Visit The Only County Level Specialized Textile Museum In Gaoyang, Hebei Province

"There are no miscellaneous trees in Guilin mountain, and Gaoyang cloth is new in four seasons". This sentence describes the prosperity of textile industry in Gaoyang County, Baoding City, Hebei Province.

Gaoyang textile began in the late Ming Dynasty, flourished in the middle of Qing Dynasty, flourished in the Republic of China, and flourished in the reform and opening up. The end of the 20th century entered a period of rapid development. The history of 400 years is concentrated in Gaoyang Textile Museum.

Gaoyang Textile Museum is the only county-level professional textile Museum in China. Covering an area of 746 square meters, the museum has a total collection of more than 1300 pieces, all of which are the original collection of cultural relics and treasures collected from the folk, with great historical and scientific value.

The museum has six exhibition areas: Ming and Qing Dynasties, Republic of China, revolutionary war, socialist revolution and socialist construction, reform and opening up, and rapid development. Entering the museum, you can see the stone frescoes on both sides of the corridor showing textile production. Then you can walk inside. The weaving machines, looms and fabrics of various periods, such as shuttle loom, shuttle loom and iron wheel loom, are displayed in order. Comic strips, old photos and stone carvings vividly represent the textile history of Gaoyang.

The southwest corner of the exhibition area is the textile machinery and fabrics of the Republic of China. It is understood that the period of the Republic of China was a semi colonial and semi feudal society. The invasion of foreign powers and the intermingling of warlords made the domestic situation very turbulent. The textile industry is struggling to survive in the cracks, but the textile technology is developing steadily in the turmoil.

The textile industry in Gaoyang County reached its heyday since the Ming Dynasty in the early Republic of China. The prominent mark is the use of imported foreign yarn and iron wheel loom. Handmade yarn was replaced by foreign yarn, wooden loom was replaced by iron wheel loom, jacquard machine was put into use, and production capacity was doubled. This has led to the great development of printing and dyeing industry. Large factories such as Jufeng, Tonghe, Enji and Heji have emerged. Famous figures in the textile industry, such as Wang Shiying (the first to introduce iron machine tools), Yang musin (the first to manufacture iron wheel machines), Li brothers (the first to introduce dyes), and Yang Xingcun (the first to sell products abroad), have emerged. Gaoyang textile not only has an amazing quantity, but also has reached the first-class level in quality. Compared with the local cloth of Ming and Qing Dynasties, the samples made of iron machine satin, brocade ground wrinkle, Guohua cloth and electric silk Ge are much more refined than those of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and their designs and colors are constantly renovated, which are deeply loved by the people.

"Look at this cloth. Wow, I'm going to sell it. It's a green cloth. It's black enough. Why is it so black? He has been a coal miner for two years, a coal miner, a coal miner, a coal miner, a coal miner. It's paved and covered, kicked, pulled, washed and sun dried. Everything is good. " According to Zhao Xueqing, deputy director of Gaoyang County textile and Trade City Management Committee, Gaoyang calico was famous all over the world during the period of the Republic of China. The excellent sales promotion art of local cloth merchants has gradually formed the well-known "cloth selling ballad".

Over the past 400 years, in Gaoyang, generations of textile workers have carried forward the spirit of self-reliance and hard work, constantly update equipment, learn technology and keep pace with the times, creating a number of well-known high-quality brands at home and abroad.

From April 26 to May 15, 2020, Gaoyang held the Online China Gaoyang towel Festival, with sales of more than 260 million yuan, and achieved good results. Nowadays, the textile industry in Gaoyang County has strong brand advantages and large industrial groups. There are four well-known trademarks in China, namely Sanli, Yongliang, Zhiyang and Ruichun, 17 famous trademarks of Hebei Province, 14 famous brands and high-quality products of Hebei Province, and more than 3000 small and micro enterprises.