The Contract Museum is constructed along the slope of a hill, with all the walls made of locally sourced stone. The building forms a semi-enclosed courtyard on the north and south sides.
Inside the museum, it primarily exhibits the Que family genealogies, ancient contracts, old account books, and partition letters from various periods, including the Jiaqing, Daoguang, and Guangxu dynasties. It showcases the entire socio-economic form of the Shi Cang Que family’s migration, land acquisition, iron smelting from sand, expansion, and the rise and fall of history, reflecting the traditional rural society composed of villages filled with rules and embodying a highly commercial spirit of contract society.Contract Museum
The Contract Museum is constructed along the slope of a hill, with all the walls made of locally sourced stone. […]
