Zhongguoguzhuanwa Museum

Kunshan is the hometown of ancient bricks and tiles in China, and Jinxi is the hometown of ancient bricks and tiles in Kunshan. As early as the Western Jin Dynasty, Jinxi had a tradition of making bricks and firing kilns. In the early 1980s, the Kunshan Dadong Brick and Tile Factory built an ancient brick and tile exhibition hall with a collection of more than 800 exhibits. After its opening, it attracted the attention of domestic and foreign experts and scholars. In 1996, the site was relocated and expanded, and the exhibits were enriched. The name of the museum was changed to the Chinese Ancient Bricks and Tiles Museum, which is a museum with bricks and tiles as the theme. Now walking into the new site of Ding Zhai, more than 1,000 pieces of brick and tile treasures with artistic charm and historical value are displayed in the museum, just like reading a vast historical scroll of China for five thousand years. From the "braised earth" on the walls of the "half-cavity" houses in the Neolithic period, the brick ornaments of the "Wangyi Palace" in the palace of Qin Shihuang, the city bricks of the Han Dynasty, the tiles of the Six Dynasties, the bricks of the Western Jin Dynasty, the bricks of the chiseled well in the Song Dynasty, to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom There are all kinds of blue bricks and even red bricks marked with five stars. The slatted bricks that are thinly paved under the tiles, the hand-sized flower window bricks, and the golden bricks that have been burned for a hundred days and soaked in tung oil. A collection of Chinese bricks and tiles. A variety of decorative patterns are also engraved on the numerous bricks and tiles, such as double dragons grabbing beads, phoenix wearing peony, carp jumping over dragon gate, etc. Some are engraved with various characters and stories, and some are engraved with auspicious words such as "Fu Lu Shou". In 2000, the museum was awarded the title of Kunshan Patriotism Education Base.