Guanzhong Folk Art Museum's road to conservation

Hollowed out wood carving of the bed, brick carving of the roof, several tons of drinking trough, the old stage ...... here can be said to be the treasures of the whole. In the collection of numerous art treasures, more than 8,000 columns hitching post scale momentum for the most, they were once vastly arranged outdoors, as if the "terra cotta warriors". These most representative of the Guanzhong style, Guanzhong culture and history of the hitching post, in ancient times was the rich and noble families to show that their own eminent status symbol. These non-renewable, nowadays folk has been difficult to find traces of Guanzhong folk culture and history of the epitome, is the starting point for the completion of this folk art museum.

That goes back to 1985, the founder of the museum, Mr. Wang Yongchao, in a chance encounter, he saw a few hitching posts scattered in the courtyard of the Guanzhong family, exquisite carving, Hu people's faces, let him sigh. What makes him sigh is that these treasures in his eyes are facing the encounter of grinding and paving, repairing toilets, and cultural relics traffickers are buying and selling around. So, an accidental collection into a lifetime choice. 20 years, he has organized more than 30 people, divided into six teams in-depth folk, walk the village string house, will be around the folk artifacts wide census, register registration, collection collection, **** invested nearly 200 million yuan. Even once into financial difficulties, but also did not leave the road of protection. Finally, with the support of governments at all levels, the construction of the Guanzhong Folk Art Museum, which covers an area of nearly 500 acres, began in 2004. Today, most of the construction has been completed, is expected to be fully completed by the end of August.

Learning about this not-so-easy journey, media people visiting the interviews applauded and paid tribute to this folk heritage conservationist. The words of the famous critic Yan Lieshan are very representative: "This kind of protection is very valuable, this kind of behavior is very courageous!"

While the museum covers an area of nearly 500 acres is still only half built, not yet fully open, although a thousand of the huge 40 residential mansion group open display of only a dozen,......, but, witnessed before the eyes of these living folk treasures has been enough to let the viewer leaning to look at the viewer, lingering forgettable.