Introduction of old Shanghai

Chapter six wax figure "masterpiece"

The wax museum is located in the south of the zero-meter hall of Shanghai Oriental Pearl Radio and Television Tower, with an area of 1 000 square meters. The museum was carefully planned and designed by many artists and senior engineers and technicians, and was built with the full cooperation of outstanding skilled workers. This is a modern multimedia wax museum with innovative ideas, which integrates history, culture, appreciation and entertainment. There are more than 0/000 precious cultural relics/kloc-and more than 0/000 live wax figures/kloc-. It is a "masterpiece" with three-dimensional simulation effect, which consists of six chapters: Spring and Autumn of Horses and Horses, Scenery of City Rooms and Opening a Port.

When you step into a wax museum, the biggest feeling is that all sculptures are "imitated" so "true" that "when they are true, what is false is true", and they often fall into the embarrassing trap of distinguishing between true and false. An old man sat on a bench in the building and was mistaken for a wax figure. The old man repeatedly said to his companion, "Does it look real to you?" The companion is puzzled: "He is a real person."

Going deep into the museum is like coming to the old city hall with a mixture of five parties, strolling in the colorful Shili Yangchang, enjoying the unique cultural charm of Shikumen Hutong and witnessing the bitterness and hardship of shanty towns ... It can be said that entering the wax museum is equivalent to entering the history of Shanghai's urban development for more than 700 years, and many feelings and aftertaste are in my mind.

Chinese medicine shop

Turn the pages of the years in order.

Let's sort out the codes arranged for "wax masterpieces" over the years.

Cars and horses in the Spring and Autumn Period-there are vicissitudes of vehicles and precious historical pictures here, which all reflect the progress and historical evolution of Shanghai's urban civilization.

The first hall: the style of the city-before the opening of the port, Shanghai had a population of 500 thousand, which was a "famous city in the southeast" with prosperous business and developed culture. After the opening of the port, Chinese and western cultures survived in the old city, which represents a very complicated side of Shanghai's history and the most magical chapter in its 700-year history.

The second hall: a glimpse of opening the port-1845, after foreign powers established the concession in Shanghai, Shanghai gradually became the largest immigrant city in China. The civic custom of compatibility between China and the West, compatibility between the old and the new has gradually formed, and the lives of citizens of different classes have formed a strong contrast.

Hall 3: Shili Sheep Farm-In the old China where the small-scale peasant economy is like the sea of Wang Yang, on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean and at the eastern end of China, an adventurer's paradise is abnormally rising, and the dream of an oriental metropolis is rapidly expanding.

Hall 4: The Old Site on the Sea-Shanghai, where foreign fishermen paddle small fishing boats ashore and many immigrants hold up the city. Modern "civilization" has been influenced, and the hustle and bustle has replaced the old appearance of poverty and happiness, while small fishing boats still maintain their livelihood.

Hall 5: Architecture Expo-Chinese and Western cultures meet and collide here and solidify into buildings with different styles, which is the most symbolic material witness of Shanghai's vicissitudes for hundreds of years.

blacksmith shop

Become the collective memory of China today.

Wandering in the simulated reality of tailor shops, Chinese medicine shops, cotton shops, Dou Shi Street, bamboo shops, theaters, stock markets, racetracks ... browsing in urban trams, French-English-Norwegian and other ethnic-style buildings and related cultural landscapes, we walked in with a relaxed attitude. When we visited the whole picture of the wax museum, the steps on the soles of our feet inadvertently stopped.

Shanghai, a typical representative of China's urbanization development, is a city where the old and the new are constantly dying out and emerging, and its tortuous growth process makes people lament. Every vicissitudes of life are vividly staged on the big stage of life in Shanghai beach, whether it is a hero in troubled times or a leaderless, or earth-shattering, or ordinary. In the long history of China for thousands of years, like a meteor that streaks across the night sky, it is fleeting, brief but dazzling, reflecting the light of people's life dramas and the national embarrassment and humiliation brought by foreign invaders. China has been in endless political and economic turmoil for hundreds of years, and Shanghai has more intensively reflected the history of China since modern times. These are vividly stored in the collective memory of China, which should inspire Kunming, a famous cultural city under construction.