Bronze Museum

Baoji bronze museum is the largest and only bronze Museum in China. It is located in Baoji City, Shaanxi Province, which is "the hometown of Emperor Yan, the hometown of bronze, the holy land of Buddha bones and the hometown of Shehuo". It is the only special museum named after bronze in China. The main building area is 10000 square meters. It is a unique style of "platform five tripods". It is majestic, novel and unique. It condenses the profound connotation of the tripod system in the Western Zhou Dynasty. It is listed as a milestone in the history of Chinese bronze collection and a landmark building in Baoji, an important town in the West. The whole courtyard is composed of the hometown of bronze, the state of Zhou Li, the road of Empire and the light of wisdom. There are more than 1000 bronzes in the collection, such as he Zun, zhe Gong, Li Wang Hu, Qiang pan, Qin Gong and Wei Ding.

Baoji Bronze Ware Museum

synonym

Bronze Museum generally refers to Baoji bronze Museum

Baoji bronze ware Museum, originally a museum of Baoji historical relics, was built in 1956 as a national first-class Museum. Located on shigu mountain, South Binhe Road, Baoji City, the new museum in Zhonghua shigu garden was completed in 2010. It is the largest bronze Museum in China. The new museum uses scenes unearthed from bronzes as architectural modeling, with a construction area of 34800 square meters and more than 12000 cultural relics (groups), including more than 120 first-class cultural relics, including he Zun, zhe Gong, Li Wang Hu, Qiang pan, Qin Gong, etc Cultural relics in the area.

Development history

The predecessor of Baoji bronze museum was built in 1956, initially known as the historical relics exhibition room, in the ancient Jintai temple in Baoji City, Shaanxi Province.

In 1958, it was renamed Baoji Museum. The total building area of the museum is more than 2250 square meters, including 598 square meters of display area and 910 square meters of ancient buildings. There are more than 11000 pieces (groups) in the collection, including 5740 pieces (groups) of bronzes, most of which are bronzes of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and 45 pieces of first-class collection.

Baoji bronze museum was built in 1990 and located at Guannan road. It was completed and opened to the public on September 8, 1998.

In 2006, Baoji municipal Party committee and government decided to build Baoji bronze Museum in Shigushan, the site of Shigu, the "No.1 antique in China".

On September 28, 2010, the new museum was completed and renamed Baoji bronze Museum.

On November 15, 2015, the external pre hospital logo was changed to "China Bronze Museum".

On May 18, 2017, he was awarded the third batch of national first-class museums in the capital museum.

In November 2019, the alliance of "watch Chinese characters" was established.

architectural composition

Baoji bronze museum is built in shigu mountain scenic area of Baoji City. The project site is close to shigu mountain in the west, Yinxiang River in the East, back to the mountain and facing the water, and national highway 301 in the south. The terrain is high in the West and low in the East. The total land area is about 50800 square meters, the base area is 14154 square meters, and the total construction area is 34788 square meters. It is a unique "platform five tripods" shape, magnificent, novel and unique, which condenses the profound connotation of the Western Zhou Dynasty tripod system.

The main building of Baoji bronze museum is divided into five floors. The architectural image uses the architectural language of gaotaimenque and bronze Houtu, implying the long history and culture of Baoji in ancient Chinese civilization. At the same time, it perfectly combines the stone drum culture and bronze culture. The architectural form adopts the symmetrical method, and the plane layout is centralized and decentralized. It is mainly based on the demand of modern exhibition space, including five parts: cultural relics exhibition hall, academic lecture hall, tourist reception center, cultural relics storehouse and office building.

Exhibition display

Basic Display

The Chinese bronze museum displays "the light of Zhou and Qin civilization", which is divided into the following parts: the birthplace of Western Zhou Dynasty in Baoji and the rise of Qin state from Baoji, "golden age special exhibition of new archaeological discoveries in China in the 21st century" and "special exhibition of Western Zhou hoard in Dongjia village of Qishan". More than 600 pieces (groups) of exquisite bronzes, jades, pottery, gold and so on found in Baoji area are gathered to display the Zhou culture A series of important historical facts, such as the rise of the clan, the relocation of the ancient gongs, the destruction of the Shang Dynasty by King Wu, the enfeoffment of the princes, the ritual system of the Duke of Zhou, the hunting of the king of Qin, and the hegemony of the Duke of mu, vividly represent all aspects of the history of the dynasty of Zhou and Qin, make people realize the soul of bronze culture, and see the great contribution of the civilization of Zhou and Qin to the five thousand years of China.

Hometown of bronze

Key point: the restoration of Yangjiacun hoard

Number of exhibits: 260

Exhibition area: 606 square meters

Exhibition content: through the display of a large number of unearthed bronzes in the cellar, the prosperity of Baoji bronzes will be displayed.

The first exhibition hall is a scaled sand table with three districts, nine counties and important relics in Baoji. On the ceiling, there are "distribution map of main unearthed places of bronzes in Shang and Zhou Dynasties" and "distribution map of main unearthed places of bronzes in Baoji". In history, there are countless bronzes unearthed in Baoji. There are tens of thousands of bronzes. These bronzes include the handed down artifacts unearthed before the founding of new China, the stolen artifacts collected by the public security department, and the archaeological relics unearthed after the founding of new China. The bronze Museum mainly displays the cultural relics unearthed in the archaeological excavation.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China, with the continuous attention paid by the state to the protection of cultural relics, the development of Archaeology and the progress of archaeological technology, the bronzes buried for thousands of years have a good social protection environment, and the world can see the style of these national treasures. Hoarding is one of the characteristics of bronze culture in the "hometown of bronzes", especially worth mentioning. Among the many hoards, the bronze hoard in Yangjiacun, Meixian County is the most important. In the winter of 2003, archaeologists in Yangjia village of Meixian County rescued and cleaned up 27 large bronze ritual vessels, including Ding, pan, Cuan, Yu, Hu, Cuan, Cuan and so on. These 27 bronzes all have inscriptions, among which Cuan pan has 372 characters. Since 1955, there have been many bronzes in Yangjia village, where the bronze hoard is located, which has attracted people's attention.

Overall, the first exhibition hall focuses on the restoration of Yangjiacun hoard, which leads to four exhibition areas: "Yangjiacun unearthed cultural relics exhibition area", "Baoji other important bronze relics exhibition area", "bronze hometown theme exhibition area" and "Zhou tracing section".

The state of rites in Zhou Dynasty

Core attractions: Li Wang Hu Zhen, wall plate, he Zun

Number of exhibits: 688

Exhibition area: 947 square meters

Exhibition content: through the elaboration of cultural relic information, it depicts the glorious and prosperous age under the ritual system of Zhou Dynasty.

The second exhibition hall focuses on the tracing and interpretation of Zhou rites, focusing on Hu Zhen, the king of Li, to interpret the origin of a national complex; through the key interpretation of the wall plate, as well as the supporting display of related cultural relics, it praises the six kings of Wen, Wu, Cheng, Kang, Zhao and mu in the Western Zhou Dynasty for their literary and martial arts skills; with he Zun, the national treasure, as the final work of this unit, it focuses on "building Luoyi, zhaizizhong" The close-up of the inscription "Guo" traces back to the origin of the word "China". Through the elaboration of cultural relic information, this paper depicts a glorious and prosperous age under the ritual system of Zhou Dynasty.

The emperor of Zhou always paid attention to the etiquette and law, and formulated a strict "Zhou Li", and the use of bronzes also had strict norms in the "Zhou Li". With the progress of bronze technology, the combination of bronze and ritual becomes more and more close.

In the Western Zhou Dynasty, Zhen was also one of the important ritual vessels, which was used together with the core bronze tripod. In sacrificial and banquet occasions, the number and combination form of GUI and Ding show the different status and identity of the ancients. In general, four tripods, five tripods, six tripods, seven tripods, eight tripods and nine tripods are matched to mark the level of status. In the exhibition hall, the grand scene of Emperor Zhou's banquet for the princes also appears in the form of live reproduction. Visitors can intuitively feel the strict hierarchy and etiquette of the Zhou Dynasty.

The way of Empire

Key point: Qin Gonghe

Number of exhibits: 360

Exhibition area: 947 square meters

Exhibition content: historical nodes such as non son horse breeding and the coronation of the first emperor.

The third exhibition hall, with the decline and eastward migration of the Zhou royal family as the background and the rise of the Qin Empire as the clue, shows the twists and turns of the historical context. Taking the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty as the opening part of the exhibition, the historical nodes of the exhibition are displayed one by one, such as raising horses by Fei Zi, founding the country by Xiang Gong, hunting in the east by Wen Gong, founding the county by Wu Gong, carving stones by Xuan Gong, dominating by Mu Gong and coronating the first emperor. In the development of the two ethnic groups, it shows a grand journey of the rise and fall of national history.

Although the history of Zhou's decline and Qin's rise can be displayed in an all-round way by means of sound, light, electricity and other modern technologies, exquisite and mysterious bronzes are also indispensable, and Qin Gongyi will be the protagonist of this exhibition hall. He is a large single percussion instrument, used in combination with chime bells and banquets. He has a strong rhythm and is popular in the spring and Autumn period and Warring States period. He is often used in ritual occasions such as sacrifice or banquet.

In 1978, the villagers of taigongmiao village, Yangjiagou Township, Baoji City accidentally found a hoard when they were collecting soil. After excavation and cleaning by experts, a total of 8 bronzes were unearthed, including 5 Qin Gongzhong and 3 Qin gongzhe. The three pieces are unique in shape, grand in shape and exquisitely cast. They are decorated with carved dragon and bronze

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