The clay pot jar of a thousand years ago, the carriage and abacus of a hundred years ago; Looms, radios, tables, chairs and benches fifty or sixty years ago... Old objects that have been dusted for many years are full of stories written in time. In Xiaozhi Village, Xiaozhi Town, Pingyin County, there is a very characteristic folk memory museum - Xiaozhi Village Memory Museum.
The location of the Xiaozhi Rural Memory Museum, formerly known as Sun Jialou, was built in the tenth year of the Ming Dynasty (1497 AD) and was the ancestral residence of Zhu Bangrong, Zhizhou Zhizhou, Henan, Henan in the Ming Dynasty. In 2020, after discussion by the village committee and with the help of the Shandong Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau, the Xiaozhi Rural Memory Museum was established. At present, Xiaozhi Rural Memory Museum covers an area of more than 1,000 square meters and has more than 2,000 collections, including four exhibition halls: Han Portrait Stone Hall, Folk Customs Hall, Meat Stone Exhibition Hall, and Han Tao Minmin Porcelain Hall.
Pushing open the door of the Xiaozhi Rural Memory Museum, it is like traveling through a time and space tunnel, and these gradually dusty old objects become the key to opening memories. The profound human heritage and rich local culture atmosphere in the museum are refreshing and unforgettable. Stroll through the village memory museum, follow old objects, recall past life, and feel the changes of the times. In the yard, vintage bicycles and daily hoes are placed at random; In the old house, stone portraits of the Han Dynasty, "full Han seats" made of meat and stone... There is a wide variety of objects and the arrangement is also unique. These are all rural memories that belong to Xiaozhi Village alone.
In order to collect more old folk objects and look for traces of Xiaozhi Town's folk culture, the person in charge of Xiaozhi Village in Xiaozhi Town walked the streets and alleys to survey the ancient sites. In this way, the memory museum has more and more old objects with the theme of countryside and folk customs, covering all aspects of production and life such as living, festivals, and entertainment in Xiaozhi Town. The memory museum not only has coins, grain stamps, land deeds and other objects that reflect history, but also various agricultural tools that reflect the local farming civilization, vividly reflecting the changes in the life scenes and folk customs of modern peasants in Xiaozhi. The courtyard is decorated with old objects such as looms and stone mills, and there is a strong atmosphere of local culture. According to Zhang Wenbo, secretary of the party committee and director of the village committee of Xiaozhi Village, Xiaozhi Town, "All the old objects displayed in the museum are spontaneously provided by the villagers, in order to let future generations remember the rural charm and enhance the sense of identity, belonging and pride of the local culture." The museum shows the great changes of the times through the restoration of "old objects", and some pictures that have disappeared or are about to disappear are once again presented in front of you.
Since the official opening before the Spring Festival in 2023, it has ushered in a group of tourists, especially adding a good place for everyone, enriching and enhancing the cultural life of the masses, returning many rural memories, inheriting the historical context, and showing the long-standing and rich cultural beauty and vitality of Xiaozhi Village. The villagers told reporters: "On Saturdays and Sundays, when there is nothing to do, I will take my children to the village memory hall to let them see the ancient labor tools, so that the children can grow insight and learn knowledge." ”
In recent years, Xiaozhi Village of Xiaozhi Town has used ancient buildings to collect traditional cultural resources and build a memory museum, on the basis of protecting natural villages, they have displayed and inherited local cultural heritage to the greatest extent in terms of collection, verification, display, addition, and involvement, so that the masses can feel social progress in "homesickness" and inherit local culture in "memory". The construction of a rural memory museum can not only inherit history and let people remember homesickness, but also enrich the cultural life of villagers, provide support for the development of local tourism, and lay a solid foundation for rural revitalization.
As the popularity of the folk memory museum grows, the villagers who come to visit are also endless, which has become a unique landscape of Xiaozhi Village in Xiaozhi Town. "The memory museum is also the school's educational base, and in the future, students will be organized to visit activities, so that children can see physical objects, get close to history, understand history, and inspire their love of life, love for their hometown, and remember history and self-improvement. It is of great help to inherit the history and culture of excellent culture and inherit red memory. Talking about future plans, Zhang Wenbo, secretary of the party committee and director of the village committee of Xiaozhi Village in Xiaozhi Town, is full of confidence. Let the older generation find memories here, let the young people feel the memories here, let the future of the motherland study traditional history here, Xiaozhi Rural Memory Museum, tell a hundred years of history, revive traditional culture, and retain beautiful homesickness, which will become a time station for modern people to relieve homesickness.