Along the east side of Chang'an Street and the north side of Gaobeidian exit of Jingtong expressway, you will see a large area of Ming and Qing architectural complex, which is the China red sandalwood Museum. It was built with an investment of more than 200 million yuan by Ms. Chen Lihua, member of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, chairman of Hong Kong Fuhua International Group, honorary doctor of Humanities of Savannah Institute of art and design of the United States and vice chairman of the school board. It is a key project of Beijing to present to the 50th anniversary of the founding of the people's Republic of China. China red sandalwood museum is the first private museum with the largest scale in China. It collects, researches, displays and displays red sandalwood art, and appreciates traditional Chinese classical furniture, which fills a gap in the Chinese Museum field.

The red sandalwood Museum of China is a perfect and spectacular handicraft in itself. This 25000 square meter museum has a grand and exquisite design, ancient and modern. The main gate alone uses more than 400 cubic meters of wood, all of which are pure wood structures. The four columns supporting the gate are 8 meters high and 0.6 meters thick, which are rare in Beijing's antique buildings in both scale and material. The main building of the fifth floor uses the butt joint technology of grinding bricks, which is not bad in millimeter. More than 1000 square meters of the square in front of the museum adopts the floor of haimandouban, which was only used by the royal family in the past - the big green brick is laid and then soaked with tung oil. Chen Lihua hired wood experts, tile experts and painting experts who had been working in the palace museum since the early days of the people's Republic of China to guide the whole project. These experts have always been called "living national treasure".

The exhibition hall area of China red sandalwood museum is 9569 square meters. There are central hall, exhibition hall, conference hall, VIP Hall, multi-functional hall and temporary exhibition hall. Here you can enjoy: Exhibition and display of Ming and Qing Dynasty furniture collected by curator Chen Lihua for ten years; exhibition and display of fine traditional furniture carefully produced by curator Chen Lihua for nearly 30 years; exhibition of Buddhist culture and art works; exhibition of traditional furniture materials, modeling and structure; sculpture In addition, you can also enjoy the miniature Chinese ancient architectural landscape here: the turret of the Forbidden City, the Qianqiu Pavilion and Wanchun Pavilion in the imperial garden of the Forbidden City, all show the royal style; the archway of Longquan Temple in Wutai Mountain, Shanxi Province, has 320 different dragon postures, exquisite round, relief and openwork, which are rare in the world; the ancient Beijing Quadrangle, the flying cloud tower in Shanxi Province, A large building model of the ancient gate of Beijing These art treasures that convey the oriental charm are all made of precious red sandalwood.

Over the years, China red sandalwood Museum adheres to the business philosophy of "inheritance, development and innovation", quietly cultivates and promotes the traditional Chinese furniture art. It is because of the vision of curator Chen Lihua that the endangered red sandalwood carving process has been rescued, protected and innovated. In September 2011, "red sandalwood carving skills" declared by China red sandalwood museum was listed in the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage list by the State Council. In 2012, it was also designated as the production protection demonstration base of intangible cultural heritage by Beijing municipal government.

As an important cultural landscape in Beijing, China red sandalwood museum was awarded the national 4A tourism unit by the National Tourism Administration at the end of 2003. He received tourists from all over the world and political figures from all over the world, including Helmut Kohl, former German prime minister, Adrian Nastase, former Romanian prime minister and his wife, his highness sirington, Princess of Thailand, and Mr. Jamal Rajapaksa, speaker of Sri Lanka. Later, he visited the red sandalwood Museum in China and left a message with great appreciation Reward.

In order to better spread Chinese traditional rosewood culture overseas, China rosewood Museum has successively held a tour themed with "secrets of rosewood" in the United States, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Guangzhou and other countries and regions, introduced China to the world, demonstrated Chinese traditional classical furniture culture, and was highly praised and recognized by local people from all walks of life. At the same time, the Chinese red sandalwood museum also constructs a bridge for cultural exchange between the East and the West in another form. Several world-class museums, including the Palace Museum in Beijing, the Dresden national art collection in Germany, the Smithsonian Museum in the United States, the Chamberlain Museum in France, and the Kyushu National Museum in Japan, collect large-scale red sandalwood art treasures of the Chinese red sandalwood Museum. Zheng Xinmiao, then Vice Minister of the Ministry of culture of China and President of the Palace Museum, praised this initiative as an important contribution to Chinese traditional culture going to the world.

In the future, the Chinese red sandalwood museum will continue to protect its historical heritage and carry forward the traditional culture of the Chinese nation. Display the artistic charm of red sandalwood at a high level in an all-round way and reappear the brilliance of traditional Chinese furniture!