On May 26, a rural museum with temperature and local cultural memory was unveiled in the depths of Baizhang Town in Yuhang, Hangzhou.
The country’s first spinning spindle theme museum, —— Zhuan Suo Museum, was officially opened in Xikou Village.
The opening ceremony is also one of the theme activities of the 2022 “Cultural and Natural Heritage Day” in Yuhang District.
For local, the museum is not only a display spinning spindle history, local culture, craftsmanship of comprehensive rural museum, is also a citizen leisure, visitors visit, studies education, craft activation and other functions as one of the country lounge, but also promote handicraft in activation, leading the country rich important window.
Cross-border integration, to achieve urban-rural linkage
How unique is the country’s first spindle-themed museum?
Start from its origin.
Zheng Finland, curator of Chuansuo Museum, is the representative inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage project of homestextile skills in Zhejiang Province. During the 20 years from 2002 to 2022, she went deep into the villages in the mountains and started a unique journey.
The Museum exhibited more than 22,000 pieces of spindle (groups) visited by Zheng Finland or donated by others.
The so-called “shuttle” is actually the inheritance of handicrafts. There are 12 demonstrations of textile techniques in the museum, a complete inheritance pedigree, and traditional handicrafts such as wood carving, Changshan wood dragon press, Yunnan Poya song book, and Baizhang bamboo weaving.
Museum has four permanent exhibition hall and an open exhibition hall, exhibition from the proposition of “small and beautiful” proposition, through innovative display concept, using art installation, scene restoration, digital interaction, build a system and independent, grand and warm life aesthetic space, let the audience can immersive feeling and understand the arts and crafts.
The long journey of searching for a shuttle is like a boat, now docked in the beautiful north tiaostream.
But there is far more than a museum space.
According to curator Zheng Finland, the Museum and the adjacent rural kitchen, weaving dormitory and other architectural forms together form the “urban and rural linkage complex of the world”.
How to achieve urban-rural linkage?
The weaving on the left of the museum is a rural B with accommodation as the carrier and handicraft products and services. It realizes the cross-border integration of traditional handicrafts and rural B & B, aiming at the display and sale of handmade derivative products and the promotion of rural tourism.
It is reported that in woven every room products can be traced back, the original agricultural products, traditional culture or traditional craft to redesign and sharing, before is woven night sales output, drive is terminal village capacity output, this model can revitalize the whole manual village self-sufficient industrial chain, will also drive the development of the local home stay facility, with handicraft link the future of cities and rural.
The rural kitchen on the right follows the 24 solar terms, realizing the innovative transformation of featured food and agricultural products.
It is reported that the rural ingredients here will also be obtained from the mountains and rivers and from the handmade villages.
Handicraft in the local activation, leading the rural prosperity
In the process of building the urban-rural linkage complex of Chuansuo Tiandi, many craftsmen, cultural scholars and entrepreneurs have become “returning youth”, who have emerged on the road of the city returning to the countryside to build the countryside together.
To the excitement of Zheng Finland, more and more villagers have joined in the building of Chuansuo World with their various skills.
In the early stage of the project, she and her team did research and visits in the village, and found that the neighbors had their own unique skills.
” There are many arts, the mother’s art, the father’s power, are worth digging, which hides the genetic code of the countryside for thousands of years.
“Zheng Finland said,” The original intention of building the Chuansuo Museum is to activate the handicrafts locally and build an industrial chain of two-way activation and linkage between cities and villages; to fully gather the local villagers, returning makers and craftsmen to actively participate in the rural revitalization.
” As of the opening day, the Museum is still continuing to recruit local professionals to participate in the operation, discussion, training and innovation of the museum.
The opening ceremony, also officially launched the “township letter 100” 100 youth home training program, called on young people to return to lead the rural prosperity; a number of provincial and municipal intangible heritage experts around this year’s cultural and natural heritage theme to carry out roundtable discussion, continue to empower the rural prosperity.
Yuhang Baizhang gave active support to the projects that enable rural development.
” For Chuanso Museum, Baizhang Town sought for special funds for provincial cultural and creative projects from Yuhang District, upgraded and transformed cultural and creative blocks, supported cultural and creative enterprises, and gave preferential rent in accordance with Baizhang cultural and creative support policies.
At the same time, with the help of the Party Construction Office, the project of Baizhangsuo Museum has successfully passed the evaluation of high-level talent innovation and entrepreneurship project in Yuhang District, and will be subsidized.
” The relevant person in charge of Baizhang Town said that Yuhang Baizhang will continue to provide a development platform for the promotion of local characteristic industries and talent exchange, and contribute to the western Fumei.