Guangdong Folk Craft Museum Details

Guangdong Folk Crafts Museum was set up in 1959 in Chen's Academy, is a collection, research and exhibition of Guangdong region and the main folk crafts across the country throughout the ages of art type museum. The museum has a rich collection, many displays, year-round with "Guangdong ivory carving", "Guangzhou colored porcelain", "Guangdong paper-cutting and straw stickers" and other exhibitions, but also often organize some short-term, temporary exhibitions to enrich the At the same time, some short-term, temporary exhibitions are often organized to enrich the display and enliven the atmosphere. The museum staff has been committed to improving the level of display and exhibition for many years, so that a variety of folk crafts in the Chen's Academy of this exquisite art hall shine.

In May 2017, it was recognized as the third batch of national-level museums.

Basic introduction Chinese name ：Guangdong Folk Crafts Museum Category ： Artistic Museum Location ：Zhongshan 7 Road, Guangzhou City Completion time ：1959 Opening time ：8：00-5：00 Collection of fine art ：Art Ceramics Introduction to the premises, permanent exhibitions, Wan Zhaocun sculpture exhibition, Chen Shaofang Canton Embroidery Exhibition, Guangdong Ivory Sculpture Exhibition, Guangzhou Painted Ceramics Exhibition, Old guangzhou home exhibition, guangdong traditional carving exhibition, new century guangzhou jade carving exhibition, beijing cloisonné exhibition, exhibitions and collections, qing woof landscape figure pattern painting, qing enamel painted flowers and butterflies fruit box, qing qianlong paragraph yellow blue and white folded nine peach pattern plate, the end of the civil war in the early hainan 侾li four star women's skirts, chaozhou gold embroidery "nine dragons" round screen, the specific address, the museum building is located in the chen's school (commonly known as chen's ancestral hall), the whole hall Covering an area of 15,000 square meters, construction area of 6,400 square meters, by several courtyard will be the size of 19 buildings into one, forming a central axis as the main line, east and west with the hall, outside the rigorous symmetrical layout of the compartment, with the distinctive features of Lingnan architecture. Therefore, it is summarized as "three deep, five wide, nine halls and six courtyards". The reason why the Chen Family Ancestral Hall has become the Guangdong Folk Craft Museum is mainly because of the "three carvings, three sculptures and one cast iron". Three carvings" refers to the entrance stone lions, stone drums and other stone carvings; the left door on both sides of the wall embedded brick carvings, the left for the "Water Margin Gathering Hall", the right for the "Liu Qing Fu Wolf Colt"; and the door into the four pieces of the large screen wood carvings (including bas-relief, through the carving, etc.), wood carvings can be found everywhere in the Chen Ancestral Temple, the arch of Angle beams is the Chen Ancestral Temple of the wood carvings of the art of fine art of the specific embodiment of the." The "Three Sculptures" refers to the colored sculptures, gray sculptures and ceramic sculptures that can be seen everywhere on the roof of the Chen Family Ancestral Hall." A casting" refers to the Chen Ancestral Temple's superb cast iron crafts. The museum collection of all kinds of folk arts and crafts and cultural relics specimens over the ages more than 10,000 pieces (sets), divided into ceramics, embroidery, carving, miscellaneous four categories. The museum collects more than 4,000 pieces of art ceramics of Guangdong Shiwan Kiln since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which is not only large in number, but also has many fine products. Permanent Exhibition Wan Zhaoquan Sculpture Exhibition Wan Zhaoquan Guangzhou hundred years of flavor sculpture, sculpture clay with the qualities of people enjoyable art form, reproduced the old days of Guangzhou style. The author, Wan Zhaoquan, grew up in the Xiguan family, has been fascinated by sculpture and painting since childhood, and has been engaged in sculpture art creation for 36 years now. His works, with popular art language to pursue the creation of personal style, deep life experience in clay art creation, works of humor and witty and friendly and real, rich in dynamism and a strong sense of life, giving people a refreshing feeling, but also fully explains the "most profound works are often the most approachable works" this truth. Chen Shaofang Canton Embroidery Exhibition Canton Embroidery is one of the four famous embroideries in China, and is unique for its brilliant colors, full and proportional compositions, and rich and varied stitches. At the beginning of the new century, "Chen Shaofang's Works of Canton Embroidery" was exhibited for the first time in Guangdong Folk Craft Museum. Chen Shaofang, a native of Panyu, Guangdong, graduated from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in the early 1960s and has been engaged in the design and research of Canton embroidery for more than 40 years. Her works have been selected by the state as gifts to friendly heads of state, but also selected to participate in many major international exhibitions. 1986 Guangdong Province *** awarded Chen Shaofang "Guangdong Province Arts and Crafts" title. This exhibition of more than 20 works, showing Chen Shaofang in different periods of artistic creation of style characteristics. From these rich subject matter, a variety of works, people can fully appreciate as one of China's four famous embroidery Canton embroidery art charm. Cantonese Embroidery Guangdong Ivory Carving Exhibition Guangdong ivory carving emerged in the Qing Dynasty, quickly became a popular handicrafts, both at home and abroad, and thus contributed to the prosperity of Guangdong ivory carving line. In 1913, Guangdong participated in the Panama Games with a 24-layer ivory ball and won the first prize, which made Guangdong ivory carving famous all over the world from then on. The Guangdong Ivory Carving Exhibition displays several pieces of works, including large peacock tusk boat, dragon and phoenix forty-three layers of ghost work ball; also as fine as a grain of rice is known as the "God's eye" of the miniature carvings. Works of ingenious conception, skillful, worthy of "ghostly work of art". Guangzhou colored porcelain exhibition Guangzhou colored porcelain, referred to as "Guangcai", because of its colorful, flowing gold overflowing characteristics, so also known as "Guangzhou gold-colored porcelain". It is the Qing Yongzheng period, due to the need for export and the rise of a folk craft. Adaptation to foreign sales, Guangzhou colored porcelain by the Western imported enamel influence, but the mainstream is still inherited the excellent tradition of Chinese colored porcelain, especially the Ming three-color, five-color traditional painting techniques and the influence of the Guangzhou folk colored porcelain, so from the wide range of colored works, we can feel the strong flavor of the traditional Chinese colored porcelain and the unique local style. Colorful Porcelain Old Guangzhou Home Furniture Exhibition One of the three major factions of Chinese "Qing-style furniture", Cantonese-style furniture is displayed here, "Old Guangzhou Home Furniture Exhibition" is strictly in accordance with the old Guangzhou traditional home furnishings pattern form on display. The master's room, the parlor, the study, the house of worship and the house of the self-combing woman (i.e., the woman who never married and often lived in groups of three or five) are all historically reproduced here. The stools, chairs, tables, beds, tables, tables and spittoons are all in their places, making people feel as if they have stepped into the houses of Guangzhou during the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. The solemn and dignified elders, the smokers who have no idea of what to do, and the cynical aunt ...... seem to be living right in front of you. Guangdong Traditional Carving Exhibition This is a collection of exhibits that will delight your eyes and make you forget to come back. There are common jade carvings, stone carvings, horn carvings, rare coconut carvings, nuclear carvings, unheard of kyat carvings, and even the nearly lost brick carvings. There are gold and wood carving shrines towering nearly ten feet high, and there are Duanzhou ink stone pools spread over meters. Here, you will be amazed at the skill of the artists and their silence. Valuable Carving Collections New Century Guangzhou Jade Carving Exhibition Guangzhou Jade, mostly carved with Southern Jade, also known as Southern Jade, which is turquoise and transparent, with a greasy texture, is one of the high-quality jasper in China. Guangdong has a long history of jade carving, with a wide range of jade artifacts as early as the Neolithic era. On display are mainly modern decorative jade carvings, including finely carved jade balls, through-carved carp cages, as well as boats, pagodas and other large-scale appreciations rich in local characteristics. Among them, the "New Guangzhou in the New Century" jade carving hollow mother and child ball, the main body of the whole piece of southern jade carved into eight layers of mother and child ball, carnelian carved into the red cotton to support the sphere, works of art is cleverly conceived, skilled, and sends people's good wishes for the new Guangzhou in the new century. Cloisonné Exhibition in Beijing Cloisonné, a kind of enamelware craft, is the proper name of copper-flavor pinched enamel, or pinched enamel for short. It has a long history in the West, China has appeared in the late Yuan Dynasty, because of the Ming Dynasty Jingtai years the production of the most refined and named. Cloisonné, represented by the Beijing area, is beautifully shaped, magnificently decorated and brightly colored. The production of cloisonné can be roughly divided into seven processes: tire making, silk pinching, soldering, pointing blue, burning blue, polishing, and gilding. The exhibition includes not only traditional cloisonné works, but also platinum paintings, which are innovated on the basis of traditional craftsmanship. Exhibitions and Collections Qing Dynasty Woof Landscape Painting The embroidered painting is bordered by yellow brocade with cloud and crane and dark eight immortals pattern, backed by orange-yellow five-petal flower-shaped dark flower damask, and the heart of the painting is a woof landscape with figures, and partially embroidered with gold threads, and the seams are filled with gold threads, and the figures' five senses are traced with brushes and filled with colors. Qing dynasty enameled fruit box with flowers and butterflies on copper, in the form of an eight-petal flower. Inside the box there are nine small plates, painted with the character for longevity, surrounded by a chain of bats. The outside of the box is painted with a butterfly and melon motif, which is a metaphor for the continuous succession of melons and gourds and for good fortune and longevity. This piece of enamelware produced in Guangzhou in the fine. Qing dynasty qianlong model yellow blue and white flower folded branches nine peach dish open mouth, shallow arc wall, rimmed foot. The inner and outer walls are covered with yellow glaze, the rim of the mouth is decorated with blue and white double strings, and the center of the dish is painted in blue and white with nine peaches on folded branches in a double circle. The outer wall of the dish is painted with a blue and white floral design on a yellow glaze ground. The foot is inscribed in blue seal script, Da Qing Qianlong nian zhi (Made during the Qianlong period of the Qing dynasty). Late-Qing and Early-Min-Qing Hainanese Four-Star Women's Skirt A cylindrical skirt made of three horizontal panels, the upper, middle, and lower panels, sewn together. The upper and lower panels are decorated with floral block geometric patterns, while the middle panel is decorated with floral picking and clip pulling. Chaozhou Nailed Gold Embroidery "Nine Dragons" Round Screen Nailed gold padded convex embroidery is an important form of artistic expression of Chaozhou embroidery. The dragon's head and body are padded with cotton and paper, more than two centimeters higher than the screen, and outlined with curly hearted floss, highlighting the skeleton, mane and hair, and embodying the dragon's majestic body in relief; the dragon's scales are made with Teochew embroidery's unique two-needle scale technique, with scales superimposed on top of each other in layers, producing a three-dimensional effect of darkness and brightness by means of the refraction effect of the light and rich texture, and the picture is flying with a stream of color, which fully demonstrates Teochew embroidery's rich and majestic local style and artistic characteristics. Artistic Characteristics. Specific address Address: No. 34, Enlongli, Zhongshan 7th Road, Guangzhou City Guangdong Folk Craft Museum