The Most Authentic Changsha Folk Arts Museum
2024-08-13
The museum is jointly built by Dim Sums Bureau of Momo and Changsha New Consumption Research Institute. It combines folk arts, culture and China-Chic dim sums to build the current use scenes of traditional folk arts.
The museum is renovated from a two-story modern Western-style ancient building on the former site of Stand Oil in Taiping Old Street to showcase Hunan culture in an alternative way.
In the museum, Hunan’s native cultural and creative products like Hunan embroidery, Changsha dough sculpture, Wangcheng paper cutting and Tantou New Year paintings are displayed.
Refrigerator stickers of Changsha’s landmarks, moon-shaped fans and other products bring millennium-old Hunan embroidery into people’s daily lives.
The dough sculptures like Guan Yunchang, and war horses created by Chen Jincheng, a representative inheritor of Changsha dough sculpture, are vivid.
“For example, this Sashiko product is handmade by local craftsmen in Yiyang City, Hunan Province,” said a staff member. China-Chic and modern innovative elements are integrated into many folk art products in the museum, embodying the efforts of craftsmen, and allowing landmarks of Hunan to be taken back by tourists.
“The museum contains about 600 pieces of ICH works in Changsha and other places of the country.” Xie Zhen, head of the museum said that apart from local ones in Hunan, the museum also collects cultural and creative products and handicrafts nationwide with China-chic elements.
Visitors can experience the charm of traditional culture through a new experiential form. Among them, the folk art experience is one of the highlights that attract tourists.
The museum provides multiple experiential projects such as rubbing of New Year’s paintings, performing shadow puppetry, and making clay sculptures. Moreover, the experience projects simplify the complex craftsmanship, allowing citizens to experience traditional culture up close.
In recent years, Changsha has focused on the innovative integration of culture and tourism, and accelerated the construction of a famous cultural tourism city. At the same time, it also stays at the forefront of the country in the protection and inheritance of ICH.
Dim Sum Bureau of Momo is committed to promoting Chinese folk art culture, and deeply exploring ICH. The museum also works to stimulate the new potential in the cultural and tourism consumption market.
“Next, we will develop the museum into a communication platform for folk craftsmen and a new incubator for folk arts,” Xie Zhen said. “We hope to provide a platform for folk craftsmen nationwide to learn experience, exchange ideas, and showcase their works, so that more craftsmen’s works can shine and become a new medium for spreading Changsha culture.”
