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China's National Silk Museum is the first
state-level museum dedicated to silk culture and the biggest silk museum
in the world. Chinese former chairman Jiang Zemin made an epigraphy "Opening
up a New Silk Road, Promoting Chinese Silk Culture" for celebrating
the opening of the museum in spring 1992.
Located at the foot of Yuhang (Jade Emperor) Hill south of West Lake,
the museum occupies a total construction area of approximately 8,000 squares
meters (about two acres), which includes eight different exhibition halls:
the Prelude Hall, the Relics Hall, the Folk Custom Hall, the Silkworm
Hall, the Silk Manufacturing Hall, the Weaving Hall, the Dyeing Hall,
and the Achievement Hall. The museum exhibits silk production artifacts
from the Neolithic Age to the Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties.
In the Modern Achievement Hall, a series of refined silk products made
in modern society are on display, demonstrating the great achievements
that have been made in the silk industry with the support of Chinese government
since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.China is
the birthplace of the silk industry with approximately 5,000 years history
of planting mulberry trees, doing sericulture and filature,and twining
silk. Thus, visitors here have the opportunity to see the silk production
tools and silk production lines from many eras and enjoy the rich silk
culture, local customs, folk tales about silkworms, and the silkworm cocoon
harvesting ceremony. In addition, visitors with enough curiosity can try
to weave silk themselves, an effective way for them to know how silk is
manufactured. Each year, countless silk professionals and aficionados
from all over the world meet here to appreciate those masterpieces made
by ancient laboring Chinese and celebrate the silk festival at the same
time.
China's National Silk Museum all the while pays much attention to friendly
cultural exchanges about silk with any other countries. With past years'
efforts, the museum has been gradually developing to a high - standard
research, collection, and authentication of the ancient Chinese silk cloth.
The museum is a hot tourist destination, which attracts those who are
really interested in the Chinese silk.
Admission Fee: RMB 5
Bus Route: 3
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