Decorative furnishings and symbolism in Huizhou ancient houses

Huizhou, a famous cultural and geographical concept on the Chinese land, an independent and outstanding folk culture unit, which is centered on today's Huangshan City, including the historical Huizhou Province "a government of six counties", namely, She, Yixian, Huining, Wuyuan, Qimen, Jixi.

Huizhou has been a wonderful place since ancient times. Historically, it has been famous at home and abroad for its beautiful mountains and waters, outstanding people, rich merchants and businessmen, flourishing culture, and simple people, and has been known as the "Southeast Zulu", "the state of literature" and "the sea of cultural relics".

Huizhou is the holy land of Confucian culture in the late feudal society of China, the glorious representative of Chinese advanced culture in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the wonderful epitome of traditional Chinese culture. From Song to the late Qing Dynasty, it once reached a highly prosperous and brilliant culture. Whether in the ideological, economic and political fields, or in all aspects of culture and art, there were outstanding features and high achievements, and radiated to the neighboring regions and even the whole country.

The source of the science that has ruled China's intellectual history for nearly a thousand years is here; the Huizhou merchants that have dominated China's economy for more than three hundred years are here; the Huizhou ink and ink slabs that are favored by the literati are here; the highest achievement of Chinese printmaking is here; and the mainstream of China's seal carvings is here....... As for the historical celebrities, they are even more brilliant than the stars. Since the Song Dynasty, such as Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi, Zhu Xi's ancestral home here, by Liang Qichao respected "is one of the 800 years of thought in the great revolution" of the Enlightenment thinker Dai Zhen grew up here, known as the "May Fourth Movement" spiritual leader Hu Shi was also born here! ...... The outstanding cultural phenomena and achievements of Huizhou in the Ming and Qing Dynasties are known as "Huizhou Culture".

The advantage of the location, Anhui China Huizhou Culture Museum collection is extremely rich, collection of ceramics, inkstone, Huizhou ink, painting and calligraphy, Huizhou three carvings, bronzes, jades, miscellaneous, ancient books, Huizhou documents and other cultural relics of nearly 100,000 pieces (volumes), of which nearly 50,000 volumes of books of antiquity, the deed of the instrument nearly 30,000. She inkstone, Hui ink, Xin'an painting and calligraphy, Huizhou documents are the characteristic collections of the museum, of which "Wenfu ink" unearthed from the Song tomb is the earliest Hui ink found in China. The collection of Huizhou documents has become an important material for the study of Huizhou studies, which is an international science, and has also attracted the attention of Huizhou experts around the world.