Liancheng County Museum

Liancheng County Museum

Originally established as the Hakka Chronicles Museum in 1997, Fujian Liancheng County Museum is located within Huaiying Garden at the foot of the scenic Guanzhai Mountain and by Shimen Lake, both part of the national 4A-level scenic area. Covering a total area of over 9,000 square meters, with a land area of 1,200 square meters and a building area of 2,400 square meters, the museum has 2,000 square meters allocated for operational functions. These include five exhibition halls: the Celebrity Hall, Genealogy Hall, Treasures Hall, Art & Literature Hall, and Chronicles Hall, plus one cultural relics storage room. The collection totals 1,708 items, including movable cultural relics, photographs of Hakka celebrities, biographies of Hakka figures, Hakka genealogies, surname origins, images of Hakka folk cultural artifacts, local chronicles, yearbooks, historical and cultural materials, literary works, magazines, and more. The collection is extremely rich, with most items well preserved. According to the minutes of the 9th special meeting of the Liancheng County Committee of the Communist Party of China on August 18, 2005, the Hakka Chronicles Museum was placed under the administration of the Liancheng County Culture and Sports Bureau and reorganized into a comprehensive county museum. It operates under the additional titles of Hakka Chronicles Museum and Liancheng County Folk Culture and Arts Research Institute.

Liancheng County Museum is a fully funded public institution at the stock-level, under the jurisdiction of the Liancheng County Culture and Sports Bureau. It currently has six regular staff members and two temporary staff, totaling eight personnel.

Construction of the Liancheng County Museum building began in April 2000, with the main structure largely completed by October 2000. The museum officially opened on November 22, 2000, during the 16th World Hakka Conference. Over the years, it has received an average of over 30,000 visitors annually, including more than 1,000 Taiwanese visitors. It has also accepted donations of dozens of volumes of genealogies, chronicles, and notable family records from Taiwanese donors such as Chen Daozhen, Xie Zhiwen, and Luo Quankai, along with a donation of RMB 100,000. The Liancheng County Museum has played and continues to play a unique role in showcasing western Fujian’s Hakka cultural relics, promoting cultural exchanges between Hakka communities on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, contributing to the development of the Economic Zone on the West Coast of the Taiwan Straits, and advancing the great cause of national reunification.

Further Reading:

· National Third-Class Museum of China