Zhangjiajie Xiuhuashan Museum is the first Tujia Family Museum in China, where visitors could enjoy the extraordinary natural beauty of Zhangjiajie, appreciate the strong national culture of this area inhabited by ethnic minorities and go shopping as well.
Xiuhuashan Museum is characterized by Tujia national architectural style, beautiful and distinctive. Its rooms are simple but elegant, and its garden is quiet and secluded, which is the perfect embodiment of Tujia traditional architecture. The museum contains a large number of national art works in Western Hunan which are collected by the museum owners Chen Chuhua and Gong Daoxiu for two decades. The museum is laid out in a family pattern and has abundant collections, mainly including luxurious and elegant ancient Tujia furniture in Ming and Qing Dynasties with a wide range of Tujia costumes, folk costumes, folk embroidery, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, ancient wood carvings, etc. as a supplement. In addition, it also offers Tujia style performances. Visitors could participate in the activities in the courtyard with a strong Tujia flavor, such as taking photos and videos in Tujia costumes decorated with ornamental designs, burning incense and candles to pray for safety in front of Tujia shrine, holding Tujia weddings to enjoy the Tujia customs of sitting in a sedan chair, worshiping ancestors, worshiping heaven and earth, and turning off the head cover.
The rich folk customs and national culture and art of Xiuhuashan Museum have reached a high degree of harmony and unity. As the only unique cultural landscape in Zhangjiajie, it has long been well-known at home and abroad. CCTV’s Zhengda Variety Show, Oriental Horizon, China Travel and other columns have made special reports on Xiuhuashan Museum; dozens of domestic and foreign newspapers and magazines, including People’s Daily, Guangming Daily, Nanyang Siang Pau, etc., made promotion. Many film studios took Xiuhuashan Museum as the shooting location. The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Tung Chee-hwa and his wife, accompanied by the Vice Governor He Tongxin, visited Xiuhuashan Museum on October 21, 1998. The envoys of seven countries including the United Arab Emirates, Palestine and Egypt also visited there.
