Original title: "Smiling Team" regular duty duty explanation of stone carving culture

Beijing Youth Daily (Reporter Liu Yang) The Beijing Museum Month has kicked off. The major museums have launched characteristic exhibitions around their own characteristics, provided voluntary explanations, and held rich activities to provide "cultural feast" for citizens and tourists. Among them, the Beijing Stone Carving Art Museum has made every effort to build a team of smiling interpretation teams. On the open day, it provides citizens with the compulsory interpretation service of "fixed person, fixed position", so that the stone carving culture can become "popular" from "small crowd". In the museum month, a temporary exhibition "Spring has come to the world in the spring - the Spring of the Twenty four Solar Terms Folk Custom Exhibition" will be launched in combination with the museum collection, so that the public can have a deep understanding of the folk culture in spring.

Dong Fang, Director of the Opening Department of Beijing Stone Sculpture Art Museum, said that since 2015, Beijing Stone Sculpture Art Museum has focused on building a team of volunteer interpreters. Up to now, it has cultivated more than 200 mature and stable volunteer teams for multilingual interpretation, public lectures, digital collection, and new media operations, including more than 90 interpretation volunteers, serving nearly 500000 visitors. After nearly ten years of development, a team of "smiling volunteers" has been incubated in the volunteer team to provide long-term voluntary explanation services for the audience. At present, the museum has arranged volunteer explanations with fixed people and fixed posts in the morning and afternoon of each open day to spread the stone carving culture to the public.

The "Smiling Volunteers" team is the most distinctive audience service brand of Beijing Stone Carving Art Museum. Smile has two meanings. In addition to providing smiling services to the audience, it also refers to the symbolic smile of the statue of Taihe in Northern Wei Dynasty, a fine cultural relic in the museum collection. "The interpretation services we provide to the audience mainly cover the fine cultural relics of 'Zhenshi Yonggu - Beijing Stone Carving Art History and Culture Exhibition', and the statue of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty is one of the cultural relics that we focus on. At present, the smiling interpretation team is mainly a team of students, who provide interpretation services to the audience in the form of teams, each focusing on introducing one or two cultural relics." Zhang Peihong, the team leader, said with a smile.

In addition to voluntary interpretation services, Beijing Stone Carving Art Museum is also focusing on building two brand social education projects. Dong Fang introduced that the first one was the "Golden Stone Lecture Hall" public welfare cultural lectures, which invited well-known experts and scholars to regularly hold public welfare lectures. The second is the series of children's science popularization activities of "There was once a Zhenjue Temple", which was launched in 2023. Nearly 10 events have been jointly organized with communities and schools such as Wutasi Community, the High School Attached to Minzu University of China, the Iron and Steel Research Institute Community, Dahui Temple Community, Daliushu Community, Chang'an Primary School, and a total of more than 200 children have participated in the activities. The response is warm, and the number of applicants is "no". Through science popularization activities, let children say goodbye to the fancy tour of walking around, and lead more children into museums and fall in love with them.

It is worth mentioning that in Museum Month, the Beijing Stone Carving Art Museum will also launch a temporary exhibition of "Spring has arrived at the age when the world is fragrant - the Spring of the Twenty four Solar Terms Folk Custom Exhibition", which will be held from June 8 to July 8, 2024, so that the audience can have a deep understanding of China's folk culture.