On January 3, the new Museum of Chinese Shipping Administration Culture in Mawei District, Fuzhou City, opened. Photo by Chen Xiaojing
Fuzhou, 3 Jan (Xinhua) -- On January 3, as an important step in the application of "Fujian Shipping Administration" for inscription on the World Cultural Heritage, the new Museum of Chinese Shipping Administration Culture in Mawei District, Fuzhou City, was opened.
It is known that in addition to the three lanes and seven lanes, the Maritime Silk Road and Fuzhou historical sites in Fuzhou City have been included in the preliminary list of China's world cultural heritage, Fujian Shipping Administration has also been listed as a potential project for Fuzhou's local heritage application. The application for the heritage of Fujian Shipping Culture and Historical Relics will focus on the general context of "Fujian Shipping Administration is a prominent case of China's independent introduction of advanced Western technology and successful transformation".
Descendants of shipping masamune visit the new building. Photo by Chen Xiaojing
The new building of the China Shipbuilding Culture Museum, with the original Mawei Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. comprehensive warehouse lasted 9 months for transformation, with the spirit of "patriotism, science, innovation, and strength" as the core of the display, from the millennium changes, the birth of shipping administration, the education of shipping administration, shipbuilding manufacturing, shipping administration navy and shipping culture from six aspects of comprehensive introduction of the history and culture of shipping administration.
Zhuang Yongzhi, director of the management committee of the Fuzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone and mayor of the Mawei District People's Government, said in his speech at the opening ceremony that in 1866, the ship administration was born in Mawei, building ships, running education, cultivating talents, revitalizing the navy, and testing aircraft, which became the vanguard position of modern China in exploring the way of national self-improvement and rejuvenation. In recent years, Fuzhou Mawei District has strengthened the activation and utilization of the cultural heritage of shipping administration, and vigorously promoted the construction of the Shipbuilding Culture City, and the new museum opened this time is the highlight of the core area of the Shipbuilding Culture City and the Mawei Shipyard Area (Phase I) project.
Scholars believe that Fujian Shipping Administration is a model achievement of equal cooperation between China and the West in modern times, which has extremely important historical and cultural value and has the attributes of international discourse.
Wang Fang, head of the China Shipping Culture Museum, said that as "the beginning of the narrative of the entire Shipping Culture City", its architectural design is conceived with the image of "dialogue", and the new museum is located in the Tianhou Temple of the Shipping Administration - The Prime Minister's Ship Administration Yamen - Shipyard Area - Minjiang, the main axis of the shipbuilding culture, which was formed from the beginning of the creation of the Shipping Administration in 1866, connecting the natural, humanistic, social and other relations of the core of the Shipping Administration, and now the new Ship Museum is set up on this axis, which is both an emphasis on this traditional cultural axis. It also symbolizes the dialogue between history and the present. "The construction of the 5A-class scenic spot of shipping culture and the application for world cultural heritage have laid a solid basic display foundation."
As the curator of the new museum of China Ship Administration Culture Museum, Chen Yue, president of the Mawei Ship Administration Culture Research Association, said, "The 'Treasure of Mindu - Ship Administration Culture Range Rover' places the ship administration culture in the historical process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in modern times to observe and grasp, continue the context, and inherit the spirit of ship administration." ”
In the new museum, "a poem" and "a painting" make visitors feel the international influence of shipping administration. The poem "Passing through the Ancient Rosen Pagoda" written by British female poetCicely Fox Smith and the oil painting "On the Minjiang River" painted by Australian painter Richard Linton vividly restore the unique maritime cultural tradition of Mawei from the perspective of literature and art, and the flourishing Sino-foreign maritime trade scene around the Minjiang River intuitively explains the important historical background of Mawei, the site of modern shipping administration.
The new exhibition hall of the China Shipbuilding Culture Museum has a larger space and a more scientific exhibition. Photo by Chen Xiaojing
From Mawei, China took the first step in establishing a modern navy, opened China's first science and technology college (Ship Administration School), designed and built Asia's first steel armor ship, and created the first large steam engine independently developed by Asian countries, creating many world-renowned "firsts" and "onlys".
In order to promote the application of Fujian Shipping Administration, Mawei District has invested more than 2 billion yuan to complete the repair and protection of five areas such as Chuanzheng Ancient Street, Shipping Administration Gezhi Garden, and Shipping Administration Guan street, as well as cultural relics such as the Fujian Shipping Administration Building, Zhaozhong Ancestral Hall, the Provincial Baoma Limit Mountain Modern Building Complex, the Xietai Yamen, and the Tiewei Factory. (End)