Spinning shuttle, as a tool for weaving machine to pull weft, was common in the past. From farming civilization to industrial civilization, it also witnessed the changes of rural life. Yesterday, Chuansuo Museum, the first spinning shuttle theme museum in China, was officially opened in Xikou Village, Baizhang Town, Yuhang District, and the opening ceremony of the theme activity of Yuhang’s 2022 “Cultural and Natural Heritage Day” was held simultaneously.
As the only rural museum with the theme of spinning shuttle in China, Shuttle Museum has been rebuilt from an old factory building, with a normal exhibition area of about 1,500 square meters. It has four permanent exhibition halls and one open exhibition hall. Starting from the proposition of “small but beautiful”, it has built a systematic, independent, magnificent and warm living aesthetic space through innovative exhibition concept, rational use of art installations, scene restoration and digital interaction.
At present, the museum has exhibited more than 22,000 pieces (groups) of various kinds of spinning shuttles, all of which were obtained or donated by curator Zheng Fenlan during his visit to villages from 2002 to 2022.
From the clanging sound of farming, reading and passing down the family to the roar of modern machines, in Zheng Fenlan’s view, the spinning shuttle bears the inheritance of handicraft skills and the memory of local culture. “Shuttle Museum is not only a comprehensive rural museum that displays the history, local culture and handicraft skills of spinning shuttles, but also a rural living room that integrates the functions of citizens’ leisure, tourists’ visit, research and education, handicraft activation and so on. It is also an important window to promote the local activation of handicrafts and lead the rural community to get rich together.” She said.
The construction of rural museums is also a process of cultural prosperity and industrial revival. The relevant person in charge of Baizhang Town said that the construction of Shuttle Museum is to activate handicrafts locally, build an industrial chain of two-way activation and linkage between cities and villages, and fully gather local villagers, returning makers and craftsmen to actively participate in rural revitalization.
On the opening day, Chuansuo Museum continued to recruit local talents to participate in the operation, discussion, training and innovation of the museum. Next, Baizhang Town will carry out a youth training program for returning home, calling on local youth and returning home makers to return to the garden, and build a magic bean mother handicraft and entrepreneurship innovation base, so that more women can be employed at their doorsteps, and the advantages of personnel, resources and products can complement each other, leading the rural community to get rich together.
Reporter Zhang Shuyuan and Sha Rundong, Yuhang Weirong Circle, Wang Lijuan