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Bricks Inheritance
       Imperial Kiln Bricks refer to a kind of paving square bricks with high quality exclusively used for buildings especially the palaces in ancient times. The name, Imperial Brick ("Gold Brick"), was given because its feature is thin but solid and it makes a sound like gold stone when knocking. The Bricks were produced in Lumu Imperial Kiln located at Yuanhe Streets, Xiangcheng District, Suzhou City. The existing Lumu Imperial Kiln site is the unique ancient brick kiln preserved well of the many kiln groups at that time. Since the late Qing Dynasty, it has been used to bake Bricks for the royalty and still in use nowadays for baking a large number of traditional Bricks for the maintenance of the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square and palaces, halls and ancient buildings at home and abroad.
      The Imperial Kiln is a rarely existing and living relic listed as a dual-heritage protection organization in both of tangible and intangible form in China. The preservation of the Imperial Kiln and the protection of the craftsmanship of "Bricks" can provide a physical basis for the research on ancient buildings and building materials, which is the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.
      The Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage writes in 2003 that “Intangible cultural heritages are faced with serious threats of damage, disappearance and destruction", and it also stresses that protection on intangible cultural heritages shall "comply with sustainable development". Then all countries must adhere to the guideline of "protecting first, rescuing first, rational utilization and inheriting development" to achieve sustainable development.
       In order to protect the Imperial Bricks and promote the culture related, Yuyao Community in Yuanye Streets established a "Imperial Kiln Workshop" exhibition area in 2011, demonstrating the history and culture, production skills and inheritance of the production techniques of Bricks; in 2013, Yuyao Brick and Tile Factory set up a showroom for the Imperial Kiln Bricks, displaying the collection of ancient Bricks from the Ming and Qing Dynasties as well as products produced in recent years. However, limited by size and region, neither influence nor visibility is great. Today, the Museum of Imperial Kiln Bricks will become a large-sized place with symbols and influence, assembling all the elements related to the Bricks and integrating resources, which will greatly increase the popularity of Imperial Bricks at home and abroad.
      Suzhou Museum of Imperial Kiln Bricks will spare no effort to inherit traditional craftsmanship, display more than 1,000 "Imperial Bricks" used by the royalty from Yongle Period in the Ming Dynasty to Xuantong Period in the Qing Dynasty.
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