Let History Tell The Future: Another Senior Textile Base Opens The Textile Heritage Museum.

In the past 70 years since the founding of new China, the Chinese textile industry has undergone great historical changes, from the shortage of supply to the world of clothing. As the pillar industry of the national economy and the "mother industry" of the new China's industrial process, the contribution made by the textile industry is worth remembering forever. Those old textile industrial bases that made outstanding contributions in the history of new China have begun to build museums and industrial parks to record and commemorate the history. In 2019, another senior textile industry base in China, Zhengzhou, Henan, also announced that after many years of construction, it would open the Museum of textile industry, and began collecting exhibits for the whole society.


It is understood that the Zhengzhou Textile Industrial Heritage Museum is built on the original national cotton three factory office buildings, workshops and other cultural relic buildings. The project was approved in July 2016 and will start construction in the near future. The museum mainly through the scene restoration and scene reappearance, so that tourists in the tourism industry, experience the unique production life style and moving story of the industrial age, understand the Zhengzhou industrial workers' struggle and the spirit of the upsurge of the times.


"When the machine rings, gold is worth two." Zhengzhou, located at the intersection of Beijing Guangzhou and Longhai railway, was established by the central government as one of the key areas of national industrial construction after the founding of new China. The most prominent one is the construction and development of the textile industry.


Zhengzhou is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, extending in all directions, with obvious traffic advantages. In addition, Northern Henan and southern Henan were the main cotton producing areas in those days, and together with Xianyang, Shijiazhuang and Beijing, they were identified as "the four new textile bases" by the state. From 1960s to 80s, the six major textile factories in Zhengzhou were standing side by side, and a large number of large and medium-sized industrial production projects were completed successively. Driven by the textile industry, Zhengzhou has rapidly expanded the urban framework and gathered the population. It can be said that the textile industry has made great contributions to Zhengzhou's urban development.


With the rapid increase of the demand for light industrial products, the state has invested in the construction of Zhengzhou dyeing and printing plant, Henan first textile equipment factory and other textile industrial enterprises, and established Henan textile industry school and Henan textile technical school to train textile talents. Zhengzhou has become one of the most important textile industrial bases in China.


Nowadays, the construction of a museum showing the development process of Zhengzhou's textile industry is not only the aspiration of Zhengzhou's textile people, but also a popular move to preserve the city's imprint and enhance the soft power of the city's culture. At present, there is no Industrial Heritage Museum in Henan province. The construction of this museum has a pioneering significance for the research and exhibition of the whole industrial development history in Central Plains.


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Shanghai Textile Museum


The Shanghai Textile Museum is located in Henan, Suzhou, north of Macao Road, east of Changhua Road, the northwest wing of Changshou Road bridge, the former site of Shanghai Shenxin Textile Factory ninth, outdoor display area of 1500 square meters, and indoor display area of 4480 square meters, which is a Regional Industry Museum. The museum displays the historical context of the development of textile industry in Shanghai through physical objects, materials, scenes, pictures, models, multimedia and so on. It shows the tragic history of the textile workers in Shanghai under the leadership of the Communist Party of China and actively participating in the struggle against imperialism, feudalism and oppression. It shows the brilliant achievements of Shanghai textile workers in the period of socialist construction. The magnificent hall, the thick and thick Museum of history, the space-time coherent collection hall, the interactive science museum and the Beijing Kunming opera costume hall, which have a good taste, have been the industrial history and culture of Shanghai's textile industry for more than 6000 years. The museum has become the national textile spiritual civilization demonstration base, the national popular science education base, the Shanghai patriotic education base, the Shanghai popular science education base, the Shanghai industrial tourism base, and Shen nine "22 struggles" revolutionary memorial site.


The textile industry chain was announced by the integration of the spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing process elements. The spinning wheel, spinning wheel and gemstone patterns carved on the sculptured surface show the origin of Shanghai's textile industry. The shape of the large-span "gate" is like a Triumphal Arch, which shows the splendor of Shanghai's textile industry. The positive meridian layout implies the continuation of the history and context of Shanghai's textile industry.


Large sculptures are works of art made of bronze and filled with textile elements. In this work, there are both spinning elements, weaving elements and printing and dyeing elements. The overall image of the work expresses the printing and dyeing process, and there is an image of ancient spinning in the plane, and the image of a shuttle used for weaving.


On the slate floor of the Textile Museum, there are 280 Shanghai textile enterprises list. The small stone carving left behind the history of the textile industry and people's precious memories. The names of some textile enterprises in Shanghai since 1770s have been carved on the square of the museum in the form of stone carvings, telling the passers-by of past times the brilliance of Shanghai's textile industry. On the 280 stone tablets, the date of establishment of the more than 600 textile enterprises and institutions from 1771 to 1992 is recorded. Among them, there are production enterprises like the China Machine loom Bureau, and there are also small businesses such as small garden shoe shops, Hendry suits and other professional textile associations.


Unearthed in the desert of Xinjiang, the mummy is extremely rare. Ge Bu is made of Hokudo's bark fiber. The unearthed gable remnants are the fragments of the Western Han Dynasty unearthed from the Western Han Dynasty, indicating that our ancestors had used Ge fiber to create the cloth of Xinjiang. In addition, there are more complete clothes, cuff fragments, and cold proof gloves.


Qingdao Textile Museum


The textile industry with a history of more than one hundred years is Qingdao's "mother industry". It has won the prestige of Qingdao's "blue sky" (Shanghai, Qingdao, Tianjin).


The Qingdao Textile Museum was built in 2009 and rebuilt in 2017. According to the introduction, the former site of the new library is the former site of Shanghai cotton mill, which was built in 1934. It has deep historical and cultural details and industrial accumulation. In the park, there are the earliest existing railway line bridges and industrial water towers in Qingdao, which reflect the air conditioning and fire protection facilities of the 1 imprint of Qingdao industry, as well as the strong witnesses of Qingdao's textile history, such as the century old gold and osmanthus family of the modern textile giant in the Zhou Dynasty.


It is understood that the new museum of Qingdao Textile Museum is planned and constructed according to the national 4A standard. It is the first domestic textile theme line Museum and textile Heritage Park in the textile valley. It has been actively exploring and taking the lead in many aspects such as positioning function, design concept, venue construction, service items and so on. It has become the core place to carry out the Centennial memory of Qingdao textile and revisit the Centennial textile classics.


Textile Valley is a new carrier and innovative development platform for the transformation of new and old industries in traditional industries. It carries the historic mission of upgrading and upgrading Qingdao's urban textile industry. Qingdao Textile Museum as a cultural leading project of textile Valley, its deep historical and cultural accumulation and deep integration of industrial clusters such as textile Valley "Qingtian" industry alliance, valley O2O operation platform, valley ODM service platform, GOOLEE HOME Research Institute, and valley Li SHOWROOM experience center have extended the unique high-quality industrial tourism chain, and transformed into the internal driving force of transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, boosting the sustainable development of textile Valley platform project.


Tianjin Textile Museum


In 2010, the Tianjin Textile Museum opened in Tianjin high tech Textile Industrial Park. The museum is located in the Tian Fang building. It is divided into four modern, modern, contemporary and thematic exhibition areas. The collection materials cover 15 major categories. Among them, there are more than 300 documents, more than 2000 pictures, 5000 frames, utensils and so on. It shows the 112 year history of Tianjin textile industry since its founding in 1898. It shows the rich cultural connotation and unique spirit of Tianjin textile in the centenary development. It is a true portrayal of several generations of Tianjin textile. The museum has become one of the industrial tourism bases in Tianjin.


All kinds of textile machinery and their replica become the biggest attraction in the exhibition hall. In addition to the more than 100 years of history, a wooden iron textile machine from a farm in Renqiu, Hebei, Huang Daopo invented the earliest textile machinery in ancient China. In 1920, it was purchased by the US enterprise and purchased by the Beiyang cotton mill and used for the coarse yarn machine in 2008; the vertical cotton opener made by Japan and the subway office in 1921 and the independent spinning and weaving machine developed by Tianjin after the reform and opening up were also displayed in the exhibition hall in a prominent position, so that the audience could feel the gravity of Tianjin textile history more intuitively.