Sui-Tang Grand Canal

Broadcast Exhibition of Sixian County Section

The Tongji Channel of Sui-Tang Grand Canal in Sixian county now has 28 kilometers of waterways, which is the only existing waterway of the Anhui section of the Sui-Tang Grand Canal. There is a section of 8 kilometers of waterways preserving the original style of the ancient canal, which is selected for the World Cultural Heritage List as the only remaining cultural relics of Sui-Tang Grand Canal (Tongji Channel section).

Selected Photo Exhibition of Sui-Tang Grand Canal Museum

Sui-Tang Grand Canal Museum, built in 1976, covers an area of more than 40 acres. It is a local comprehensive museum, with a collection of more than tens of thousands of cultural relics. The Canal Legacy Hall in the museum exhibits the shipwreck from Tang Dynasty and the unearthed artifacts from Liuzi relics site (in Huaibei) of Sui-Tang Grand Canal. The museum restores the Liuzi relics site, bringing the audiences back to the excavation site.

Sui-Tang Grand Canal Museum

Liuzi site of the Sui-Tang Grand Canal

Commercial shipwreck of Tang Dynasty in the Sui-Tang Grand Canal Museum

Black gazed teacup excavated in Sui-Tang Grand Canal site in Fengshan Road, Lingbi

Bridge in Liuzi site of the Sui-Tang Grand Canal

Green-and-yellow gazed teapot excavated in Sui-Tang Grand Canal site in Fengshan Road

Three-colored Xun (an ancient egg-shaped, holed wind instrument) excavated in Sui-Tang Grand Canal

Selected Photo Exhibition of Sui-Tang Grand Canal Museum in Sixian County

Sui-Tang Grand Canal Museum in Sixian county has an overall architectural style of Sui and Tang Dynasty: it has white walls and black tiles, two floors and single eaves hipped roof. It features the theme of the cannel and has five settled exhibition halls: “Sui and Tang Dynasty Style”, “Manmade River”, “Prosperity along the Waterway “, “Remaining Charm of the North and South”, “Canal Nowadays”, exhibiting a large number of cultural relics of the ancient canal, and highlighting majestic historical and cultural accumulation the ancient Sizhou (Sixian county).

Excavated cultural relics in the Grand Canal site in Suzhou

Sui-Tang Grand Canal Museum in Sixian county, Suzhou

Excavated cultural relics in Suzhou section of Sui-Tang Grand Canal

Sixian, a canal county in Suzhou

Qingshuiwan Park along the Sui-Tang Grand Canal in Sixian, Suzhou