Zhu Cheng's works and collections make up a "museum". Photo by Wang Lei
Zhongxin Network Chengdu, March 8 Title: Collection of nearly 10,000 pieces of folk stone carvings Septuagenarian sculptors Ji Bashu culture has been passed down from generation to generation
Author Congratulations
Pushing open the dark red gate and walking into the door of the Chengdu Zhucheng Stone Carving Art Museum, the veil of tens of thousands of collections and works was lifted. Through the corridor, flanked by a jumble of haphazard and haphazard objects, these are the collections spanning two thousand years of history collected by Zhu Cheng, director of the Chengdu Zhu Cheng Stone Carving Art Museum, which zhu Cheng jokingly called "poor aesthetic architecture".
The "brick" historical and cultural wall of the wide and narrow alley represented by the semi-relief work "Tied Horse Pile"; the square of Chinese heroes and heroes in the Jianchuan Museum; the Deyang Stone Carved Art Wall, a public art work in the city known as the "Wonder of Contemporary Art"... In Sichuan, many landmark public art sculptures are works that Zhu Cheng participated in and hosted.
Zhu Cheng's works and collections make up a "museum". Photo by Wang Lei
Zhongxin Network Chengdu, March 8 Title: Collection of nearly 10,000 pieces of folk stone carvings Septuagenarian sculptors Ji Bashu culture has been passed down from generation to generation
Author Congratulations
Pushing open the dark red gate and walking into the door of the Chengdu Zhucheng Stone Carving Art Museum, the veil of tens of thousands of collections and works was lifted. Through the corridor, flanked by a jumble of haphazard and haphazard objects, these are the collections spanning two thousand years of history collected by Zhu Cheng, director of the Chengdu Zhu Cheng Stone Carving Art Museum, which zhu Cheng jokingly called "poor aesthetic architecture".
The "brick" historical and cultural wall of the wide and narrow alley represented by the semi-relief work "Tied Horse Pile"; the square of Chinese heroes and heroes in the Jianchuan Museum; the Deyang Stone Carved Art Wall, a public art work in the city known as the "Wonder of Contemporary Art"... In Sichuan, many landmark public art sculptures are works that Zhu Cheng participated in and hosted.
Zhu Cheng and his collection. Photo by Wang Lei
"My name is Zhu Cheng, and 'Cheng' is Chengdu's Cheng, not a successful Cheng." Born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, the 76-year-old Zhu Cheng grew up under the influence of his family atmosphere, Zhu Cheng loved painting and architecture. 30 years ago, Zhu Cheng rented a five-acre vacant lot in the western suburbs of Chengdu, which was originally used as a creative space, and gradually became a private museum for him to collect and display the folk stone carvings of Bashu in previous dynasties. This stems from his cherishing of folk stone carvings and his affection for the history and culture of Bashu.
"The collection of folk stone carvings has brought a lot of inspiration to my creation, and the income from the creation is also used to collect these folk stone carvings that are different from those in public museums. Every collection here is so precious that it cannot be measured by price. Zhu Cheng said that since the 1970s, he began to collect these Bashu folk stone carvings, wooden tools, stone tools, pottery, he spent nearly ten million yuan. As a sculptor, Zhu Cheng has collected so many collections that he can also explore to become a museum where history and art coexist.
Stone tablets, Chinese bricks, Buddha statues... There are no windows or display cases, and every display item is tightly guarded. Without the obstruction of glass, visitors can "intimately contact" with each work, see the texture of each collection, and the collection under this simple shack constitutes the texture of Chengdu Zhucheng Stone Carving Art Museum. In 2001, the Sichuan Provincial Administration of Cultural Relics approved the establishment of the Zhucheng (Private) Stone Carving Art Museum, which became one of the four major private museums in Sichuan Province at that time.
From a vacant lot to today's dozen or so "museums", each "museum" is full of collections, carrying one story after another. After the establishment of the museum, many people from dozens of countries and regions such as the United States, South Korea, and Japan came to visit, and everyone who came was amazed by the richness of the museum's collection. The museum has not yet been opened to the public, because "the environment is really not up to the conditions for opening to the public", and it is still like a labyrinth, and if you are not careful, you will be lost.
"I have a clear understanding of my body, and I have done a lot of work as early as the age of forty or fifty, because I know that as I get older, my creative ability will weaken." The 76-year-old Zhu Cheng is still creating, and not only that, he has also brought many apprentices.
Zhu Cheng's works and collections make up a "museum". Photo by Wang Lei
Zhongxin Network Chengdu, March 8 Title: Collection of nearly 10,000 pieces of folk stone carvings Septuagenarian sculptors Ji Bashu culture has been passed down from generation to generation
Author Congratulations
Pushing open the dark red gate and walking into the door of the Chengdu Zhucheng Stone Carving Art Museum, the veil of tens of thousands of collections and works was lifted. Through the corridor, flanked by a jumble of haphazard and haphazard objects, these are the collections spanning two thousand years of history collected by Zhu Cheng, director of the Chengdu Zhu Cheng Stone Carving Art Museum, which zhu Cheng jokingly called "poor aesthetic architecture".
The "brick" historical and cultural wall of the wide and narrow alley represented by the semi-relief work "Tied Horse Pile"; the square of Chinese heroes and heroes in the Jianchuan Museum; the Deyang Stone Carved Art Wall, a public art work in the city known as the "Wonder of Contemporary Art"... In Sichuan, many landmark public art sculptures are works that Zhu Cheng participated in and hosted.
Zhu Cheng and his collection. Photo by Wang Lei
"My name is Zhu Cheng, and 'Cheng' is Chengdu's Cheng, not a successful Cheng." Born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, the 76-year-old Zhu Cheng grew up under the influence of his family atmosphere, Zhu Cheng loved painting and architecture. 30 years ago, Zhu Cheng rented a five-acre vacant lot in the western suburbs of Chengdu, which was originally used as a creative space, and gradually became a private museum for him to collect and display the folk stone carvings of Bashu in previous dynasties. This stems from his cherishing of folk stone carvings and his affection for the history and culture of Bashu.
"The collection of folk stone carvings has brought a lot of inspiration to my creation, and the income from the creation is also used to collect these folk stone carvings that are different from those in public museums. Every collection here is so precious that it cannot be measured by price. Zhu Cheng said that since the 1970s, he began to collect these Bashu folk stone carvings, wooden tools, stone tools, pottery, he spent nearly ten million yuan. As a sculptor, Zhu Cheng has collected so many collections that he can also explore to become a museum where history and art coexist.
Stone tablets, Chinese bricks, Buddha statues... There are no windows or display cases, and every display item is tightly guarded. Without the obstruction of glass, visitors can "intimately contact" with each work, see the texture of each collection, and the collection under this simple shack constitutes the texture of Chengdu Zhucheng Stone Carving Art Museum. In 2001, the Sichuan Provincial Administration of Cultural Relics approved the establishment of the Zhucheng (Private) Stone Carving Art Museum, which became one of the four major private museums in Sichuan Province at that time.
From a vacant lot to today's dozen or so "museums", each "museum" is full of collections, carrying one story after another. After the establishment of the museum, many people from dozens of countries and regions such as the United States, South Korea, and Japan came to visit, and everyone who came was amazed by the richness of the museum's collection. The museum has not yet been opened to the public, because "the environment is really not up to the conditions for opening to the public", and it is still like a labyrinth, and if you are not careful, you will be lost.
"I have a clear understanding of my body, and I have done a lot of work as early as the age of forty or fifty, because I know that as I get older, my creative ability will weaken." The 76-year-old Zhu Cheng is still creating, and not only that, he has also brought many apprentices.
Zhu Cheng inspects his own works. Photo by Wang Lei
In a hut in the museum, yoga mats, treadmills, dumbbells and other fitness equipment can be seen everywhere, which are the equipment that Zhu Cheng once exercised, and now he also goes to the gym to work out. "I am a person with great ambitions, and if I don't protect my body, how can I achieve my ambitions?" Nearly 10,000 pieces of collection is a heavy responsibility for this ancient and rare old man.
"These Bashu folk cultural relics are all created by the ancestors of the bashu disciples." Zhu Cheng did research on Bashu culture around these collections and made his own contemporary creations around these collections. Now he is also beginning to plan the final destination for these "extraordinary collections in poor aesthetic buildings".
"Now that Chengdu is vigorously promoting the construction of park cities, I also hope to integrate my museum into the construction of park cities, and build an ecological park that not only has beautification and greening, but also has a modern and contemporary Bashu art gene and cultural park." Zhu Cheng hopes that one day, he will be able to open up to the society to display these literary and artistic treasures, so that everyone can feel the Bashu culture contained in the folk stone carvings, so that the Bashu culture can be passed on from generation to generation. (End)