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History of Xishui County Museum
Xishui County Museum, formerly known as the Cultural Relics Preservation Room, was founded in 195 1 and officially named Xishui County Museum in 1958. According to relevant data, the museum currently has 15 employees, including senior title 1 person, 4 intermediate titles and 5 assistant titles, who are engaged in cultural relics archaeology, cultural relics research, cultural relics exhibition and cultural relics protection in Xishui County.

The Xishui County Museum in Hubei Province is located atNo. 10 Xinhua Street, Qingquan Town, Xishui County, Hubei Province, and faces the Xishui River in the south, with an area of 5,000 square meters. Founded in 195 1, it is one of the key museums in Hubei Province and a national key county-level museum. With a large number of cultural relics and high level, it is a second-class protection unit of the cultural relics system.

Xishui County Museum was established on the basis of Xishui Confucian Temple. According to relevant data, the Xishui Confucian Temple in the museum has an ancient building area of 900 square meters, which was approved by the provincial people's government as a provincial key cultural relics protection unit in 1992. Confucius Temple, also known as Confucianism and Confucius Temple. Xishui county records that the Confucian Temple was built in the Song Dynasty and destroyed by soldiers at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. /kloc-was rebuilt in 0/374 (the seventh year of Ming Hongwu), and 1488- 1506 (the year of Ming Hongzhi) built Lingxingmen, and gradually built a whole set of ancient buildings. 1643 (in the 16th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty), the Confucian Temple was burned down by Zhang Department of the Peasant Uprising Army, and was rebuilt and expanded in succession in the years of Shunzhi, Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Tongzhi and Guangxu, and the central axis of the temple was built, including Lingxingmen, Dacheng Hall, Chongsheng Temple, Zunjing Pavilion and East. In 2000, the museum raised funds from various sources, renovated the Xishui Confucian Temple, reshaped the statues of Confucius and the Four Philosophers, and opened it to the outside world.