Zhao Yugang (right) in the introduction of the collection to the audience Shen Jie took
the last day of the National Day holiday, Taixing began to rain, local The gate of the red culture museum is closed. This is the first private "red Tibet Pavilion" in the province. If you don't beat your income in red collections, Zhao Yugang, who is now a multimillionaire, is now a "negative Weng". Zhao Yugang revealed that during the National Day holiday, there were not many visitors, most of them were locals and museums were at a loss. But he said he would rather eat instant noodles than sell collections.
the owner of the hotel is the museum "owner"
the Taixing City Red Culture Museum has a reputation because it is the first private red culture museum in Jiangsu. But if you don't look for it carefully, it's hard to find out where it is. The museum is located on the third floor of a small hotel on the National Day West Road. Zhao Yugang is both a "hotel owner" and a "Museum owner" of the museum.
"the business of the hotel is OK." Zhao Yugang, 49 years old, said while he was making tea, "but there are fewer tourists in museums, and basically local people." All the red relics on display in the
museum are Zhao Yugang's private collection. There are more than 20000 kinds of cultural relics, such as large embroidery, porcelain, cultural relics of the Soviet Area, anti Japanese antiquities and so on. There are various kinds of coins, tickets, newspapers and periodicals during the period of the war of resistance against the war.
"many of them are isolated, which are the only red relics." Zhao Yugang said that in 2009, the Jiangsu Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau approved the establishment of the Red Culture Museum. In 2011, on the eve of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the Huangqiao branch library was built and opened to the outside world in 90th anniversary.
spend tens of millions of yuan in the red collection
"over the years, in the red collection has invested 15 million." Zhao Yugang was a native of Binjiang, Taixing. In 1982, he became fascinated by red collection after joining the army.
"first started with collecting stamps." Zhao Yugang recalls that when he was a correspondent in the army, he looked at the stamps once every day before he came back from the camp to distribute the stamps, and he saw his favorite stamps for the comrades of the war. Later, from collecting stamps, I began to get fascinated by the collection of objects related to "red". After retiring from
, Zhao Yugang took the red collection as a career, suspended his salary, and set up a professional collection. Family members, friends and colleagues feel that Zhao Yugang is "mad" and does not work for everyone's envy. He has to do something that does not cost money.
"opened a gas station at that time, and did other business, all the money earned into the red collection." Zhao Yugang said that everyone else lived in a big house and drove a good car, but he spent money on collections that he could not change money.
better to eat instant noodles than to sell
"friends know I am short of money, help me find a channel, pick a few pieces from the collection can be turned 3 4 million, but I refused." Zhao Yugang raised his voice and said, "it's better to eat instant noodles than to sell collections." Zhao Yugang's Museum has very little revenue, but he still has to pay security wages and utilities. "Huangqiao branch has renovated hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the cost is still seized today." Even so, Zhao Yugang wanted to show the collection to more people.
"two museums in Taixing and Huangqiao only exhibit 1/5 of the collection." Zhao Yugang said that many precious collections had no suitable place to display, and they could only be packaged and stored. The exhibition hall in Taixing was almost a warehouse.
to this end, Zhao Yugang went to Jinggangshan several times, approached the local merchants and planned to build a large red culture museum in Jinggangshan. "Let more people see these precious things and understand the hard history." Zhao Yugang said. Shen Jie Yin Youwen