Best Folk Museums with Distinctive Collection in China

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Visiting Chinese folk museums is a good way to understand the Chinese culture as the collection there can recover the real Chinese culture in front of you. You can experience the charm and mystery of traditional culture at the same time. If you are a Chinese culture fan, let’s enter the following 5 folk museums with the distinctive collection.
  • It’s the only museum that shows the ancient female life in China as a biggest civil folk museum. And the museum located in Chenguan Town Ninghai County. There are about 1000 pieces of collections that reveal all the living goods for the whole life of a Jiangnan female. Such collection as three-inch shoes, million workers palanquins and thousand workers bed were gathered by collector He Xiaodao for 20years from every corner of Jiangnan.
  • The museum is 300 meters west to the holy revolution land Xibaipo. There are around 4000 pieces of collection in total. It owns 7 showrooms altogether. And most of the collection such as the plough, water wagon, rammer and keel water wagon in the producing tool showroom and textile clothing showroom are civil found. In addition, the ethical showroom mainly describes the national clothing and customs of 56 nationalities. While living goods showroom mainly places the civil teapot, pottery, bronze stuffs and tin stuffs, and most of them are from Ming and Qing Dynasty.
  • Located in the historic famous Hu Mountain Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, it is a museum mainly researches on the civil relic and culture of Xuzhou District. With an area of around 6000 square meters, it has more than 160 ancient living houses and a collection of more than 1000 cultural relics. The museum is made of 6 parts, namely, they are producing and living, marry and pregnancy, and civil arts and crafts, local dramas, customs, conventions and Amazing folk arts.
  • It is in Beijing Dongyue Temple which is a key Cultural Relic of the architecture integration of Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasty under the State- level Protection out of the NO.141 Chaoyang Gate. And it is the only state-owned folk museum in Beijing. There are many kinds of shows about Beijing’s customs and arts, especially when is Chinese traditional festivals.
  • With an area of 24 thousand square meters, its architectures are mainly Islamic style, which skillfully integrates the Chinese culture, European and American culture and modern culture. There are more than 4000 piece of cultural relics of 13 main minorities in Xinjiang. The traditional clothing of minorities and ancient uygur musical instruments in the museum sufficiently shows the historic culture and traditional convention of Xinjiang minorities.

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