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Four Museums in China
Go to Beijing to see Ming and Qing cultural relics

Imperial Palace

Construction time: 1925

Collection quantity: over 6,543,800 pieces.

Covering area: 720,000 square meters

Cultural relics collection: the private collection of Ming and Qing palaces (including but not limited to)

Features of cultural relics: Precious cultural relics rank first in China.

(Source: Weibo, Palace Museum)

The Palace Museum is unique in that it is both an ancient palace and a modern museum. The cultural relics in the Forbidden City are not only numerous and varied, but also well protected. As the largest museum of ancient culture and art in China, its cultural relics collection mainly comes from the old collection of the Qing Palace.

Starting from 20 1 4 65438+1October1,the Palace Museum in Beijing is closed almost every Monday. The Forbidden City in Beijing is the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units, the first batch of national 5A-level tourist attractions, and the national advanced unit for ideological and moral construction of minors. From 65438 to 0987, it was selected into the World Cultural Heritage List. ?

(Source: Weibo, Palace Museum)

On March 24th, 2020, the 11th China Best Cultural Tourism Award list was released, and the Beijing Palace Museum won the "Best Cultural Tourism Award of the Year".

How powerful is the collection of the Forbidden City? Generally speaking, if precious cultural relics can account for 5% to 10% of the total, it will be quite powerful. Of the 6.5438+0.86 million pieces in the Forbidden City, 93.2% are precious cultural relics. This palace, which witnessed 24 emperors, not only has many cultural relics, but also its architecture and scenery are important reasons for attracting everyone to visit.

Look at the cultural relics of the Tang Dynasty

Shaanxi History Museum

Construction time: 1983

Collection quantity: over 6.5438+700,000 pieces.

Coverage area: 65,000 square meters

Cultural Relics Collection: Early Ancient Humans-A.D. 1840

Characteristics of cultural relics: large quantity, complete variety, high grade and wide value.

(Source: Shaanxi History Museum Weibo)

Shaanxi History Museum is located in the northwest of Big Wild Goose Pagoda in xi City, Shaanxi Province. It was built in 1983 and opened on June 20th. 199 1. Its completion marks a new milestone in the development of China Museum. This building is a Tang-style building complex with "nave's four corners worship the building", which is majestic and solemn.

How powerful are the cultural relics in the museum? The time span alone is as long as 6.5438+0 million years. Among the nearly 2 million cultural relics, there are 18 national treasures, two of which are the first batch of precious cultural relics prohibited from leaving the country. There are more than 370,000 cultural relics in the collection, ranging from simple stone tools used in the early days of ancient humans to various artifacts in social life before 1.840 years. Among them, the Shang and Zhou bronzes were exquisite, and the pottery figurines of the past dynasties were varied. The treasures of Han and Tang dynasties are unique in China, and the murals of Tang tombs are unparalleled in the world.

Go to Nanjing to see the history of the Republic of China

Nanjing museum

Construction time: 1933

Collection quantity: over 430,000 pieces

Coverage area: 6.5438+0.3 million square meters.

Collection period: Paleolithic Age-Contemporary

Characteristics of cultural relics: the proportion of precious cultural relics is the second in the country.

One Nanjing city, half the history of the Republic of China. Nanjing Museum is the earliest museum established in China. One of the three major museums in China, whose predecessor was the National Central Museum initiated by Cai Yuanpei in the 22nd year of the Republic of China (1933), is the first large-scale comprehensive museum invested by the state in China.

At present, it is a national first-class museum, the first batch of national museums jointly built by the central and local governments, a national AAAA-level tourist attraction, a national key cultural relic protection unit, and a 20th century architectural heritage of China.

By 20 18, Nanjing Museum has 432,768 pieces (sets) of various collections and 37 pieces (sets) of precious cultural relics, ranking second only to the Palace Museum in China. From the Paleolithic to the present, the cultural relics in the collection are both national and regional. There are not only court handed down products, but also archaeological excavations, and some of them come from social collections and donations.

Go to Taipei to see important cultural relics

In the emperor's treasure

Construction time: 1962

Collection quantity: over 696,000 pieces

Coverage: 16 hectare

Cultural Relics Collection: Ancient Yanhuang-Xia Dynasty-Qing Dynasty

Features of cultural relics: Collection of many rare treasures.

Also known as the Palace Museum and Sun Yat-sen Museum, it is the largest museum in Taiwan Province Province and an important research center of art history and Sinology in ancient China.

The National Palace Museum in Taipei is magnificent and is a palace-style building in China. The main building has four floors, white walls and green tiles, and the main courtyard is plum blossom-shaped. The collections in the courtyard come from many treasures-Beijing Forbidden City, Shenyang Forbidden City, chengde mountain resort, Summer Palace, Jingyi Garden, imperial academy and so on.

Bronzes, jades, ceramics, ancient books, famous paintings and inscriptions of Shang and Zhou Dynasties are all rare treasures, and the exhibits in the exhibition hall are changed every three months. By the end of 20 14, there were more than 696,000 cultural relics in the collection.

The treasure of the town hall of the National Palace Museum in Taipei is the jade cabbage of the Qing Dynasty. How realistic is this cabbage? On the vegetable leaves, there are also owls and locusts, indicating that children and grandchildren are full. This cultural relic was originally placed in Yonghe Palace in the Forbidden City, which was the bedroom where Emperor Jin Fei of Guangxu lived. Some people speculate that this may be the dowry of Jin Fei, symbolizing innocence and a full house of children and grandchildren.

165438+1On October 27th, CCTV announced that the National Palace Museum in Taipei was renamed and downgraded. According to Taiwan Province media reports, the administrative agencies in Taiwan Province Province are promoting the so-called "organizational transformation". They want to change the "second-level organ" of Taiwan Province administrative organization into the so-called "third-level organ" of Taiwan Province cultural affairs department, and will also remove the word "Forbidden City" and rename it "Huaxia Museum".