China Shouguang Vegetables Museum

Shandong Shouguang is an important vegetable distribution and production place in China. In order to provide permanent historical witness to the vegetable industry, people understand the development process of China's vegetable industry, local investment of 50 million yuan, and it took two and a half years to build the first professional vegetable museum in China. It is understood that the Shouguang Vegetable Museum has a total area of 3,000 square meters, and has collected more than 7,000 exhibits with vegetable life. Entering the museum, a historical tunnel with mountain caves as a framework model, using scene reproduction and cultural relics display, witness the historical and cultural heritage of Shouguang from prehistoric civilization to modern civilization and the long-standing vegetable production. In the exhibition hall stands a cast bronze statue of Jia Siqi holding a scroll. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, a generation of farmers, Sheng Jia Siqi, wrote the earliest and most complete encyclopedia of agriculture in the world, "Qimin Want to Know", on the land of Shouguang. The whole book system summarizes the agricultural production experience and achievements in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River more than 1,400 years ago. Shouguang is also known as the "source of Chinese farming culture". The museum also displays technical materials for vegetable cultivation in the past generations. As early as the Song and Yuan Dynasty, Shouguang has begun to cultivate new varieties of vegetables such as oysters, loofahs, taroes, carrots. By the time of the Republic of China, Shouguang vegetables had been sold to other places and exported abroad. In the development of the vegetable industry, seeds are always the decisive factor. Shouguang's "giant" pumpkin, which can grow to more than 500 pounds, can't hold it at all. According to the staff, the growth cycle of this pumpkin is 4 ～ 6 months. When the growth is vigorous, as long as the temperature and humidity conditions are suitable, the weight can be increased by more than ten pounds a day, and the price of a pumpkin can reach 5,000 yuan. The museum also houses the collection of ancient agricultural production tools, daily necessities, folk utensils and other objects that were once indispensable in the countryside, and each of them carries the imprint of the years, like a "time museum" connecting the present and the past. Many tourists over 40 recall the hard years when they used a donkey to pull a chopstick and grind noodles and light a kerosene lamp. The large-scale theme statue in the exhibition hall - "Unfinished Dish", which means that on this magical fertile soil, the dishes are piled up and piled up, and they can't be picked and pulled. As the first professional vegetable museum in China, the Shouguang Vegetable Museum can be called the halls and halls are amazing and amazing. Its unique creativity and deep cultural heritage are shocking.

The opening time is April 20 of each year and the closing time is May 30 of each year. Usually there are 3-4 museums open, mainly theme museums (modeling), modern agriculture museums, seedling museums, flower museums, regional planting museums and so on. It is worth a visit. The fare is about 60 and is located on Luocheng Street, Shouguang City, Shandong. #Net red punch card #Small Discovery Society #City Humanities Handbook