What does Ma Weidu’s Guanfu mean?
It means: reaching the extreme of emptiness and settling in inner meditation; all things in the universe grow at the same time, and we can observe their origins. Curator Ma Weidu tried to express it through the name "Guanfu": "Guan" means observation, and "Fu" means repetition. The beauty of traditional culture requires repeated observation to understand its origin.
As an attraction in Beijing, Guanfu Museum is located at No. 18, Zhangwanfen Jinnan Road, Dashanzi, Chaoyang District, Beijing. It is worth a visit.
Guanfu Museum is the first private museum in New China founded by Mr. Ma Weidu. Compared with public museums, there are not many visitors here and the area is not large. You can have more leisure time here. Take a closer look at each collection.
There are five venues in the Guanfu Museum: Ceramics Hall, Furniture Hall, Crafts Hall, Doors and Windows Hall, and Oil Painting Hall. Among them, the Ceramics Hall and Home Furnishing Hall are particularly worth visiting.
Mr. Ma’s collection is mostly treasures handed down from generation to generation. You can see more than a thousand pieces of beautiful and precious furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, including the most exquisite pieces of furniture from the Tang, Song, Liao, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. Representative porcelain, important works of modern and contemporary Chinese oil painters and sculptors, etc. The museum holds various exhibitions all year round. If you are interested in the collection, you may want to take a look.
Ma Weidu worked at China Youth Publishing House from 1980 to 1990. In more than ten years, he published hundreds of novels, reportages, etc., and collected them for publication.
The collection of ancient Chinese art began in 1980. The collection includes ceramics, ancient furniture, jade, lacquerware, metalware, etc.
In 1992, his book "Ma Shuo Ceramics" was regarded by many readers as an enlightenment book on traditional culture; then he also wrote "Ming and Qing Brush Holders" and other cultural relic appreciation and research monographs and hundreds of He has written several cultural relics research papers and essays, and participated in the compilation of "Chinese Snuff Bottle Appreciation".