Qibao Ancient Town has a long history and culture precipitation, not to mention the influence of art and humanities, all kinds of monuments, ruins, exhibition halls hidden in the antique streets and alleys, have you been there?
belfry
Qibao Bell Tower is located in Bell Tower Square and is the landmark building of Qibao Ancient Town. In folklore, it has always been said that the Seven Treasures have "seven treasures", namely the Golden Lotus Sutra, the Bell of the Lotus, the Flying Buddha, the Sacred Tree, the Golden Rooster, the Jade Chopsticks, and the Jade Axe, of which the "One Treasure" bell is hidden in the Seven Treasures Bell Tower.
Legend has it that a long time ago, there were seven days and seven nights of torrential rain here, the river soared, and at midnight on the seventh day, a golden lightning bolt suddenly appeared in the sky, and a large bell that was more than one person tall floated on the fragrant flowers of the moat river, and the abbot of the temple immediately ordered that the big bell of the temple be moved into the temple and placed.
Although the story of The Bell is only a legend, it reflects the historical fact that the Shippo water network intersected and the water trade was once very developed. It was cast in the seventh year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, with a history of more than 600 years, the bell is 1.9 meters high, 1 meter in diameter, 9 centimeters in wall thickness, and weighs one ton. Striking the bell has the meaning of clearing troubles, increasing wisdom, and ensuring peace in Buddhism. Every year Chinese New Year's Eve send the old to welcome the new, and the bells ring around to pray for the blessings of the people.
Location: Bell Tower Square, Qingnian Road
Cotton mill
Ancient Qibao belongs to Songjiang Province, because of the development of cotton textile industry tends to prosper, is the main distribution center of "clothing quilt world", Qibao cotton weaving mill is the cotton weaving craft of the human history exhibition hall.
With the theme of "Humanistic Feelings, Clothing and Quilts", the exhibition hall focuses on the development history of Qibao cotton weaving industry from four aspects: potential (development), people (protagonist), things (products) and characters (culture), fully shows the planting technology and textile technology of the cotton weaving industry, and focuses on the characteristic cotton weaving fabric of Shippo - Xibu (that is, "Qibao Tip"), and the soul of the development of Qibao textile industry - Zodiac.
"He does not have much skill in textiles, but fine thread aya, three shuttle cloth, lacquered yarn square towel, and fleece blanket are all the first in the world." "Wu Ni Jing Temple worships Huang Po, and there are many three forests in the standard cloth." Clothing and food and clothing of our people are true to the mothers, and the thousand autumn newspapers play strings and songs. "Qibao Cotton Weaving Mill combines historical documents to vividly reproduce the glorious history of Songjun cotton cloth and quilts in the form of physical objects, images, pictures and texts, and records the immortal grandeur of the ancient Shippo cotton weaving industry."
Location: 43 North Avenue
Shippo Shadow Art Museum
Shippo shadow puppetry has a history of more than 100 years, and has been handed down for seven generations, which is a major genre of Jiangnan shadow puppetry. It integrates local folk drama, folk art, folk crafts, folk music and local dialects, with distinct traditional colors and unique artistic styles.
Qibao shadow puppetry is the first batch of intangible cultural heritage in Shanghai, extended from Zhejiang shadow puppetry, and the birthplace of Haipai shadow puppetry is Qibao.
Qibao Shadow Art Museum is a comprehensive art museum integrating the exhibition, production, performance, research and collection of Qibao shadow puppet art, and its shadow puppet repertoire is innovated on the basis of tradition, which is more in line with today's aesthetic taste and highlights the characteristics of Haipai shadow puppetry.
Shippo shadow puppets are mainly painted, which appear beautiful and bright, with exaggerated and vivid shapes, and have a strong decorative effect. Shadow puppet props have a rich background and strong ethnic style and folk characteristics. Shadow puppet drama repertoire is mainly based on historical and traditional themes, such as "Fengshen Yanyi", "Journey to the West", "Sui and Tang Dynasty Yanyi", "Yue Feichuan", "Yang Jiajian", etc., and can also perform fairy tales, fables and other stories.
Location: 95 North West Street
Zhang Chongren Memorial Hall
Mr. Zhang Chongren, whose ancestral home is Qibao, was born on September 25, 1907 in Xujiahui, Shanghai. He is one of the founders of modern sculpture art in China, artistic talent, studied in Belgium in his youth, his works have won several awards in Europe, and he has collaborated with Belgian cartoonist Hergé to compile "Blue Lotus" and sensationalize Europe.
After returning to China, the fine works of art have emerged, attracting attention at home and abroad, and his outstanding achievements have made him an outstanding painter and a world-class sculpture master. A special memorial was built to commemorate Mr. John.
Mr. Zhang Chongren has devoted his life to art education and artistic creation, especially the achievements of sculpture works are particularly outstanding, praised in Europe and Asia, contains deep affection for the motherland, and has also made important contributions to the cultural exchanges between China and the West.
Zhang Chongren Memorial Hall has four exhibition areas: "Preface Hall", "Reputation in Europe", "Studio Spring and Autumn", and "Sculpture Taidou", which display Zhang Chongren's sculptures, paintings, physical objects and related books and newspaper photos, showing Mr. Zhang Chongren's life and artistic achievements.
Location: 75 North West Street
Shippo pawnshop
During the Qing Dynasty, There were pawnshops on Fuqiang Street, so Fuqiang Street was formerly known as Pawn Street, which was quite large-scale and became an important place for financial activities in Song County. He was once famous for pawning the twelve pairs of purple and gold lions of Zhejiang giant merchants. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, it was destroyed by Japanese artillery fire, and its ruins were commonly known as the canon on the spot.
At present, the traditional pawnshop simulation attraction is built at No. 64 Fuqiang Street, the original site of the pawnshop, covering an area of about 100 square meters, and the antique arrangement of pawn cabinets, flowing water plates, account books and other items. Qibao Pawnshop simulates the business activities of ancient pawnshops, which is intended to express the commercial and cultural customs of Ancient Qibao, and truly carry out similar to the old goods blending operation, for consignment or sales.
Qibao Pawnshop, as a venue for shanghai's early commercial and financial activities, shows Shanghai's profound commercial history. Today's Qibao pawnshop has become a beautiful landscape with both commercial functions, scenic spots and cultural inheritance, which records the commercial culture of the thousand-year-old town of Qibao, and also highlights the historical accumulation of "ten years of Shanghai to see Pudong, a hundred years of Shanghai to see the Bund, and a thousand years of Shanghai to see seven treasures".
Location: 64 FuQiang Street
Shanghai Shippo Art Museum
In November 2008, the Chinese Calligraphers Association named Qibao Town the "Hometown of Chinese Calligraphy", making the Millennium Ancient Town a business card of Shanghai's calligraphy art.
In October 2009, Shanghai Qibao Art Museum (also known as Qibao Calligraphy Art Museum) was inaugurated in the downtown area of Qibao Ancient Town.
The museum will change the calligraphy and painting exhibits from time to time, so that visitors can enjoy more local calligraphy and painting art. At present, the Shanghai Qibao Art Museum displays the calligraphy and paintings of the famous artist Mr. Wu Yiren.
As the cultural gathering place of "the hometown of Chinese calligraphy" in Qibao Town, Qibao Art Museum strives to bring the most representative and influential calligraphy and painting works and the works of outstanding local calligraphers into Qibao Ancient Town, and to provide a cultural feast for The citizens of Qibao and the guests at home and abroad who visit Qibao with books.
Location: 44 FuQiang Street
Cricket Grass Hall
Shippo crickets are famous in Shencheng, especially in Jiangnan with "iron sand green". In order to fully display this interesting cultural phenomenon, the "Cricket Grass Hall" came into being, excavating and summarizing the cricket culture of the past generations in an elegant environment.
The Cricket Grass Hall in Qibao Ancient Town, composed of the front hall garden and the main bucket platform of the back hall, is a Ming and Qing Dynasty building that combines crickets and ancient and modern insect tools, with a history of more than 100 years.
The inner hall of the caotang displays cricket pots of various sizes, bamboo tubes, cricket tear grass, and cricket specimens. The front hall mainly undertakes the function of cultural display, including the introduction of cultural information such as the historical origin, development history and related characters of the cricket, an entertainment activity; the back hall exhibits old objects such as cricket cans and cricket boxes, and adds touchable and visual electronic touch screens and video delivery equipment to let visitors vividly understand the culture of crickets. Every autumn, there is a "Cricket Festival" dedicated to the public, so that the public and tourists can feel the fun of cricket culture in practice.
Location: 37 Fuqiang Road
Ling Bamboo Art Museum
Located at No. 64 Fuqiang Street, Qibao Old Street, Ling Bamboo Art Museum focuses on bamboo weaving utensils with handicraft attributes on the basis of retaining traditional bamboo ware.
With the return of environmental awareness, bamboo products return to public life, and more and more become daily utensils or decorations of life, evoking people's yearning for returning to a simple and poetic life, adding a leisure and indifference to life.
The art of bamboo weaving is incomparable, with a strong sense of design and practicality, and a certain Zen mood. At present, there are nearly 1,000 pieces of bamboo handicrafts displayed in the museum, which welcome many tourists from all over the world to visit, buy and customize every day.
The exhibition of more than 300 pieces of bamboo living utensils covers tea utensils, study rooms, flower utensils and living utensils, all of which take "life" as the starting point, cultivate self-cultivation, and interpret the exquisite and bland oriental bamboo culture.
Gathered here is a group of young people who love bamboo art, not only have the top bamboo craftsmanship, but also understand that these "things" are not outdated today, and are still an expression of life. I hope that the traditional Chinese bamboo weaving craft can be inherited and carried forward in the ancient town and continue to go on.
Location: 64 Fuqiang Road