Museum of Folk Utensils of Bajie Town

Museum of Folk Utensils of Bajie Town

The Museum of Folk Utensils of Bajie Town (An’ning City, Kunming) was
established in May 2007. It covers 1200 square meters and consists of
two exhibition halls.

The museum was converted from Guanshenggong Palace which was first built
 in 1864 to enshrined Gu Yu. During the period of the war against the
 Japanese, the Palace was utilized as Martyrs’ Shrine and was further
converted to a school. Since 2005, local cultural departments of An’ning
 City have collected a number of traditional household utensils in Bajie
 Town, and made special point to establish a museum to display the cultural
 heritages of Bajie.    

The museum has so far housed 204 items of utensils mainly including
traditional farming tools and household utensils.
(Picture from kunming.cn)

Travel Tips
(1)-Add: Bajie Town is 30 km from An’ning downtown. You can take
 Pubic Bus No. 9 at An’ning Bus Station; An’ning City is about
 30 km from Kunming downtown.
(2)-Open hour: 09:00-17:00, except Sunday;
(3)-Tel: 86-871-8711851

(Brazier, normally made from iron, was a necessity in An’ning in the
 Qing Dynasty and Republic of China. A set of traditional brazier
 consists of a basin, tripod, fire poker, kettle (tea kettle), and
 boiler. The brazier is used not only for getting warm in winter,
 but also for boiling water as well as cooking.)

(Chinese Peck is called “dou” in Chinese. It is made from wood and
used for measuring grains. So "dou” is also a volume unit in China
and especially the rural areas of Yunnan nowadays.)