"Now during the epidemic, the museum is closed for guests. During this time, our whole family concentrated on sorting out the items in the collection, so that visitors could better understand the traditional folk culture and ceramic evolution history of Zibo. On April 6, Gao Shunchuan, director of the Sanshun Folk Ceramics Museum in Zichuan District, Zibo City, Shandong Province, said by phone.
Zichuan District Sanshun Folk Ceramics Museum is located in Longquan Town Circle Village, was founded by Taihe Town, a peasant couple Gao Shunchuan and Sun Shouli. In December 2020, it became the first private non-state-owned national secondary museum in Zibo.
Over the years, in order to make the collection of more than 3,800 pieces of ceramics, folklore, red culture and other collections better displayed and convenient for the public to visit, they moved their sites three times, from Taihe Town, Hongshan Town to Longquan Town, and finally found such a 3-story 1500 square meter place in Circle Village in 2018. "After finding this place, our whole family was very happy, and immediately sold the house in Zichuan City, borrowed and added, and finally under the guidance of experts, we were able to carefully set up the exhibition." Since its opening, the museum has been open to the public free of charge and has been flooded with visitors. Talking about the relocation of that year, Gao Shunchuan and his wife are still very excited, "A good work, you must have a good home to place it, in order to bloom its brilliance more." ”
Gao Shunchuan and Sun Shouli are from Heishan Village, Taihe Town, Zichuan District. In January 1997, Gao Shunchuan retired from Xinjiang and returned home. When I saw the demolition and transformation of the village, some of the old objects that the people had used were discarded casually, especially some ceramic supplies were randomly broken, and it was a pity. He thought: The old objects handed down by the older generation are constantly being lost, and there are fewer and fewer, and they should be collected and passed on.
After consulting with his wife Sun Shouli, he decided to collect these old objects to better preserve and continue the manufacturing process and cultural genes of the time. Since then, they have walked the streets and alleys, doing some small business while working, and investing limited funds in collecting old objects. After more than twenty years of hard work, they have collected more and more collections. Later, through these old objects, they met many experts, and with the careful guidance of these experts and the help of friends, they began to build a museum. "I am the third oldest in the family, and there is a shun character in the name, and zhang Guangming, the former director of the Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau, proposed the name of the museum, so let's call it the Sanshun Folk Ceramics Museum." Gao Shun legend is the original intention of the name.
In the preparation of the museum, from the early rental house to the later purchase of the house, they spent all their energy and effort on the construction of the museum and began to chase the inheritance of cultural dreams.
Gao Shunchuan and his wife come from a remote mountain village, with inconvenient transportation and no economic foundation. In the process of building the museum, the shortage of funds was a problem, so they borrowed from relatives and friends. In 2016, it finally passed the relevant provincial and municipal departments for approval at all levels, and at this point, a museum recording the painstaking efforts of Gao Shunchuan and Sun Shouli was officially built, opened to the public free of charge, and gradually upgraded to a national second-level museum, becoming the first non-state-owned national second-level museum established by farmers and retired soldiers in Shandong Province.
The museum has an area of 1500 square meters, divided into three floors, the collection of the museum from the Han Dynasty to the Republic of China, from ancient times to modern times, divided into three exhibition halls. The first floor is a ceramic exhibition hall, exhibiting fine ceramics from the Han Dynasty to the Republic of China, a total of five exhibition rooms, one exhibition room is a dowry vase, a blue and white fish plate, a red and green color tea plate; the second exhibition room is a red and green color porcelain pillow, porridge pot, red and green color tea pot, red and green color scroll jar; the third exhibition room is the ancient ceramic production process, the evolution process of pottery and porcelain; the fourth exhibition room is an oil lamp, ancient lamp series; the fifth exhibition room exhibits the wine altar, wine jar, cylinder and other utensils of the local Weituhe kiln. The second floor is a comprehensive exhibition hall with a display center, a lounge, and a calligraphy and painting exhibition room. On the third floor, there is an exhibition hall of folklore and red culture, and the folklore exhibition hall has the theme of "clothing, food, housing and travel", which exhibits the characteristic farming culture and folk nostalgia culture. Piece by piece, piece by piece of living utensils are displayed in front of people's eyes, so that people can visit and study, recall the customs of people's livelihood, record the ancient way of life, so that people can reminisce about the past and always remember the excellent traditional culture.
The Red Culture Exhibition Hall exhibits the famous Tiantai Mountain Battle in Longquan Town, the red culture of Li Ganshan platoon leader heroically killing the enemy, the exhibition of revolutionary culture such as red guns and charge horns, as well as embroidery, oil painting series, revolutionary soldier clothing series, newspaper and periodical series, etc.
As the museum continues to upgrade and expand, Gao Shunchuan excavates the red stories and celebrity stories in the area, as well as the deeds of his maternal grandfather Lee An-lu and the revolutionary martyr Liu Yuanquan, who died in the Seven Peaks Mountain of North Korea, and displays them in the form of a combination of exhibition boards and physical objects, making the exhibition hall a patriotic education base for citizens to visit and study.
After Gao Shunchuan learned that the circle village where the museum was located was the hometown of Liu Hui, the world-famous mathematical giant, he found Liu Yongchun and Liu Jihuai experts who studied Liu Hui's hometown, collected and sorted out texts, pictures and other materials, set up the exhibition hall of Liu Hui's hometown, and used picture boards and related physical forms to display Stories such as Liu Hui's life origin, calculation π and so on. The research on Liu Hui's hometown has been pushed to the stage of substantive research, attracting many experts to visit and study.
Zhang Guangming, former director of the Zibo Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics, went to the museum for guidance many times and praised: "The Sanshun Folk Ceramics Museum is a museum that integrates ancient ceramics and folk traditions, red memories, and ancient celebrities, which is the first time in our province, and it is also run by a retired soldier from a peasant background, which is even rarer in our province." ”
Academic experts such as Shandong University of Technology and Zibo Teachers College have come to the museum for academic exchanges of cultural relics.
After a detailed understanding of the historical origins of a number of special works such as black glazed convex thread jars, pastel chicken leg Guanyin bottles, Han Dynasty animal ear green glaze jars, and Wujin glazed wine altars, Liu Hengshan, a citizen from Gaoqing County, said: "In the past, I really did not expect that we in Zibo still have so many ceramic masterpieces and cultural stories. ”
Growing up in such a family, his daughter Gao Zihui specially applied for the archaeology major when she took the college entrance examination. Before graduating from college, she used her vacation to focus on cultural relics restoration in the museum and worked as a docent. She said: "Remembering historical memory, the best carrier and the most favorable evidence is the historical object. Although the museum is small, we aim to collect, protect, research, educate, and appreciate, so that the public can truly feel the thickness of culture and the power of culture, and we do not waste the original intention of building the museum. ”
"Inheriting traditional culture, retaining historical roots, and letting the Sanshun Folk Ceramics Museum continue to develop is my sincere wish as a farmer and a retired soldier." Curator Gao Shunchuan said. (Correspondent Yan Shengting)