A letter of collecting exhibits
--The National Sauce Culture Museum of China

With the official approval of national departments concerned, the National Sauce Culture Museum of China has started building near the ancient Ruoye Brook in Shaoxing, Zhejiang province of China, a historic city, and will open formally in the latter half of 2006.

The establishment of the National Sauce Culture Museum of China will promote the development of the condiment and food industry, expand the Chinese food culture, and also push the healthy life of citizen. What¡¯s more, it will promote the interaction of Chinese and Foreign food culture; also benefit all the local fermentation food enterprises, commodity circulation industry and people of the country. It is the establishment of the National Sauce Culture Museum of China that must be of benefit to us as an important event now and after a thousand years.

In order to accomplish it well, our museum will collect the exhibits from all over the globe continuously, we sincerely hope that all business enterprises and the whole social can give your enthusiasm, support and help.

The exhibition article (or providing the information of exhibits) for collection about sauce and sauce culture is as follows:

A, the vessels of condiment, such as box, bottle, jar , urn...etc, of all ages ,containing various sauce, soy sauce, vinegar, pickles, preserved beancurd etc. , and the related production and life tools and implements;

B, the signboard of the old workshop, the name tablet of shop, the placard of the store, and the other related mementos and relics (everything cherished for its age or historic interest);

C, the trademark of the business enterprise, advertisement, the writing elucidation, the picture file of condiment of all ages, about various sauce, soy sauce, vinegar, pickles, preserved beancurd etc..;

D, the representative or the memorial data of the influential person (picture, portrait, photograph, writing data, tools and implements, personal collections, etc..) ;

Above each kind of artifacts, data collected will be appraised. And our museum will pay for it, distribute the certificate and mark data of providing enterprise or person.

At the same time, we hope to make contact with related museums, manufacture enterprises of fermentable foodstuff and cultural organizations and establish a last-long relationship to carry on extensive cultural interaction! Welcome to come to our museum for visiting, exhibition fair and other related culture activities, we will provide aggressive help and convenience for you with our sincerity.

Best wishes!

Yours faithfully, The National Sauce Culture Museum of China       
Honorary curator , Wei Xiangyun              
Curator, Zhao Rongguang                        
Chairman of board,Feng Xinquan              
November 18 £¬ 2004                     


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