The museum is not only a place to collect cultural relics, but also a treasure world full of knowledge and fun.
Under the guidance of the narrator, the students ** "Scenery by Mail - Old Shanghai Postcard Exhibition", the exhibition is divided into six chapters: "Si Tu Simin", "Huangpu River", "Suzhou Creek", "Nanjing Road", "Water and Land Transportation" and "Shanghai Scenery", and more than 100 old Shanghai postcards are exhibited. These postcards, covering the clothing, food, housing and transportation of the people of old Shanghai, have now become a precious postal historical material to display and study the history, humanity and customs of old Shanghai.
In 1869, the postcard was born in Austria and became popular all over the world in just a few years. With the popularity of postcards, postcards quietly came to China in the 70s of the 19th century, to Shanghai. At that time, people selected photographic works that reflected Shanghai's architectural style, living customs, and people's customs and other most Shanghainese characteristics and the best visual effects and printed them on postcards, conveying greetings to distant relatives and friends, and at the same time showing the social features of an oriental city to the other side of the ocean. As a "mailed landscape", postcards have become one of the important ways for the world to begin to understand Shanghai. The students deeply felt that behind the postcard there is not only human emotional sustenance, but also a witness of history.
Behind the more than 100 postcards on display, there are image memories of old Shanghai, each of which is a piece of history and worth savoring. Walking out of the exhibition hall, the little postal fans lined up in an orderly manner to stamp the day stamp, and wrote down the feelings, feelings, and suggestions of the visit on the message card and delivered them to the mailbox.
Afterwards, the students went to the Children's Publishing House to start their journey of exploration of children's books. From the publication "Little Friend", which spanned a century, to the first batch of children's literature "Scarecrow" in China, from the picture album with traditional painting style to the comprehensive magazine ...... integrating handicraft, popular science and other elementsThe museum combines physical objects with text introductions to tell the story of the development of children's books.
Sanmao, Wukong, three monks, brainless and unhappy ......Friends who have not been seen for a long time come to report together. The memory of watching the animation while lying on the bamboo mat while fanning the fan has returned.
In the modern printing exhibition area, the students appreciated the unique charm of movable type printing technology, observed the word-making of movable type craftsmen at close range, and felt the harmonious integration of traditional craftsmanship and modern technology. The delicacy and uniqueness of movable type printing left the students amazed by this traditional technique. Everyone interacted and had a "immersive" interaction with the exhibits to further learn about the historical origin and future hope of China's press and publishing industry.
It is reported that the Yangpu Children's Post Office of the Children's Palace in Yangpu District has gathered a group of young people who love philatelic culture, and they have passed on Chinese civilization between square stamps and harvested comprehensive and individual growth.
With the economic transformation and development of Yangpu in recent years, a new cultural landmark at the doorstep has emerged. During this visit to the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Press and Publication of China, the children felt the development of Shanghai, had a deeper understanding of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and were able to appreciate the beauty of culture from a more diverse perspective, and consciously shoulder the important mission of promoting cultural dissemination and inheritance in the future.
*: Yangpu, Shanghai.