中国范儿121 首都粮食博物馆,再现京城“粮事儿”
首都粮食博物馆,再现京城“粮事儿”
Capital Grain Museum:The Old Scenes Reappear
At the Capital Grain Museum, history meets grandeur. Steelyards from Ming and Qing Dynasties are on display while Heshunju in Qing Dynasty, has been reconstructed. The old grain shop in Beixinqiao in the last century, the “Kaicao Festival”along the Tongzhou Grand Canal and the various grain measuring tools present a vivid scene of China’s “grainy” stories.
Grain storage is also critical before and after the transport. About 10,000 years ago, cultivated agriculture took root. People began to pay attention to seed storage and processing, which marked the beginning of China’s own grain storage. The modern granary has come a long way from being a basic storage space to a more advanced granary, such as round granary, brick round granary, steel plate granary and large flat granary.
To sell grains, grain stores popped up. Founded in 1915, Daheheng grain store was as famous as Quanjude and Ruifuxiang in 1930s and 1940s. In the museum, one can see red lanterns hung high at the gate of ‘Daheheng’ while gold signboards shine bright. A figurine of a shopkeeper stands behind the counter, in front of a steelyard, and the shelves behind are full of rice and wheat flour. One can see customers pouring over various wares.
Science and technology drives agriculture and the future of grain. From initial sowing, harvesting, threshing and processing of all human operations to today’s full range of agricultural farming machinery and semi-mechanization, China’s agricultural development has evolved from backward to advanced, traditional to modern, planning to market, to today’s smart agriculture, enabled by science and technology. China is now one of the world’s largest agricultural development countries.