Guqin is one of the oldest plucked instruments in the world, with a history of more than 3,000 years, ranking first among the four arts of "Qin, chess, calligraphy and painting". On June 7, 2003, 165438+ Chinese guqin art was officially listed in the second batch of "representative works of oral and intangible heritage of mankind" in the world, becoming the cultural wealth of all mankind. The exhibition hall of "Talented Artists-Zhejiang Folk Plastic Arts" is located on the third floor of Wulin Hall of Zhejiang Museum, covering an area of more than 400 square meters. This is an exhibition in the form of intangible culture, showing the best folk art nurtured by the land of Zhejiang. They come from labor and life and are rooted in villages and towns. They are not only the physical evidence of Zhejiang people's clever minds and exquisite skills, but also reflect their adaptability and creativity to survive and develop in crowded and sparsely populated environments.
The exhibition is divided into four units: sculpture art, paper-cutting art, weaving art and weaving and dyeing art. A recognition system consisting of typical patterns and characters is set at the entrance of the four units to further strengthen information classification. Each unit is divided into several independent art projects: sculpture art includes the famous "Zhejiang Three Carvings" (Dongyang Wood Carving, Yueqing Boxwood Carving and Qingtian Stone Carving), Huangyan Bamboo Carving and Ou Su; Paper-cutting art includes Yueqing fine line engraving paper and Pujiang paper-cutting; Weaving arts include Dongyang bamboo weaving and Shengzhou bamboo weaving; Weaving and dyeing arts include Xiaoshan lace, South Zhejiang Jia Valle, Tongxiang blue calico and so on. Shili Red Makeup is an exhibition introducing the folk wedding customs in Ningshao area, which is divided into three units: the daughter to be married, the wedding procession and the flaming new house, with an area of about 500 square meters.
Entering the exhibition hall, the restored small bridge and the buildings near the water reproduce the misty and rainy scenery of Ningshao water town. Crossing the bridge, the first thing you enter is the exhibition area composed of sedan chair, barbell and sedan chair front shoulder. The core is the Ningbo sedan chair carved by Zhu Jin, which is exquisite in craftsmanship and looks like a Huang Jinbao niche. The sedan chair is made of red paint, gold foil decals and Qi Diao. It uses all kinds of precious wood, and uses techniques such as round carving, relief carving and through carving to carve hundreds of characters, auspicious themes and drama scenes. Surrounded by countless flowers and birds and all kinds of exquisite palace lanterns, tassels and draperies. Because the production cost tens of thousands of man-hours, it is called "Wangong sedan chair".
In the center of the exhibition hall, a transparent showcase nearly ten meters long was built to reproduce the dowry team stretching for ten miles with miniature figures. The combination of the charm of "red makeup" and the vastness of "ten miles" creates a magnificent and passionate picture scroll, and expresses people's long-cherished wish of loving life and pursuing happiness in the most direct way.
The unit of "Flaming Red New House" shows red makeup furniture with bamboo and gold carved workshops as the core, including front desk, red cabinet, spring stool, red wooden box, red painted armchair and so on. There are many kinds of red makeup furniture and appliances displayed in the exhibition hall, most of which are made of natural raw lacquer and cinnabar paint. Colorful and lasting, combined with sculpture, plastic sculpture, painting, gilding, clay sculpture and painting. The whole exhibition hall is soft in light, and all kinds of red makeup furniture, women's red products and other utensils are filled with the breath of harmonious life, while the overwhelming red color renders the festive atmosphere. The west of Gushan Pavilion is the seat of the Qing Palace and Wenlan Pavilion, and it is a famous royal library in the south of the Yangtze River. Built in 1783 (forty-eight years of Qianlong), it is one of the seven pavilions in the Qing Dynasty that collected Sikuquanshu. Wenlan Pavilion was burned down in 186 1 (in the 11th year of Xianfeng) and rebuilt in 1880 (in the 6th year of Guangxu), and the Imperial Monument Pavilion and Taiyi Youth Room were built. It is the only surviving pavilion among the three pavilions in the south of the Yangtze River. In 200 1 year, it was approved and announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit.
Wenlan Pavilion is a typical quadrangle building in Jiangnan. Gardens, pavilions and rockeries are connected, and all buildings and gardens are compact and elegant, which is quite distinctive. Entering from the main entrance, there are lions and elephants rockeries, with pavilions and holes in the middle, which are exquisite and ingenious; Passing through the cave is a bungalow, and the grotesque rocks in the back pool are independent, named "Ren Xianfeng", which is a boutique in the rockery of the West Lake; There is a tablet pavilion in the southeast, on which there are poems inscribed by Emperor Qianlong of Qing Dynasty and the imperial edict of "Sikuquanshu". On the east side is the Imperial Monument Pavilion, inscribed with the inscription "Wen Lan Pavilion" by Emperor Guangxu. In the middle behind the pool is Wen Lan Pavilion, which is a bit like Tianyi Pavilion in Ningbo. Its appearance is two floors, with a mezzanine in the middle, which is actually a three-story building. There is a winding corridor in the west, and the Moon Gate in the east leads to Taiyi Fenqing Room and Luohan Hall.
In 2006, following 1974, 1984 and 1993, Wen Lan Pavilion underwent the largest renovation since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and it will become an important cultural attraction to display the relevant contents of Wen Lan Pavilion and Siku Quanshu. Sha Menghai's former residence is located at Longyou Road 15, Hangzhou, where Sha Menghai, a contemporary calligrapher in China, once lived in his later years, covering an area of 870 square meters with a total construction area of 60 1 square meter. In accordance with Mr. Sha Menghai's wishes, his family donated hundreds of calligraphy and seal cutting works and precious cultural relics to Zhejiang Museum for collection. In June, 2004, Sha Menghai's former residence was renovated by Zhejiang Provincial People's Government and officially opened to the public. The former residence is a two-story brick-wood villa. The five-character plaque "Sha Menghai's Former Residence" in the courtyard was written by the famous seal engraver Qian Juntao.
On the basis of inheriting the tradition, Mr. Sha Menghai created a vigorous, meticulous and magnificent "sand body" in Gu Zhuo. Sha Menghai's Former Residence has two restoration rooms where Sha Menghai lived and worked, and a new exhibition hall of Sha Menghai's life story has been opened. Huang Memorial Room is located at No.31Qixialing, Hangzhou, and was originally the former residence of Mr. Huang. 1948 In the summer, at the age of 85, Huang went south from Beiping and spent the last seven years of his life in Zhejiang at the invitation of the National Hangzhou Art College.
After Mr. Huang's death, his family donated more than 5,000 works and 10000 cultural relics, manuscripts and other relics to the Zhejiang Provincial Museum in accordance with his wishes. The memorial room was officially opened to the public on 1988, with pictures of Huang's life story and restoration research. Zhejiang West Lake Art Museum was completed in June of 1999 10, which is located in the east of Gushan Museum District of Zhejiang Provincial Museum. This used to be the former site of China Academy of Art.. In the early 1930s, Lin Fengmian and Ai Qing initiated the establishment of the Gothic Art Museum here, aiming at "sorting out China's fine arts, introducing western fine arts, reconciling Chinese and western arts, and creating art of the times".
Zhejiang West Lake Art Museum is divided into three floors, including a foyer, a reception room and four exhibition halls of different sizes. It is one of the important places in Zhejiang Province to display famous works, introduce artistic trends, conduct academic exchanges and spread art.