkworm rearing, the raw materials and technological process of brocade are introduced one by one.

The third hall is the Xiangjing brocade hall, which displays the black-and-white landscape brocade, multicolored brocade and colorful brocade in dujinsheng brocade. It also introduces the silk wall hanging "Chunyuan Ninghui", which represents the highest level of contemporary colorful brocade.

The fourth hall is the decorative brocade hall, which displays Du Jinsheng's brocade products. The world's first silk weaving scroll "Jiangshan Wanli map" has a counter display.

The fifth hall introduces the whole process of dujinsheng brocade design, with on-site operation demonstration and audience participation.

The sixth Hall shows the real objects of the special weaving machines for ancient brocade.

Collection

Hangzhou dujinsheng Brocade Museum is the first special Brocade Museum in China. With nearly 1000 objects and pictures, the museum introduces in detail the development history of China's traditional brocade over 2000 years and the formation and development process of Du Jinsheng brocade, a rising star of contemporary brocade. At the same time, the museum also introduces the life of Mr. Du Jinsheng, a famous national entrepreneur in China, and the entrepreneurial history of Du Miansheng silk weaving factory named after him in the past 70 years. As a matter of fact, the museum is also developed from the exhibition hall of the history of Du Miansheng silk weaving factory, which is located in the factory area of Du Jinsheng silk weaving factory by the West Lake. In the workshop of the factory, the traditional silk weaving process is still in full swing (you can visit inside). The biggest achievement of visiting dujinsheng Brocade Museum is to understand the word "Brocade". Jin is a combination of gold and silk. According to the rules of ancient Chinese characters, brocade is a very valuable silk, and its value is equivalent to gold. In ancient China, there were silk, yarn, silk, silk, brocade, satin and Kesi. In addition to the "Jin" is next to the gold word, the other are all beside the twisted silk. It can be seen that Jin is indeed a very valuable silk.

During the visit to the dujinsheng Brocade Museum, the most impressive works are the exquisite works of art created with silk, including the giant head of Chairman Mao more than 1 meter high, Van Gogh's "sunflower", the giant "Potala Palace" and so on, as well as the silk statues of dujinsheng for the Clintons, Stalin and other famous figures.

Visit information

traffic

Transportation: route 12, 355, 21, 26, 30, 14, 151, 152 and 10

Tickets and opening hours

1. Time: 7:00 -- 16:30

2. Open all year round, free admission

Address: dujinsheng silk weaving factory, 519 Fengqi Road, Xiacheng District, Hangzhou

Longitude: 120.15987719595

Latitude: 30.262485853939

Tel: 0571-87918089

Ticket information: free.