With the arrival of the summer tourism season, Wudang Museum has continuously increased the supply of high-quality cultural resources in combination with the characteristics of young tourists in the summer and the characteristics of its own venues, and carefully planned and launched a series of immersive experience projects, theme summer camps, research and other cultural activities in various forms, attracting more and more young people to come to "check in", and Wudang Museum has also ushered in a summer visit boom.
On the morning of July 23, in the Yongle Cultural and Creative Zone of Wudang Museum, a vivid "Smelling Fragrance and Enlightenment" incense experience class was held here, attracting many tourists and Wudang culture lovers to come to "check in" for experience. Under the leadership of the inheritor of Wudang Mountain incense culture, the students were born through tasting, reciting classics, purifying their hearts, configuring incense recipes, grinding powder, and finally handmade, packaged and stored.
"I feel that the incense is very interesting, and I also feel that the Chinese incense culture has a long history and is broad and profound." Zhu Jingze, a tourist from Xiangyang, Hubei Province, said.
▲ Incense experience class photo by Xu Gang
Chen Haiqing, the inheritor of Wudang Mountain incense culture, introduced that 8 incense public welfare classes have been held in Wudang Mountain Museum in the summer, and the content and method of each issue have changed. After completing the course, the students will take away a self-made incense product. "We popularize traditional culture through this way of incense to achieve a calming effect." Chen Haiqing said.
▲Movable type printing culture experience by Rao Zhiqiao
Movable type printing is a cultural experience activity carefully launched by Wudang Museum in the summer, which is popular with teenagers. Children can get a beautiful and vivid movable type print by applying ink on a roller, inking the typeface, laying paper, and rolling the ink roller at a constant speed. Let the young people enjoy the fun of learning and seeking knowledge in the "walking classroom", and feel the charm of traditional Chinese culture.
During this year's summer vacation, research tours continued to become popular and became an important part of the summer life of primary and secondary school students. Many families or research teams come to the Wudang Museum to experience the history and culture of Wudang Mountain, and the Wudang Museum has also become the "second classroom" for teenagers in the summer vacation.
▲ College students' summer social practice walks into the museum Photo by Xu Gang
10 students from the "Wudang Lijian Tai Chi Building" summer practice group of the School of Journalism and Communication of Beijing Sport University moved their classes into the Wudang Museum. By visiting the cultural relics exhibits and understanding the history and culture of Wudang Mountain, I deeply felt the profound cultural heritage of Wudang Mountain. Yang Huijuan, a student of the school, said that she saw more about the development of traditional Chinese culture and the origin of some traditional Chinese ideas in the Wudang Mountain Museum, and felt that it was very magical, and Wudang Mountain is a place with special cultural connotations.
9-year-old Li Chen Yutong and 7-year-old Li Chen Zezhong from Budapest, Hungary, siblings who have lived abroad since childhood, specially returned to Shiyan this summer to visit relatives, and accompanied by their families, Wudang Museum visited the past and the present. Through the narrator's easy-to-understand and interesting explanations, the siblings also fell in love with Wudang.
▲Tea ceremony experience photo by Rao Zhiqiao
In addition to the splendid exhibitions and research products, the tea ceremony experience, cultural and creative product display, rubbing and other activities launched by the Wudang Museum have also become the highlights of the summer activities. The rich cultural connotation has impressed more and more foreign tourists. In addition to visiting, tourists also have a space to rest and communicate.
It is understood that with the development of various experience activities, tourists' enthusiasm for visiting continues to rise, and the "exhibition fever" and "research fever" have boosted the cultural and museum tour to continue to "go out of the circle" and stimulated the consumption vitality of the cultural tourism market. Up to now, Wudang Museum has received more than 600 visitors on the largest day in the summer, and has received more than 2,000 people in more than 40 batches of research teams, an increase of more than 30% over last year.
▲Wudang Martial Arts Sinology Summer Camp walked into the Wudang Museum Photo by Xu Gang
"Through the organization of these activities, everyone can better understand the museum, and at the same time, the cultural relics in the museum will be more vividly lived. Let China's excellent traditional culture be more deeply rooted in the hearts of children. Shu Chenghai, head of the social education department of Wudang Museum, said.