Unritsu School is introduced to visitors in the Newspaper Museum. Wang Congqi photographed
Hefei, March 4 (China News Network) (Reporter Wu Lan) In the spring, Hefei Changlinhe Ancient Town is bustling with tourists. Walking along the bluestone slab road, in a row of characteristic shops, several folk museums such as the Juxian Newspaper museum and the Centennial Post Museum in Anhui Province are very conspicuous.
Changlinhe Ancient Town is located on the shore of Chaohu Lake, one of the five major freshwater lakes in China. During the Republic of China, due to the development of transportation and the prosperity of merchants, it was known as the "Little Shanghai" in Anhui and was "the first overseas Chinese township in Anhui".
Some of the exhibits in the Centennial Post Hall. Photo by Wu Lan
Walking into the Juxian Newspaper museum in Anhui Province, I saw only a set of old newspapers, hung on the wall in an orderly manner according to the time node, from the residence of the Qing Dynasty to the newspapers and periodicals of various periods such as the Republic of China and New China. "It used to be a very dilapidated house, but now the decoration style and exhibition are all managed by myself." The curator did not say, "These newspapers are only a small part of what I have carefully selected from the collection." ”
The 48-year-old wei lixue is the curator of the two museums. On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2009, a car accident caused him to be bedridden for more than a year, watching life in the hospital room, thinking about why he would live in the future and how to do something meaningful.
Tourists visit inside the Newspaper Museum. Wang Congqi photographed
"When I was a child, I didn't read much, and I didn't have any books." This led him to embark on his own cultural dream, the dream of museums. "Every time I collect, organize, and sort these painstakingly acquired collections, I always look closely to see that they are covered with dust and frost, or dull, yellow, or mutilated." The unrithined doctrine said, "It feels good to guess its past and present lives while sorting it out." ”
The Centennial Post Office, originally the homestead of Wu Yufen and Wu Yulan, the commander of the Huazi Battalion of the Late Qing Dynasty Huai Army, was a three-entry, four-compartment and two-courtyard Jianghuai ancient residence, which was changed to one of the first three post offices in Feidong County in the early years of the Republic of China, witnessing the century-old history of Changlinhe Post.
Inside the museum, from rare stamps such as the first set of zodiac monkey tickets to the past postman's clothing and changes in keepsakes, micro-postal changes over the past century.
The appearance of the Centennial Post House. Photo by Wu Lan
A few years ago, when he first opened a folk museum, due to the shortage of manpower, he had to do everything himself. In this process, he encountered many difficulties and setbacks, and many relatives and friends also advised Wei Lixue to give up, but he chose to persist. Wei Lixue laughed and said that although he was very tired, he often laughed from the heart, and that was because he did something he liked. Now these museums are free to the public, and they also respond to the original idea, do meaningful things, and contribute their own strength in popularizing and inheriting China's traditional culture.
"After so many years of doing a museum, it is actually a kind of cultural inheritance that guides me and promotes me." The uninitiated doctrine, let the exhibits collected by the people enter the lives of ordinary people, hoping to use their own small strength to affect everyone who enters the museum, but also to enhance the local cultural connotation and drive the local economic development.
Wei Lixue said: "In the next ten years, it is planned to build 5-10 characteristic museums, which will combine local characteristics and rely on cultural relics, so that every item in the exhibition will have a story, a legend, and an old story." Recently, we have paid attention to inheriting Huizhou culture and are preparing to build a 'Lady Hall' with Huizhou women's life as the starting point, and we are currently designing and conceiving it. ”