Nanhai District Museum was established in June, 198 1, located in Panlong Cave, Xiqiao Mountain, a national scenic spot. At present, there are 40 staff members, including staff 13, including 8 undergraduates, 4 junior college students 14 technical secondary school students, 3 senior titles, 3 intermediate titles and 8 junior titles, and there are offices inside. It is a garden-style comprehensive museum integrating beautiful natural landscape and elegant antique architecture. It covers an area of about16000m2, with a building area of about 5000m2. There are seven large and small exhibition halls. At present, there are some basic exhibitions in the museum, such as the exhibition of ceramic collections, the exhibition of stone specimens unearthed from Xiqiao Mountain, the exhibition of historical buildings in Nanhai, and the first bamboo carving art showroom in Chen Gen. In addition, temporary exhibitions in line with current affairs education are often held in the museum. There are more than 2 100 cultural relics in the collection, including 24 second-class cultural relics and 658 third-class cultural relics. The whole museum is equipped with TV monitoring, infrared alarm system, automatic fire fighting system, air conditioning, dehumidification and other equipment. At the same time, it governs Kang Youwei's former residence, memorial hall and Chen Qiyuan memorial hall.

The stone tools unearthed from Xiqiao Mountain displayed in the museum vividly show the general situation of Xiqiao Mountain at home and abroad. Starting with highlighting the natural history and stone tools of Xiqiao Mountain, the exhibition selected the microliths and double-shouldered stone tools with typical "Xiqiao Mountain Culture" characteristics, and exhibited tools for processing stone tools such as stone drills, stone hammers and cutting hammers. Kitchen knife, scraper, stone axe, stone shovel, etc. Used of stone tools. The evolutionary history of stone tools in Xiqiao Mountain is scientifically displayed with charts and writing systems, which is scientific and knowledgeable.

The South China Sea is also a red land with a glorious anti-imperialist and anti-feudal revolutionary tradition. In this hot land, Kang Youwei, an outstanding politician and thinker in modern China, Zhan Tianyou, the first railway engineer in China, Chen Qiyuan, the founder of the first steam reeling factory run by national capital in China, and Zou, the inventor of the first camera in China, were born, leaving a famous Luo Dengxian martyr in Yuhuatai, Nanjing.

Due to the collection and exhibition of a large number of precious historical and modern revolutionary cultural relics in Nanhai, Nanhai Museum attracts a large number of young students to visit and study in the museum every year. Nanhai Museum has become one of the main classes of patriotism education, revolutionary tradition education and local culture education for teenagers in Nanhai and its surrounding areas, and it has been listed as a patriotic education base in Foshan by 1994. Guangdong Cantonese Opera Museum is located in Huanggong Temple in Zhao Xiang, Chancheng District, covering an area of about 3,000 square meters. It was officially listed on April 2, 2004. The whole museum has 13 exhibition areas, which are divided into three parts: history, art and people. Exhibit Cantonese opera scripts, wooden fish books, posters, drama bridges, costumes, musical instruments, famous paintings, Cantonese opera movies, etc.

Characteristic cultural relics:

A large number of dance figurines of Han Dynasty have been unearthed in Shilan Han Group in Foshan, which shows that Foshan song and dance performances were quite popular in Han Dynasty.

Zhenzhu, a special issue, introduces the names, artists and performances of 36 Cantonese opera classes in the early Republic of China, which is of great value to the study of the development of Cantonese opera. Only a few.

The earliest Cantonese opera record-the first record in the world was produced in 1888. It was single-sided in the early days, and double-sided recording appeared after 1903. One-sided Cantonese opera records produced in 1902 collected by Foshan Cantonese Opera Museum are the earliest existing Cantonese opera records.

Female pythons with dense membrane-the whole costume is famous for its seamless membrane. Exquisite workmanship and beautiful appearance are rare early Cantonese opera costumes.

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All free. Due to the "Notice on the Free Opening of Museums and Memorial Halls in China" (museums, memorial halls and patriotic education demonstration bases are all free to open. ) Huang Feihong Memorial Hall is located in the center of Foshan, north of the famous tourist attraction Zumiao, with a total area of more than 5,000 square meters. The whole memorial hall is a bell-shaped building with two floors, two depths and three bays, which imitates the Qing Dynasty. It has an exhibition hall, a film and television hall, a martial arts school and a patio. The exhibition department not only introduced Huang Feihong's life story, but also comprehensively displayed all kinds of literary and artistic works and thousands of precious cultural relics in Huang Feihong in the past 70 years. During the preparation of the Huang Feihong Memorial Hall, people at home and abroad gave full support and help. They provided and donated more than 1000 historical pictures and precious items about Huang Feihong to the memorial hall.

The opening ceremony of Huang Feihong Memorial Hall was held in Foshan. Prior to this, the competent authorities have released news at home and abroad through various forms, hoping that the descendants of Huang Feihong can come back as guests to attend the ceremony. Many masters in Huang Feihong responded, and Huang Yuande, the grandson of Huang Feihong, was invited, but his other relatives didn't respond. According to the newspaper, a reporter learned from Luzhou Village that Huang Feihong has three grandchildren and six granddaughters, who are now distributed in Southeast Asia, Australia and Latin America, and his occupation has nothing to do with martial arts. Even Huang Yuande, who came to attend the ceremony, declared that he would not be interviewed by the media and would not leave photos for archiving. He told the person in charge of the memorial that he lived a quiet life in Hong Kong and his work had nothing to do with his grandfather's occupation. Foshan Ancestral Temple, Yuecheng Long Mu Temple, Zhaoqing Temple and Guangzhou Chenjia Temple, also known as the Three Treasures of Lingnan Ancient Buildings, are now national key cultural relics protection units. In the main hall of the ancestral hall, there are also many precious works of art, such as 70 pieces of 30 kinds of weapons, ceremonial bronze walls, giant bronze mirrors with a diameter of 1.3 1 m, large bronze ding, bronze bells and incense burners. The ironware includes big iron tripod, iron tripod, iron painting and so on. There are also stone tablets on display in the park, stone beasts in Ming and Qing Dynasties, the inscription of "Foshan" in the second year of Zhenguan in Tang Dynasty, and replicas beside the stone tablets. Reconstructed ceramic tile roof, a large number of gold wood carving building components, large iron warrior statues, iron cast beasts, iron cannons, etc. These exhibits reflect the superb technology of Foshan in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. No wonder some foreign friends who come to visit the ancestral temple are praised as "the halls of oriental folk art".

From the architectural point of view, the ancestral temple is a group of buildings with Lingnan characteristics, with superb architectural art and exquisite decoration technology. The north-south central axis consists of Wanfutai, Ling Ying Archway, Jinxiangchi, Bell and Drum Tower, Sanmen, Qian Dian Main Hall, Qingzhen Building and other buildings. Its overall layout is neat and solemn, with dense plants. Pavilions and pavilions are set in strict compliance with the principles of ancient garden architecture in China. The ingenious dialectics of hiding and revealing makes tourists feel that their internal space is subtle, introverted, complex and mysterious, and then they feel awe. Ancestral Temple is a folk art museum with exquisite architectural decoration technology, which is praised by foreign friends as the palace of oriental art. This is due to the development of folk crafts in Foshan. Foshan is one of the important producing areas of woodcarving in Guangdong, mainly carved with mahogany and partly carved with gold foil. Foshan woodcarving is famous for its neat knife work, simple lines, bold, rough and smooth, generous and full composition and strong decoration. The subjects are mostly people, animals, flowers, melons and fruits, mainly architectural decoration. The large altar displayed in the anteroom and main hall of the ancestral temple is one of the famous gold lacquer wood carvings in Foshan. The sculptures include stories such as "Jing Ke stabbed the King of Qin", "Li Yuanba Fu Longju", "Seven Sages in Bamboo Forest" and "Xue Gang's Anti-Tang Dynasty". In addition, there are many woodcarvings in the ancestral hall, including cornices, flower baskets, woodcarving gates, stage (Wanfutai), screens, plaques, couplets, hanging screens, ceremonial ceremonies, painted doors, incense tables, doors and windows, desks, chairs and so on.

The most commendable thing is that the architectural decoration of the ancestral hall uses a large number of pottery sculptures, wood carvings, brick carvings, gray sculptures and so on. Among them, there are 6 ceramic tile roofs used in buildings, which are installed on the roofs of Sanmen, Qian Dian, Main Hall, Qian Dian Gallery and Qingzhen Building respectively. The largest three-door tile ridge. The total length is 32.02 meters. There are sculptures with the theme of drama stories on both sides. The faces and hands of the sculpture figures are exposed without glaze, so as to vividly express the expressions and hand shapes of the figures. The glaze color is mainly cyan, blue, yellow sauce and white, with noble and gorgeous colors, simple and elegant. After a hundred years of wind and rain, the glaze color of the tiles located in the ancestral hall is still as bright as new, which shows that its manufacturing technology is excellent. Grey plastic, also known as grey batch, is one of the folk arts with a long history in Foshan. Used for beautifying and decorating buildings, mainly in doorways, window frames, gable tops, eaves and ridges, pavilions, archways and so on. Its themes include figures, animals, landscapes, flowers and birds, calligraphy and painting, etc. In the ancestral temple, this kind of Foshan traditional folk gray sculpture art works abound. For example, the gray sculptures of the gates and foreheads on both sides of the ancestral hall: Tang Taizong's visit to the Moon Palace, Taoyuan's sworn friendship, Guo Ziyi's cherishing his life in the East Gallery, and Where is the sea in the West Gallery. In addition, there are: Eight Immortals, Three English Wars against Lu Bu, Drunk Liu Ling, and chess, calligraphy and painting works. This gray plastic art is vivid, vivid and colorful. Brick carving and stone carving are also one of Foshan folk handicrafts. Mainly used for architectural decoration. It is an architectural art with a long history in China. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was very popular to decorate buildings with these folk sculpture arts in the Pearl River Delta region. The archway of Ma Jun Ancestral Temple in Zumiao Park is decorated with brick carvings and stone carvings. Built in the 16th year of Zhengde in Ming Dynasty (152 1), it is one of the most complete and earliest brick carving decorative arts in Foshan. On both sides of the third door of the ancestral hall, the brick carving "Dahongpao" on the Duansu door (the story of Harry) and the "guarding the home and protecting the country" on the reverence door (the story of Niu Hao). The main features of these brick carvings are: exquisite carving, multi-level and centralized composition, strong subjectivity, skillful carving technology, multi-purpose round carving, through carving, relief and knife cutting, vigorous and neat, and very decorative. Careful visitors can find that there is no trace of the joints between bricks when watching the brick carvings in the ancestral temple, and its manufacturing technology is amazing.