Nanjing has experienced many population migrations during the Wei and Jin dynasties, the Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties, and the Republic of China, and the convergence and integration of northern and southern cultures, coupled with the cultural development after the founding of New China, bringing together the essence of the four directions and forming a unique local traditional culture. Nanjing has more than 10 kinds of folk traditional songs and dances with a long history and characteristics, such as Bai Juyuan, Fangshan Big Drum and Dragon Dance; has the traditional crafts such as Nanjing Cloud Brocade Weaving Technique, Nanjing Paper Cutting, Jinling Scripture Engraving, Folding Fan and so on; has a unique food culture such as "Dry Eight Fresh", Nanjing Plate Duck, And Saltwater Duck.
Route overview
This is a fun experience tour of ancient capital folklore, you can see the exhibition of intangible cultural heritage skills, traditional marriage and child-rearing customs, etc. at the Nanjing Folk Customs Museum; at the Nanjing Yunjin Museum, you can experience the thousand-year-old weaving skills and understand the development and changes of Yunjin; in the Shogunate Mountain, while personally experiencing the mysteries of ascending customs, you can also visit the surrounding magnificent landscape and enjoy the body and mind.
Trip planning
Nanjing Folk Customs Museum - Nanjing Yunjin Museum - Shogunate Mountain
Recommended duration
1 day
Characteristic scenic spots
Nanjing Folklore Museum
Nanjing Folk Customs Museum and Nanjing Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum are professional museums for the research, display and protection of Nanjing folk culture and Nanjing intangible cultural heritage, and the venue is the national key cultural relics protection unit - Gan Xi Zhaidi. Gan Xi House, also known as "Gan Xi Former Residence", folk customs known as "ninety-nine and a half rooms" and "Gan Family Courtyard", is located in Baixia District, Nanjing City, South Capture Hall No. 15, 17, 19 and Daban Lane No. 42, 46. Gan xi zhaidi was founded in the Qing Jiaqing period, has a history of 200 years, covers an area of nearly 10,000 square meters, is currently the largest and more complete preservation of the Qing Dynasty residential buildings in the mainland large and medium-sized cities. Gan Xi Mansion, Ming XiaoLing and Ming City Wall, known as the "three major landscapes" of Ming and Qing architecture in Nanjing, have high historical, scientific and artistic value, and are an important cultural tourist attraction in the ancient capital of Nanjing.
Since its establishment in 1992, nanjing folk customs museum has carried out a series of activities to display folk culture based on the protection of traditional folk culture in Nanjing, giving full play to the due role of the museum. In January 2010, in order to comprehensively display Nanjing's intangible cultural heritage and protect and inherit Nanjing's intangible cultural heritage resources, the Nanjing Municipal Government decided to add the Nanjing Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum to the Folklore Museum and establish the country's first folk customs and intangible cultural heritage "Double Museum", and on June 9, 2012, the "Double Museum" was officially completed and opened to the public.
Here, you can see the comprehensive display of Nanjing's intangible cultural heritage, the exhibition of the skills of representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage, the exhibition of the history of the Jinling Gan family, the display of traditional marriage and child-rearing customs in Nanjing, and the exhibition and performance of intangible cultural heritage in Nanjing.
Nanjing Yunjin Museum
Founded in 1982, Nanjing Yunjin Museum, formerly known as "China Brocade Craft Exhibition Hall" and "China Brocade Village", is the only professional museum of cloud brocade and ethnic brocade in China, which brings together the most representative brocade and the fine brocade of various ethnic minorities in the country since the Ming and Qing dynasties, physical materials, technical and technological materials, and the precious silk woven cultural relics of the mainland that have been carefully copied by the Nanjing Yunjin Research Institute in recent years, and is a world intangible cultural heritage museum with unique humanistic charm, ancient scientific and technological culture and historical and cultural connotations.
Nanjing Yunjin Museum has an exhibition hall area of 4,300 square meters, which is dedicated to collecting and displaying all kinds of Yunjin art treasures and related silk cultural relics, ethnic brocades and other materials, nearly 10,000 pieces of physical objects. There are 970 pieces of professional physical materials of Yunjin that can be displayed (a considerable part of which are important historical relics), more than 2,000 copies of Yunjin manuscript materials (including the "Hanfu Manuscript" left by the past government-run weaving bureau), and more than 8,000 professional books and materials (this one). The unique feature of Nanjing Yunjin Museum is that it perfectly combines the production of hand loom operations of more than 1500 years of living handicrafts and the display of static silk weaving cultural relics, and the audience can participate in the interaction dressed in national costumes and experience the thousand-year-old yunjin technique of weaving on the machine.
Shogunate Hill
The custom of ascending the shogunate began in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and has a history of more than 1600 years. On the Chongyang Festival, people come to the Shogunate Mountain to enjoy the scenery and pray for blessings, which becomes a great scenic spot.
Shogunate Mountain is in the northwest of Nanjing, standing on the river, stretching and undulating, from The Shangyuan Gate in the west to Yanziji in the east, with unlimited scenery. According to legend, Sima Rui, the Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, crossed the river, and Wang Dao set up a shogunate (staff) here, hence the name. Its mountains stretch and roll, reaching the shogunate, looking at the sky in the distance, and the Yangtze River rushes forward from the bottom of the mountain. In the Forty-eight Views of Jinling in the Qing Dynasty, the Shogunate Mountain has six scenes of Shogunate Ascension, Dharma Ancient Cave, Yongji River Stream, Hualong Lidi, Jiashan Wenjing, and Yanji Xizhao.
Dining recommendations
Duck blood vermicelli soup, Nanjing brine duck, osmanthus sugar taro seedlings, assorted tofu waterlogging, duck oil baked cake, etc.
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