To travel to a city, you must spend time visiting the museums in this city. As the saying goes, "Underground cultural relics look at Shanxi, while above-ground cultural relics look at Shanxi", I have long been fascinated by Shanxi Museum. I went to Taiyuan some time ago and went to Shanxi Museum as my first stop. In Shanxi Museum, I can get the most comprehensive understanding of Shanxi's history and culture.
Pick up the ticket with your ID card and visit for free.
The hall of the museum looks like a tripod.
This is the dome seen from the central hall.
Last year, CCTV's "National Treasure" broadcasted the Shanxi Museum, which was "rooted in Sanjin and penetrated China's 5,000-year civilization". It shows three national treasures: the book of Hou Ma Meng, the tomb figurines of Dong Shi in the Jin Dynasty of Hou Ma and the wooden lacquer painting.
The main hall of Shanxi Museum consists of four floors, with "Jin Soul" as the basic exhibition theme, the second and third floors for historical and cultural exhibitions, and the fourth floor for artistic exhibitions.
I visited the museum carefully, but I kept records. The collection is very rich. Let's look at the exhibition halls from the first floor and have a complete understanding of Shanxi Museum.
In chronological order, the first exhibition hall is the "cradle of civilization".
Shanxi is located in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, in the hinterland of China, with beautiful mountains and rivers and a suitable climate. It is the cradle of ancient human and civilization in China.
This is the treasure of the town hall-Bird Zun.
The bird statue was unearthed at Tomb 1 14 of Jinhou Cemetery in Zhao Bei Village, Quwo County, Shanxi Province, with the inscription of "Zun Yi of Taishi Bao, Xiang Zuo of Jinhou". According to research, the owner of this national treasure is Fu Xie, the first generation of Jin Dynasty who changed the Tang Dynasty to Jin Dynasty.
Birds and elephants were the most popular Xiao-shaped decorations in the Western Zhou Dynasty, especially loved by Jin people. The big bird looks back, the little bird snuggles up, the giant elephant shrinks its head, its conception is strange and its imagination is extraordinary. The combination of gorgeous plastic arts and exquisite practical functions makes it a rare treasure in China bronze art.
The bird statue of Jin Hou is 39 cm high, 30.5 cm long and 17.5 cm wide. Since it was unearthed, it has attracted people's attention, because at that time, TombNo. 1 14 of Jinhou Cemetery was destroyed by grave robbers, and the location where the bird statue was unearthed was close to the stolen cave. When unearthed, its beak was incomplete, and the middle part of the elephant trunk at the tail of the bird was also missing. It is precisely because of the lack of this key section that since the discovery of the bird image, the debate about whether the trunk should be rolled inward or turned outward has never stopped, casting a mysterious color on the bird image.
Shanxi is one of the cradles of China's traditional operas. The theatres here are all over the villages and towns, and the cultural relics of operas are rich and colorful, so it has the reputation of "the hometown of China's opera art". Until today, we can still appreciate the rich and colorful heritage of China traditional opera and the lasting inheritance of China traditional opera art through brick carving.
Among them, the most representative brick carving social fire is very vivid.
"Shanxi Merchants" became one of the most important business gangs in China during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Shanxi merchants, as a folk economic group under the feudal dynasty system, declined with the great changes in the social, political and economic system.
During the light years of the Qing Dynasty (19th century), Shanxi merchants established a "draft bank" and built a financial exchange network extending in all directions, which integrated commercial capital and financial capital and occupied a leading position in the financial sector for nearly a hundred years.
Buddhism is one of the three major religions in the world. Han Dynasty was introduced to China.
With the social unrest in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Buddhism became the spiritual sustenance of the people in troubled times. Highly respected by emperors and dignitaries, it spread fiercely and reached its peak in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Accordingly, Buddhist art has developed rapidly and its brilliance has overlapped. Buddhism, as the main theme of China's sculpture creation, has a long history. Stone carvings, colored Buddha statues and golden bronze statues are enduring.
Ancient Buddhist sculptures in Shanxi are mostly grottoes and cliff stone carvings. The most typical is Yungang Grottoes, which are famous at home and abroad. There are many kinds of Buddha statues hidden in ancient temples in rural areas. In order to create a feeling for tourists that they can see the Buddha statue by standing under a stone wall for thousands of years, some exhibition halls of Shanxi Museum put the Buddha statue in artificial grottoes, and with soft lighting, let tourists see the wind and frost of the Millennium and the changes of the world, which is the eternal pursuit of mankind.
The ancient Chinese coins on display here are rich in variety, continuous and orderly, and reproduce the historical track of the emergence and development of ancient Chinese coins. From the earliest Beibi coins to copper coins, shovels and golden cakes, the poor can't understand this chaotic Fiona Fang world.
On display here are all kinds of exquisite jade, jewelry, beeswax and agate unearthed in Shanxi from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Shanxi is known as the "architectural treasure house of China", with more than 8000 ancient buildings/kloc-0, which has become the witness of historical changes. China's ancient buildings are dominated by civil structures. Both single buildings and garden masterpieces have condensed the essence of Chinese civilization for thousands of years, which is a precious heritage of all mankind.
Folk Huazhang displays a large number of beautifully structured and well-made models of ancient buildings, including Dongru Hall, Nanchan Temple Hall, Yufan Liang Fei, Huayan Temple Daxiong Hall, Chongfu Temple Maitreya Buddha Hall, Bianjing Building, Aviation Temple and Buddha Hall Sakyamuni Hall.
Next, I'm going to Hengshan Hanging Temple. I'm still a little excited to see this model.
Yingxian Wooden Pagoda, also known as Sagata, is a must-see spot in this trip to Shanxi.
Visiting the Shanxi Provincial Museum, we can see that the cultural and artistic treasures that have been deposited on the land of Sanjin for thousands of years are so rich that they are worthy of the national soul. Here, the history of Shanxi has almost been talked about from prehistoric times to Ming and Qing Dynasties. No tickets are needed. If you are interested in history or want to take care of children, this is a very good plan. It will take half a day to look at all the exhibition halls carefully.