Xunyi Tangjia folk custom museum

Tangjia folk custom museum in Xunyi County

synonym

Xunyi Tangjia Folk Museum generally refers to Xunyi Tangjia Folk Museum

Xunyi County Tangjia folk custom museum is located in Tangjia village, seven kilometers northeast of Xunyi County, Xianyang City, 2 kilometers away from 211 national road. It is a key cultural relic protection unit at the provincial level. The Tang folk custom museum in Xunyi, formerly known as the Tang landlord's manor, was originally a private house. It was built in the late Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty. There are more than 150 houses in it. There are also Tang Tingquan's Mausoleum and stone archway in the park. Its architecture combines the Northern courtyard and Suzhou Hangzhou garden art. There are many brick, wood and stone carvings with exquisite and delicate patterns. The roof of the whole courtyard is ridged with beasts flying, the cornice teeth are pecked by birds, the walls are made of terrazzo bricks, the shape is beautiful, and the door, railing and window edges are exquisitely carved.

Development history

In 1958, the "Tang family landlord manor Museum" was established here, which is subordinate to Xunyi County Bureau of culture and education. In March 1971, it was rebuilt as Xunyi class education exhibition hall. In 1988, it was changed to "Tangjia folk custom museum of Xunyi county". The museum is located in tangjiamin house, which was announced as a provincial cultural relics protection unit by Shaanxi Provincial People's Government in 1992.

The landlords of the Tang family were the well-known "Sanshui Tang family" in the middle and late Qing Dynasty. The fourth generation of Tang Jingzhong was in the heyday of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, and the Tang family also reached a period of prosperity. It is based on agriculture and prospers its family by business. Its business names are all over the 13 provinces in China. It claims to "remit money to the 13 provinces in China, including the title of magistrate Daotai; horses don't eat other people's grass when they go to other provinces, and people don't stop other people's shops when they go to Sichuan.". The scale of this can be seen. In 1795, Tang Jingzhong also went to Beijing to attend the Qianlong banquet held by Emperor Qianlong. He presented seven grade official clothes, silver medals, walking sticks, and seven character temperament.

Since then, the Tang family had an official title. They were connected with the emperor and officials. They were exploited for business profits. In addition, they had a good management. Therefore, their business was prosperous and their financial resources were strong. At that time, the Tang family owned a large area of land and a large number of tenant farmers and livestock in Xunyi, Binxian, Chunhua and Yaoxian counties, and collected a huge amount of land rent every year. At that time, it was not only rich and powerful in Shaanxi, but also ranked the first in the country. In the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, there were only 60 people in the Tang family, including 165 servants and maids, and 66 Yingge sedans (equivalent to high-class sedans). It was really "you can't go out without a sedan chair, and the deacons of the whole Tang family opened the way.".

Because of the wealth and power of the Tang family, the houses they built were extremely exquisite and the workmanship was very meticulous. It took 43 years to build 87 palace style courtyards, about 700 rooms in each of them. All the buildings are made of wood, stone and brick. Not only the foundation is firm and solid, but also each house is made of polished bricks and stone with meticulous carving and depiction of dragons and phoenixes. The joints of the bricks are also watered with lime and glutinous rice juice. There are various patterns such as "Eight Immortals" and "twenty four filial piety" carved on the board partition wall of the courtyard, and "eight horses" and "Huashan chess" carved on the corner columns and walls of the courtyard. There are also relief works such as peony, plum bamboo and dry lotus. After the completion of the compound, the Tang family built a large theater to celebrate, singing for more than three months.

From the end of the Qing Dynasty, this big landlord family, which had a lot of wealth, gradually fell down in the extreme extravagance. All kinds of belongings and treasures bought by the family have been almost lost after many vicissitudes. The Tang family's compound has been turned into a folk museum, while most of the Tang family's descendants live in Tangjia village and live by hard work.

architectural composition

Tangjiazhuangyuan is the residence of Tang Jingzhong, a millionaire of the Tang family in the Qing Dynasty. There are more than 2700 old buildings and pavilions. After the war and the sale of their descendants, most of the buildings were demolished. At present, there are only 150 tombs in total, covering an area of 4036 square meters, of which the building area is 2631 square meters. Housing construction, rigorous structure, carved beams and painted buildings, has the characteristics of northern folk courtyard. Although these houses have been eroded by more than 300 years of wind and rain, they are still as strong as ever. This residential building is of great value to the study of architectural structure, carving art and local customs of the Qing Dynasty.

Collection

The main display content is divided into three parts: first, five courtyard. Restore the original appearance of the interior furnishings of the original manor, and show the living customs of the rich families in rural areas in the Qing Dynasty. The whole hospital is divided into central hall, left and right upper and lower building, embroidery building, etc. Second, it is divided into three hospitals. Display of Xunyi and its adjacent areas related to folk customs. Third, it is divided into the display of the original tombs. On display are tombs, archways, stele towers, stone horses, stone sheep, funerary objects, gold and silver jewelry, jade and other cultural relics, reflecting the extravagant burial customs and rituals of the rich families in the Qing Dynasty.

There are 618 pieces in the collection. Most of them are folk cultural relics. He has published an introduction to Tang family folk custom museum.

Opening Hours

It is open from 8:00 a.m. to 18:00 a.m. in summer and from 8:00 a.m. to 16:00 a.m. in winter.

Location of the Museum

The Tangjia folk custom museum of Xunyi county is located in Tangjia village, seven kilometers east of Xunyi County, Shaanxi Province. Post code: 711302

Address: Tangjia village, taicun Town, Xunyi County, Xianyang City

Longitude: 108.34505462647

Latitude: 35.166931152344

Tel: 029-34655177

Ticket information: market price: 25.0 yuan