Dayi Landlord Manor Exhibition Hall

Dayi Landlord Manor Exhibition Hall

The Dayi Landlord Manor Exhibition Hall was built in October 1958 and was designated as part of the ninth group of Major National Historical and Cultural Sites by the State Council in November 1966. It stands as one of the important historical relics and representative buildings from China’s modern and contemporary society. Over the more than forty years since its establishment, the museum has amassed a rich collection with profound cultural significance. It currently houses over 20,000 cultural relics and artifacts, along with a grand and well-preserved complex of manor buildings, a large quantity of material objects and documents left from the manor era, and uniquely themed manor exhibits. Together, they form an integrated whole that serves as a crucial site and tangible resource for understanding and researching China’s semi-feudal, semi-colonial socio-economic and cultural structures, as well as the history of warlords in Sichuan and local folklore. It offers a microcosm of rural China in the old days and a cross-section of China’s social development history.

In 1965, at the original site of the landlord Liu Wencai’s rent collection, sculptors combined traditional Chinese sculpting techniques with modern Western sculpture art. Using a method of typified artistic creation, they produced the internationally renowned, highly unified masterpiece of super-realistic sculpture — “Rent Collection Courtyard.” After its public display, the work had a far-reaching and extensive impact both in China and abroad.

The Sichuan Folk Customs Museum within the venue, along with newly opened attractions such as the “Young Lady’s Building,” offer rich content and distinctive architectural styles, making them important sites for understanding the national conditions and folk customs of old China.