At 12:10 noon on September 2, 2020, we waited for the bus at the entrance of the Zhouwo Music Town Scenic Spot, and the No. 116 bus did not come until 12:50. The fare to the county seat is 3 yuan, get off at the intersection of Wuqiang New Year Painting Museum, and walk about 500 meters to reach the museum. Just on the way, there is a beef noodle restaurant for lunch. The museum closes at noon and does not open until 2 pm. When we arrived at the museum after dinner, the museum had already opened, body temperature was tested, ID cards were registered, and we entered the museum for a visit.
Wuqiang New Year Pictures Museum is the first special museum of New Year pictures in the country. It is located in Wuqiang County. The museum covers a total area of 25,100 square meters, with a building area of over 5,400 square meters. There are more than 10,000 pieces of cultural relics in the collection. At present, there are 5 exhibition halls and an antique New Year picture workshop, so that the ancient craft of engraving and printing, one of the "four great inventions" passed down through the ages, can be well protected and inherited. The exhibition is divided into six parts: (1) The origin and development of New Year pictures; (2) The brilliant achievements in history; (3) Modern and modern Wuqiang New Year pictures with revolutionary tradition; (4) The new pattern of the current New Year pictures development; (5) ) New Year pictures from all over the country are splendid; (6) Traditional craft workshops. The whole display is novel and unique, full of the atmosphere of the new era, and strong national and folk characteristics.
Since its opening in 1992, Wuqiang New Year Pictures Museum has received attention and support from all walks of life at home and abroad. In 1993, it was named "Hometown of Woodblock New Year Painting Art" by the Ministry of Culture; nearly a hundred news media gave special introductions. Wuqiang New Year Paintings Museum has become a window for foreign cultural exchanges in Hengshui and even Hebei Province, receiving more than 100,000 tourists a year, and has a huge influence at home and abroad.
Wuqiang New Year Pictures Museum has always paid attention to strengthening the research and protection of traditional culture, and successively compiled "Hebei Wuqiang New Year Pictures", "Wuqiang Ancient Folk Door Paintings", "Wuqiang Ancient Lantern Square New Year Pictures", "China Wuqiang Folk Paintings" "Shen Ma", "Chinese Wuqiang New Year Paintings Art", "Chinese Woodblock New Year Paintings Collection·Wuqiang Volume" and other books. At the same time, he has published more than 100 papers at home and abroad, with remarkable research results. The R & D center has successively developed dozens of marketable products such as New Year picture calendars, screens, porcelain plates, Zhangta, gift hardcover pictures, etc. In 2006, a set of 4 special stamps for Wuqiang woodblock New Year pictures was launched, opening up a new market for New Year pictures. In 2007, jointly developed and printed "Wuqiang New Year Paintings Rare Books of Ancient Books" with Beijing Library. Now it is co-producing 100-episode Wuqiang New Year's picture cartoon "Painting Legend" with Hebei University of Science and Technology, and co-produced 50-episode TV series "New Year's picture from Wuqiang" with CCTV, which will be launched to the market soon. With the museum as the leader, it has driven the production and sales of more than 40 New Year painting workshops in the county.
The foreign cultural exchange activities of Wuqiang New Year Paintings Museum have increased year by year. It has successfully held special exhibitions of Wuqiang New Year Paintings in China Art Museum, National Museum, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Hebei Normal University, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, and other places. Singapore, France, Spain, Belgium, South Korea, Japan and other countries held New Year picture exhibitions, which impressed hundreds of millions of domestic and foreign audiences. Qi Gong, He Jingzhi and Zhang Ding inscribed the name of the museum, and Ding Cong, Fang Cheng, Feng Jicai and other famous artists wrote inscriptions to praise Wuqiang New Year Pictures.
Wuqiang New Year paintings are not as well-known as the four major New Year paintings in my country. We only got a preliminary understanding of them before going to Hengshui. Seeing that they have a lot of historical origins, we decided to take a look at them temporarily, and we were not disappointed.
The museum was originally a paid attraction, but now it is free to visit with a voucher. The visit time is about one hour, leave the museum at 2:30 in the afternoon, and return to Hengshui by bus 116 at 3:00, the return journey is relatively fast, arrive at the train station at 4:30, check if there is time, take bus 23 directly to Baoyun Temple at the train station, and get off We walked to the monastery by car, and the monastery was about to close. We quickly said a few good words, and the master asked us to pay 10 yuan each before letting us in. In fact, there is nothing to see inside. They are all newly built temples. The hall has been closed, so we can only walk in the courtyard. There is a brick pagoda, which is still old and quite old. Hengshui Baoyun Temple is located in the southwest of Hengshui City. The stele records that it was first built in the Sui Dynasty. In fact, there were already temples here as early as the Southern and Northern Dynasties. According to legend, at the time of its heyday, "the temple covers an area of 30 mu, and there are nearly a hundred halls.
Baoyun Pagoda, formerly known as Qingtian Pagoda, is located in the east of Jiucheng Village in the southwest of Hengshui City. The pagoda was originally in Baoyun Temple, so it is called Baoyun Pagoda. In the thirteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1415), the county seat was moved from Jiucheng Village to the present site due to floods submerging the county seat, and Baoyun Temple was also moved along with the city. However, although the temple was moved, the pagoda was not moved, and it has been standing on the original site. Under the cover of green trees, the tower stands tall and magnificent.
We came out soon, Baoyun Temple Park was outside the gate, walked through the park, walked to the bus station of the health care center, and took bus No. 22 back to the hotel. It was already 7:15 in the evening. We had dinner at a nearby fast food restaurant and returned to the hotel. Rest at the hotel.
