Luoyang Folk Museum Travel Guide

Scenic spot introduction:

Luoyang Folk Museum is a thematic museum built based on the ancient building complex of Luze Guild Hall on the east side of Dongguan New Street in Luoyang. It focuses on reproducing folk customs in western Henan and promotes Heluo culture.

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"Luze Guild Hall" was first built in the ninth year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty (AD 1744). It was built by merchants from Lu'an Prefecture (today's Changzhi City) and Zezhou Prefecture (today's Jincheng City) in Shanxi Province. It was for merchants from the same town. A place for transmitting information and collecting and distributing materials, it is a product of Shanxi merchant culture. The guild hall covers an area of ​​15,750 square meters. It still has the front hall (theater building), the east and west bell and drum towers, the middle hall, the back hall and the east and west gallery rooms. The architectural decoration is very exquisite, with carved beams and painted buildings, cornices and overhanging corners. It is majestic and elegant in style. , is a typical Qing Dynasty official building and one of the most complete ancient architectural complexes preserved in the Central Plains.
In 1988, the renovated "Luze Guild Hall" was opened as a folk museum. The museum has basic exhibitions such as the Faith and Customs Hall, the Wedding Customs Hall, the Longevity Customs Hall, the Embroidery Hall, the Plaque Hall and the Folk Crafts Hall, as well as shadow puppets. Performances, wedding performances, folk costume performances and other performance activities. In addition, the large-scale Luoyang folk culture temple fair held during the New Year Festival not only enriches the cultural life of urban and rural people in Heluo area, but also attracts a large number of Chinese and foreign tourists. It is also an excellent tourism resource that needs to be developed.

Scenic spot qualifications:

National 3A scenic spot

Scenic spot features:

Cultural tourism, folk customs, museums, ancient buildings