Xuzhou Museum

Xuzhou Museum, founded in 1960, is located at the north foot of Yunlong mountain in the south of Xuzhou. The original site is the former palace site of Emperor Qianlong of Gaozong of Qing Dynasty during his southern tour in 1757. In order to strengthen the construction of a famous historical and cultural city and develop cultural and Museum undertakings, the people's Government of Xuzhou City decided in 1996 to expand the museum on the original site, which was completed and opened in May 1999. Xuzhou Museum covers an area of 23000 square meters and a construction area of 12000 square meters. It is composed of three exhibition areas: Exhibition building, Qianlong palace and Tushan tomb. There are eight exhibition halls in the exhibition hall. The contents of the exhibition are "treasure of the ancient treasure - Xuzhou cultural relics", "Figurine and even flowers", "Deng Yongqing collection calligraphy and painting", "Qing style furniture" and so on. There are exhibition hall, academic lecture hall, guest reception room, tourist souvenir center, etc. inside the building; Qianlong palace and tablet garden display epitaphs and stone buildings from the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, as well as nearly 100 square meters of calligraphy masters' pastes and stone carvings from the Tang and Song Dynasties, which is an elegant and beautiful cultural relic garden; the Han Tombs in Tushan unearthed precious cultural relics such as silver thread jade clothes and gilded beast shaped inkstones, which were a certain generation of Pengcheng in Xuzhou during the Eastern Han Dynasty The tombs of Wang and his wife are also the only tombs of princes of the Eastern Han Dynasty found in Xuzhou City; the tourist souvenir center operates high-end gifts, steles, calligraphy and paintings, historical records and stamp products, art books, folk arts and crafts, as well as cultural relic identification and restoration. In order to cooperate with the opening up of the new museum, 999 sets of cultural relic gold cards are out of print, and the famous gold foil paintings are limited. Xuzhou museum is a comprehensive museum, which undertakes the tasks of archaeological excavation, cultural relics collection, display and publicity, scientific research and so on. With the completion and opening of the new museum, Xuzhou museum will welcome guests at home and abroad with a new look, and will play a more important role in the development of Xuzhou's economy and culture in the new century. The environment in the museum is quiet and green, which is also a good place for tourists to relax. Opening hours: 9:40-17:30 Tel: 0516-83804412 admission: 20 yuan / person (group discussion) transportation: take No.2, No.11, no.608 bus, get off yunlongshan station and get 100 meters east

Xuzhou Museum

Xuzhou museum is a local comprehensive museum established by Xuzhou Municipal People's Government on the site of the palace of Emperor Qianlong during his southern tour of the Qing Dynasty. It is a national 4A scenic spot.

Xuzhou Museum, built in 1959, is located at the northern foot of Yunlong mountain. It has undergone three times of reconstruction and expansion. It consists of four exhibition areas: the main exhibition building, the tomb of Pengcheng king of Eastern Han Dynasty in Tushan, the quarry site of Han Dynasty, Qianlong palace and tablet garden. It covers an area of 33000 square meters, with a construction area of 12000 square meters and an exhibition hall area of more than 3000 square meters. And equipped with book bar, coffee bar, souvenir shop and other leisure service area.

The main exhibition building of Xuzhou museum is the main exhibition area. There are many exhibitions throughout the year, such as "treasure of ancient Peng", "gold and iron horse", "Tiangong Hanyu", "colorful figurines", "furniture of Ming and Qing Dynasties", "calligraphy and painting donated by Deng Yongqing of Ming and Qing Dynasties".

Historical evolution

The original site of Xuzhou museum is the Palace site of Emperor Qianlong's southern tour in 1757. In 1996, the municipal government approved the overall planning and design. In the same year, the exhibition building (the first phase of the museum project), a key municipal project, began construction. It was completed and opened in May 1999.

In 2004, the Western Han Dynasty quarry site was found in the West infrastructure project.

In 2006, it was announced as a national cultural relics protection unit.

On July 19, 2007, the quarry site was included in the overall planning and expansion project of the museum. In the north, southwest and southeast of the main exhibition building, there are "four in one" cultural relics protection units, such as Tushan Han tomb, quarry site, Qianlong palace and tablet garden.

In 2009, the expansion project of Xuzhou museum was implemented in June and completed by the end of this year.

In 2012, the expansion of the main exhibition building and the construction of the cultural protection center mainly focused on the construction of the storeroom and exhibition hall in the northwest of the main exhibition building of the museum, which is a frame structure of one floor underground and two floors above ground. Xuzhou Museum has formed a national level (quarry site), provincial level (TU Shan Han tomb), municipal level (Qianlong palace and tablet garden) protection units and a centralized exhibition area of cultural relics and intangible cultural heritage.

In October 2018, it was rated as the national research and practice education base for primary and secondary school students.

Structural layout

Xuzhou museum is centered on the main exhibition building. On the north, southwest and Southeast sides of the museum are some important cultural relics protection units, such as Tushan Han tomb, quarry site, Qianlong palace and tablet garden.

Main exhibition building

There are eight exhibition halls in the exhibition hall, which are displayed in the contents of the ancient treasure, the essence of the Xuzhou cultural relics, the figurine and even flowers, the collection and calligraphy of Deng Yongqing, and the Qing style furniture.

On the first floor, modern display means are used to display ancient weapons and cultural relics unearthed in Xuzhou, reappear the ancient war picture of Gupeng, and comprehensively reflect the history of the place Xuzhou strategists must fight for.

On the second floor are the newly unearthed jades of the Han Dynasty, with gold, silver and copper wisps of jade clothing, which are unique in China.

Xuzhou Museum souvenir center is located in the west of the main hall of the museum, with a business area of nearly 300 square meters, including business hall, bookstore, teahouse, etc. Beautiful environment, elegant style. We specialize in the reproduction and imitation of bronzes, ceramics, jades and other cultural relics, calligraphy, painting, rubbings and souvenirs with different characteristics, and sell various books and picture albums of cultural relics, appreciation, archaeology, art, local culture and history.

Han Tombs in Tushan

Tushan is located in the north of Xuzhou Museum. According to the records of topographical records of Wei Shu, shuijingzhu and local chronicles, Tushan is the tomb of gaozhongshu, Yafu and fan Zeng. It is said that fan zengzu Xiang Yu overthrew the Qin Dynasty and was deeply loved by the soldiers. After his death, the soldiers built tombs for his negative soil. Therefore, Tushan is the abbreviation of "chutu Chengshan". In fact, Tushan is the mausoleum of Pengcheng king of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The tomb of Pengcheng king of Eastern Han Dynasty in Tushan contains three large tombs. Tomb No. 1 of the Han Dynasty is located in the northwest of Tushan. In 1969, nearly 100 funerary objects were unearthed, including silver, copper, iron, pottery, lacquer, jade and stone beads, including a relatively complete silver jade garment. No. 2 Han tomb is located in the middle of the sealed land. In 2004, with the approval of the State Administration of cultural relics, Nanjing Museum and Xuzhou museum will carry out formal archaeological excavation. Tomb No. 3 is located in the northwest of Tushan. It was excavated by Xuzhou Museum in 2002. A deep pit was dug out on the rock, and then built with huge stones and special large bricks. Tomb No. 4 consists of a long sloping passage, a corridor and a chamber. The length and width of the tomb are about 17 meters, with front chamber, left and right ear chamber and back chamber. The grave has been seriously excavated, with only a small amount of pottery and seal mud unearthed.

Quarry site

The Han Dynasty large-scale quarry site of yunlongshan in Xuzhou is located at the northern foot of yunlongshan in the south of the city. From May to September 2004, it was excavated by the Department of Archaeology of Xuzhou Museum. The site is 200 meters long from north to South and 150 meters wide from east to west, covering an area of 30000 square meters. A total of 68 quarries were excavated and cleaned, including 63 mined out pits and 5 stone pits. In addition, there is one inscription, one stone pit and two tombs. Stone tools such as wide chisel, flat chisel, chisel, wedge, chisel, building materials and pottery were also found in the site. The age of the quarry site is the Western Han Dynasty, which may continue to the early Eastern Han Dynasty. Yunlongshan Han quarry is the only ancient quarry site before Han and Tang Dynasties in China.

Qianlong palace and stele Garden

Qianlong palace was built during Emperor Qianlong's southern tour in 1757. On the east side of the palace is a group of elegant ancient garden buildings with small bridges and flowing water.

Exhibitions and collections

The exhibition hall of the Xuzhou Museum has eight exhibition halls, including the theme of "the treasure of ancient treasure, the essence of Xuzhou culture", "Figurine and even flowers", "Deng Yongqing collection calligraphy and painting", "Qing style furniture" and so on.

Treasure of ancient treasure -- the essence of Xuzhou cultural relics

The theme exhibition consists of three units and five exhibition halls, namely Xu Huai Chu Xi, Han Shi Yi Zhen and Shi He Yun.

Unit 1 "Xuhuai Chuxi" displays more than 120 pieces of pottery, stone, jade, bone and bronze from the Neolithic Age to the Qin Dynasty unearthed in Xuhuai, including the famous painted pottery unearthed from dadunzi site in Pizhou, Liangzhu Culture jade and Dawenkou Culture pottery unearthed from Xinyi Huating site, which reflects the intersection of North and South cultures, and jiunvdun Warring States tomb in Daizhuang, Pizhou The bronze wares of the ancient people of Xuzhou reappear the scene of production and life.

The second unit is divided into three exhibition halls, which mainly display the treasures left by the royal family of the Han Dynasty. More than 150 pieces of bronze and gold and silver treasures, such as gold belt buckle, turtle button silver seal, gilded beast shaped inkstone, copper ox lamp and bronze tripod, are on display in the first exhibition hall; more than 130 pieces of jade treasures, such as jade clothes with gold thread, jade clothes with silver thread, jade coffin, jade drum and jade pendant with flat dragon, are on display in the second exhibition hall; nearly 100 pieces of cultural relics, such as primitive celadon, glazed pottery, painted pottery, large practical pottery, various iron and stone building components, are on display in the second exhibition hall It's on display in hall 3.

The third unit, Shi He He Yun, shows porcelain, bronze, gold and silver from the Wei, Jin, southern and Northern Dynasties to the Qing Dynasty.

Colorful Figurines

More than 210 pieces of pottery figurines from the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty are exhibited, including music and dance figurines from the Western Han Dynasty, painted instrument figurines, and painted female figurines from the Northern Dynasties. The pottery figurines unearthed in Xuzhou have unique regional characteristics.

Deng Yongqing

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