Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture Museum

Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture Museum is located at No.8 Erhe South Road, Xiaguan, Dali city. Founded in 1986, it is the first State Museum in Yunnan Province. It covers an area of 50 mu, with a total area of 8800 square meters, exhibition area of 4600 square meters and greening area of 14000 square meters. The museum is fully in line with the new design standards of today's world, and the architectural layout adopts the symmetrical form. The building materials and decoration techniques are basically in accordance with the requirements of the traditional Bai folk crafts, highlighting the strong local ethnic style. The whole building complex is a huge Bai architectural art landscape.

Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture Museum

Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture Museum is located at No.8 Erhe South Road, Xiaguan, Dali city. Founded in 1986, it is the first State Museum in Yunnan Province. It covers an area of 50 mu, with a total area of 8800 square meters, exhibition area of 4600 square meters and greening area of 14000 square meters.

brief introduction

The museum is fully in line with the new design standards of today's world, and the architectural layout adopts the symmetrical form. The building materials and decoration techniques are basically in accordance with the requirements of the traditional Bai folk crafts, highlighting the strong local ethnic style. The whole building complex is a huge Bai architectural art landscape.

Introduction to scenic spots

Dali has a civilization history of more than 4000 years. In Tang and Song Dynasties, Nanzhao and Dali local dynasties were successively established here. It is also the hub of the Southern Silk Road since Han and Tang Dynasties. Since ancient times, the people of all ethnic groups in Dali Prefecture, with the Bai nationality as the autonomous nationality, have created their own civilization history under the nurturing of the advanced culture of the Central Plains. The cultural heritage of Liwan is very rich. So far, 266 national and provincial key cultural relics protection units have been announced. It is the Autonomous Prefecture with the largest number of cultural relics and historic sites among the 30 ethnic minority autonomous prefectures in China, and it is also the key area for national and provincial Archaeology and excavation.

Dali Museum is the focus of the historical relics of Nanzhao Dali period. It is a local comprehensive museum with bronze, ceramics and stone carving art as the main body and Bai folk custom as the characteristic. It is a central institution engaged in cultural relics investigation, excavation, collection, collection, exhibition and research in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture. The museum has only been built for more than 10 years, but its collection has begun to take shape. There are more than 7000 pieces of historical relics, ethnic relics, revolutionary relics and other materials, as well as marble products. Many of them are unique treasures of the museum, such as Dali bronze drum, chime bells, cast stone models, horse pattern copper axes in the Warring States period, paddy field models, pottery houses, pottery people, pottery horses and various inscriptions from the Western Han Dynasty to the Jin Dynasty It includes the Buddhist statues of a CuO Ye Guanyin, Maitreya and Tianwang Lishi in the period of Nanzhao and Dali, as well as the Vajra subduing magic pestle, pagoda model, the manuscripts of Dali, the porcelain of yuan and Ming Dynasties and the natural marble paintings such as "peacock open screen" and "beautiful monkey born". There are 12 exhibition halls, of which 8 are long-term exhibition halls. They are "bronze relics exhibition", "Nanzhao Dali relics exhibition", "Nanzhao Dali stone carving art exhibition", "Nanzhao Dali painting art relics exhibition", "Ceramics Exhibition", "marble Exhibition", "Dali modern revolutionary history exhibition" and "Bai folk custom Exhibition" Display, etc. These show the Dali history and culture with special color.

Since its establishment, Dali Museum has received more than 100000 visitors from home and abroad every year. Political and academic circles from more than 20 countries and regions have visited the museum and established business relations with many foreign counterparts. Leaders of the party and the state attach great importance to the construction and development of the museum. Li Peng, Qiao Shi, Li Ruihuan, Liu Huaqing, Song Jian, Qian Qichen, Li Tieying and others have visited the museum and given them cordial care and encouragement. Dali Museum has become an important window for the autonomous prefecture to open to the outside world and a position for the people to carry out historical materialism, dialectical materialism and patriotism education. It has been named as one of the "100 patriotism education bases for primary and secondary school students" by the state.

Exhibitions and collections

bronze drum

The cultural relics of the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period were unearthed in Sanchahe, Nanjian County, Dali Prefecture.

It is 29 cm in height, 29 cm in surface diameter and 47 cm in bottom diameter. Carcass diameter 42.5 cm, abdomen diameter 50 cm, waist diameter 35 cm, foot height 3 cm. The surface of drum is smaller and plain. The drum is divided into three parts, the carcass diameter is larger than the waist diameter, and the carcass is convex. There are two symmetrical ears on both sides of the waist, the waist to the foot, the feet to the bottom, and six air ports on the drum body. There are two fan lines from the drum body to the drum surface and four symmetrical fan lines at the waist. The whole body is covered with the protective layer of copper green. The drum is a typical Wanjiaba type drum.

Blue and white twisted peony pearl button jar

A cultural relic of the Yuan Dynasty was unearthed from the zhongkeshan cremation tombs in Jianchuan County.

It is 41 cm in height, 18 cm in diameter and 18.5 cm in bottom diameter. The top of the cover is a pearl button, which is decorated with a spiral pattern and closed to the top. The middle of the cover is decorated with a string pattern. The interior of the string pattern is a flower pattern, and the exterior is a circle of twigs and wishful patterns. The jar has round lips, short neck, smooth shoulders, bulging abdomen and flat bottom. There are two string patterns on the upper and lower ends of the neck, and three continuous peach blossom patterns in the middle. The shoulder and near bottom are decorated with a circle of banana leaf pattern. The abdomen is decorated with tangled peony pattern and glazed inside and outside. The glaze color is clear with rust blue. It is a typical "bright blue glaze". The blue and white color is uneven, and it is fired in Jingdezhen.

Baozhu new decorative pottery pot

Dali City Public Security Bureau handed over Dali Prefecture, basically intact, painted red pottery.

The pottery pot is 40 cm in height, 12 cm in diameter and 29 cm in bottom diameter. Baozhu button has a short neck. The cover is smooth and the color picture has lotus petal pattern. The mouth of the son and the mother. The jar has a wide mouth edge, with a string pattern on the bottom of the lip. It is smooth on the shoulder, slightly bulging on the abdomen, and gradually receding downward. The abdominal color painting has a layer of flower pattern, which is wide and thick. At the junction of the lower abdomen and the foot, a layer of lotus petals was stacked and painted. Trumpet shaped high hoop feet.

Tower shaped new black pottery cremation pot

The black pottery unearthed from zhongkeshan cremation tombs in Jianchuan County, Dali Prefecture is relatively complete.

The pot is 62 cm in height, 25.1 cm in height, 36 cm in diameter, 13 cm in height and 8.5 cm in length.

The pot is 35.8 cm in height, 32.6 cm in diameter and 20.6 cm in bottom diameter. The cover is a tower shaped button with a square seat. The button is a square tower with four slopes and an angle. The bottom of the button is round and flat. Lotus petals are piled on the outer end of the circle, and the lid is decorated with carved patterns, network patterns and additional water ripples. The lid is the mouth of the son and mother. The pot has a closed mouth, round lips, full shoulders, curved walls, bulging belly, gradually receding down to the bottom and flat bottom.

There are two rope patterns on the shoulder of the pot. The upper abdomen is decorated with flowers and lotus petals. The middle abdomen is decorated with water ripples. The lower abdomen is decorated with snake patterns. The pot is covered with a small pot. It is 24.1 cm in height, 11.2 cm in diameter, 20 cm in abdominal diameter and 10.4 cm in bottom diameter. The pot has a closed mouth, round lips, full shoulders, curved walls, bulging belly, gradually receding down to the bottom and flat bottom. There are two lines on the shoulder of the pot, and water ripples in the middle and lower part.

Double handle pottery warehouse

Unearthed from the Eastern Han tomb in dazhantun, Dali City, Dali Prefecture, is a gray pottery.

It is 52 cm in height, 18 cm in diameter and 8 cm in aperture. It is a cylinder, grey pottery, mouth closed, shoulder sliding and flat bottom. There is a double symmetrical solid cylindrical handle extending from the shoulder, with a slanting straight upward, 22 cm long and 3-4 cm in diameter. The other is slightly curved, 20 cm long and 3-4 cm in diameter. A round hole is left at the top of each handle. Taocang is a precious object to study the farming culture of Yunnan in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Scenic spot highlights

Blue and white porcelain in Ming Dynasty

Dali State Museum, founded in 1986, is the first State Museum built in Yunnan Province and the largest cultural relics collection, exhibition and scientific research institution in western Yunnan.

The Museum of Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture imitates the classical palace style and Bai residential style, and integrates with garden art. It has exhibition hall, audio-visual hall, lecture hall, cultural relics warehouse and other facilities. The name of the museum is inscribed by Li Peng, which basically shows the general situation of the Autonomous Prefecture. Bai nationality display, bronze relics display, Nanzhao Dali historical relics display, Nanzhao marble carving art display, Nanzhao Dali painting art display, ceramic relics display, marble boutique display, Dali tobacco exhibition, modern revolutionary deeds display.

The exhibition hall has a distinctive architectural style of "three squares, one screen wall, four in five patio". The layout adopts a symmetrical form. The gate, stone arch bridge, living room, screen wall and central exhibition hall on the central axis are connected with each courtyard by long corridors in the form of buildings and palaces. The whole building complex is an integral whole. It is a huge architectural art landscape of Bai nationality.

The exhibition of Dali economic achievements fully shows the achievements of Nanzhao and Dali state in casting, architecture, sculpture, painting and cultural relics; shows the production, life, art, religion and customs of various brothers and nationalities; shows the revolutionary deeds of patriots in Dali area and the historical traces of the Red Army passing by during the long march. It is an important base for the study of ethnology, national history and folklore.

Opening Hours

8:00-11:30 am

14:00-17:30 PM

position

Address: No.8 Erhe South Road, Xiaguan, Dali City, Yunnan Province.

Traffic situation

Urban transportation: from Dali

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