Linsheng Museum

Linsheng Museum

Linsheng Museum is a national AAA-level tourist attraction.

The "Huangshan Linsheng Museum" is located in Lunong Village, Xiuning County, Huangshan City, situated along the key route between the Huangshan Scenic Area and the two World Heritage tourism routes of Hongcun and Xidi. The museum covers a total construction area of 7,000 square meters, including 4,000 square meters of dedicated exhibition halls, 1,000 square meters of cultural relics storage space, and is one of the 32 privately-run museums approved by the Anhui Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau.

The Linsheng Museum houses over 10,000 premium cultural relics, featuring six major thematic exhibition halls: ceramics, ancient weights and measures, ancient furniture, the origin of Huizhou culture, Huizhou official culture, and Huizhou’s three carving arts. Among these, there are over 1,000 pieces of weights and measures from various dynasties; over 3,000 pottery and porcelain items; over 400 relics from officials; over 1,000 calligraphic works and paintings by notable figures; over 2,000 ancient coins; and over 2,000 miscellaneous items such as wood carvings, brick carvings, jade carvings, stone carvings, and lacquerware. It stands as the highest-grade, largest-scale, most abundant, and richest-content privately-run museum in Huangshan City.

The Linsheng Museum is meticulously built according to traditional Huizhou-style craftsmanship, authentically recreating the original architectural style of ancient Huizhou. With a scientifically designed layout, orderly display of collections, and distinct Huizhou cultural characteristics, it has become a comprehensive museum integrating Huizhou culture exhibitions, academic exchanges, scientific research, and tourism.

The museum is open for more than 300 days a year, remaining accessible during holidays, and receives an average annual visitation of over 10,000 people. Welcome to the Huangshan Linsheng Museum for an unforgettable cultural journey.

Ceramics Gallery:

The Ceramics Gallery spans 400 square meters and houses over 3,000 ceramic objects from the Neolithic Age to various historical periods since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, covering a span of more than 6,000 years from the Neolithic to the Republic of China. These pottery and porcelain pieces not only represent the craftsmanship and typical features of their respective eras but also showcase the complete evolutionary history of Chinese ceramics, reflecting the cultural characteristics of the time and holding significant scientific research value.

Ancient Weights and Measures Gallery

The Ancient Weights and Measures Gallery covers 400 square meters and displays over 1,000 pieces of weights and measures from different eras. These artifacts comprehensively illustrate the development of weighing instruments in China and confirm that commerce emerged in Huizhou as early as the Warring States period. As an indispensable part of Huizhou culture, Huizhou merchant culture developed over millennia and gradually faded after the Qing Dynasty with the decline of the Huizhou merchants. However, the spirit of the Huizhou merchants has been passed down to this day. These precious collections of measuring instruments provide a scientific basis for studying the development of Huizhou merchant culture.

Ancient Furniture Gallery:

The Ancient Furniture Gallery is an important section of the museum. Covering an area of 600 square meters, it exhibits several sets of representative living furniture from two of the most iconic dynasties in Chinese furniture history—Ming and Qing. Items on display include Ming-style round-back armchairs, official-cap armchairs, and hanging-lamp chairs, as well as Qing-era screens, lattice windows, and carved beds. Visiting the Furniture Gallery allows you to step back in time and experience the dreamlike opulence of old Huizhou.

Huizhou Culture Origin Gallery

Huizhou culture is one of China’s three major regional cultures, alongside Dunhuangology and Tibetology. It is a regionally distinctive culture with broad, profound, and systematically integrated content, offering deep insights into the mysteries of Eastern society and culture, and is hailed as a quintessential example of late feudal Chinese society.

The Huizhou Culture Origin Gallery spans 200 square meters and includes nearly 100 Lan Tian fossils that push the existence of “higher life forms” back by 40 million years, opening a new window into the study of early complex higher life. In addition, it houses over 300 artifacts from the Neolithic Age, providing tangible evidence for vividly reconstructing the production methods of ancient Huizhou people 6,000 years ago and showcasing the historical process of human civilization inheritance in ancient Huizhou, making it of great academic research value.

Huizhou Official Culture Gallery

The Official Culture Gallery covers an exhibition area of 200 square meters and houses over 10 imperial edicts from various eras, among which the stone-carved Ming Chenghua Edict and the silk-written Qing Qianlong Imperial Decree are the most precious. Additionally, it features over 100 official hats and robes, as well as over 10 plaques from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. These collections vividly reflect the official system and culture of their respective times, forming an indispensable part of Huizhou culture and demonstrating its profound richness from multiple perspectives.

Huizhou Three Carving Arts Gallery

The Huizhou Three Carving Arts refer to the three folk carving crafts with Huizhou-style characteristics: wood carving, stone carving, and brick carving. With a long history, exquisite craftsmanship, generational transmission, and a complete production process, these arts enjoy a high reputation both domestically and internationally and have been included in the first batch of National Intangible Cultural Heritage listings.

The Three Carving Arts Gallery in our museum covers an exhibition area of 500 square meters and displays over 100 exhibits, most of which are classic folk works from the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Huizhou, representing the pinnacle of craftsmanship. Among them, the most precious are the early-period pieces of the Huizhou Three Carving Arts, which strongly attest to the long-standing heritage and profound depth of the craft.