Soucheng 101 launched the "Small Town Exploration Museum", specially inviting outstanding librarians from all over the country to search for those small town museums in China that are worth punching in.
Recommended today is China's first professional silk museum, the Suzhou Silk Museum in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province.
Invited librarian: Wang Liqun
Deputy Director of the Exhibition and Storage Department of Suzhou Silk Museum
So chengjun: Please briefly introduce the Suzhou Silk Museum.
Wang Liqun: Suzhou Silk Museum was inaugurated in 1991, is the first professional silk museum in mainland China, located in No. 2001, Renmin Road, Suzhou, adjacent to the Beisi Pagoda Scenic Area, covering an area of 9,500 square meters and an exhibition area of 4,000 square meters. There are six exhibition areas: The History Hall, the Modern Hall, the Children's Science Popularization Hall, the Sangzi Garden and the Silk Weaving Machinery Exhibition Room, and the Qian Xiaoping Silk Culture and Art Museum, of which the History Hall includes six parts: the Ancient Hall, the Silkworm Mulberry Residence, the Weaving and Dyeing Workshop, the Tribute Weaving Courtyard, the Republic of China Street and the Intangible Cultural Heritage Hall. The museum not only has exquisite silk cultural relics display, dynamic mulberry silkworm planting display, but also traditional loom operation performance and the application of modern silk weaving technology in life.
Suzhou Silk Museum was awarded the "Suzhou Patriotism Education Base" and "Jiangsu Province Science Popularization Education Base", the museum has a multi-functional lecture hall and an educational activity room, while holding exhibitions, carrying out small academic exchanges, popular science lectures and other social education activities, which have been widely concerned and fully affirmed by all sectors of society.
As an intangible cultural heritage protection unit of four traditional silk weaving techniques of "Song Brocade Weaving Technique", "Zhangduan Weaving Technique", "Handmade Craft Qipao" and "Ancient Weaving Mechanism Technique", Suzhou Silk Museum is the "China Silk Weaving and Embroidery Cultural Relics Reproduction Center" approved by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, and has achieved fruitful results in the field of silk cultural relics reproduction and restoration.
So chengjun: In suzhou silk museum, what are the unmissable collections?
Wang Liqun: Many of the collections of Suzhou Silk Museum are worth seeing, and there are 8 recommended must-sees.
1. "Five-star out of the East Lee China Brocade" arm guard (Eastern Han Dynasty copy)
This "five-star Oriental Li China Brocade" arm guard is copied according to the size of the original cultural relics, 18.5 cm long and 12.5 cm wide. This small arm guard original has been hailed as "one of the greatest discoveries in Chinese archaeology in the 20th century" and is on the first list of 64 cultural relics prohibited from going abroad. It was excavated at the site of Niya in Xinjiang at the same time as the "Prince of Hexia Long Live The Descendants of The Descendants of the Emperor". Its fabric structure is arranged with multiple colored warp threads, with a precision of 220 rods/cm. The color is woven with navy blue as the ground, and the pattern is woven in blue, green, red, yellow and white. The pattern is generally framed by mountain-like clouds, continuously exhibited along the weft direction, from right to left, phoenix, partridge, unicorn, white tiger and two stars, and woven with the Hanli inscription "Five stars out of the East and China". This brocade represents the highest level of Han brocade weaving craftsmanship.
2. Dark brown satin peacock embroidered robe (Ming)
On the basis of overthrowing the rule of the Mongolian Yuan, the Ming Dynasty vigorously abolished the influence of the rule of the previous dynasty, formulated a clothing and crown system with the characteristics of the Han nationality, and regarded it as an important national policy related to the society of Jiangshan and the governance of the country and the security of the state, especially it created a complete series of supplementary uniforms for officials and subjects, which became a costume system with unique Ming Dynasty characteristics. At the same time, the Ming Dynasty established a large-scale official weaving organization to ensure that the inner chambers of the court, the civil and military officials, and the silk costumes needed by the state were rewarded.
This Ming Dynasty "dark brown satin peacock plate gold embroidered robe" was excavated from the tomb of Guo Xiangming in Suzhou. The robe is wide and broad, with a coiled tie trip, a large placket on the right side, and wide sleeves. The front chest and back are decorated with a whole piece of embroidered peacock official supplements, indicating that the master's rank is sanpin civil official.
3. Rich peony pattern zhang satin women's clothing (Qing)
Zhangsatin is a representative work of ancient Chinese velvet fabrics, which began in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and was created by the royal craftsmen of the Suzhou Weaving Bureau according to the innovation of the velvet technology of "Zhangrong". Zhangsatin is extremely complex and exquisite in craftsmanship and technology, especially the jacquard velvet loom that makes Zhangsatin is the most complete function and the most complex mechanism in the ancient Chinese flower building machine, and it has been passed down to this day.
This Qing Dynasty Saffron rich peony pattern Zhang satin women's dress, the length of the dress is 120cm, and the length of the sleeve is 120cm. Round neck, wide sleeves, placket, left and right sides of the slit, is one of the Qing Dynasty women's common wear. The fabric is zhang satin, and the body of the cloth is a dark blue satin floor with the same color velvet flower, dense and towering, and the three-dimensional effect is very strong.
4. Vermilion satin floor embroidered landscape floral pattern cardigan
This collection is a vermilion satin floor embroidered landscape floral pattern cardigan, round neck, flat sleeves, placket, left and right sides of the slit. The fabric of the body is scarlet satin, the hem is embroidered with nine-curved stone bridge, marble and pomegranate trees, the scene is unique, the body is embroidered with plum blossoms, orchids, chrysanthemums, lotuses, peonies and bamboo patterns, etc., scattered distribution, and the hem ornaments are tacitly understood, and the weight is appropriate. The collar and the sleeves of the two sleeves are embroidered with the "three blue embroidery" process, which is layered, the transition is natural, the color is soft, the life is not stuffy, and it echoes with the blue at the hem, the overall color contrast is strong, the embroidery is excellent, and it shows a bright and luxurious state. The cultural relics and ornaments reflect the characteristics of the Qing Dynasty in terms of patterns, "the picture must be intentional, the meaning must be auspicious".
5. Double lion snowball embroidery purse (Qing)
The purse is a small bag containing scattered items that people wear with them in the traditional costume of the Chinese nation. The name "lotus bag" appeared after the Song Dynasty, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was also called "eggplant bag" and "Shun bag".
The finishes of this collection are respectively used in seed embroidery, three-blue embroidery, pasting embroidery and other techniques. Seed embroidery is one of the traditional stitching methods of Chinese embroidery, mainly used in Su embroidery, with lines wrapped into a granular circle, embroidery a needle, forming a raised "seed", more decorative. This purse pattern is a traditional pattern of double lion rolling hydrangeas, the biggest feature is that the lion is embroidered with cushions, so that the body is full and protruding, and the halo transition is used to enhance the three-dimensional sense.
6. Navy blue ground woven gold python robe (Qing)
This Qing Dynasty tibetan-blue woven gold python robe is shaped like a standing collar, a large placket, horseshoe sleeves, and a front and back slit. The fabric uses the traditional brocade weaving process, with silver thread as the weft to highlight the pattern pattern.
The woven gold python robe fabric is woven with nine silver python stripes, of which the front placket, back and shoulders are woven with eight python stripes, and the other is hidden in the placket. The dark blue texture is woven with auspicious clouds, bats, cranes and auspicious ornaments, and the seawater river cliff pattern is woven at the front and back hems, and the standing water is higher, showing the ornamental characteristics of the late Qing python robe. The whole robe is flat in texture, simple in color, and fine in pattern, and is dressed for officials in the late Qing Dynasty in spring and autumn.
7. Colorful Zhai bird pattern Song Jin Queen's dress (creation)
This exhibit was created by Master Qian Xiaoping, a national inheritor of the Song Jin technique of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, based on the picture data of the statue of Empress Song Renzong in the "Portrait of the Emperors and Empresses of Past Dynasties" in the old collection of the Nanxun Hall. The structure and complex traditional techniques of Song Brocade are skillfully applied, and the gold, red, yellow, blue and white multicolored Zhai bird pattern Song Brocade is woven on the all-silk saffron ground. It was then hand-sewn according to the shape of the Empress Renzong of Song to make a multicolored Zhai bird pattern coat. The robe is one of the six garments of the Zhou Li Dynasty, and the "Three Zhai Clothes" decorated with Zhai birds is the most solemn of them.
8. Lake color tangled peony pattern zhang satin (Qing and replica)
This lake-colored peony pattern zhang satin is copied from the Qianlong period of the Palace Museum. The original is a national second-class cultural relic, which is the representative of the most complex structure and the most complicated craftsmanship in the Zhang-satin fabrics collected in the Qing Dynasty. It is flowered by multiple sets of colored warp threads at the same time, and the fluff and pile ring appear at the same time. This replica was woven by the inheritors of the Zhangsatin weaving technique of the Suzhou Silk Museum according to the detection and analysis of the original cultural relics.
So Chengjun: The special exhibition "Extraordinary Pearl Union Art Light", which is currently on display, is known as the cross-time dialogue between the founder of the museum, Qian Xiaoping, and the Italian master Amoriani.
Wang Liqun: This exhibition attempts to let Song Jin and European painting meet at this moment through the passage of time and space, crossing the boundaries of art to achieve cultural integration. "The beauty of each is the best of its own, and the beauty of the United States is the same". Some of the Song Jin exhibits are created by the contemporary Song Jin art master Qian Xiaoping based on Modigliani's paintings, and in the form of art language that integrates the East and the West, it has realized a new stage from the traditional "intangible heritage" song jin to the "song jin of the new era".
Portrait of Jenny Portrait of Jenny (Song Jin)
As a national inheritor of the Song Brocade technique of the intangible cultural heritage of mankind, Master Qian Xiaoping devoted his life to the research and creation of silk, especially the Song Brocade technique. This time, the European Art Alliance authorized Master Qian Xiaoping to create the Painting of Modigliani Song Jin, which is also based on the touching and admiration of Mr. Qian Xiaoping's spirit of diligent pursuit and exploration. Mr. Qian Xiaoping adopts unique design techniques and fabric structures, which are implied in elephants, so that the original character image can be fully expressed, and it has a sense of vertical physique with elegant shimmering light and shadow of silk fibers and color composites, showing the aesthetic value of the fusion of Eastern and Western art.
Exhibition hall - time tunnel
The exhibition is current until March 9, so friends who want to see it want to seize the time.
So chengjun: For people who want to punch in the Suzhou Silk Museum, what are your strategies? What else is there to do nearby?
Near the Suzhou Silk Museum, there is the Beisi Pagoda and Pingjiang Road Historic District, both of which are within walking distance.
Known as the "First Ancient Temple of Wuzhong", the North Temple Pagoda is a pavilion-style stupa that was built in the Liang Dynasty of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Climbing the tower, you can overlook the whole city of Suzhou with a column, overlooking the landscape and idyllic scenery outside the city.
Pingjiang Road Historic District is the most complete preserved area of Suzhou's ancient city, which can be called the epitome of the ancient city. Compared with the "Pingjiang Map" of the Southern Song Dynasty and the "General Map of waterways in Suzhou Fucheng" in the late Ming Dynasty, Pingjiang Road basically continued the pattern of chengfang since the Tang and Song Dynasties and maintained its vitality.
Courtesy of this article: Suzhou Silk Museum
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