Nanyang Museum

Nanyang Museum

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Nanyang Museum generally refers to Nanyang Museum

Nanyang Museum, built on the temple of marquis Wu in Nanyang, is the largest local comprehensive museum in Southwest Henan Province and an excellent patriotic education base in Henan Province. The museum has rich collection and strong professional and technical force. Nearly 20000 pieces of cultural relics and historical photos are collected, many of which are precious cultural relics. There are 120 staff in the library, including 3 with senior title, 6 with intermediate title and 18 with junior title. The new museum is under construction.

Development history

Nanyang Museum, founded on October 1, 1959, is the largest local comprehensive museum in Southwest Henan. Wuhou Temple, the site of the museum, was first built in the Wei and Jin Dynasties and flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties. Wuhou Temple is located in the west to the East. There are 155 corridors, covering an area of more than 200 mu. The ancient cypresses are towering and the scenery is beautiful. There are Mountain Gate, Dabai hall, Zhuge thatched cottage, Xiaohong bridge and Ningyuan tower on the central axis; there are Zhuge well, reading platform, East West Corridor room, Gubai Pavilion, Gonggeng Pavilion, Yeyun nunnery, Laolong cave, moon platform, Guanzhang hall, Sangu hall and so on on on both sides. Dabai hall and Ningyuan building are the main buildings of Wuhou Temple, which are Xieshan and double eaves veranda buildings. There are more than 10 clay figures in the temple, which are vivid and lifelike. The gate is inlaid with the three characters "Wuhou Temple" written by Guo Moruo. The thatched cottage is hung on the plaque of "ZHUGE cottage" written by you Ren and the plaque of "ZHUGE cottage" written by Guo Moruo. In 1996, Wuhou Temple in Nanyang was announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

The exhibition and temporary exhibition held by the museum focus on highlighting local characteristics and displaying the culture of the Three Kingdoms. It has successively held Nanyang historical relics exhibition, Han Dynasty cultural relics exhibition, Han Dynasty stone relief exhibition, Han Dynasty pottery dog art exhibition, etc.

Basic Display

At present, Nanyang historical Wax Museum of the Eastern Han Dynasty is basically on display, with more than 200 cultural relics on display. Through the auxiliary exhibits of cultural relics and wax figures, Nanyang's developed commerce, handicraft industry and iron smelting industry in the Eastern Han Dynasty are displayed, as well as the great contributions made by scientists Zhang Heng and medical sage Zhang Zhongjing to China's history and culture, reflecting the "beautiful and healthy" scene of Nanyang in the Eastern Han Dynasty and its historical significance The important position of the government.

There are also special exhibitions such as Zhuge Liang and Nanyang, life of Guan Yu and life of Zhang Fei in Wuhou Temple. All kinds of exhibitions greatly enrich the landscape connotation of Wuhou Temple. The trinity of "Museum, temple and garden" makes the museum a window to display Nanyang ancient civilization.

History Exhibition

Nanyang centenary Photo Exhibition

More than 500 old photos on display are collected by the city museum for the society, with rich contents and wide themes. The earliest photo was taken in 1909 by Yang heting, the last magistrate of Nanyang, and his 8-year-old son Yang Tingbao. Taking time as the main line, the exhibition is divided into four parts: extraordinary years and arduous course. It is divided into several topics, such as red site, invasion of Wan iron evidence, greeting the dawn, and figures of the hour. It reflects the people and events in the process of Nanyang from turbulence to liberation from the beginning of the 20th century to 1949; the age of passion and world shaking pioneering work, and reproduces 1949-197 from the aspects of political power construction, agricultural production, urban and rural sidelines, and Baihe romance Eight years of passion in Nanyang, the spring of reform and brilliant achievements show the new changes brought by the spring breeze of reform from 1978 to 1994 in Nanyang city and countryside with typical photos, and the innovative century and soaring Wolong review the new brilliance of Nanyang city after the land withdrawal.

Collection

The museum collects more than 16000 cultural relics and more than 50000 ancient coins, including nearly 100 first-class cultural relics and nearly 500 second-class cultural relics. Divided into gold, silver, copper, iron, ceramics, jade, wood, bone and other 12 categories. The Han Dynasty has a rich collection of cultural relics, including more than 200 bronze mirrors. Gold Plated bear foot copper bottle, small mouth straight neck carved copper pot, anti evil water injection, bean shaped copper fumigation stove, duck shaped copper fumigation stove, human shaped foot copper washing, shop head holding ring, copper measuring instrument, Zhang Jingbei, Li Mengchu tablet, Zhaopeng tablet, Tianlu and anti evil

They are all fine arts of Han Dynasty. The museum attaches great importance to scientific research, and has prepared and held the Nanyang Han Dynasty stone relief symposium, Zhuge Liang devoted himself to the field, participated in the compilation of Nanyang Han Dynasty stone relief, and published the selected works for the 30th anniversary of the founding of Nanyang City Museum, the collection of academic research works in memory of the 40th anniversary of the founding of Nanyang City Museum, the pottery dog of Nanyang Han Dynasty, and the bamboo slips of Wuhou Temple In addition, he also pointed out and annotated the two forms of Yue Shaobao's letter to Zhuge Liang and the plaque couplet of Wuhou Temple.

Background and origin

Nanyang has a profound historical and cultural heritage, but no matter before liberation or in the first 10 years after liberation, Nanyang has been lack of a real sense of history museum. The former Nanyang people's education center and the former Nanyang culture center were responsible for the cultural relics work. At the end of 1950s, China began to pay attention to the construction of museums. In this context, and also to meet the 10th anniversary of the founding of the people's Republic of China, in the spring of 1959, the then Nanyang Municipal Party committee, according to the instructions of the local Party committee, set up Nanyang History Museum and Wolong Park Based on Wuhou Temple, with two brands and one organization. Several rooms in the hall of Wuhou ancestral temple are the exhibition rooms of the museum. So far, Nanyang has a real museum for the first time.

In the summer of that year, Nanyang History Museum organized the first exhibition of historical relics in daofangyuan, and 450 precious historical relics appeared in front of the public for the first time.

Before the construction of Nanyang History Museum, Nanyang Culture Museum collected a large number of Han Dynasty stone statues. As a representative of Nanyang history and culture, it is necessary for Nanyang history museum to set up a separate room to display Han Dynasty paintings. In the summer of 1959, Nanyang history museum built a Han Dynasty painting gallery on the north side of Wuhou Temple, and selected 331 Han Dynasty stone reliefs to be displayed according to their contents. On October 1 of that year, Nanyang historical relics exhibition and Han painting gallery of Nanyang historical museum were officially opened to the public, with 40000 visitors.

Since then, Nanyang History Museum has been responsible for the protection of above ground and underground cultural relics in the whole area for quite a long time. With the development of archaeological excavation and collection, the collection of cultural relics in Nanyang history museum is increasing. Nanyang History Museum has also set up a special cultural relics warehouse, and a large number of precious cultural relics are basically well protected.

In 1965, Nanyang history museum was renamed "Nanyang City Museum", which is still in use today. In the early days, Nanyang City Museum held such exhibitions with local characteristics as "Nanyang history exhibition", "currency exhibition of past dynasties", "rent collection house exhibition", "Nanyang people's anti imperialist struggle Exhibition", which greatly enriched and activated the spiritual life of the citizens.

When we talk about Nanyang Museum, we have to talk about Du Xuexiang, the first curator. Du Xuexiang has been involved in the preparation of the museum and Wolong Park since 1958. Although he has not been in office for a long time, he is the first director of the museum in the true sense.

According to the chronicle of Nanyang Museum, Du Xuexiang wrote a letter to Guo Moruo, then president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, asking him to inscribe a plaque for Wuhou Temple in Nanyang and the name of the newly-built Han painting Museum. It was Du Xuexiang's letter that the "Wuhou Temple" and "Han painting gallery" in Nanyang got the ink treasure inscribed by this master, which is still in use today. Many precious cultural relics have never been on display

Since its establishment 50 years ago, Nanyang Museum has made great achievements in the protection of cultural relics and the construction of two major civilizations in Nanyang. But with the development of society, the museum is still located in Wuhou Temple, which can not meet the requirements of the times. In particular, due to the lack of sufficient space and safety considerations, museums have rarely held exhibitions of cultural relics since the 1980s, which is a pity for a museum and a famous historical and cultural city.

According to Zhang Xiaogang, Nanyang Museum currently collects more than 10000 cultural relics of various types, including more than 400 national first-class and second-class precious cultural relics. These cultural relics, which can best reflect the historical context of Nanyang and embody the historical and cultural heritage of Nanyang, have been stored in the warehouse for a long time and rarely exhibited.

New museum ready

In the past 50 years, spring and autumn have been full of fruits, and half a century has been like a song. The new museum, Nanyang Cultural Expo Center, will start construction today. Located in the east of Nanyang Jiefang square, this museum based Expo Center will become a new landmark in Nanyang. Zhang Xiaogang said that after the completion of the Expo Center, the city's fine cultural relics will be displayed here. With this Expo Center, Nanyang's past, present and future will be shown to people. At the same time, it can enhance the cohesion, attraction and radiation of the city.

A museum that can record a clear historical context of the city will become a cultural cradle for Nanyang people to understand and love Nanyang.

Visit information

Address: 121 Wolong Road, Nanyang City

Transportation: take bus No.9 or No.26 from the railway station and get off at WoLonggang.

Opening hours: 8:00-18:30 in summer and 8:00-17:00 in winter

Address: Wancheng District, Nanyang City, Henan Province

Longitude: 112.53738232708

Latitude: 32.993080691802

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