What's in Sanduotang?

Sanduotang Museum, located in the northeast corner of Beijuan Village, five kilometers southwest of Taigu County, is adjacent to Nantong Railway and National Road in the north 108. It used to be the Shouzi House of Cao Jia, a wealthy businessman in Shanxi Province. Its appearance is majestic and tall, resembling castles and independent villages in the north. With a total area of 10638 square meters and a construction area of 6,348 square meters, this house is a newly developed cultural tourist attraction of Shanxi merchants, which preserves the buildings of various generations in Ming and Qing Dynasties and displays countless treasures. 1995 10 10 opened in October and became a tourist hotspot in Jinzhong. It is a provincial key cultural relics protection unit. Sanduotang Museum mainly displays the family economic and commercial history of Cao Shi, antique furniture exhibition in Ming and Qing Dynasties, porcelain exhibition and rare products exhibition. Among them, Cao Shi's economic and commercial history takes "sunrise and sunset" as the stage, which reflects the process of Cao Shi's family history from hard work to glory and decline; There are glorious moments of "Liao Feng won 600 seats in Mongolia" and "Fu Lushou was surrounded by happiness", and there are also moments of "white smoke flashed and ten thousand tiles fell one after another".

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By the river during Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Qiu Ying, a great painter in Ming Dynasty, copied the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival by Zhang Zeduan in Northern Song Dynasty. The scroll is 7.74 meters long and 0.45 meters wide, with 1643 characters and 208 heads of livestock. It is lifelike and priceless. The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival was originally written by Zhang Zeduan, a poet in Song Dynasty, and later copied by Chou Ying, one of the four great talents in Ming Dynasty. All kinds of human phenomena and religions are concentrated in the original work, and Chou Ying is even more charming. Experts say that such art treasures are extremely rare in China.

Bai Shou big screen

A rare "century-old big screen" inlaid with 92 natural marbles, with top and bottom.

Bai Shou big screen

50 "longevity" characters, selected by three generations of imperial masters 17 ancient scholars inspired and warned. One hundred birthday words and articles were engraved on it by intaglio carving, and painted with gold powder. There is a "mother-of-pearl inlaid shell mirror", carved with natural shells into folk auspicious patterns and "Fu Lushou" Samsung. When you choose different angles, it will show different colors. It is said that when you see red, your career will flourish, when you see pink, you will have good luck, while yellow indicates that you will make a fortune.

It is said that this century-old screen was originally a gift prepared by Kong Xiangxi for Chiang Kai-shek, but it was too big and heavy to carry. This screen is made of walnut, completely tenon-mortise structure, without a nail. It is precious in many aspects, for example, 92 marbles are all wrapped in elephant bones, and 100 characters with different fonts are painted with gold powder. From a distance, it looks like a positive engraving, and from a close look, it looks like a negative engraving. Someone once thought of150 thousand dollars to buy this screen.

Qing palace national treasure gold locomotive clock

What is amazing is the gold locomotive clock, the national treasure of the Qing Dynasty, exhibited in the "Treasure Hall". It was a tribute from France to the Qing Dynasty. It is made of yellow, white and Ukrainian gold and weighs 84.50 Jin. It is inlaid with clocks and barometer, which can be wound along the track. This national treasure is the collateral for Empress Dowager Cixi to flee to An Road and borrow money from Cao family through Beixuan.

The golden locomotive clock has an extraordinary origin. It was originally a tribute from France to Emperor Qianlong and has been treasured in the palace. 1900, Eight-Nation Alliance captured Beijing, and Empress Dowager Cixi fled. The Cao family once lent her a huge sum of money, but after the Empress Dowager Cixi returned to Beijing, she didn't want to lose the royal family's "face" because of the government's repayment of the loan (perhaps, more likely, she couldn't afford it), so she gave this priceless treasure to the Cao family, which was regarded as repayment of the loan. It is made of yellow, white and black gold, with a platinum bell that automatically tells the time on the roof and a barometer that automatically predicts the weather changes in the middle. The front of the car will move back and forth regularly on the track made of black gold, like a pendulum. When the time comes, the white bell on the roof will ring by itself, which is accurate.

Feather mirror

Jade mirror is a product made of dried feathers of Vietnamese jade birds. Jade bird's feathers are very precious. A woman in a rich family would feel much more noble if she attached some earrings or hairpins, but this mirror is made of jade bird feathers, and its value can be imagined. This mirror has gone through more than 200 years now, but its color is still bright.

Zhao Tieshan's first calligraphy in North China

There are more than 40 original works by Zhao Tieshan, a great modern calligrapher, each of which will make people sigh.