Xi'an Museum

The Xi'an Museum is located in the Xiaoyan pagoda scenic area. It has a collection of 130000 cultural relics of various historical periods in Xi'an, including more than 14400 national level three or more precious cultural relics. A considerable number of cultural relics have been unearthed in Zhou, Qin, Han, Tang and other dynasties with important influence in Chinese history. The cultural relics used for display are selected from these collections, which are of high level, strong representation and wide influence. It is a museum integrating museums, places of interest and urban gardens.

Xi'an Museum

Xi'an Museum is a collection of museums, places of interest and urban gardens in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. It opened to the outside world in 2007. It is famous for its precious cultural relics, the millennium old pagoda of the Tang Dynasty, the melodious morning bell of the wild goose pagoda and the beautiful landscape.

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Xi'an Museum is located in Youyi West Road, nanmenwai, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province. It consists of three parts: cultural relics exhibition area, small wild goose pagoda and Jianfu temple as the core of the historical area and garden area. The total investment is 220 million yuan (20 million yuan invested by the state and nearly 200 million yuan invested by Xi'an municipal government), covering an area of 245 mu. On May 18, 2007, Xi'an Museum officially opened to the public. Xi'an Museum is unique among domestic museums, famous for the leisure scenic spot of the millennium old pagoda garden style relics and the Modern History Museum of Xi'an, the ancient capital. On March 31, 2010, Xi'an Museum was officially opened to the public free of charge. Visitors can get a ticket with any ID card.

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Centering on the famous Tang Dynasty architecture and Xiaoyan pagoda, a national key cultural relic protection unit, Xi'an Museum is designed according to the three functional areas of Cultural Relic Appreciation, tourism and comprehensive service, forming a historical and cultural leisure place integrating museums, places of interest and urban parks.

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The logo of Xi'an Museum takes the small wild goose pagoda, the central building of Xi'an Museum, as the design element. The small wild goose pagoda is the largest cultural relic collected by Xi'an Museum, and also reflects the ancient capital style and long history and culture of Xi'an. It emphasizes the important position of Xi'an Museum as the main display window of Xi'an culture.

The design of the logo of Xi'an Museum selects the angle of looking up from the side of the small wild goose pagoda, which gives people a sense of majestic atmosphere, highlights the long history of Xi'an and the profound Chinese culture, and makes people feel as if they had experienced the majestic style of the past.

The logo of Xi'an Museum adopts the modern graphic expression method of combining point, line and surface, which makes the ancient pagoda glow with new atmosphere and more era characteristics. It also means that Xi'an Museum keeps pace with the times and shoulders the mission of cultural inheritance and dissemination.

The logo of Xi'an Museum is a combination of gray and orange, which symbolizes the alternation of time, the change of history and the continuation of civilization.

Organization

The museum has 11 departments including office, collection keeping department, business research department, exhibition department, security department, property management department, education promotion department, cultural relic restoration department, small wild goose pagoda keeping department, power equipment department and information network department. There is one secretary and three vice presidents. There are 163 staff and 35 professional and technical personnel.

Scenery in the courtyard

Cultural relics exhibition hall

The main building of Xi'an Museum, the Museum (cultural relic exhibition hall), is designed by Zhang Jinqiu, academician of Chinese Academy of engineering, designer of Shaanxi History Museum and famous architect. The overall appearance is created with the concept of "heaven is round and place is round", which highlights the traditional Chinese cultural ideas and complements the small wild goose pagoda and Jianfu temple. In 2004, the museum was selected as one of the ten landmark buildings in the future in Xi'an by the news media.

The building area of the museum is more than 16000 square meters, the display area is more than 5000 square meters, and the rest is the cultural relic reservoir area and public activity area. The museum has a collection of 130000 cultural relics of various historical periods in Xi'an, including more than 14400 national level three or above precious cultural relics. A considerable number of cultural relics have been unearthed in Zhou, Qin, Han, Tang and other dynasties with important influence in Chinese history. The cultural relics used for display are the cultural relics selected from these collections with high level, strong representativeness and wide influence. The exhibition hall of Xi'an Museum consists of three parts: basic display, special display and temporary display. The museum uses the display techniques of electronic technology, image and audio-visual technology of contemporary science and technology. The exhibition uses a series of scientific and technological means, such as virtual electronic book flipping, digital phantom demonstration, DMS digital virtual demonstration, interactive display, cultural relic navigation, etc. to enrich the exhibition content, display cultural relic in image and deduce the history of ancient capital. The completion of the Xi'an Museum ends the history of the ancient capital Xi'an without a large municipal museum.

Little wild goose pagoda

Xiaoyanta cultural relic reserve was officially opened to the outside world in 1980. In the process of opening up, some folk exhibitions and cultural relics such as Chang'an ancient music and shuanmazhu were continuously enriched in the park. The small wild goose pagoda and Jianfu temple are integrated with the ancient buildings.

In the construction process of Xi'an Museum, on the one hand, the infrastructure and landscaping of the original reserve have been comprehensively transformed; on the other hand, on the basis of the original land area, it has been expanded along the central axis of Xiaoyan pagoda and Jianfu temple to the East and west sides, improving the surrounding environment of Xiaoyan pagoda and Jianfu temple. In the expanded area, artificial lake and landscaping are added to integrate historical sites with urban parks, and become a multifunctional urban landscape area integrating cultural relic appreciation, tourism and entertainment.

The original name of Xiaoyan pagoda is Jianfu Temple Pagoda. It was built in 707 A.D. (during the reign of emperor Jinglong of the Tang Dynasty). It is located in Jianfu temple in Chang'an city of the Tang Dynasty. It is a pagoda built to store Buddhist scriptures and Buddhist pictures brought back from Tianzhu by Yijing, an eminent monk of the Tang Dynasty. The pagoda where the little wild goose pagoda is located is a part of Jianfu temple. However, the pagoda was not in Jianfu temple at that time. During the war at the end of Tang Dynasty, Jianfu temple was repeatedly destroyed and the temple was destroyed. Only the little wild goose pagoda was preserved. Later, Jianfu Temple moved into the courtyard. Jianfu temple and Xiaoyan pagoda were repaired many times in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The body of the little wild goose pagoda was originally a square 15 story brick Pagoda with dense eaves. In several earthquakes in the Ming Dynasty, the magnitude 14 and 15 on the top of the pagoda were destroyed. The body of the pagoda experienced a miracle of cracking and then closing. It is called "the God of wild Goose Pagoda". The existing small wild goose pagoda has 13 storeys, maintaining the style of the early Tang Dynasty. In 1961, it was announced as a national key cultural relics protection unit by the State Council.

The style of the exquisite little wild goose pagoda is quite different from that of the majestic big wild goose pagoda. The dense eaves brick tower is slightly shuttle shaped, 43.38 meters high. It was built with 15 levels, and 13 levels exist. The bottom layer of the tower is the highest, and the top layer decreases layer by layer. The overall outline is a natural and round rolling brake curve. Each layer has overlapping eaves, and two layers of water chestnut teeth are built under the eaves, forming the aesthetic effect of double eaves and dense pavilions. There are ticket doors in the South and north of the ground floor, and ticket windows in the north and south of the upper floor. The door frame is covered with exquisite Tang Dynasty line carvings.

Xiaoyan pagoda is a pagoda with dense eaves and brick structure. The tower is built with green bricks. The plane of the tower is square. In 1989, the total height of the tower was 43.395m, the length of the bottom was 11.38m, and the ratio of the height to the bottom was 100:26. The base of the little wild goose pagoda is a brick platform. There is an underground palace under the base, which is a vertical cave. Above the base is the tower body. The bottom layer of the tower body is higher, and the height of the two or more layers decreases gradually, so the outline of the tower presents a beautiful rolling brake. The width of the tower decreases gradually from bottom to top, and the outline of the tower presents a conical shape. The small wild goose pagoda is exquisitely shaped, beautiful in shape and even in proportion.

The small wild goose pagoda has a single wall with a hollow inside. The wall of the pagoda has no column forehead. There are overlapping cornices on the pagoda. Each layer of brick on the pagoda body forms the eaves, and the eaves are overlapped with astringent bricks, with water chestnut teeth between them. Under each layer of eaves on the surface of the pagoda body, diagonal teeth bricks are built. At the bottom of the tower, there is a gate on both sides of the north and the south. The door frame is covered with exquisite Tang Dynasty line carvings, especially the images of heaven and man's support on the lintel, which are of high artistic value. There are semicircular arch openings in the middle of the north and south sides of each layer above the bottom of the tower. There is a wooden ladder inside the small wild goose pagoda to climb to the top of the pagoda.

The brick gate outside the north gate on the bottom floor of the tower is close to the tower, which was added in the late Qing Dynasty. On the south side of the tower base is the Shimen square of the Qing Dynasty, with "Wanhui zhanen" engraved on the South forehead and "Bu Er FA men" engraved on the North forehead. The stone arched door at the entrance of the South Gate on the bottom floor of the pagoda is engraved with the pattern of Yin Wen, vine grass and the image of heaven and man's support, which is the same as the lintel of the Dayan Pagoda. However, due to age and poor protection, it is incomplete and unclear.

Originally, in the bottom of the small wild goose pagoda, there was a large eaves shed with brick and wood structure around the body of the pagoda, which was called "winding waist". In the warring years of the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, it was destroyed.

Ancient architecture of Jianfu Temple

Jianfu temple was first built in 684 ad (the first year of Tang Ruizong civilization). It was a Buddhist temple built by Li Dan of Tang Ruizong for his father Tang Gaozong after his death. It was originally named Xianfu temple. In 690 ad, it was renamed Jianfu temple. Jianfu temple is a famous royal temple in Tang Dynasty and one of the important places for Buddhist scripture translation. Jianfu Temple attracted many eminent monks in Tang Dynasty, among which master Yijing was the most famous. Jianfu temple was destroyed in the war at the end of Tang Dynasty. Later, Jianfu Temple moved to the pagoda yard, where today's little wild goose pagoda is located.

The existing ancient buildings in Jianfu temple were rebuilt in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The ancient buildings in the temple generally continue the layout of the rebuilt buildings in the orthodox period of Ming Dynasty

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