Chongqing Bayu Folk Custom Museum

Chongqing Bayu Folklore Museum is an ethnic and folklore museum, a public welfare institution under the Culture, Radio, Television, Press and Publication Bureau of Yubei District, Chongqing. The Chongqing Bayu Folk Customs Museum has two main contents: one is the Qing Dynasty woodcarving exhibition, which mainly displays the carved beds, shrines, viewing squares and other folk cultural relics of the Qing Dynasty. The golden-carved bed with five eaves is the treasure of the museum and is well received by Chinese and foreign tourists. The second is the display of life etiquette of Bayu folk customs. Through 100 lifelike statues, the whole process of folk weddings in Bayu area is reproduced, which is full of life interest. The distinctive Bayu Folk Museum displays more than a thousand pieces of folk handicrafts, costumes and other daily necessities from the Qing Dynasty and other periods, and Jiang Fengming, one of the "Top Ten Folk Artists in Bayu", carved sculptures based on "Water Margin" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". There are more than 200 wood-carved figures. What attracts tourists is the more than 40 six-pillar and five-eaves full of gold-carved beds in the late Qing Dynasty. It is one of its representatives. Its rich content and exquisite carvings are like a folk customs in the Bayu area. painting. The content of the carvings is rich and colorful, the carving skills are superb and exquisite, and the carving techniques are varied, or hollowed out or embossed. The relief is deep and shallow, the deep relief has a strong sense of three-dimensionality, and the bas-relief is clear at a glance. Some carvings are bold and unrestrained, while others are meticulous, and you cannot feel the beauty without seeing it with your own eyes. Another treasure of the museum is the shrine of gold and wood sculptors. Its tall image and heavy use of gold are rare in the world.