Hefeng County Museum

Hefeng County Museum

The Hefeng County Museum is located within the scenic area of the Man Shan Hong Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery in the Xiang-E Border Soviet Area, in the county seat. It is a secondary unit under the county's Culture and Sports Bureau. It is the only county-level or city-level museum in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture that has a permanent basic exhibition, as well as the one with the most cultural heritage protection units and the richest collection of cultural relics in the prefecture. In 1991, on the basis of the original museum, the Hefeng County Cultural Relics Management Office was established. The museum and the office share the same nameplates and staff, operating jointly in one location.

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The "Exhibition of Revolutionary Cultural Relics from the Xiang-E Border Soviet Area" mainly reflects the entire history of the struggle of the Tujia people in Hefeng during the Second Revolutionary Civil War period to establish, consolidate, and develop the revolutionary base area centered around Hefeng in the Xiang-E Border Region.

The "Exhibition of Ethnic Cultural Relics" primarily displays various types of paleontological fossils discovered within the county, typical artifacts unearthed from archaeological excavations along the Lou Shui River dating from the Shang-Zhou period to the Wei-Jin and Northern-Southern Dynasties, cultural relics from the Rongmei Tusi period, as well as modern ethnic and folk cultural items. Focusing on aspects such as clothing, food, housing, transportation, and daily use of the Tujia people, it highlights the rich and colorful ethnic and folk culture created primarily by the Tujia and other minority groups in the region.

The "Ethnic Stele Forest" mainly exhibits stelae from the Ming and Qing periods, covering topics such as the religious beliefs, institutional codes, school education, territorial maps, imperial commendations and ennoblements, famous battles, agricultural economy, cultural exchanges, and tribute missions to the capital of the Rongmei Tusi.

Further Reading:

· China National Third-Class Museum