2022 Yunnan Ethnology Museum May Day Visiting Guide Yunnan Ethnology Museum Tourism

2022 May Day Visiting Guide to Yunnan Ethnology Museum

1. Opening Situation of Yunnan Ethnology Museum

During the May Day holiday in 2022 (April 30, 2022- 4th), the Yunnan Ethnology Museum is open as usual and you are welcome to visit.

Opening hours: Open at 9:00 a.m. In order to strictly clean, disinfect and sterilize the entire venue before opening and after closing, visitors will be officially provided with services at 9:30 and can enter the exhibition hall. For visits, admission will stop at 16:00 and the venue will be cleared, and the museum will close at 16:30.

Visiting reservations: Currently only individual visits to the museum are accepted. Visitors can visit the museum directly or make a real-name reservation by phone (reservation phone: 0871-64311385).

Current limit description: Daily limit is 2,000 people (limited to 800 people from 9:30-12:00, limited to 1,200 people from 12:00-16:00).

1. Introduction to the Yunnan Ethnic Museum Exhibition Hall

"Ethnic Costumes and Production Technology"

The content of "Ethnic Costumes and Production Technology" is divided into two parts: Traditional costumes and costume making techniques. The "Traditional Clothing" section includes three units: "Early Clothing", "Everyday Clothing and Costumes", and "Religious Sacrifice Clothing". Taking the development history of clothing as the main line, it shows different materials, different styles, different craftsmanship, and different cultures in various periods. The connotation of ethnic costumes reflects the unique aesthetic taste and superb wisdom of women of all ethnic groups in Yunnan. The "Clothing Production Technology" section includes three units: "Weaving and Textile", "Printing and Dyeing and Embroidery", and "Accessories and Processing". "Weaving and Textile" uses Dai brocade, Zhuang brocade and other clothing fabrics and clothing material processing machinery such as spinning wheels, spinning wheels, waist looms, horizontal looms and other clothing material processing machines to reveal the production process of ethnic costumes; "Printing, Dyeing and Embroidery" focuses on the Bai tie-dye and Miao batik craftsmanship, while embroidery is the main decorative technique for national costumes, including plain embroidery, colorful embroidery, cross stitch embroidery, staggered stitch embroidery, braid embroidery, knot embroidery, cushion embroidery, rib embroidery, patch embroidery, overlock embroidery, etc. , from which we can get a glimpse of the unique dyeing and embroidery skills of Yunnan ethnic minorities. Accessories and Processing Through a dazzling array of body accessories and production tools, it shows the pursuit of people of all ethnic groups to beautify their lives.

"Ancient Books in Ethnic Characters"

The content of "Ancient Books in Ethnic Characters" is divided into three parts: "Original Records", "Ancient Ethnic Books" and "Work Achievements". "Original Notes" includes three units: "Carved Wooden Knots and Knots", "Object Rumors", and "Picture Symbols to Notes". It shows the primitive information transmission methods created by humans before the invention of writing, such as carved wooden knots and woven characters. Flowers, physical representations, cliff paintings, etc.; the "Ancient Ethnic Books" section includes three units: "Epigraphy and Stone Inscriptions", "Ancient Ethnic Documents", and "Ancient Oral Ethnic Books", which focus on displaying inscriptions, cliffs, inscriptions, seals, and texts. Ancient books in ethnic languages ??recorded in different forms such as ancient books and oral myths and legends; the "Work Achievements" section focuses on field investigation and collection, research and display, translation and publication results, etc., showing the achievements and challenges of the work on ancient ethnic books. opportunities and challenges.

"Ethnic Folk Ceramics"

"Ethnic Folk Ceramics" is a thematic display focusing on the ethnic and folk ceramics of Yunnan, divided into "Tibetan black pottery", "Dai red pottery", " Five units including "Huaning Glazed Pottery", "Jianshui Purple Pottery" and "Auspicious Beasts of Zhenzhai" also presented Xishuangbanna Dai slow-wheel pottery making and Diqing Tibetan black pottery firing, which have been included in the national intangible cultural heritage list. , Jianshui purple pottery firing and other techniques. ***There are 105 exhibits, all of which come from villages of various ethnic groups in Yunnan. The makers include Yu Wen, Zhang Yun and many other representative inheritors of national-level to county-level tangible cultural heritage projects, including Sun Nuo Qilin, Gao Jinfu There are many provincial arts and crafts masters, as well as Xiang Bingcheng and other gold medal winners of the "Hundred Flowers Award" for Chinese arts and crafts, as well as many masterpieces by unknown folk pottery artists. Yunnan ethnic folk pottery carries the historical memory of ancient pottery making techniques.

"Ethnic Folk Art"

The content of "Ethnic Folk Art" is divided into "mythical beast idols", "armor", "paper-cutting", "weaving and embroidery wall charts", "story cloth" There are six units: "Painting" and "Painting Cards and Sacrificial Pictures". "Mythical Beast Idols" displays the Dongba wooden figurines of the Naxi people, the Dai people's wood carvings of mythical animals, and the Bai people's wood carvings of worship objects of various ethnic groups; the "Jiama" displays the "praying for blessings" and "life rituals" of different ethnic groups and different regions. , "Bless all industries", "Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism", "folk belief" Jiama board and Jiama paper; "paper-cutting" includes two contents: "clothing" and "festival", such as Yi costume paper-cutting, Naxi festival paper-cutting, Dai nationality paper-cutting Represented by Buddha paper-cutting, it displays the paper-cutting art of ethnic minorities; the "Weaving and Embroidery Wall Chart" mainly displays Dai Buddha flags with the cultural characteristics of Theravada Buddhism; the "Story Cloth Painting" unit mainly displays Dai folk story cloth paintings; "Painting Card Sacrifice Pictures" The unit displays folk paintings used by various ethnic groups for sacrificial activities.

"Ethnic Folk Masks"

The content of "Ethnic Folk Masks" is divided into five units; "Tiaoshen Masks", "Life Ceremony Masks", "Festival Sacrifice Masks", "Drama Mask", "house mask".

"Tiao Shen Mask" is represented by the Tibetan "Qiang Mu" mask, which displays the masks used in religious activities to pray for blessings and disaster relief; "Life Ceremony Masks" displays the masks used in major life rituals such as coming-of-age ceremonies, weddings, and funerals. ; "Festival Sacrificial Masks" are represented by the annual masks of the Yi people in various places, showing the masks used in festival sacrificial activities with the theme of worshiping gods and ancestors, praying for agricultural harvests, and population reproduction; "Drama Masks" display the masks that are still circulated today Yunnan local dramas and ethnic drama masks such as Nuo Opera, Guansuo Opera, Dai Opera, Zhuang Opera, etc.; "Zhai Zhenzhao Mask" displays the masks of the Shui and Yi ethnic groups, such as swallowing mouths, to protect homes, protect homes, and ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters. The masks on display are made of various materials, including wood, paper, pottery, cloth, gourd, straw, bamboo shoot shells, brown leather, etc., and the production techniques include carving, paper paste, weaving, etc.

"Folk Tile"

"Folk Tile" displays Yunnan folk "animal pattern tiles" and "plant pattern tiles" with 118 types of gray pottery tiles, glazed tiles, and metal tiles. , "text tiles", "other decorative tiles". "Animal pattern tiles" include dragons, phoenixes, cranes, bats and other auspicious animal patterns, as well as twelve zodiac patterns; "Plant pattern tiles" common themes include chrysanthemums, lotus, plum blossoms, peonies, hibiscus, Ganoderma lucidum, etc.; "text tiles" "The common ones are one-character tiles, two-character tiles and four-character tiles, with auspicious characters such as "Fu" and "Shou" often seen; "Other decorative tiles" mainly include traditional auspicious patterns, pavilions and pavilions patterns and Tai Chi and Bagua patterns.

"Traditional Production and Living Technology"

The content of "Traditional Production and Living Technology" is divided into two parts: "Traditional Production Technology" and "Traditional Living Technology". "Traditional production technology" includes two units: "gathering, fishing and hunting technology" and "traditional agricultural farming technology", which focus on gathering, fishing, hunting, slash-and-burn cultivation, sowing and irrigation, hoeing and plowing, harvesting and threshing, etc. in Yunnan The production technology of various ethnic groups; the "Traditional Living Technology" section includes three units: "Residential Architecture", "Living Utensils", and "Living Technology", which focus on displaying the typical residential buildings, daily utensils of Yunnan ethnic groups, as well as pottery, papermaking, Sugar extraction, oil extraction, grain processing and other life technologies.

"National Musical Instruments"

The content of "National Musical Instruments" is divided into "ancient musical instruments", "wind instruments", "drawing instruments", "playing instruments", "percussion instruments" Six units: "Musical Instruments" and "Folk Instrumental Music Types". "Ancient musical instruments" reproduce ancient musical instruments such as chimes and copper gourds and shengs by copying unearthed cultural relics; "wind instruments" include "edge sound type", "single reed type", "double reed type", "sheng reed type", The five aspects of "horn category" systematically introduce national musical instruments with different shapes, such as the Jingpo "Tuliang", the Dai cucurbit flute, the Yi "Bawu", the Miao reed sheng, the Nu bamboo horn and other typical instruments; "Musical Instruments" displays representative musical instruments such as the Dai bamboo tube erhu, Zhuang horse-bone erhu, and Lisu "Ji Zhi"; "Playing Musical Instruments" displays typical musical instruments such as the Hani horse-leg harp, the Yi yueqin and the three-stringed instrument; "Percussion instruments" "It displays representative musical instruments such as the Yao ethnic group's hundred-wedge flat drum, the Dai ethnic group's elephant foot drum, and the Zhuang ethnic group's fish drum; "Folk Instrumental Music Types" mainly introduces Dong Sutra music and Lamasery band instruments.