Qing Pu Museum

⛰【Travel Guide】Qingpu Museum - 'Twin Stones Chronicle - Shen Guoqing's Stone Collection and Shen Fei's Seal Carving Joint Exhibition' 📅Exhibition Date: August 8, 2023 - September 3, 2023 📍Detailed Address: No. 1000, Huaqing South Road, Qingpu District, Shanghai 🚗Transportation Guide: It is recommended to drive and navigate to Qingpu Museum, 5 yuan/hour 🕙Opening Hours: 9:00-16:30 (Entry stops at 16:00) 💰Ticket Price: Free 🌟Highlights: Qingpu Museum was established in 1958 and moved to No. 1000, Huaqing South Road, Qingpu District, Shanghai in 2004. The current museum is located in the Songze Square of the new Qingpu city area, a two-story modern local museum. ✅The museum has 2 permanent exhibition halls: 'The Source of Ancient Shanghai Civilization' in the south wing and 'The Charm of Shencheng Water Culture' in the east wing. (Detailed introductions to these 2 exhibition halls have been given in previous notes, please scroll up) ✅Temporary exhibition hall, 'The finest essence of heaven and earth, condensed into stone'. From August 8, 2023, to September 3, 2023, the grand exhibition 'Twin Stones Chronicle - Shen Guoqing's Stone Collection and Shen Fei's Seal Carving Joint Exhibition' is co-hosted by Qingpu District Museum and Shanghai Yiyuantang Art Creation Center. Apologies for the delayed note sharing due to procrastination 😥 ✅Appreciating stones and seals is an important part of traditional Chinese culture with profound cultural connotations. This 'Twin Stones Chronicle' joint exhibition combines the art of stone appreciation and seal carving in a new and ingenious way, promoting and displaying China's traditional stone culture. ✅Mr. Shen Guoqing, the owner of Yiyuantang, is obsessed with stones, and his over forty years of fascination with stone appreciation is evident in his splendid collection. The exhibition showcases more than fifty classic stones for appreciation, including a variety of stones such as Lingbi stone, Ying stone, Yellow River stone, Yangtze River stone, Dahua stone, Colored pottery stone, Gobi stone, Liaohe stone, and more. The stones are vividly shaped, with thousands of postures, either exquisite or rugged, interesting and lasting. ✍🏻The 'Twin Stones' refer to stones for appreciation and stones for seals. 🗿Appreciating stones are naturally formed by nature and can be collected, valued for their aesthetic, collection, scientific, and economic value. They are loved for their natural beauty, uniqueness, and rarity. 🗿Seal stones, used for seal carving, generally have a fine and warm texture, with colors that vary endlessly. The world of seal stones is dazzling and colorful, especially after being carved by masters, their aesthetic, artistic, cultural, and collection values make them a unique artistic treasure.

⛰【Attraction Guide】Qingpu Museum 📍Detailed address: No. 1000, Huaqing South Road, Qingpu District, Shanghai 🚗Traffic strategy: It is recommended to navigate to Qingpu Museum by car, 5 yuan/hour 🕙Opening hours: 9:00-16:30 (Stop admission at 16:00) 💰Ticket price: Free 🌟Highlights: The Qingpu Museum was established in 1958 and moved to No. 1000, Huaqing South Road, Qingpu District, Shanghai in 2004. The current museum is located in Songze Square in the new city area of Qingpu. It is a two-story modern geographical museum. ✅The museum has 2 permanent exhibition halls: 1⃣️The source of ancient civilization in Shanghai: This exhibition hall is located on the first floor of the museum, mainly displaying precious cultural relics unearthed from Songze, Fuquanshan and other sites. It narrates the development process of ancient Shanghai from the Majiabang, Songze, Liangzhu, Maqiao and other cultural stages to the Han Dynasty. 2⃣️The charm of Shencheng's water culture: This exhibition hall is located on the first and second floors of the museum, displaying more than 400 cultural relics related to water town culture, ancient bridges, customs, towns, etc., analyzing the unique charm of Shencheng's water town culture. ✅At present, the temporary exhibition hall, "The essence of heaven and earth, the formation of stones". From August 8, 2023 to September 3, 2023, the grand exhibition "Double Stone Record-Shen Guoqing's Stone Collection and Shen Yang's Seal Carving Joint Exhibition" co-sponsored by the Qingpu District Museum and the Shanghai Yiyuantang Art Creation Center is underway. 📌Small Tips:

🏛️【Museum Guide】Qingpu Museum - The Source of Ancient Civilization in Shanghai 📍Detailed address: No. 1000, Huaqing South Road, Qingpu District, Shanghai 🚗Traffic guide: It is recommended to navigate to Qingpu Museum by self-driving, 5 yuan/hour 🕙Opening hours: 9:00-16:30 (Stop admission at 16:00) 💰Ticket price: Free ⭐Visit Guide: Qingpu Museum was established in 1958 and moved to No. 1000, Huaqing South Road, Qingpu District, Shanghai in 2004. The current museum is located in Songze Square in the new city area of Qingpu. It is a two-story modern geographical museum. The building area is about 8800 square meters, designed by the famous architect Xing Tonghe. The main building material is five intersecting ellipsoids, which look like a butterfly ready to fly, with the style of Shanghai architecture. The entire museum is divided into five areas due to the five ellipses. As soon as you enter the door, the middle hall, with the 8-meter-high large stone bas-relief 'Qinglong Fu' as the theme background, is solemn and elegant, and it is also a public rest area. The east and south wings are the exhibition areas. 'The Source of Ancient Civilization in Shanghai' is the main theme of the south wing exhibition, and 'The Charm of Shencheng Water and Flower' is the theme of the east wing exhibition. (To be continued...) ✅'The Source of Ancient Civilization in Shanghai' is located on the first floor of the museum, which is the main theme of the south wing exhibition. It mainly exhibits nearly 400 precious cultural relics unearthed from Songze, Fuquanshan and other sites, narrating the development process of ancient Shanghai from Majiabang, Songze, Liangzhu, Maqiao and other cultural stages to the Han Dynasty, reflecting the long history and brilliant culture of Shanghai. ✅The exhibition is depicted in the concept and method of chapter-style novels, with the evolution of the times as the main line, the ancestors of Shanghai through the ages as the main body, divided into 'Shanghai people 6000 years ago - Majiabang culture', 'Shanghai people 25000 years ago - Songze culture', 'Shanghai people 4000 years ago - Liangzhu culture', 'Shanghai people 3000 years ago - Maqiao culture' and 'lingering charm' five units. ✅Among them, Songze culture and Liangzhu culture are the focus, fully using the latest archaeological results of Songze and Fuquanshan sites, narrating the development process of ancient Shanghai from more than 7000 years ago to the land, from Majiabang, Songze, Liangzhu, Maqiao to the Spring and Autumn and Han Dynasties and other cultural stages, like a thick historical scroll showing the 'childhood' of Shanghai's history, explaining that Qingpu is the historical fact of the birthplace of ancient civilization in Shanghai. It highlights the characteristics and status of Qingpu's regional culture. ✅Using high-tech means such as sound, light, and electricity, the combination of cultural relics display and scene restoration, exquisite information pictures, multimedia aids and other means, so that the audience can easily understand and happily understand the history of Qingpu, interpret ancient Shanghai. 👍Most recommended: 1⃣️Treasure of the town hall | Warring States Valley Pattern Jade Bi: The Warring States Jade Bi in the museum's collection, the jade is green, interspersed with gray and white earthy spots. The inner and outer circle edges are all engraved with a wide edge with a yin line, and the jade bi is shallowly carved with valley patterns on both sides, arranged in order, and the grains are full. The processing is meticulous, finely carved, the lines are smooth, the charm is dynamic, the valley patterns are numerous but not chaotic, the carving is simple, has a glass luster, it is a typical jade bi of the Warring States period. 2⃣️Treasure of the town hall｜Liangzhu Culture Jade Bi: This jade bi is made of light green jade, with red-brown fine streaks and block spots. Flat round shape, there is a through-drilled round hole in the middle, the hole wall has a wrong seam platform mark and fine spiral pattern. The surface of the vessel is smooth, without any decoration, polished exquisitely, and there is a curved line cutting mark near the outer edge on one side. 'Zhou Li' said: 'Make six jade articles to worship heaven, earth and the four directions, use the blue jade to worship heaven, and use the yellow cong to worship the earth.' Jade Bi is a sacrificial vessel for Liangzhu ancestors, the source of our country's ritual jade culture can be traced back, reflecting the characteristics of Chinese civilization's respect for jade. 3⃣️Treasure of the town hall | Spring and Autumn Bronze Hook Spear: The bronze hook spear unearthed from the Dianshan Lake site in Qingpu, a total of three pieces, is the only such bronze musical instrument in the Shanghai area. The cavity is all tile-shaped, with a convex ridge inside, the mouth is curved, the two milling corners hang down, flat dance, the lower part of the cavity near the dance is decorated with triangular cloud patterns and cloud thunder patterns. The handle system is one of the signs that distinguish the hook spear from other bronze musical instruments such as the cymbal. Compared with the complex handle system of the bronze cymbal, this group of hook spears are all rectangular flat column handles, with a square platform protruding at the handle end (near the dance surface), which is a common handle system for bronze hook spears. 🌟🌟🌟There are also: Songze Culture Jade Huang, Liangzhu Culture Bird Pattern Clay Black Pottery Zun, Liangzhu Culture God Image Pattern Ivory Carving Tool, Five Dynasties Yue Kiln Lotus Cup, Yuan Dynasty Plum Blossom Carved Lacquer Fruit Plate, Qing Yongzheng Pink Blue Glaze Chrysanthemum Plate... etc., not to mention one by one, it is better to visit in person~

🎨The Shanghai Qingpu Museum, established in 1958, has two exhibition halls: The Origin of Ancient Civilization in Shanghai and The Charm of Shencheng Water Culture. The Origin of Ancient Civilization in Shanghai, most of the exhibits are cultural relics unearthed from the Songze and Fuquanshan sites, narrating the historical development of ancient Shanghai from Majiabang ➡️ Songze ➡️ Liangzhu ➡️ Maqiao culture to the Han Dynasty. During the visit, a volunteer who seemed to be a high school student took the initiative to do a free tour guide, thank you~~ Just a bit fast in speech🤣 🎨It's summer vacation, the museum environment is good, the cultural atmosphere is strong, the air conditioning is sufficient, it is a good place for adults and children on hot days. 📍Detailed address: No. 1000, Huaqing South Road, Qingpu District, Shanghai Opening hours: 9:00—-16:30 🎫Free visit, no appointment needed

At the Songze Site Museum in Qingpu Museum. You can get free tickets at the entrance and go directly in for a visit. The museum is not big, located in Songze Village, Qingpu. The entire exhibition hall is composed of three parts: Discovering the Songze Site, Entering the Songze Society, and Inheriting the Songze Heritage. It also provides a detailed and vivid introduction with five 'firsts' in Shanghai: the first rice, the first man, the first village, the first house, and the first well. Address: No. 3993, Huqingping Highway (There is a parking lot P at the entrance). The museum is not very big, if you just take a quick look, 15 minutes is enough. If you want to carefully and detailedly view each knowledge point, it is recommended to reserve about 1 hour. Qingpu Museum This is a place where I often bring my children. It's not far from the Songze site, a 5-minute drive. At the same time, Qingpu Museum is located on the side of Xiayang Lake, and Qingpu Library is across the lake. It is suitable for often taking children around. The entire museum is composed of: The Journey of Ancient Shanghai Civilization and The Charm of Shencheng Water Culture, and there is an exhibition hall that holds various exhibitions from time to time. The most recent one is: The Hometown Wind Oil Painting Exhibition. I especially recommend everyone to visit Qingpu Museum, which restores the past life scene with three-dimensional replica-like architecture. It's like a journey through the Jiangnan water town. Address: Inside Huaqing South Road, Qingpu District, there is a parking lot P. If you want to slowly experience the entire museum, it is recommended to reserve about 1.5 hours. If you still have time, it is recommended to go to: Zhi Dao Academy. The Songze Site Museum, Qingpu Museum, and Qingpu Zhi Dao Academy are all not far apart. Parking is also convenient. Spend half a day to understand the source of Shanghai, it's very worthwhile.

Next door, Minhang and Fengxian have one special exhibition after another, I wonder if Qingpu Museum will be envious? If you go to Qingpu Museum specially, then duck is not necessary, the exhibits are not rich, you can finish watching in an hour. But this does not prevent her from being the best place to understand the history of Qingpu. - ［About Qingpu Museum］ If Songjiang is the "root of Shanghai", then Qingpu, which has a more ancient prehistoric civilization, is the "source of Shanghai". The Songze people lived in Qingpu 6000 years ago. The Qinglong Town Sea Port, which was comparable to Hangzhou during the Tang and Song Dynasties, was her highlight. The prosperous business in the Ming and Qing Dynasties led to the rise of a batch of towns such as Zhujiajiao, Jinze, and Liantang. The ancient temples in the territory, Qinglong Temple and Yihao Zen Temple, are also witnesses to the long history of Qingpu. The Qingpu Museum displays its exhibits around these histories, including stone tools, jade, pottery, porcelain, bronze, calligraphy and painting, and folklore. - ［Highlights of Qingpu Museum］ ① The stele at the entrance is inscribed with the 'Qinglong Fu' written by Yingxi of the Song Dynasty ② There is a restored model of the ancient Qinglong Town port on the first floor ③ There is a miniature sand table of the ancient city of Qingpu on the second floor, and the outline of the ancient city can still be seen on the current map ④ Black pottery bird pattern zun, chicken heart-shaped jade huan, jade cong, jade bi, etc. ⑤ Stone tools, pottery and other cultural relics unearthed from Liangzhu culture, Songze culture and Fuquanshan site. - ［Address and surrounding places］ Address: No. 1000, Huaqing South Road, Qingpu District Time: Tuesday to Sunday 9:00-16:30 Surroundings: Qu Shui Garden, Songze Site Museum, 7 ancient towns in Qingpu, Yihao Zen Temple, Qinglong Temple, Baoguo Temple, Small Fishing Village, Lianhu Village, Qingxi Suburban Park, East and West Village, Dianshan Lake

Qingpu Museum was established in October 1958, originally located in the Qingpu City God Temple, with nearly ten thousand collections. The new museum is located in Songze Square in Qingpu District, with a building area of about 8800 square meters, designed by the famous architect Xing Tonghe. The main body of the building is composed of five intersecting ellipses, which look like a butterfly ready to fly. Advanced architectural decoration materials are used, which are exquisite and shining. The new museum breaks the traditional mode of cultural relics display, takes the new concept of modern museum communication as its purpose, and uses high-tech means such as sound, light and electricity to combine cultural relics display with scene restoration, exquisite information pictures, multimedia assistance and other means, so that the audience can easily and clearly understand the history of Qingpu and interpret ancient Shanghai.