Guangdong Cantonese Opera Museum is located in Zhaoxiang Huanggong Temple, Zhaoxiang Road, Chancheng District, Foshan City. It is a cultural relics protection unit in Guangdong Province. Guangdong Cantonese Opera Museum collects nearly 20,000 pieces of Cantonese opera texts and more than 3,000 pieces of cultural relics and pictures, including the relics of Qionghua Shuipo, Qionghua Palace incense burners, palace lanterns and other precious Cantonese opera cultural relics, as well as a large number of Qing Dynasty and modern Cantonese opera scripts , Muyu Book, posters, opera bridges, costumes, musical instruments, as well as earlier Cantonese opera films, records, stills, calligraphy and paintings of famous actors and other cultural relics. The Foshan Cantonese Opera Museum is located in the Zhaoxiang Huanggong Temple, a larger complex of ancestral houses in Chancheng District. Zhaoxiang Huanggong Temple was built in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. It is the ancestral hall of Huang Danian, the founder of the famous Chinese patent medicine "Huangxianghua Ruyi Oil" in Foshan. The ancestral hall is majestic, with exquisite and unique design and luxurious and elegant decoration. It is the epitome of the existing ancestral hall-style buildings in Foshan. The main building sits west to east, and consists of the head gate, the worship pavilion, the second entrance, the third entrance, and the back entrance, which are arranged on the longitudinal axis. On the left and right sides, there are four-entry wing rooms (residential houses) alternated by Qingyun Lane, which are symmetrical, uniform, and beautiful. The head door is tall and majestic with luxurious decoration; the beams of the porch are covered with exquisitely carved lacquered wood carvings; the water-milled blue bricks on the front wall are neat and beautiful. The Baiting Pavilion is constructed with the front eaves of the two-storey building. The frame of the second entry and the third entry is a melon column-type lifting beam structure along the Qing Dynasty, and the interior is spacious and bright. There are 13 exhibition areas in the museum, which are divided into three parts: history, art, and people. Cantonese opera scripts, wooden fish books, posters, opera bridges, costumes, musical instruments, famous actors' calligraphy and paintings, and Cantonese opera films from Ming and Qing Dynasties to contemporary are displayed.
A small museum, in a free park in downtown Foshan, is also a free venue to visit. Foshan Qionghua Hall is the source of Cantonese drama, the museum has a rich collection, from culture to celebrities, from clothing to lunch beauty, from history to region, from basic skills to division of labor, comprehensive and meticulous, for Xiaobai, it is very good literacy.
I planned to visit the Police Museum and ate the closed door, so I decisively ran to the Cantonese Opera Museum. The security uncle said that it was closed at 16:45. OK, I quickly decided. Here the main introduction of the history and evolution of Cantonese Opera. The exhibition is full of pictures and texts. The content is detailed and vivid. The building itself has a historical atmosphere. It feels good.
Zhaoxiang Huanggong Temple is the largest compound of mansion in Chancheng District of Foshan. In the Qingxianfeng years, the Huang Daian (the word "Zhaoxiang") founded "Huang Xianghua Ruyi Oil" in the Guangxu years because of the cure of Li Hongzhang's pet Ji, so that the reputation of medicinal oil is not bad, sales have soared, all over Huayang, Huangjia also became the richest man in Foshan. Huangjia is in Foshan industry quite a lot, of which the best preserved is the large-scale, luxurious decoration of the "Zhaoxiang Huanggong Temple". Now the Guangdong Cantonese Opera Museum.
In Chancheng District, it is very close to the ancestral temple and the south world.
It is worth arranging time to visit. Foshan is the birthplace of Cantonese opera. In order to inherit the precious cultural heritage and promote Cantonese opera culture, after several years of preparation, the first large-scale Cantonese opera museum in China - Foshan Cantonese opera museum was officially opened to the public on June 21, 2003. In April 2004, it was renamed Guangdong Cantonese opera museum. It was re-showed at the end of 2007, and was selected as the "Chinese Culture Heritage Base" in November 2008. Guangdong Cantonese Opera Museum is located in Zhaoxiang Huanggong Temple, a Guangdong cultural relics protection unit in Chancheng District, Foshan City, covering an area of about 3,000 square meters. The museum displays 13 exhibition areas, including history, art and characters, and displays more than 3,000 precious cultural relics such as Cantonese drama scripts, wooden fish books, posters, drama bridges, costumes, musical instruments and early Cantonese drama films, records, drama photos, famous calligraphy and paintings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Exhibits include the birthplace of Cantonese Opera, the development of Cantonese Opera in the two Cantonese Operas, the revitalization of Cantonese Opera overseas, the War of Resistance Cantonese Opera, the reform of opera, the Ship Class, Li Wenmao Uprising, Qionghua Assembly Hall, the Bahe Assembly Hall, Zhishiban, the provincial and Hong Kong Class, the Bayin, Muyu, Puppet, Cantonese Opera Repertory, the Example Opera, the choreographer, The stage art of Cantonese opera, Cantonese opera film records, Cantonese opera performance art, the late Qing Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, Cantonese opera modern famous, modern Cantonese opera new and other aspects of content, is the premier Cantonese opera theme museum in the country. Cantonese opera is also known as Guangfu Grand Opera, Guangfu Opera, etc. It inherits the excellent traditional art such as ancient singing and dancing, hundred plays, Yuanming South Opera, Ming and Qing Legends, and has become a major drama on five continents after hundreds of years of eclecticism. Cantonese opera art has a strong Lingnan cultural characteristics, has become an important part of the world culture, and today Cantonese opera more than 1,000 opera films and nearly 10,000 records are popular worldwide. Guangdong Cantonese Opera Museum adopts a combination of static and dynamic exhibition form, and Foshan local private bureau for live music performances, so that audiences can watch Cantonese Opera art up close, multi-form, all-round show the audience the rich connotation and unique charm of Cantonese Opera culture. It is now open to the public for free.