Lintong Museum

Lintong museum is located in the east of Lintong county. It is a local museum mainly for displaying cultural relics unearthed in the county. It was built in 1979 and follows the form of quadrangle in northern China. There are three exhibition rooms and a stele Gallery in the museum, including Zhou Qin art room, Tang Dynasty Buddhism Art room and Han Tang Dynasty art room. There are more than 10000 pieces of cultural relics from Neolithic Age to Ming and Qing Dynasties, including the earliest Western Museum Among the bronzes of Zhou Dynasty, the only relics Recording King Wu's cutting of Zhou Dynasty are the gold coffin and silver statue unearthed from the site of Qingshan Temple of Tang Dynasty, and the Sakyamuni relic account (belonging to extremely precious Buddhist relics), which has been listed as the national special level cultural relics.

Lintong Museum

Lintong Museum in Xi'an is a local history museum. It is located at the foot of Lishan Mountain, more than 100 meters to the east of the famous Tang Huaqing Palace. It has a history of more than 30 years. It has a collection of more than 5000 historical relics, with an exhibition area of more than 600 square meters. It has five exhibition rooms, a gallery of stone carvings of past dynasties and a protection room for stone carvings of Ming Tombs.

Development history

set up an embassy

In May 1985, the precious Buddhist relics of Qingshan temple in Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty were unearthed in Xinfeng Town of Lintong. This was the first discovery in China, which had a huge repercussion in the cultural circles at home and abroad at that time. With the strong support of Shaanxi Provincial Bureau of cultural relics, the gate, exhibition room and exhibition hall were built in that year. The original Lintong county government allocated more than 400000 yuan to build the main exhibition room, which opened on October 1, 1985, marking the formal completion of Lintong Museum.

development

With the vigorous development of tourism industry in Lintong, supported by preferential policies of local government, the museum pays close attention to infrastructure construction, improves internal management, and constantly opens up the market. It has gradually formed a regional and county-level Museum integrating scientific research, exhibition, collection and protection. It is the first one in Shaanxi Province.

Since October 1985, Lintong Museum has received more than 10 million Chinese and foreign tourists, and has successively undertaken the reception tasks of Party and state leaders, foreign heads of state, Chinese and foreign experts, scholars, academics, scientists, religious circles and provincial and municipal delegation. With the participation of the State Administration of cultural relics in the world expositions in Nara and Fukuoka, Japan, and the strong promotion in various newspapers, magazines and radio stations, Lintong Museum has entered a period of rapid development.

architectural composition

Lintong museum was built in 1959, covering an area of 6600 square meters, with an exhibition area of more than 600 square meters. There are four exhibition rooms in the museum, including Zhou Qin art room, Tang Dynasty Buddhism art room, Han and Tang Dynasty art room, Qin terracotta warriors and horses room, as well as a corridor of stone carvings of past dynasties and a protection room for stone carvings of Ming Tombs. It has collected more than 17000 cultural relics from the Neolithic Age to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Among them, the earliest bronzes of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the gold coffins and silver coffins unearthed from the Qingshan Temple site of the Tang Dynasty, and the Sakyamuni relic account are listed as national precious cultural relics.

Basic Display

The museum has three exhibition rooms.

Tang Buddha art room

There are more than 10 national treasure level cultural relics on display in the Tang Buddha art room. Among them, the gold coffin, silver coffin, relic, Buddha relic, relic tent, Tang Sancai lion and other precious cultural relics unearthed from the site of Qingshan Temple of Tang Dynasty on May 5, 1985 are the landmark cultural relics of the museum, along with more than 100 Buddhist cultural relics. Engraved with eight gilded characters, "Sakya Tathagata relic account" is the only relic account in the world.

Qin Tang art room

The Qin and Tang art room displays the terracotta warriors and horses first unearthed in 1974, which are called the eighth wonder of the world by experts. Their appearance has opened the prelude to the underground mysterious battle array layout of Emperor Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum more than 2000 years ago, and has provided valuable historical materials for the world to study the military, culture and culture of the Qin Dynasty.

Zhou Qin art room

More than 100 cultural relics of the Western Zhou and Qin Dynasties are displayed in the art room of Zhou and Qin Dynasties. The largest tile King unearthed from the mausoleum of the first emperor of Qin Dynasty is displayed in this exhibition hall. More than 100 cultural relics of Han, Tang and Yuan Dynasties are displayed in the art room of Han, Tang and Yuan Dynasties, among which the lifelike horse riding figurines are displayed in this hall.

According to the development experience of cultural and Museum at home and abroad, the museum has made bold adjustments to the original business model, increased the internal management and external publicity, adopted the methods of "going out and inviting in", actively publicized, widely contacted the customers, and attracted tourists to visit with high-quality service and humanized management. At the same time, it has carried out various forms of business activities, including a series of activities to publicize cultural relics knowledge into villages, communities, campuses and camps, opening cultural relics stores, selling cultural relics books, deeply developing the potential of cultural relics, developing replica cultural relics, holding cultural relics exchange exhibitions at home and abroad, etc. the development of Lintong Museum has entered a new stage Opportunity period.

Main building

Lintong museum is located at the northern foot of Lishan Mountain in Lintong, Shaanxi Province, adjacent to Huaqing Lake in the West. The main body of the palace is in the form of symmetrical central axis, with double eaves and mountain rest. Wangjing tower is magnificent, facing the west, Lishan Pavilion, Weishui Pavilion, North and South accompany, spacious corridor, red column stand upright, it is a characteristic Historical Museum in the outskirts of the ancient capital. It receives more than 600000 Chinese and foreign tourists annually. Lintong museum now has exhibitions of Zhou Qin art and Tang Buddhist art, as well as a stele gallery with more than 1000 cultural relics on display. Jade (Yinhe) is dignified and beautiful, and it is an art treasure in the late Western Zhou Dynasty. Kui Wen is the cream of pottery carving in Qin Dynasty. The statue stele of the three Taoists in Wei Dynasty, with 2400 words, is majestic and gloomy, overflowing between the lines. Sakyamuni relic account, gold coffin and silver coffin are the complete and luxurious relic coffins in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Baozhang is ingenious in conception, reasonable in design, exquisite in shape and suitable in proportion. The whole body line carving adopts the technique of layering and bottom reducing, and integrates line and relief. The picture layout is rigorous, the character image is vivid, the line is fluent, the knife technique is skilled. The gold coffin and the silver coffin are exquisite and exquisite, with exquisite craftsmanship. They are hung with pearls and inlaid with treasures. They are not married in ancient times. Two exhibitions in Japan.

Collection

Tile (Qin Dynasty)

With a height of 48 cm and a diameter of 61 cm, it is the earliest and largest tile found so far, known as the king of tiles

Sakyamuni Buddha relic (Tang Dynasty)

Relic is the remains of Buddha, also known as the spiritual bones of Buddha. It is a Buddhist relic and a relic of Buddha after Sakyamuni's nirvana. It is a kind of crystal with the size of a small grain of rice, which is called broken bone relic, namely Sakyamuni's Buddha relic. The relic can be divided into three colors: white for bone relic, red for meat relic and black for hair relic. It is the supreme and precious worship object in Buddhism.

Riding maid (Han)

The warrior is 29 cm tall. He wears a red hat with a band tied under his face. On his back, he draws a square quiver bag with red and white lines. His legs are tightly clamped on the horse's belly. He rides on the horse with both hands clenching his fists to hold the reins.

Three color pumpkin (Tang Dynasty)

It is the first time to find the three color pumpkin. It is located in the middle of the three color plates in front of the tent when it was unearthed. Although it is not amazing, its roasting skill is excellent, and the scar of its stalk is especially lifelike. It is also considered to be one of the best treasures of the three color utensils.

Sakya Tathagata relic account (Tang Dynasty)

This account, named "Sakya Tathagata, relic account", is composed of six layers of blue stone line carving. It is 1.09 meters high, and each layer can be opened. At the bottom of the account is the lotus seat of Xumi. On the top of the account is the cover with double eaves and the king's horn of golden winged bird. The stone carved golden winged bird (also known as Dapeng bird) is gilded with gold. This is the first time in China that it is found on the back of golden winged bird There are four copper rod silver leaf bodhi trees. The bodhi tree has a profound meaning in Buddhism. Two golden lotus flowers are inserted in the two corners of the seat, symbolizing the purity and purity of Buddhism. Although it is not a practical building, it has stone columns, beams, eaves, corners and roofs. It is a rare miniature of a square pavilion with double eaves in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. There are eight gold characters on the front of the square, "Sakya Tathagata, relic Baozhang" in the middle of the forehead. On both sides of the characters, there are carved King Lishi and kalingpunga bird (also known as Miaoyin bird), and flying sky is carved under the double eaves. Three dragons and cirrus clouds are carved on the top of the tent, and a group of four kneading plates are carved on all sides of the tent. On the front, there is a picture of Buddha kneading the Sutra. On the left, there is a picture of Buddha kneading the plate. On the back, there is a picture of the eight princes sharing the relic.

Gold Museum and silver coffin (Tang Dynasty)

It's a coffin for Buddhist relics. In India, Buddhist relics are usually placed in altars or bottles in a tower. In China, the traditional coffin is in full bloom. The prosperity of gold and silver wares in Tang Dynasty. The value and social function of gold and silver determine their status as symbols of wealth. Therefore, the relic in gold coffin and silver coffin is in awe of Buddha. And this set of coffin is also the most complete set of Buddha coffin found so far.

Three color lion (Tang Dynasty)

In the Tang Dynasty, there were many horses and camels in the three color modeling, while the three color lions were very rare. The two lions were beautiful, gliding like a living, playful and cute. One was complacent and bent down to gnaw his hooves, the other was itching with his eyes closed. This pair of tricolor lions is the earliest and the highest artistic level of tricolor animal models ever seen. Its appearance has swept away the rigid style of stone lions in front of the mausoleum of the Tang Dynasty. It is also the most complete pair of tricolor lions unearthed in China.

Li Zhen (Zhou)

It is the earliest Qing Dynasty in the Western Zhou Dynasty

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