In 2019, due to work relations, he often traveled back and forth between Taiwan and the mainland. What I feel is that young people are becoming more and more vague about history. It is as if Taiwan has a history since 1911.
Where do Taiwanese come from? How did it come about? How did history advance step by step to form today's Taiwanese culture? Most people don't know.
Young people don't care about the past or the future, they only know the present and live in the present.
I'm a person who loves to reminisce about history, which is one of the reasons why I like to visit museums. Therefore, during my trip to Quanzhou, the museum was the focus of my visit, including the China Fujian-Taiwan Rim Museum.
Quanzhou has dozens of museums of all sizes, but there are only 2 national first-class museums, one is the Quanzhou Overseas Transportation History Museum introduced earlier, and the other is the China Fujian-Taiwan Rim Museum.
The most intuitive feeling that Fujian-Taiwan edge gives me is "atmosphere"!
The main building area of the China Mintaiyuan Museum is 23,332 square meters, and the area covers an area of 154.2 acres. It is backed by Qingyuan Mountain, facing the West Lake, and I walked along the edge of the West Lake and could see it standing there in the distance.
Compared with the museums with historical relics as the main line, this kind of kinship theme museum does not actually have so many physical historical materials.
More records exist in historical documents or are preserved in monumental buildings and intangible cultural forms. This is a very big challenge for the museum's exhibition, after all, there are very few physical exhibits that can be used.
But to my surprise, their exhibition was very successful, there was no physical object, and the Fujian-TaiwanYuan Museum used a large number of auxiliary exhibits to restore the scenes of hundreds or even tens of thousands of years ago.
For example, the first exhibition hall first shows the geographical evolution of Taiwan Island and the mainland tens of thousands of years ago, Taiwan Island originally belonged to the mainland plate, but after continuous geographical changes, about 5,000 years ago, Taiwan Island and the Taiwan Strait were formed.
People on Taiwan are not only from the mainland, but even the island of Taiwan is from the mainland.
China's southern Fujian region has emigrated to Taiwan many times, the largest and most recent of which was the migration to Taiwan from Quan, Zhang, and Ting provinces during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The population has passed, and it is bound to bring about people's living habits, cultural customs, religious etiquette, and so on.
I prefer the "native Fujian-Taiwan" exhibition area on the third floor, using the customs and habits of southern Fujian in the four seasons of "spring, summer, autumn and winter" as the exhibition content, so a large number of sets + character wax figures are used.
Although the Taiwan Strait is separated by us, this cannot be an obstacle to us at all. I like that the Fujian-Taiwan Rim Museum uses this kind of moisturizing and silent way to tell the audience about the relationship between the two sides of the strait.
Walking out of the exhibition hall and looking back, I felt that the part I had just visited was only part of this magnificent building, and a larger part of the blank space was to be written for the future reunification of the two sides of the strait.
Address: Quanzhou City Beiqing East Road No. 212
Time: Tuesday to Sunday: 09:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (last admission at 4:30 p.m.), Closed on Mondays (except national holidays)
Exhibition Hall: The theme exhibition hall of "Fujian-Taiwan Edge" on the second floor; the exhibition area of "Rural Fujian-Taiwan" on the third floor
Friendly reminder: The "Fujian-Taiwan Surname and Genealogy Culture Exhibition" on the first floor collects 112 family trees with Fujian and Taiwan as the main body, which can provide services for compatriots on both sides of the strait to find relatives and visit sources.