China News Service, Jinan, October 2 (Li Mingrui) "Look, this is the wooden plow used by villagers in the past for farming. People in the beach area rely on these agricultural tools to fight against wind, sand and floods, and cultivate their homes with their hands." Recently, New Era Civilization Practice volunteers led teenagers in the area to visit the Rural Memory Museum of Dingyangsi Village, Zuoying Town, Juancheng County, Heze City, and moved native classrooms into cultural venues, allowing children to get close to the historical temperature.
From the old villages in the sandy beach area to the livable and clean new communities; from the low adobe houses to the spacious and bright new homes, the development of Dingyangsi Village is clearly unfolded among the old objects and old photos. The students stopped and stared, carefully read the words on the wall, and looked back on the village's struggle from being plagued by floods in the Yellow River to achieving overall relocation and living and working in peace and contentment.
In order to make rural memories "alive" again in the hearts of the people, Juancheng County takes the construction of a rural memory museum as a starting point and "invites" old objects, old stories, and old photos scattered in the depths of the years into the museum, so that nostalgia can have a place to rest and the cultural context can be traced.
Just as Juancheng County has built a rural memory museum, now, various parts of Shandong are exploring new paths for rural cultural inheritance, and village history museums, nostalgia museums, and folk custom courtyards have been completed one after another. One village, one rhyme, one pavilion and one scene are making rural memories "live" in the present and "fire" among the people, giving homesickness a home and giving rural revitalization a root.
As an important place for the dissemination of local culture and the moral education of young people, the Beishanggaocun Rural Memory Museum in Taishan District, Tai'an City fully revitalizes local cultural resources, continues to activate the public education value and cultural communication value of the Rural Memory Museum, and makes the accumulated rural historical and cultural resources come alive and be passed on.
Beishang Gaocun Rural Memory Museum. Photo courtesy of Taishan District Party Committee Propaganda Department
The Beishang Gaocun Rural Memory Museum has a rich collection, displaying more than 300 documentary pictures of various types, a group of pictures of ancient villages and historical sites, and more than 500 old objects from a series of daily necessities, transportation, agricultural production, and rural construction. The exhibition system in the museum is clear and thematic. It is divided into four core chapters: Struggle and Entrepreneurship, Rural Memory, Home and Homeland, and Modern Home, showing the past and new look of the village in an all-round and multi-level way. Among them, the treasure of the museum is the hand-drawn foundation map of the ancient village in the 1970s. The drawing, with an accurate ratio of 1:500, three-dimensionally restores the street pattern and residential courtyard distribution of Beishang Gao Village at that time, accurately retaining the original style of the ancient village.
At the Village History Museum of Level 9 Villages in Zhangdian District, Zibo City, farming equipment, old-fashioned living utensils, and village development files are listed in display cabinets, like a three-dimensional village chronicle spread out. Pieces of old objects and old photos outline the transformation trajectory of the village from an old village to a prosperous new village. Many villagers will go to the museum to take a look in their free time, stopping in front of familiar objects to reflect. Visitors from other places also come here to read the inscriptions and rubbings carefully, and feel the unique context of the ninth-level village in the traces of time.
Nowadays, this place is not only a "time box" for collecting memories, but also a "reception room" for gathering nostalgia and a "big classroom" for continuous cultural context. The ninth-level village is using the village history museum as a fulcrum to awaken the dormant local resources and make the rural culture truly "alive" and "passed on" in the new era.
Students visited the Caozhou Mianren Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum on the Old Route of the Yellow River. Photo courtesy of Heze Luxi New District Office
Malinggang Town, Luxi New District, Heze, as the birthplace of modern dough sculpture art, has systematically inherited and protected the national intangible cultural heritage representative project "Caozhou Noodle Man". The town planned and constructed the Caozhou Noodle Man Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum, which later developed into the Caozhou Noodle Man Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum.
The museum displays more than 400 dough sculpture works by more than 40 dough sculpture artists. The works have a wide range of themes, including graceful and luxurious peonies, soaring dragons, spreading phoenixes, various opera characters, flowers, birds and animals, etc., combining tradition and modernity, with concise and vivid shapes, lifelike images and bright and eye-catching colors.
In recent years, Malinggang Town, Luxi New District, Heze, relying on the museum, has carried out various dough sculpture activities on a regular basis, constantly promoting the inheritance and development of dough sculpture art and technological innovation, exploring the contemporary value of dough sculpture, retaining nostalgia and memories, and injecting new vitality into the revitalization of rural culture.
Also in Heze, Longwangmiao Town, Shan County, based on local cultural context, revitalized idle village-level resources and built Longci Academy. There are six major functional areas in the academy. The academy has gradually become a "cultural complex" that integrates multiple functions such as reading and learning, intangible cultural inheritance, and cultural performances, allowing the public to enjoy high-quality public cultural services at their doorstep.
It is understood that Longci Academy regularly holds "Long Chuan Xi" public welfare classes, inviting rural sages and other backbones to come to the podium to explain new principles in local dialects, explain policy theories, and promote anti-fraud and health knowledge to the public. Longci Academy also established the "Dragon Rhythm" literary and art club, which allows ordinary people to tell ordinary people's stories and let villagers act out their experiences.
In the next step, Longwangmiao Town will continue to make good use of the civilized practice position of Longci Academy, continue to enrich cultural supplies, explore new ways to integrate agriculture, culture and tourism, rejuvenate the local area with cultural context, promote common prosperity with culture, and draw a new picture of a livable, industrial and beautiful countryside. (over)
