Halfway through the Spring Festival holiday, in addition to visiting relatives and friends, many citizens choose to visit the museum. At the Shijia Hutong Museum in Dongcheng District, visitors watch exhibitions, listen to stories, play games, and intuitively feel the charm of Hutong culture.
On the morning of February 3, the Shijia Hutong Museum was full of tourists. In the exhibition hall of "Shijia History", dozens of brick carved stone components, precious old photos, new and old door numbers of Shijia Hutong, and a miniature landscape of the hutong courtyard at 1:25, let the audience feel the historical atmosphere that comes to the face. How did Shijia Hutong get its name? Which literati and patriots have left their footprints here? What are the purposes of the various types of house doors in the courtyard? You can find the answer here.
In the exhibition hall of "Hutong Life Scene Restoration", old objects with rich life atmosphere such as enamel cups, villain books, semiconductors, and two-eight bars have attracted the attention of many tourists. Mr. Zhang, 62, recognized the pigeon brand bicycle at a glance. "When I was seven years old, my family bought a Phoenix brand weighted bicycle, which cost more than 150 yuan at that time, and whoever had one was proud. The front of the bicycle is equipped with motorcycle lights, the wheels rub, the lights are on, but riding will be tired a lot, in the blink of an eye so many years have passed, my family's car has long gone, did not expect that here is still so well preserved. ”
"Selling rock sugar gourds", "Curium jar curium pots", "Rags in exchange for lights"... Walking into the hutong sound exhibition hall, which is most praised by the audience, all kinds of old Beijing shouting and environmental sounds are perfectly restored, and the realistic pigeon whistle and camel bell sound make the audience feel as if they have returned to the last century. "A lot of the shouting and selling in old Beijing has disappeared, if you want to hear it, you can come to the Shijia Hutong Museum, and the children listen to it for the first time and think it is very interesting." Tourist Ms. Geng said.
In the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, the Shijia Hutong Museum launched the "Throwing Pot NaFu" activity, in the small garden, a pot with the word "Fu" written on it was placed on the ground, and adults and children picked up wooden arrows and took turns to throw them to pray for the new year in the game. Near the Winter Olympics, the reading corner of the museum also added a new "Winter Olympic Venues Are Coming!" at the Spring Festival. " and other popular science books.
"Remember history and be grateful for the present." In the museum's guestbook, citizen Ms. Li wrote such a sentence, she said: "Beijing is our hometown our home, childhood memories of the enamel jar is still vivid, that era life is slow pace, after 00 children have not seen, so the Spring Festival specially take children to feel it, this museum let me have more confidence in the cultural heritage of old Beijing." ”