Nanjing Folk Museum | Old Stories of Southern Nanjing Hidden in the Museum

📸 Ganxi Residence is the Nanjing Folk Museum, and is known as the "99 and a Half Rooms" by locals. It is one of the best-preserved residential courtyards in Nanjing, and is also the home of Nanjing-born actress Hai Qing. As a folk museum, it brings together handicraft cultures such as paper cutting, cloud brocade, velvet flowers, and clay figurines, as well as Nanjing folk cultures such as lantern festivals, weddings, and funerals. The museum also has workshops where folk craftsmen demonstrate intangible cultural heritage production, bringing Jinling folk culture to life with their nimble fingers. 🌈Main Attractions: 👉Ganxi Residence: The residence of Gan Xi, a famous scholar of the Qing Dynasty. It is a typical Chinese ancient building with a wooden frame, and inherits the style of ancient Huizhou architecture, with exquisite wood carvings and stone carvings. 👉Jindai Building: The Gan family's library, and a famous library in Jinling during the Qing Dynasty, which houses ancient books and manuscripts from past dynasties, as well as works written by the Gan family. 👉Wangyue Building: Originally the Gan family's embroidery building, the books that survived the destruction of Jindai Building were moved to Wangyue Building. 👉Yougong Hall: In the early years of the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, Gan Guodong bought a house site in Nancuting and began to build houses, naming the hall "Yougong Hall." 👉Yan Fengying's Former Residence: The residence where Yan Fengying, a famous Huangmei opera artist, lived when she studied Peking opera and Kunqu opera in the Gan family courtyard in the early days of liberation. 👉Jinling Eighteen Workshops: The exhibition hall restores some of the old neighborhoods and trades in the Nanjing area, such as fan shops and pawnshops, which have disappeared. 👉Jinling Gan Family History Exhibition: Displays the history of the Jinling Gan family, as well as second-class cultural relics such as sacrificial utensils from Yougong Hall. 📍Address: Ganxi Residence, Nancuting, Zhongshan South Road, Qinhuai District, Nanjing 🚗Transportation: Take Metro Line 1 to Sanshan Street Station, Exit 3, or take Bus 46 to Zhonghua Road · Sanshan Street Station, or take Bus 4, 7, 16, 33, 35, 100, etc. to Zhongshan South Road (Shengzhou Road Station)