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1、Pre-Reading Questions1. When was the construction of Fujian-Taiwan Folk Culture Town completed?2. Where is Chenghuang Temple?3. How many folk cultural museums are there in Fujian-Taiwan Folk Cultural Town in Xiamen? What are they?Fujian-Taiwan Folk Cultural TownThe relationship between Fujian and Ta
2、iwan has been especially close and inalienable since the ancient times. Fujian and Taiwan share the same profound culture, and in the common endeavor of people across the Taiwan straits, the past two decades has witnessed steady development in Fujian-Taiwan cultural exchange and cooperation. Fujian-
3、Taiwan folk culture, as part of Fujian-Taiwan culture, is formed with profound characteristics of regional culture during a long period of common social life of Fujian and Taiwan people sharing the same cultural spirit. As the cross-strait communication goes deeper, the value of Fujian-Taiwan folk c
4、ulture is increasingly being recognized. In recent years, Fujian province began to dig for the potential value behind the Fujian-Taiwan culture in terms of promoting the national traditional culture and deepening the cross-strait cultural exchange, and it has successfully launched the Cross-Strait F
5、olk Culture Festival on a yearly basis, endowing the Fujian-Taiwan folk culture with a new connotation of the era.If you are interested in Fujian-Taiwan folk culture, now there is a new place quite worthy of your visit, that is, Fujian-Taiwan Folk cultural town in Xiamen. The inauguration ceremony h
6、onoring the ancient town for Fujian-Taiwan folk culture was held on Jan 3, 2013 in Xiamen when The Fujian-Taiwan folk cultural exhibition kicked off and eight museums of different themes there were open to the public for free for an extended period. Houxi Chenghuang Temple，located in Chengnei villag
7、e, Houxi town in Jimei district of Xiamen, is a symbol of cultural communication between Fujian and Taiwan. Nowadays, many Taiwan worshipers go to Chenghuang Temple to make a pilgrimage every year. The construction of the folk cultural town here thereby has great significance in preserving the Fujia
8、n-Taiwan folk culture and it provides a good platform for people across Taiwan straits to deepen their understanding of cross-strait folk culture. The renowned relic collector in Taiwan Hong Mingzhang says:” Have a walk around here and look carefully, and you will find lots of interesting things and
9、 get to know about the charm of the ancient town as well as the folk culture. Although having been here for a couple of times already, I still dont feel tired of it.” Stepping into the Chengnei village, you will see the Chenghuang Temple in Xia City right in front of you. In the village, there are m
10、any well-preserved ancient houses in southern Fujian province and a gate of ancient city that remained unaffected till nowGongcheng Gate. It is reported that the emperor of Qing Dynasty Kangxi decreed in his first year 1662 that a city be built here and named it “Chengnei” which is also called “Xia
11、City”. In the meantime, the Chenghuang Temple in Xia City was constructed in the South Gate of the city which is also called “Linhai Gate”, for the hope of getting Gods blessing. The Chenghuang Temple ahead of you now is a restoration completed in the 1990s on the original site and the whole village
12、 has already been rebuilt into the uniqueFujian-Taiwan folk cultural town.Up to now, Fujian-Taiwan Folk Cultural Town is the largest museum community in Xiamen with eight folk cultural museums of different themes, including a cross-straits museum, a Fujian-Taiwan official suppliers museum, Fujian-Ta
13、iwan horizontal inscribed board museum, Fujian and Taiwan Wine Culture Museum, Fujian-Taiwan old movies museum, Fujian-Taiwan tea museum, Fujian-Taiwan love museum and Fujian-Taiwan overseas Chinese cultural museum. The museums were built using the old houses in the area and have a collection of abo
14、ut 30,000 folk artifacts on display for the public and tourists.In Fujian-Taiwan official suppliers museum and Fujian-Taiwan horizontal inscribed board museum, there are royal costumes worn by kings and officials in Qin Dynasty, ancient weapons in Min and Qin Dynasties, the imperial examination pape
15、rs, official seals, power cards, memorial archways, stone tablets and so on, while in the cross-straits museum, lots of exhibits left from the period of Republican China, the years of cross-strait confrontation, the times when Taiwan being occupied by Japan are displayed. Standing at the gate of Che
16、ngnei village, you can see a “movie theater of Xia City in the 1970s and 1980s”, the Fujian-Taiwan old movies museum, where there are more than 100 collections of old-fashioned movie players, around 800 old records and 6000 old movie posters. In the old movies museum, the old films like Little Heroes and Spring and Autumn in the Small Town are presented on the spot, creating a dense nostalgic atmosphere. In Fujian-Taiwan love museum, there are not only cultural r
