<h1>——China Shuangyang Sika Deer Museum</h1>
In September, the autumn breeze is refreshing. Walking into Luxiang Town, Shuangyang District, Changchun City, every detail such as the façade of the building, the square green space, and the landmark buildings are skillfully integrated with the deer culture, and the most eye-catching is the China Shuangyang Sika Deer Museum. Located on the west side of the Luxiang Community Comprehensive Service Center, this museum has an organic integration of architectural style with deer culture, regional culture, shamanic culture, etc., and has become a characteristic symbol of Luxiang Town, the "hometown of Chinese sika deer" with a history of more than 300 years of deer breeding.
<h1>Deer hunting trip</h1>
Entering the museum, you will be greeted by the white deer sculpture, which is based on the white deer born in Luxiang Town in 2015. The deer is a deer for a thousand years, and a white deer for another five hundred years, and since ancient times, the white deer has been a sign of good fortune. At the same time, a wall of 100 antlers composed of antlers such as sika deer, moose, sambar deer, and red deer conveys people's longing for good wishes, and also expresses the auspicious blessings of Shuangyang to the people.
Through multimedia demonstrations, the origin and evolution of deer animals, the great changes in deer morphology and antlers are vividly presented, and the sika deer appeared in North China in the late Pliocene, and has a history of more than 3 million years. The well-known Northeast sika deer has been identified by the state as four varieties and one strain, namely Shuangyang sika deer, Dongfeng sika deer, AoDong sika deer, Siping sika deer and Changbai mountain sika deer strains. Compared with other varieties, Shuangyang sika deer is famous for its beautiful appearance characteristics, excellent production performance, stable genetics and good breeding value.
<h1>A deer together</h1>
Since ancient times, deer have been associated with humans. Deer are not only the hunting objects of humans, but also the totem of people's worship. And since ancient times, deer have been symbols of good fortune, happiness and longevity. It can be said that from food, clothing, shelter and worship to faith worship, deer and we are all together all the way.
Production tools such as handles, axe handles, and shovels made of antlers, tents built by the Evenk people with deerskin, deer square dings, and antler shaman hats of different ethnic groups all show that deer, as human life companions, were also closely related to ritual divination in primitive times. China has been raising deer since the Shang and Zhou Dynasties and is the earliest country in the world to raise deer. The Model of Gengyue Garden restores the Northern Song Dynasty royal garden Gengyue, and the park is extremely luxurious to keep a variety of rare animals, and the number of deer and cranes has reached thousands. Deer are a symbol of auspiciousness, beauty, health and longevity, and deer culture is also one of the important sources of traditional Chinese culture.
<h1>Shenzhou Deer Park</h1>
Judging from the distribution chart of the five major paddocks built by the Qing imperial family, Shuangyang belongs to the scope of Jilin paddocks. Successive Qing emperors liked to shoot hunting in Jilin paddocks, and the Qing Shilu once recorded that Emperor Taiji of the Qing Dynasty carried out 16 round hunts, and there were 5 times in Jilin paddocks alone. In the imperial palace, there are also a large number of sika deer pattern artifacts, covering silk fabrics, jade, calligraphy and painting, etc., and the pictures displayed by multimedia are all deer-related cultural relics of the Palace Museum, of which the Qianlong royal antler chair is the most representative.
Sika deer is full of treasures, whether it is into medicine or to make dishes are superior products, according to historical records, in the Qing Dynasty imperial palace a large number of use of deer antler velvet, royal family members are keen to drink deer blood, eat deer fetus.
The most precious thing about the sika deer is the antler velvet, and the Han Dynasty medical works have recorded that the antler velvet has the effect of "strengthening the spirit, relieving pain and relieving the fetus, and taking a long time to prolong the body". Modern science has further proved that deer antler velvet contains a variety of trace elements. It takes five to six months for deer antler velvet to grow. By the number of forks of the antler velvet, the antler velvet can be divided into two bars and three bars, because the nutrition of the second bar is more concentrated, so its quality is also the best.
The scene of Zhao cooking and frying deer antler velvet before the founding of New China restores the process of making deer antler velvet more stable and easy to store and eat. Zhao's boiled fried deer antler velvet originated in Zhao Xidong during the Guangxu years, and now Zhao's boiled fried deer antler velvet has been passed down to the fourth generation, and in 2011 it was rated as a provincial intangible cultural heritage. The objects shown in the scene are also old objects.
Shuangyang District has a very long history of raising deer, in the early years of Yongzheng, someone caught and domesticated, after several years of breeding in groups, the location is in the current Pangutun. This also opened the history of the artificial domestication of sika deer in Shuangyang. The deer antler velvet produced in Shuangyang also became an important medicinal raw material for the famous pharmacy at home and abroad in the late Qing Dynasty.
<h1>Deer Township Legend</h1>
After the founding of New China, the sika deer industry in Shuangyang District and Luxiang Town was developed. With the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee as the time node, the business model of the five major state-owned deer farms has gradually changed to the development of individual deer breeding. In 1949, the county people's government established the first state-run deer farm in Chenjiatun, Changling District, and then established 4 state-run deer farms, and the birth of the state-run deer farm promoted the development of the deer industry in Shuangyang District. In the early 1990s, the individual deer breeding in Luxiang Township developed on a rough scale, "10,000 yuan is not rich, 100,000 yuan has just started, and raising deer is seven figures" has become a vivid portrayal of farmers in Luxiang Township. Liu Changsheng, the king of deer breeding, is a clear representative of this. Liu Changsheng, who first started raising deer, was full of difficulties, and after several years he traveled through most of China, wrote down more than tens of thousands of words of deer raising notes, and helped many villagers get rich together while raising deer. With his own practical actions, he showed the leading role of an excellent Communist Party member. Nowadays, many farmers have gone to the road to prosperity, and the number of sika deer breeding in the town has reached 140,000, accounting for more than half of Shuangyang District. The town's GDP has reached 6.3 billion yuan.
<h1>Deer out of the double sun</h1>
Shuangyang sika deer is the first sika deer breed artificially bred in the world, well-known at home and abroad, is the pride of Shuangyang. Moreover, the Shuangyang sika deer industry now ranks first in all counties (districts) in the country and is the largest deer product distribution center in the country.
The first pair of Shuangyang sika deer in the 1990s was highly productive with deer antler velvet, which was known as "the world's highest single production of sika deer", and also became the treasure of the town museum of China's Shuangyang sika deer museum.
With the progress of science and technology, the mushroom picking process has also absorbed the achievements of modern science and technology. The original "hanging circle antler" is to drive the deer into the hanging circle, wrap the deer's back waist with a rope, lift the deer's rear drive, grab the deer's head and fix it, and then pick the antler. Now, with reference to the modern surgical process, the deer is injected with an anesthetic when picking antlers, and after the antlers are completed to stop bleeding, they are injected with awakening agents, and in about a minute, the deer will be awake and can move.
<h1>The deer industry is brilliant</h1>
Under the care of the party and the government, governments at all levels have given support in various aspects such as policies, development plans, funds, and technology, leading the Shuangyang Deer Industry Train to embark on a rapid development highway.
In the past, when sika deer were listed as wild animals, breeding and management required cumbersome procedures. Since May 2020, the sika deer of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs was clearly designated as a special livestock and poultry, the simplified procedures have made it more convenient for people who want to keep deer to participate. In addition to the government's policy support, Shuangyang District has also established a deer industry association and a youth deer industry association. These organizations play a coordinating and promoting role in the development of Shuangyang Deer Industry. With the successful cultivation of Shuangyang sika deer, Shuangyang Deer Industry is well-known, attracting a large number of consumers at home and abroad to buy deer antler velvet in Shuangyang. The development of Shuangyang deer industry is also gradually moving towards the direction of deep processing.
In 1995, Shuangyang was awarded the honorary title of "Sika Deer Town", which is the only sika deer town among the first batch of 100 specialty towns in China. In the same year, the "Shuanglu" brand deer tire capsules produced by Shuangyang District Deer Industry Development Corporation entered the international market and won the gold medal of the International Expo. Since then, major enterprises have worked together to realize the modernization of production. From the relatively primary deer antler wine, deer blood wine to deep-processed oral liquid, etc., covering more than 130 varieties of sika deer primary raw materials, medicine, health food, skin care products, clothing, handicrafts and other 6 categories, it sells well in the domestic market and is exported to Southeast Asian countries and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and is favored by consumers.
<h1>Lu Cheng's new chapter</h1>
The cultivation of Shuangyang sika deer has made remarkable achievements, and special sika deer scientific research institutions such as the Sino-Korean Animal Research Institute and the Deer Industry Research and Development Center have been established. At the same time, it has also attracted the close attention and in-depth study of experts and scholars. These achievements have laid a solid scientific foundation for the biological interpretation of Shuangyang sika deer and the further processing and development of deer products. The museum also specially set up a live broadcast room for the sales of Shuangyang sika deer products, which has also become the best interpretation of "I speak for Shuangyang".
In order to better display deer culture and let more people truly feel the charm of Luxiang as the "first township of China's sika deer", the current production and culture of Luxiang go hand in hand, and deeply strengthen the development of tourism resources of deer culture, and now Luxiang has representative festivals such as sika deer festival, antler festival, farmer culture and art festival, harvest festival and so on.
Standing in front of the planning sandbox of Luxiang Town, we saw the future plan of Luxiang Town to rise to the sun. With the deer industry, Luxiang town has embarked on a scientific and technological road and taken off, and will also uphold the concept of scientific and technological innovation and the principle of seeking truth from facts in the future to provide more high-quality deer products.
Author Liu Yang Wang Weiying Reporter Guo Xiaoyu
Curated by Kong Xiangmei
Editor-in-Chief Meng Fanjie, Shi Wei, Han Tieying
Edited by Chi Ruibing