Visit Special Museums in Hangzhou
October 17,2007
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Having visited various types of museums in China, you must know something about Chinese culture, but if you are especially interested in Chinese silk, tea or herbal medicine, you will get satisfactory in the following special museums in Hangzhou.
China Silk Museum
The Chinese Silk Museum is divided into the prologue hall, cultural relics hall, folk customs hall, sericulture hall, silk making hall, silk fabrics hall, printing and dyeing hall, modern achievements hall and Youyi (Friendship) shopping store, etc. It displays more than one thousand items of cultural relics, specimen, pictures, implements and modern items. It overally brings forth the historical and realistic appearances of Chinese silk culture.
China Tea Museum
It is a good place for visitors to experience the tea culture because Shuangfeng Village is the producing area of Longjing Tea. The museum consists of four buildings. The No.1 Building is served as the displaying place. There are five exhibition halls: the exhibition hall of the history of tea, the hall of the gathering of famous tea, the hall displaying some knowledge on planting, producing and drinking tea, the hall of the custom of drinking tea and the hall of the evolution of the tea service. The No.2 Building is used for foreign guesses reception and culture exchange. The No.3 Building boasts six tearooms for visitors drinking various kinds of tea. Visitors can appreciate the Chinese Tea Art and the tea ceremony in the No.4 Building. The whole museum is like a beautiful garden with the flower corridors, fake hills, ponds and water-side pavilions well integrated.
Hu Qingyu Hall Chinese Traditional Herbal Medicine Museum
Hu Qingyu Hall Chinese Traditional Herbal Medicine Museum displays and introduces medical celebrities of all dynasties, the origins of medication, the development of materia medica, the exchange of medication between China and foreign nations, the instruments of making Chinese traditional medicine and tens of thousands of specimen of Chinese traditional medicinal materials. In the handicraft workshop of Chinese traditional medicine, you may watch the performance of old apothecary cutting and making Chinese traditional medicine. Moreover, you may also select and purchase the Chinese traditional medicine from all parts of China in the shopping hall.