Han Dynasty portrait gallery
It is the earliest, largest and largest Han Dynasty stone sculpture art museum in China.
Overview of the exhibition hall
Nanyang Han painting Museum
It is the earliest, largest and largest Han Dynasty stone carving art museum in China. She was founded in October 1935. Since then, the scale of Sanyi Museum has been expanding day by day, and the total amount of Han Dynasty stone relief has reached more than 2000. Today's Nanyang Han painting museum is a new museum built in December 1999 and opened to the outside world. It won the "2000 national top ten exhibition quality award" in 2000, was rated as a national first-class Museum by the State Administration of cultural relics in 2008, and officially opened to the outside world free of charge on May 18, 2009.
Nanyang Han painting museum is located at the south end of WoLonggang, Nanyang city. The whole scenic area covers an area of 53360 square meters. The plane of the exhibition building is in a "t" shape, with a total construction area of 6000 square meters and a total exhibition area of 2400 square meters. There are 9 main exhibition halls and 3 temporary exhibition halls. There are more than 200 pieces of exquisite stone portraits on display in the exhibition hall. According to the contents of the portraits, they are divided into eight parts: production and labor, architectural art, historical stories, social life, astronomy and mythology, Jiaodi, dance and music, and auspicious rising to immortality. The production labor portraits mainly include "farming", "fishing", etc.; the architectural portraits mainly include double towers, halls, pavilions, etc., which are the concrete embodiment of the architectural achievements of the Han Dynasty; the historical stories mainly include two Taos killing three scholars, Hongmen banquet, ximenbao killing Wu Zhiye, Zhao orphans, etc. These portraits are the extreme propaganda of Confucian loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness and morality; the content of social life portraits is complex, including the life scenes of officials and dignitaries, such as throwing pots and banquets, hunting, fighting chickens and running dogs, visiting each other; there are also the images of maids and servants, such as holding comet, carrying lamp, holding dowry, holding halberd and shield; Astronomy and mythology portraits include sun and moon, sun and moon, Big Dipper, comet, cowherd and weaver girl There are also many Mythological Images and stories closely related to astronomy, such as sun, moon god, Chang'e rushing to the moon, Yi shooting ten days, Lei Gong, Feng Bo, Yu Shi, he Bo, Fu Xi and Nu Wa. These portraits integrate the celestial phenomena and mythology, and have the dual value of natural science and humanities. The Jiaoding portraits include striking skills, fighting, stabbing tiger, bullfighting, etc. the images of people and animals in these portraits are exaggerated and full of appeal, which fully shows the spirit of the times of advocating martial arts and full of challenge. In the dance and drama portraits, there are various forms of dance, acrobatics and musical instruments Elephant. Jianqi dance, Qipan dance, Feijian Tiaowan dance and chongzhai handstand show their unique styles. These portraits show the prosperous scene of singing and dancing in the Han Dynasty, and are also the vivid expression of the unprecedented prosperity of Nanyang culture and art in the Han Dynasty. There are many auspicious animals, such as dragons, phoenixes, deer, turtles and so on. There are also scenes in which badminton people play dragons and ride dragons and tigers. These images, which are full of immortal spirit and full of auspicious clouds, are just the image reflection of the idea that heaven and man are telepathic and the soul is immortal, which prevailed in the Han Dynasty.
Development history
Nanyang Han painting museum was founded on October 10, 1935. At that time, the museum was located in Nanyang people's education Museum (now the backyard of Wolong District broadcasting station), with a collection of 118 Han portrait stones. Luo Zhen, the sixth administrative inspector of Henan Province, wrote an inscription on the creation and repair of Nanyang Han painting Museum.
In 1957, the people's Government of Henan Province appropriated special funds to reconstruct the qikong bridge, and dozens of Han Dynasty stone reliefs were removed from under the bridge.
In 1958, the Henan provincial government allocated 28000 yuan for the construction of another Han Dynasty painting Museum on the east side of Wuhou Temple in WoLonggang, Nanyang.
In 1959, the Han Dynasty Art Gallery Project started construction, with 11 workshops and 20 galleries. The exhibition hall covers an area of more than 900 square meters, with a total collection of more than 500 stone reliefs. The way of display still adopts the method of inlaying stone between the walls, with a total of more than 500 Nanyang Han stone portraits on display. On September 8, Mr. Guo Mo, then president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, inscribed the name of the Han painting Museum. The rebuilt Han Dynasty painting Museum officially opened on October 1. At the same time, two large-scale round sculptures of the Han Dynasty, Tianlu and shunxie, were placed in front of the museum.
In the mid-1970s, the collection of Han Dynasty stone statues increased from more than 500 to more than 1000, and the capacity of the exhibition hall became saturated again. In 1976, it began to rebuild a new building on the northeast side of the original museum, which was completed and opened in 1979. The new hall covers an area of 1700 square meters, covering an area of 2750 square meters.
In the winter of 1978, the Han Dynasty painting gallery was completed and officially opened for exhibition in January of the following year. 187 pieces of fine relief stones are on display, and the total number of relief stones in the collection has reached 1500.
On October 29, 1985, the former Nanyang Municipal Bureau of culture and broadcasting decided to establish Nanyang Han painting Museum as an independent secondary unit. Since then, the Han Dynasty painting gallery has ended the situation of being entrusted for half a century.
In 1986, Henan Provincial Planning Commission approved the project to rebuild the Han Dynasty art gallery. The foundation of the new museum was laid on July 1, 1988, and officially started construction on August 25. It was completed by the end of 1999 and officially opened on December 27, 1999.
In 2000, Nanyang Han painting Museum won the title of "national top ten fine exhibition" museum.
In 2008, it was awarded the first batch of "national first-class museums" by the State Administration of cultural relics.
Address: 398 Hanhua street, Hanhua Road, Wolong District, Nanyang City, Henan Province
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