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Introduction of Treasure Museum

The museum is divided into nine parts, collecting as many as 1,700 unique treasures. The treasure museum is a trove house, which contains the only one of the most intact imperial shrines in China, the Dark wood of 7 tons which has slept for more than 4,000 years in the Yangtze river, as well as the national treasures of old times used by the imperial aristocrats, cloisonne. It also has the collections of mammoth ivory carving with the age of 3 million – 37 million years , which lived in the northern hemisphere of fourth great ice age , the Bronze mirror witnessing Chinese civilization for thousands of years, A rare masterpiece from Uruguay - king of amethyst and various ancient tea pots from different dynasties all over the world.

Big niches

Shrine court also called niches, which was sculptured to reserve this precious carving art for the yongzheng niches begun to crack in the 1950 s. And the related departments was instructed by the nation to sculpture the niches in accordance with the prototype with the help of more than 20 top wood masters all over the country, spending 14 ten thousand cubic meters of dark wood, lasting 4 years to complete the masterpiece. Obviously, It’s a priceless treasure with the cost of more than ten million yuan.

Man-han banquet

It was set up by the court on emperor Kangxi’s 66-year-old birthday feast and originated in China during the qing dynasty for the harmony between two races. Man-han banquet divided into pro-Mongolia Francisco feast, Tingchen Feast, WanShou Feast, Qiansou Feast, Jiubai Feast and Jieling Feast with Man and Han both 54 dishes. Now look at the unfading palace delicacies which are sculpturedwith the material of pure natural stone of various shapes.

Oriental Lion

created by Guangxi carving master-xue-ming zhang taking gold camphorwood as material. And it is such a magnificent sculpture that symbols prosperous career, packing the world. It also has entered the Guinness world records for the whole wood structure and large scale.

The three pieces of wood

including the fuzwandai, Oriental and nan zhi zun all with materials of dark woods. Dark wood is formed from rare ancient woods in virgin forest buried deep under the ancient river, sediment of rivers and lakes because of instantaneous suffers from great geographical and climate change, such as earthquakes, floods and mudslides by the carbonization process in the condition of lack of oxygen, high pressure after thousands of years or even tens of thousands of years. It is known as “plant mummy” for the solidness and luxurious color with the immortality of ten thousand years. The “Oriental wood” in the middle position is the longest of the three woods, which is rare and precious with the history for more than 4,000 years and has been salvaged in the Yangtze River, weighing up to 9 tons.

Welcome To The House

The typical rosewood exhibit in the museum is “A lot of friends”, which is bold but exquisite with adequate materials. It is antique and unique that absorbs the spirit of the world, gathering both the ancient and modern elegant collections of essence, with great independence. The craftsmanship is exemplary whose parts are not spliced. It also has high stability and simple flavor, which created by the master. Sandalwood has a good fragrance, which can refresh and inspire our spirits. The sculpture is lifelike with auspicious and opulent meaning, especially the pictures of elephant, money and ingot.

Mammoth ivory

The Pilgrimage is sculptured for three years with mammoth ivory, designed by Hong Kong sculptor zhong sheng zhu, meaning good luck. Such an exquisite sculpture is rare and priceless in the world, which shows that parade are doing pilgrimage for Primus, a demure fairy star and full-dress hansom gods . The grandeur of the scene and the beauty of the character create a harmonious symphony.

Cloisonne statue of peace

Cloisonne, one of China’s famous special metal crafts, the production technology has reached the peak between Jingtai in Ming dynasty with which the art crafts are famous for its fineness, so called Cloisonne by descendants. Cloisonne name for “enameled copper tire,” commonly known as “ blue enamel” also known as “embedded enamel”, which is a kind of porcelain wares made of the soft plat copper wires,welding device into various decorative pattern, and then fill the enamel glaze into patterns.

Bronze mirror

bronze mirror, usually cast by the bronze with a high content of tin. In ancient times, it was used to sacrifice ritual in the earliest of the shang dynasty. And it was generally available for king and nobles in the spring and autumn period. Bonze mirror was commonly used by people and became indispensable in daily life up to the end of the western han dynasty. It is a treasure of ancient Chinese bronze art and cultural heritage, because It is well made, beautiful in shape and texture and rich in inscription.

Fossil-jade

Fossil-jade also called “Petrified wood”, which can be classified as a strange rock or an ornamental stone for its oddness, specialty and beauty. And rock culture has a long history in China.

Amethyst chaos

crystal is a rare mineral, a kind of gemstone, quartz crystal, and belonging to the quartz family in mineralogy. The main chemical composition is silicon dioxide, also called SiO2 in chemistry, which becomes a transparent crystal when it’s pure. When it contains microelement Al and Fe, color will be pink, purple, yellow, tea etc. By irradiation, the microelement form different types of color hearts, producing different colors, such as purple, yellow, tea, pink and so on. The minerals containing the associated inclusions are called inclusions crystals, such as hair crystal, green ghost, red rabbit hair, etc. The inner package are rutile, tourmaline, actinolite, mica and chlorite.

Buddha cylinder

The porcelain representative in our treasure museum is embossed porcelain “Buddha’s light shine” with the diameter of 1.33 meters and height of 0.92 meters, which is the biggest Underglaze embossed porcelain in Guinness record. The “Buddha light” is made by the five glaze color, variable glaze and colored glaze based on the Buddha, at high temperature of 1320 degrees, burning for 3 years.The cylinder body shows a picture of vivid Buddha’s light shine and the Buddha’s dynasty.

Big Chahu

“Hu” have appeared, as early as in the oracle, whose original word is “Fu” The pronunciation of “fu” is extended from “Hu” directly, Originated from the sound when pouring the water in the initial form. The ancient people thought that there was food, water, and wine when they had pot, which means happiness from the god. it can be seen that the pot has an important position in Chinese traditional culture. Inside the treasure house is a large copper teapot with a total of 347 different teapots. “Hu” and “Fu” are homophonic, when you are in the teapot, also in the blessing!

Big tea cake

There is a large handicraft in treasure house called “Yunnan puer cake tea”, weighing of 620 kg, was collected by the Chinese tea museum in 2004! There is a pair of couplet beside the Big Tea cake, “竹林草阁无谷客，赏兰煮茶似神仙”, weighing up to 160KG, which is created by Ouyang xun who is the 32 generation of Ouyang xiu.

Red education area

The final area is the red culture history memorial area, including a patchwork of chairman MAO’s badges, like some plate paintings of " Map of China " ,“serve the people” and predominantly image of chairman MAO and Ten Marshals, and porcelain figurines embodying social phenomenon during cultural revolution period.