Tonglu Museum

Tonglu Museum

Tonglu museum is located at no.646 Xuesheng Road, Chengnan street, Tonglu County. It is a comprehensive county-level Museum reflecting Tonglu history and culture. It was built in October 2004 and opened to the public free of charge. It covers an area of more than 1000 square meters, with a construction area of 2600 square meters and more than 2000 cultural relics.

Basic Display

The exhibition area of the museum is 1300 square meters, with three fixed exhibitions and one temporary exhibition hall. The fixed display is divided into three themes: "Tongjiang dawn", "Tongjiang spring and Autumn" and "Tongjiang stars".

Dawn of Tongjiang River

"Tongjiang dawn" is a series of exhibitions of six historical and cultural relics of the Neolithic and Neolithic age, including yancundong, fangjiazhou and Xiaoqinglong sites, with the theme of cultural relics unearthed from the stone age, showing the rich and splendid prehistoric civilization of Tonglu. Fangjiazhou site is located in the northwest of fangjiazhou natural village, Panlian administrative village, Yaolin Town, on the South Bank of Fenshui River. About 5000 to 6000 years ago, the site is the first Neolithic jade factory excavated in the Yangtze River Valley. Barley convex site is located in the small hill in front of Liuyan village, hengcun town. It is the first Neolithic cultural site found in fenshuijiang River Basin in Tonglu. It unearthed jade Yue, jade Bi and other important jades. It is the first discovery of high-level settlement sites in Liangzhu culture period in Western Zhejiang. Wangtongshan menqianshan site is located at the top of wangtongshan mountain, a natural village in moliaoshang, Jiuxian administrative village, Jiuxian street, with an altitude of 30 meters. During the third cultural relic survey in Tonglu County in 2008, Neolithic specimens were collected from the surface. Shijiaqianshan site is located in hengcun town houling administrative village chenxiangling natural village shijiaqianshan north slope, 191 meters above sea level. In 2009, experts from Zhejiang Provincial Institute of cultural relics and Archaeology conducted a re investigation on shijiaqianshan and found stone arrowheads and other Neolithic relics. Xiaoqinglong site, about 1000 meters long, is located in Xiaoqinglong Gangdi, South to north of Chengnan street. Many tombs of powerful people in Liangzhu culture period, such as jade Cong, jade Bi, painted jade Yue with handle and wooden lacquerware, have been cleared up, and many row buildings have been found, which is the highest level settlement site of Liangzhu culture period in Western Zhejiang so far.

Tongjiang spring and Autumn Festival

The chapter "Tongjiang spring and Autumn Period" focuses on the cultural relics in the collection and shows the history of Tonglu since the pre Qin period. Through the precious historical relics, we can see the change of dynasties from the pre Qin Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty. These ancient existence is like a history book with pictures and texts, which shows us the civilization course of Tonglu. Among them, the pre Qin cultural relics unearthed in Tonglu are mainly pottery, as well as a small number of bronzes and primitive porcelain. The blue glazed chicken head pot with dragon handle in the Southern Dynasty is thick, simple and full of charm, which reflects the level of celadon firing technology in the Southern Dynasty. The cultural relics of the Tang and Song dynasties are various in variety and large in quantity, which fully shows the prosperous economy of Tonglu at that time. Among them, the discovery of the tomb of the Southern Song Dynasty is a major breakthrough in the field of song and Yuan Archaeology in our province. The cultural relics of the yuan and Ming Dynasties are exquisitely carved and exquisitely made, which fully reflects the level of handicraft production at that time. The Qing Dynasty artillery found in Tonglu County reappeared the history of war and smoke, and also witnessed the development of Chinese military in Qing Dynasty.

Tongjiang stars

The chapter "Tongjiang stars" mainly shows Tonglu celebrities and Tonglu related celebrities. In this beautiful land full of aura, many historical celebrities were born or associated with each other. Shi Jianwu, Huang Gongwang, ye Qianyu and many other heroes, literati, incorruptible officials, celebrities and sages have made immortal soul for Fuchunjiang by their achievements, virtue and integrity. Among them, there are not only local celebrities and heroes, but also many outstanding talents from other places. The beautiful Fuchun landscape is full of hermit style and shows the spirit of king!

Collection

There are more than 2000 pieces of cultural relics in the museum. The collection covers the stone age, bronze age, Warring States period, Qin and Han Dynasties, Liao, Jin, yuan, Ming, Qing and other historical periods. The collection belongs to more than 10 categories, including stone tools, pottery, porcelain, metal ware, dental horn ware, calligraphy, painting and so on.

Celadon chicken head pot with dragon handle from Yue Kiln of Southern Dynasty

The celadon chicken head teapot with dragon handle from Yue Kiln of Southern Dynasty was unearthed in Gaohe village, Tonglu town in May 2004, with a height of 47.5cm. It is the highest chicken head teapot in the collection of our Provincial Museum and is a national second-class cultural relic. This chicken head pot has a long neck, wide shoulders, deep belly and flat bottom. The upper abdomen is bulging. Shi Qinghuang glaze, the glaze color is moist, the glaze layer partial spalling. On one side of the shoulder is the chicken head, and on the other side is the cylindrical faucet handle. The dragon's beak bites the mouth of the plate, which is like bending the head to draw water, vivid and lifelike. There is a bridge system on each side. The whole ware is deep and simple, full of charm. The celadon chicken head pot with dragon handle from Yue Kiln in the Southern Dynasties is a typical utensil popular in the Jin and southern and Northern Dynasties. Due to the different times, its modeling characteristics are also different. In the Western Jin Dynasty, the body and neck of the chicken head pot were thick and short. The chicken head on the pot was small without neck, and a small chicken tail was decorated on the other end of the pot. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the northern and Southern Dynasties, the body and neck of the chicken were thin and tall, the head of the chicken was high, the crown of the chicken was large, and the tail of the chicken evolved into a handle higher than the mouth of the pot.

Brown glazed porcelain jar of Song Dynasty

Straight mouth, full shoulder, deep arc belly, circle foot. The glaze color is brown and white, and the glaze is inferior to the bottom. The ware is made in northern China, which is rare.

Paleolithic human skulls from yancundong

It was unearthed in May 2000 in Yan village, Fenshui town, Tonglu County, about 10000 years ago. There are 5 pieces in total. According to the analysis of the inspection of the 5 pieces, 4 of the 5 pieces can be completely assembled and belong to the same individual. The color and texture of the other bone piece are very similar to those of the four pieces, and may also belong to the same individual. According to the healing of bone suture, the age of death may be about 30 years old.

Honors

Since its opening ten years ago, Tonglu Museum has successively won the honors of national third level museum, Tonglu County patriotism education base, Hangzhou patriotism education base, 2008 Hangzhou Museum best progress award, Hangzhou second batch of youth second classroom activity base and Tonglu County "people's satisfaction grassroots station (service window)".

Visit information

Address

646 Xuesheng Road, Chengnan street, Tonglu County, Zhejiang Province

transport line

No.7, No.11, No.12, No.21 buses

Ticket Price

Free Admission

Opening Hours

Tonglu museum is open to the public free of charge throughout the year. It closes on Monday, opens from 9:00 to 17:00 from Tuesday to Sunday, and stops admission at 16:30.

Postcode

three hundred and eleven thousand and five hundred

Notice for free visit

1. Obey the management of museum staff;

2. Those with untidy clothes, drunkenness and irregular words and deeds are not allowed to visit;

3. Pets, inflammable and explosive dangerous goods, controlled appliances and other legal dangerous goods, and large luggage or articles are not allowed to enter the museum;

4. The visiting vehicles are orderly parked at the designated site;

5. Senior citizens, people with disabilities and minors should be accompanied by relatives and friends and pay attention to safety;

6. Please do not bring drinks and other food into the exhibition hall, do not make noise or touch the exhibits, and take good care of all kinds of facilities;

7. Please keep clean and forbid smoking;

8. Do not shoot with tripod or flash.

Service Information

1. Provide free consulting service for the audience, and warmly accept the advice and supervision of the audience;

2. Free of charge for the audience to provide exhibitions, educational activities and other information materials;

3. Free storage service for the audience;

4. Free wheelchairs and trolleys for the elderly, infants and the disabled;

5. We are dedicated to providing reservation service for individual and group visitors. Group visitors must make an appointment 24 hours in advance.

Address: no.646 Xuesheng Road, Tongjun street, Tonglu County, Hangzhou City

Longitude: 119.699676

Latitude: 29.796353

Tel: 0571-64218566