Wuwei Museum

Wuwei Museum

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Wuwei Museum generally refers to Wuwei Museum

Established in September 1982, Wuwei museum is a branch level institution under the management of Wuwei culture, sports and Tourism Bureau. There are 46111 cultural relics in the collection, including 2 national treasures, 170 first-class cultural relics, 274 second-class cultural relics, 592 third-class cultural relics and 1036 precious cultural relics. It is a multi-functional Museum integrating cultural relics display, ancient buildings display and cultural landscape. It is now the second largest historical museum in Gansu Province.

Development history

In September 1982, Wuwei museum was established.

On May 18, 2019, the new Wuwei Museum opened for trial operation.

Basic Display

Wuwei Museum has a number of basic exhibitions, such as brief history of Wuwei, stone carvings, calligraphy and painting of Qing Dynasty celebrities, Xixia cultural relics exhibition, Wuwei historical relics exhibition, etc.

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New Wuwei Museum

The new Museum covers an area of 36861.5 square meters. The overall building consists of one floor underground, three floors above the ground and four floors above the ground. It consists of two parts: the main exhibition hall and the office building. The building area is 19821.77 square meters. It is a multi-functional and comprehensive museum integrating cultural relics exhibition, cultural relics warehouse, academic exchange and office. The main exhibition hall is one floor underground and three floors above the ground, with a construction area of 15751.31 square meters. It is equipped with basic history exhibition hall, special exhibition hall, temporary exhibition hall, cultural relics warehouse, cultural relics restoration room, youth activity center and other functional rooms. At present, there are 46111 cultural relics in the collection, with rich collections and outstanding features, especially the Silk Road Cultural Relics of Han and Tang Dynasties, Xixia cultural relics, Buddhist cultural relics of past dynasties and cultural relics of ethnic minorities. The total amount of cultural relics in the collection is second only to Gansu Provincial Museum and Gansu bamboo slips museum.

The basic display of Wuwei historical relics exhibition is "Hexi metropolis" With the theme of "hometown of Tianma", it is divided into seven units: preface hall, colorful civilization, Great Han Yang Wei, Wuliang ancient capital, Tongyi in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Daxia Fu Jun, Mengyuan Gu Road, Liangzhou in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. More than 750 pieces of cultural relics of different periods, such as Qijia culture jade, Han Dynasty wood carving, Sui and Tang Dynasty Epitaphs, Xixia Wenni movable type Buddhist scriptures, and Yuan blue and white porcelain, are exhibited.

The exhibition is mainly based on physical objects, supplemented by modern display technology and multimedia scenes. It focuses on the evolution of Wuwei's historical development and the rise and fall of politics, military, society, culture and other aspects. It tells the legend behind the cultural relics, shows the profound historical and cultural heritage and rich cultural heritage resources of Wuwei, and opens a way for people to understand, enter and feel Wuwei It's a new window for you.

Confucious'Temple

Wuwei Confucian temple is located in the South East corner of Wuwei city. It was first built in 1437-1439 A.D., and then rebuilt and expanded in Chenghua, Shunzhi, Kangxi, Qianlong and the Republic of China. The overall architectural layout is symmetrical, the structure is rigorous, the scale is grand, and the momentum is magnificent. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was known as "the crown of Longyou academy". It is the largest and most complete Confucian temple in Northwest China. It is 198 meters long from north to South and 152 meters wide from east to west, covering an area of more than 30000 square meters. The whole ancient building complex is composed of three parts: Wenchang palace in the East, Confucius Temple in the middle and Liangzhou Confucianism in the West.

Wenchang palace takes Guiji hall as the center, with Mountain Gate and Guodian in front, Chongsheng Temple in the back, theater in the middle, niugong temple and Liugong temple on the left and right. In front of the temple are Zhuangyuan bridge, Lingxing gate, Xiangxian temple, Minghuan temple, East and west chamber, halberd gate, East and West veranda, and at the back of the temple are Zunjing Pavilion. There are only two groups of Confucian buildings in Liangzhou Prefecture, namely, Zhonglie temple and Jiexiao temple. The rest of the buildings were destroyed by the 1927 earthquake.

The basic display includes the brief history of Wuwei, and the special display includes the stone carvings of the past dynasties, the plaques in the collection, the water and land paintings in the collection, the screens in the Qing Dynasty, the wood carvings in the Han and Tang Dynasties, and the Buddhist statues.

The ancient buildings in Wuwei Confucian temple are carved beams and painted buildings, solemn and solemn, ancient cypresses towering, quiet and elegant. There are many steles and plaques in the courtyard, which are unique in form and rare in China. In 1995, it was rated as the patriotic education base of Gansu Province. In November 1996, it was announced as the fourth batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council. In 2005, it was rated as 4A tourist attraction by the National Tourism Administration.

Xixia Museum

Wuwei Xixia museum is located in the South East corner of Wuwei City, across the road from Wuwei Confucian temple. It was built in 1999 and officially opened to the public in May 2001. It is one of the only two Xixia museums in China. In May 2008, it was approved by the State Administration of cultural relics as the first batch of free museums in China.

The main building of Xixia museum is a "Hui" shaped frame structure antique building, covering an area of more than 2400 square meters, with a construction area of 2840 square meters, including exhibition hall area of 1276 square meters. At present, there are more than 1000 pieces of Xixia gold, silver, bronze, porcelain, stone tools, Thangka, wood paintings, coins, Xixia and Tibetan documents unearthed in Wuwei, which are rich in quantity and content and have distinctive regional characteristics. They are valuable materials for the study of Xixia history and culture.

In October 2010, the upgraded Exhibition "Daxia auxiliary County - Exhibition of Xixia historical relics in Wuwei" was successfully carried out. Taking the historical development of Wuwei in the Xixia period as the context and the Xixia cultural relics unearthed in Wuwei as the focus, the exhibition focuses on the important historical position of Wuwei in the Xixia period and the unique Xixia Culture created by people of all nationalities in this hot land of Wuwei. The exhibition is divided into four units, Daxia Fujun, Western Tianfu, cultural center and research achievements. The combination of large-scale relief, cultural relic pictures, murals and background paintings vividly reflects the great achievements made in the political, economic, military and cultural fields during the reign of Xixia. More than 760 pieces of Xixia cultural relics are on display. A large number of valuable Xixia cultural relics, such as Xixia steles, wooden pagodas, gold bowls, silver ingots, copper cannons and clay movable type versions of Xixia Buddhist scriptures, are on display for the first time.

Dayun Temple

Dayun temple, located in the northeast corner of Wuwei City, is the earliest Buddhist temple in the history of Wuwei, occupying an important historical position in the history of Wuwei Buddhism. The temple was originally the palace of the former Liang king. In 363 ad, Zhang Tianxi rebuilt the palace into a temple, named hongzang temple. In the first year of the early Tang Dynasty (689 AD), the imperial court issued the Dayun Sutra in the whole country, and ordered all prefectures and counties to build Dayun temple, so hongzang temple was renamed Dayun temple. The Western Xia Dynasty is called Huguo temple. It was destroyed by war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. In 1383, the 11th generation disciple of Japan's Pure Land Sect, Samantha Zhiman, traveled to Liangzhou to pay homage to Dayun temple. He raised money from all over the world and presided over the restoration of Dayun temple. Zhiman's merits and virtues have long been recorded in history and become a historical witness of Sino Japanese friendly exchanges and cultural exchanges.

On the east side of the Mountain Gate of Dayun temple, an ancient bell tower is built on a brick platform about 10 meters high. On the top of the tower are the ancient bells of Tang Dynasty, which are made of metal and simple in shape. "Dayun Xiaozhong", one of the eight scenic spots in Liangzhou, refers to this clock. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Dayun temple in Liangzhou has been a famous tourist attraction in Wuwei. On April 23, 1927, when an earthquake of magnitude 8 occurred in Wuwei, Dayun temple was seriously damaged, and only the ancient bell tower in the temple remained intact. After the liberation, the cultural relics department moved the ancient buildings such as laihuo temple and Chunqiu pavilion from other places, and formed today's Dayun temple with the ancient bell tower. In March 1993, Dayun temple was announced by Gansu Provincial People's government as a key cultural relics protection unit at the provincial level.

Collection

There are 46111 pieces of cultural relics in Wuwei Museum, including 2 pieces of Chinese precious cultural relics, 170 Pieces of first-class cultural relics, 274 pieces of second-class cultural relics, 592 pieces of third-class cultural relics, 1036 pieces of precious cultural relics, 25750 volumes of ancient books, 6300 volumes of Chinese encyclopedia, 409 letters of Tibetan Encyclopedia, more than 5300 volumes and 100000 pages.

The collection includes jade, bone, pottery, wood, bronze, iron, gold and silver, porcelain, silk, calligraphy and painting, currency, furniture, ancient books, Chinese and Tibetan classics, etc. The collection of Qijia cultural artifacts, Han and Tang Dynasty cultural relics, Xixia cultural relics, Buddhist cultural relics, Qing Dynasty water and land paintings, Han and Tibetan classics, etc. all have distinctive local characteristics and strong national style, which provide authentic materials for the study of ancient Liangzhou's politics, economy, military, culture and ethnic relations.

Representative cultural relics

Xixia stele

In 1804, Zhang Shu, a famous epigrapher from Wuwei, visited Dayun temple in Liangzhou with his friends. In the temple, he found an ancient pavilion which had been closed by bricks for hundreds of years. People say: this pavilion can't be opened, otherwise it will bring great disaster to Liangzhou. Zhang Shu thought it was a rumor. He went to the temple repeatedly to persuade the monks, and forced his family members to open the pavilion and found a rare treasure, the Xixia stele.

Xixia stele, 2.6 meters high, 1 meter wide, 0.3 meters thick. The head of the stele is semicircular with characters on both sides. On the obverse side is the Xixia script, with a seal inscription at the beginning of the stele, which means "the inscription of Chigan tongta". On the back is a Chinese character, and the seal script at the head of the stele is titled "epitaph of Gantong Pagoda in Liangzhou Temple". On both sides of the title

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