Museums: We can put national museums, such as hotels in Sanya, into a "stall theory". I divided them into three grades.
The first gear is equivalent to the existence of Michelin, which means going to the city alone for it.
Second gear is equivalent to two Michelin stars. You can't miss it when you go to that city.
Third gear is equivalent to a Michelin star. If you happen to be nearby, go and have a look.
The first file: God-class museum (equivalent to 3 Michelin stars)
Palace Museum, China National Museum, Shanghai Museum, Taibei Palace Museum, Hunan Provincial Museum, Shaanxi History Museum, Henan Museum, Hubei Provincial Museum and Nanjing Museum.
They belong to the series that must be visited in China.
The second file: some excellent provincial and municipal museums (equivalent to Michelin 2 stars)
Provincial museums include: Zhejiang Museum, Guizhou Museum, Guangdong Museum, Yunnan Museum and Gansu Museum.
There are Suzhou Museum, Ningbo Museum, Shenzhen Museum and Guilin Museum.
The third file: various museums with local characteristics (equivalent to Michelin 1 star)
For example, China Sword Museum, China Fan Museum and China Umbrella Museum; Shanghai glass art museum and Shanghai glass museum; Xiamen Gulangyu Organ Museum; China Watermelon Museum; Jiangsu China Museum of Sexual Culture, etc.
They may not have such a rich collection, but they have almost achieved the ultimate in a certain field and often have little interest.
So, what are the advantages of spending hours or even days visiting these museums?
It is a shortcut to learn more about local culture.
Art galleries and museums in many cities are also one of the best ways to learn about the local area.
Now when we go out to travel, we can only see the existing natural and cultural features in the local area. The existence of the museum can take you to see what this place was like before and witness the way of life of human beings in different time and space. It is interesting to know what local people used to eat and what kind of houses they lived in.
Taking Yunnan Provincial Museum as an example, we can see that Yunnan in different periods, such as ancient times, Bronze Age, Eastern Han Dynasty to Wei and Jin Dynasties, Tang and Song Dynasties, added a lot of new knowledge to the journey.
Playing the museum is a city game with high cost performance.
Visiting museums in China is generally economical, and most powerful provincial fairs are free.
Many libraries only need to exchange tickets for free with their ID cards. Generally speaking, it takes at least half a day to visit carefully. Do you think it's worth it?
It makes your trip more profound.
Now most of the travel content may be eating, sleeping, strolling and taking photos, which is very relaxing.
Of course, shopping is fun enough. If we can go deeper into history, humanities and customs, this spiritual content will be more memorable.
If you can go abroad in the future, you can also apply this travel logic to many destinations in the world.
Take Japan as an example. Even the small counties in Kyushu have excellent art galleries and museums, and there are the latest art exhibitions from time to time. For example, there is an international exhibition in the Oita Art Museum, and teamLab is also held in the ruined hot spring house in Wuxiong County.
However, art galleries are different from museums. Art galleries belong to the sub-type of museums.
Culture and art are reassuring. One of my great wishes in life is to visit as many different art galleries and museums around the world as possible.
Today, I will talk to you about several provincial museums worth visiting in China. They are popular destinations, but at the same time they are ignored by many people. If you think this theme is not bad, it will also form a series.
The list of provincial museums to be mentioned is as follows. You can also go directly to the museum you are interested in.
1. Guizhou Provincial Museum
2. Zhejiang Provincial Museum
3. Hunan Provincial Museum
4. Guangdong Provincial Museum
The Best Place for Guizhou Provincial Museum to Listen to Guizhou Stories
Although it was not included in the first two seasons of "National Treasure", after seeing it in person, I think it is absolutely not lost.
Provincial museums are bigger than large shopping centers in cities. The design outside is nothing like a traditional museum, but embraces a lot of modernity.
My favorite part of the whole museum is the multimedia equipment that appeared at the beginning of the visit. On the screen, girls from different ethnic minorities will say hello to you in local dialects and dances, which will make people instantly enter the ethnic minority context.
There are more than 8w exhibits in the whole museum, among which Miao costumes and silver ornaments are very eye-catching, and the quantity and quality here are the first in the country. I guess girls or people interested in clothes will like it here.
In the clothing branch, I was really shocked by the beauty of all kinds of girls' clothes and jewelry! It is a famous scene for girls to put on gorgeous hair bun on important days, or to put on stunning headdress and dance in the crowd.
The clothes collected in the museum are gorgeous, and the patterns actually record the fairy stories of things in nature and human beings, such as birds, animals, insects, fish, plants, flowers and fruits, as well as the creation of the world and the shooting of the sun and the moon.
Many clothes were sewn by grandma or mom for several months, full of affection.
Silver ornaments are handed down from generation to generation, from grandmother to mother and from mother to daughter. They are very gorgeous and the details are worthy of scrutiny.
The girls make headdresses with silverware. Where are the boys? You can use small fish to dry (of course, this is an artistic expression)! If you are a shovel officer, maybe you can make one for your master.
It is said that international fashion brands, such as GUCCI, made a special trip to Guizhou to seek inspiration from totem embroidery of local ethnic minorities.
Other exhibits are also real big names. There are original works by Zheng Banqiao, Qi Baishi and Feng Zikai in the painting and calligraphy exhibition hall.
Zheng Banqiao's bamboo paintings are also admirable. Bamboo leaves look messy, but they are not messy. The density is alternating with each other, which shows that bamboo is very meaningful.
I remember that in the primary school Chinese painting class, the teacher taught us how to paint with bamboo in Zheng Banqiao, but at that time, no matter how we imitated it, it seemed clumsy.
I am deeply impressed by Qi Baishi, who is good at painting shrimps and crabs. Although his brushwork is rough, he is vivid as a whole. The crab in the painting is carefree and unbearable to eat.
The security guards of the museum also know about the exhibits, so you can consult them if you want to find them.
In a short time, he took us through these famous calligraphy and paintings, which are the treasures of the town hall. If we browse by ourselves, we may not find them.
Guizhou is the cradle of ancient life on earth, so there are a lot of fossils here, which is called "the kingdom of paleontology".
Many museums have dinosaur fossils on land and fossils of marine life (Guizhou used to be an ocean here).
There is a special fossil exhibition hall upstairs, ranging from giant dinosaurs to tiny marine life.
There are a bunch of international brand hotels with semicolons near the museum, such as Hyatt Regency, Hilton and Renaissance. This is a place to stay in a nearby hotel and walk. There is also a Guanshan Lake Park next door. On sunny days, you can go to see the sparkling lake, and in autumn, you can go to the park to find all kinds of yellow leaves. It's also very interesting.
Zhejiang Provincial Museum Next, let's talk about the Zhejiang Museum which is closer. Zhejiang Provincial Museum is divided into Gushan Museum Area and Wulin Museum Area, which are basically open to the public free of charge all year round.
The Wulin exhibition area is built in the West Lake Cultural Square, which is located in the downtown area and next to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. In Hangzhou, this position is quite C.
The Gushan exhibition area is near the West Lake, which is the Gushan in the "Gushan Temple North Jiating West". The whole building has the flavor of Jiangnan garden, and I prefer it from the environment. And it is close to the West Lake, which can avoid crowds.
Generally speaking, both museums have fixed exhibitions and mobile exhibitions.
Wulin branch:
Zhejiang Museum has 10 treasures, 9 of which are in the Wulin branch, such as the famous Jade Cong and Fuchun Shan Jutu.
In addition to the Southern Song Dynasty when Hangzhou was the temporary capital, another glorious period here was the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, when King Yue of Wu ruled Zhejiang (including the whole of Zhejiang Province, southern Jiangsu Province, Shanghai and northeastern Fujian Province).
So many products on display are related to these two eras.
There are also exhibits representing different local cultures in Zhejiang, such as celadon in Longquan.
It is also famous for Hemudu culture in Yuyao, Ningbo. For example, this ivory butterfly carving machine is also listed as the highest level of national cultural relics "cultural relics prohibited from going abroad for exhibition".
After visiting Wulinmen branch, it is recommended that you take a bus at Wulinmen Pier and take a bus to Xiaohezhi Street. The whole process is very healing.
Please answer 1988 when listening to bgm on the boat. It feels good.
Gushan branch
The interest of Gushan Pavilion is that the exhibition halls with different themes are distributed in beautiful and story-telling buildings.
The treasure of the town hall in Gushan Park is this gold-plated pure silver Ashoka Pagoda, which was previously found in the underground palace of Leifeng Pagoda. It is made of pure silver and looks spectacular.
There is a Wen Lan Pavilion, which was once one of the seven royal libraries in Qing Dynasty. At present, the theme on display here is "One of Wen Lan", and you can see the original version of Sikuquanshu.
Another theme worth seeing is "Ruixiang Hot Sound", which is mainly about the cultural relics of Leifeng Pagoda and even the restoration of the site of Leifeng Pagoda. Seeing this scene is like crossing a thousand years at once.
Leifeng Pagoda is a stupa. The following Buddha statue and the gilded bronze statue of Sakyamuni Buddha were also dug out from the underground palace of Leifeng Pagoda. It is of great significance to replay the Buddha's light after a thousand years.
When the leaves turn red and Huang Shi, it is more interesting to visit Zhejiang Expo. I can't go to Japan to see the red leaf season this year. In fact, in the mountains near the West Lake in Hangzhou, there are quite a few such small secret realms. While looking at the exhibits, I can also gain a lot of healing from the natural and architectural landscape.
There are kittens in Gushan Park in Bo Zhe. See if you can catch them sleeping or stretching.
When Hunan Provincial Museum goes to Changsha, there are really many things to do besides drinking tea, going to literature and sightseeing, such as visiting Hunan Provincial Museum, the most worthwhile cultural landmark in Changsha. Many people directly call it "Xiang Bo", but for outsiders, it is easy to be confused with "saving Bo".
Ignorance of history is no excuse. Going here will only make Xiao Bai more interested in history. The exhibits inside are very old, but the whole museum gives people a very trendy feeling.
Among all the exhibits, the most shining ones are Mawangdui Tomb and the Millennium Immortal Lady Xin Zhui. Many people walked away in shock after reading it.
Of course, this also benefits from the wonderful explanation of the exhibits in the museum. What each item is, what it is used for and how it is used are clearly illustrated.
Mawangdui Western Han Tombs (Mawangdui)
This series of exhibits in Mawangdui Han Tomb is the C position of Xiang Bo. Without the discovery of Liu He's tomb, Mawangdui Han Tomb is definitely the most exciting thing in China Han Tomb Archaeology.
Walking in the museum area is like walking into the world where the late Lord once lived. A little personal, but not exaggerated. The whole layout is very immersive.
For example, there are many Han figurines in the funerary objects, playing different musical instruments, bringing people into a Western Han music scene and forming a music festival.
For example, the presentation of a piece of clothing makes people lament the exquisiteness of ancient life. After reading these, look at the fast-moving clothes in the mall, and I really don't feel a little excited.
Among them, I have to say "T-shaped silk painting in the Western Han Dynasty" and "plain gauze cicada clothing".
The content of T-shaped silk painting in the Western Han Dynasty comes from Shan Hai Jing, which shows heaven, earth and hell. Under the description of exquisite embroidery, the pattern looks quite shocking, once again lamenting the power of ancient handicrafts.
Let's take a look at plain yarn clothes in the Western Han Dynasty.
It is incredibly thin. Such a big dress is only 100 grams, which can be folded into a matchbox. Uniqlo can put the light in a small bag, which is nothing compared with it.
With modern technology, it is impossible to achieve the craftsmanship of the ancients.
There are also some lacquerware in the funerary objects, such as plates for eating. The bowl says "You are the lucky one to eat", which means that you can eat well and eat well. The ancients lived with their hearts and never lost to modern people.
In addition to real cultural relics, there are some new media technologies to make the exhibition look more vivid. As a special exhibition of cultural relics, Xiang Bo's curatorial level is top in China.
Besides, Mrs Xin Zhui.
1972 When the body of Mrs. Xin Zhui was unearthed, the news caused a global sensation. After more than two thousand years, it can still keep the body intact, its muscles are elastic, its joints can move, and its hair is still there. This is the first perfect wet corpse found in the world.
Mrs. Xin Zhui, who restored the expert's appearance, looks so beautiful.
The T-shaped silk painting mentioned above is a classic among her funerary objects.
In Xiang Bo, you can see the immortal face of Mrs Xin Zhui. Don't be afraid, there are many people around anyway. The narrator will also tell people about Mrs. Xin Zhui's life, which shows that she had very good taste before her death.
Recently, there is a special exhibition "Peru Ancient Civilization Exhibition" on the first floor, which is quite worth seeing.
Although there are only three floors, the area here is really large. If you go around deeply, you may not be able to walk, but there are many chairs in the museum for everyone to rest.
The tour order is suggested to start from the third floor and look down, which is easier to understand. Except for the special exhibition, everything is free.
The first floor: Special Exhibition and Mrs. Xin Zhui.
Second floor: Hunan history
The third floor: Mawangdui Han Tomb
Hunan Provincial Museum has been reserved. Every day, 15000 people can be admitted, and 9000 places can be allocated online. You can make an appointment three days in advance. It's no problem to go on weekdays. If you have a holiday, please make an appointment in advance.
How to make an appointment?
1. Follow the official account of "Hunan Museum" WeChat.
2. Click on "Visit Service" at the bottom and select "Ticket Reservation".
Fill in personal or friend information.
It is very important to have an explanation for such a large museum.
1. Manual explanation: There are free explanations on the second and third floors every day 10. Most of the explanations are retired employees of the venue. In their mouth, these thousands of years old cultural relics seem to have become more vivid. Highly recommended!
2. Electronic explanation: scan the QR code next to the booth to explain. Relatively speaking, it is not so vivid, but the advantage is that the exhibition can follow its own pace.
3. Apply for an interpreter at the front desk.
Guangdong Provincial Museum Guangdong Provincial Museum is located in Zhujiang New Town. It is a bit rare to leave a large open space for humanities and art on this land of land with an inch of land and gold.
Besides, it's really good to stroll around. Across the river from Guang Zhouta, there are Guangzhou Library, Grand Theatre and CBD where white-collar workers work.
Moreover, its architectural appearance is super beautiful, just like a treasure chest hidden between tall buildings, with many hollow designs to make the whole look more artistic.
Guangdong Provincial Museum is divided into four parts: art museum, natural museum, history museum and temporary exhibition hall. In addition to the temporary exhibition hall, the other three museums mainly present some local stories from ancient times to the present.
What are the highlights of the permanent exhibition?
Chaozhou woodcarving art exhibition
There are two wood carving systems in China, one in Dongyang, Zhejiang, and the other in Chaozhou.
Chaozhou here does not refer to today's Chaozhou, but refers to the ancient Chaozhou mansion, including the whole Chaoshan three cities.
The exquisite degree of Chaozhou woodcarving is really beyond my imagination. Artisans can use wood to describe stories, fight or celebrate, which looks lifelike.
The most important thing in Chaoshan area is all kinds of ancestral temples, from architecture to interior decoration, there are wood carving elements everywhere. There is no shortage of shrines in ancestral halls. Simply put, it is a wooden seat used to worship the gods.
The shrine can be carved in an ordinary way or in a very artistic way. Generally speaking, shrines with carved patterns will be affixed with pure gold foil, which looks quite imposing.
There is a treasure of the town hall here, called "Golden Lacquer Woodcarving Shrine", which has also been a national treasure and is the largest known shrine.
There are many rich scenes on it, including some traditional patterns, plants and fruits, as well as vivid scenes of important gatherings of the ancients. It is a condensed map of the world, which is very shocking.
Duanyan art exhibition
Duanyan is one of the four famous inkstones. Moreover, it is quite amazing, and the ink ground with it will not freeze in winter; Words written in this ink are not eaten by insects and ants.
The inkstone here is a treasure in the museum. It's obviously stone, but it's soft and curious. What is the technology behind it? This exhibition can be the narrator of the story.
The treasure of the town hall here is the "Thousand Female Monkey King inkstone".
It was built in Guangxu period. At that time, the consultant of Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, found a famous local craftsman to make Duan inkstone, using the precious daxi cave stone in the old pit of Duan Xi as raw material.
At first glance, the monkey pattern is not obvious. Wipe Yantai with a wet cloth and the golden monkey will be on the paper. The place where I draw the yellow line is the monkey face. Did you get a look at him?
You can see rare natural patterns such as fish brain jelly, rouge, and fire roast appearing on it, which looks like a monkey surrounded by a flat peach tree. The monkey's eyes, nose and mouth look lifelike.
In addition, there are exhibitions of ceramics of past dynasties and natural resources in Guangdong Province, so I won't say much today. It's interesting to visit them all. Especially the latter, it is quite photogenic.
The permanent exhibition is free, and you can get tickets with your ID card. The reservation is registered in real-name registration system, and each person can reserve no more than three free tickets (1children under .4m are free). Tickets for 1500 can be booked every day while stocks last.
Recently, there is a special exhibition to pay tribute to anti-epidemic workers, which is highly recommended. After all, this may be the biggest event in the country this year. "Together" has not been published recently. Through this exhibition, you can better appreciate the hard work of medical staff.
By the way, it recently exhibited a set of surroundings in cooperation with litchi culture, including earrings, notebooks, rulers, umbrellas and so on. This is very exciting.
About the wonderful variety of the museum "National Treasure"
When I talked about several cultural relics before, I mentioned national treasures.
I strongly recommend you to have a look. Every episode of the program takes you to visit a powerful museum. Celebrities show you the treasures of different city halls, such as Ryan, Jerry Lee, Wang Kai and Tamia Liu. They all come as guests to tell stories with cos in person, which is both interesting and cultural.
While taking the provincial Expo as a must-see list for travel, you can do some homework in advance through this program. When you visit the museum, you can know the past life of the treasure without reading the instructions. How cool it feels.
The first season focuses on nine museums:
Nanjing Museum, Hunan Provincial Museum, Shanghai Museum, Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Palace Museum, Henan Museum, Shaanxi History Museum, Liaoning Provincial Museum and Hubei Provincial Museum.
In the second quarter, several museums were added: Hebei Museum, Shanxi Museum, Shandong Museum, Guangdong Museum, Sichuan Museum, Yunnan Museum, Gansu Museum and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum.
They are all big restaurants that can be added to the travel list.
In addition to on-site ticket exchange, all the museums mentioned above can make an appointment directly in their official WeChat official account. I suggest you make an appointment in advance, there may be a queue at the scene.