China News Service, Hefei, March 4 (Reporter Wu Lan) The ancient town of Changlinhe in Hefei in spring is bustling with tourists.
Walking along Qingshiban Road, among a row of characteristic shops, several folk museums such as Anhui Juxian Newspaper Museum and Centennial Post Office are very conspicuous.
Changlinhe Ancient Town is located on the shore of Chaohu Lake, one of the five major freshwater lakes in China.
During the Republic of China, due to its developed transportation and prosperous merchants, it was called "Little Shanghai" in Central Anhui and "the first hometown of overseas Chinese in Anhui".
Some exhibits in the Centennial Post Museum.
Photo by Wu Lan
Walking into the Juxian Newspaper Museum of Anhui Province, I saw old newspapers that were framed and hung on the wall in an orderly manner according to the time node. There are newspapers and periodicals from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, New China and other periods.
"It used to be a very dilapidated house, and now the decoration style and display are all managed by me." Curator Wei Lixue said, "These newspapers are just a small part of the collection I carefully selected."
Wei Lixue, 48, is the director of the two museums.
On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2009, a car accident made him bedridden for more than a year. In the ward, he watched life in various ways, thinking about why he lived in the future and how he could do something meaningful.
Tourists visit in the Newspaper Museum.
Photo by Wang Congqi
"When I was young, I didn't read much, and I didn't have any books to read." Wei Li said, which led him to embark on his own cultural dream and museum dream.
"Every time I collect, sort out, and sort these collections that have gone through great pains and hardships, I always look carefully to see that they are covered with dust and frost, or dim, yellow, or incomplete." Wei Li Doctrine, "It feels good to speculate on its past and present while sorting out."
The Centennial Post Office was originally the residence of the brothers Wu Yufen and Wu Yulan, the commanders of the Huai Army in the Huai Army in the late Qing Dynasty. The 100-year history of Changlinhe Post.
Entering the museum, from the first set of rare stamps such as the zodiac monkey ticket to the past postman costumes and changes in tokens, micro-post has changed over a century.
The exterior of the Centennial Post Office.
Photo by Wu Lan
A few years ago, when the folk museum was first established, due to the shortage of manpower, he had to do everything by himself.
In this process, he encountered many difficulties and setbacks, and many relatives and friends advised Wei Li to give up, but he chose to persevere.
Wei Lixue said with a smile that although he was very tired, he often laughed from the bottom of his heart, because he did what he liked.
Now these museums are open to the public free of charge, which is also in line with the original idea, doing meaningful things, and contributing to the popularization and inheritance of Chinese traditional culture.
"As a museum for so many years, it is actually a power of cultural heritage that guides and promotes me." Wei Li said, let the exhibits collected by the folks enter the lives of ordinary people, and hope to use their own small power to influence everyone who enters the museum. Visitors can also enhance the local cultural connotation and drive local economic development.
Wei Li said: "In the next ten years, the museum plans to build 5-10 characteristic museums. These museums will combine local characteristics and rely on cultural relics, so that each item in the exhibition will have a story, a legend, and an old age. The past. Recently, I have been focusing on inheriting Huizhou culture, and I am planning to build a 'Shuren Pavilion' with Huizhou women's life as the entry point, and I am currently designing it."