Museums
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Confucian Temple Museum

Located at Dongmenli Street, Nankai District, also called Kongmiao Temple, it’s a place for respecting and remembering Confucius, and also aneducation place of Tianjin. It was built in the fi rst year of Zhengtong Period, Ming Dynasty (1436), with a fl oor area of 15,000 m2, consisting of two paralleled temples, i.e., Province Temple and County Temple, as well as Minglun Hall. It’s the only well preserved building complex of Ming and Qing Dynasties with the largest scale. There are reproduced exhibition of the Great Hall of Confucius Temple and Exhibition of Confucius’s life in the museum. The periodically held Sacrifying Confucius Event & Instrumental Theme Performance has become a touring culture brand with profound infl uence.

Folk-custom Community Center

Located at south of Ancient Culture Street, Nankai District, it has a total building area of over 3,000 m2. It mainly introduces unique and special folk custom of Tianjin festival, commercial and wedding custom, etc., during the 1920’s and 1930’s through 1970’s and 1980’s, thus tourists can learn about life custom and status of Tianjin people at that time.

Porcelain House

Located at Chifeng Road, Heping District, this Antique Porcelain Museum was elaborately built over six years on the base of a French-style building. There are over 4,000 pieces ancient porcelain wares, over 400 pieces of white marble sculptures, over 20 tons of crystals and carnelians as well as tens of thousands of porcelain pieces. The museum collects essences of various dynasties, e.g., celadon porcelainof Jin Dynasty, Tang Tri-Color pottery of Tang Dynasty, Jun Porcelain and Longquan Porcelain of Song Dynasty, Blue and White Porcelain of Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, as well as Famille Rose Porcelain of Qing Dynasty. Its exterior wall is decorated with over six hundred ancient porcelain vases, and is named as Safety Wall.

Source:Enorth.com.cn

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