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Established in Zunyi, Guizhou province, Guizhou Wine Culture Museum exhibits the history of wine in Guizhou and the noted wines made in Guizhou other than diversity of rites and customs of wine culture. Guizhou has a beautiful landscape of mountains and water, thanks to its mild climate and high-quality water, and Guizhou is also one of important wine-production base in China. Well known as the Village of Wine. Guizhou has a long history of wine. According to some excavated antiques, wine appeared as early as the period of late Shang Dynasty and early Zhou Dynasty. In its long term process of making wine and drinking wine, local people formed a special wine rite and custom and unique methods. Via visiting this museum, visitors can learn more or less about the local evolution of history and culture. Guizhou Wine Culture Museum built in Aug. 1989 and officially opened in Oct.1989, was administrated by Cultural Bureau of Zunyi.
Gate of National Wine
Guizhou Wine Culture Museum is operated by Culture Office of Guizhou province. It is the only province-level themed museum of wine culture operated by government based on the circular exhibition around China on Guizhou Culture of Wine. It is also one of ten top folk custom museums in Guizhou province for its vivid native wine rites. The distinction between this special museum and the business-oriented wine display of multiple wine companies is to exhibit the history, custom, legends, anecdotes, making and utensils of wine through the exploration, research and usage of the history, art and scientific connotation of wine antiques.
A large number of wine utensils excavated in region of Zunyi as well as a lot of image stone-carvings witness the long history of wine culture. For example, the ceramic pottery, ceramic cup and other ancient utensils of wine widely used in the past are the earliest wine wares discovered in Guizhou province. Besides, mass of ancient wine wares used in different dynasties of Chinese history were also unearthed
Time from late Ming Dynasty to The Republic of China, The Technique ”Hui Sha” of Maotai, a nationwide famous wine often taken as the national wine for many national banquets, finally formed.
Wine Industry extensively agreed that the appearance of tequila is the epoch-making advancement of science and technology, which uplift the culture of wine up to an unprecedented level. However, when the tequila of Zunyi appeared is not settled. Some experts hold up that the time of tequila of Zunyi appeared in late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. In 1965, Maotai wine was finalized in the ingredients and procedures. Subsequently, even a half famous brands of wine of Guizhou are from Zunyi.
Address: Fenghuangshan Square, Fenghuangnan Road, Zunyi, Guizhou
Phone：0852-8239018
Postal code：563000
Fax：0852-8239018
Chinese Character Museum was officially opened on Nov. 16, 2009 in Anyang of Henan province. Chinese ex-president Jiang Zemin inscribed the name for it. Li Changchun, the standing member of Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, participated in this opening ceremony. Professionally exhibiting the development and history of Chinese characters, Chinese Character Museum as one of the world’s oldest continuously used writing systems firstly systemically and specifically records the character civilization of China, which is also considered as the root and core of Chinese Culture. It is significant to set up this themed museum in Anyang who is famous for its oracle bone inscriptions incidentally discovered 110 years ago.
The computerized design image of Chinese Character Musuem
Feng Qiyong, an authoritative Chinese culture master and Former Dean of College of Traditional Study of Renmin University of China, acts as the first curator of Chinese Character Museum. Many a famous cultural learner such as Qiu Xigui, Rao Zongyu, Zhou Youguang, Zhang Han, Li Xueqing and Zhang Hai, also serves as the consultants. “The Chinese characters used by all ethnic groups in China are the ‘cultural genes’ of Chinese civilization and history,” “This is the home of Chinese Character” said Professor Wang Yunzhi of Zhengzhou University.
Chinese Character Musuem located on the north side of east section of Renmin Avenue. It is 8 kilometers away from Yinxu Relics where Chinese original Oracle Bone Inscriptions were discovered. The total area is 34,500 square meters, and the main hall is 32.5 meters high. The museum shows the evolution of Chinese characters since ancient times, showcasing cultural relics, including rubbed stone inscriptions, bronze vessels of the Shang (1600 B.C.- about 1046 B.C.) and Zhou (1066 B.C. – 256 B.C.) dynasties, Chinese seal engraving, ancient coins, writing bamboo and silk, and calligraphy work from different dynasties. The buildings are also built symbolically themed with the shape and structure of Chinese characters.
Chinese Character Museum is generally comprised of Opening Hall, Basic Display, Themed Display and Special Exhibition. In total there are 8 exhibition halls. Display of Chinese Character Development History is the basic exhibition of Chinese Character Museum, and it shows the origin, development and evolution of Chinese Character. There is a themed museum to show the history of discovery, evacuation and research of Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Additionally, there are also two special exhibitions—Chinese Calligraphic Works of Different Dynasties from The Imperial Palace and Ethnical Character Essence of Relics and Antiques from Nationality Culture Palace Museum .Currently, there are more than 2400 articles of collections. There is an important and highlighted section to show the history of Chinese other characters of nationalities except Han people. So it is indeed a real comprehensive Museum of Chinese Character.
In the visiting process, visitors can also enjoy many relevant activities such as character guessing games and digital Chinese Character. It is said that the second term of the project includes Cang Xie Hall, Science-Popularization Hall, Research Center and Cultural Exchange Center.