Museum of ancient art

Luoyang Ancient Art Museum

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Ancient art museum generally refers to Luoyang Ancient Art Museum

Luoyang Ancient Art Museum, formerly known as Luoyang Ancient Tomb Museum, covers an area of more than 130 mu, with a construction area of more than 8200 square meters. It is composed of a group of imitated buildings of Han Dynasty and a group of imitated buildings of Northern Wei Dynasty. Flowers and trees are widely planted between the buildings on the ground, and rockery pools are set between them. It can be called a public garden Museum. It was completed and opened in 1987.

Since ancient times, there has been a saying that there is little idle land on the top of Beimang mountain, and it is full of old tombs of Luoyang people. Ancient tombs are scattered all over Beimang mountain and its surrounding areas. On this basis, Luoyang Ancient Tombs Museum, a special museum, has emerged. Its large area, unique style, long time of collecting ancient tombs, as well as its type and quantity, ranks first in the world and is a great spectacle in China. Therefore, Luoyang Ancient Art Museum is one of the largest ancient tomb museums in China and the first ancient tomb museum in the world.

Visit information

Traffic information

Take bus No.83 from Luoyang station and get off at "Luoyang Ancient Art Museum".

Opening Hours

9:00-17:00

architectural composition

Luoyang Ancient Art Museum is divided into three exhibition areas: typical tombs of past dynasties, tombs of emperors of the Northern Wei Dynasty and mural Museum. The exhibition area of typical tombs of past dynasties is divided into two parts: above ground and underground. There are 25 representative tombs from the Western Han Dynasty to the song and Jin Dynasties, with a total of 600 cultural relics on display. Through the overall display of the tomb shape, we can have more perspectives to understand the tomb architecture, unearthed cultural relics, tomb murals, brick carving art and the space environment of cultural relics.

Luoyang Ancient Art Museum is the first special museum in China to display typical tombs of past dynasties. It is divided into three exhibition areas: tombs of past dynasties, tombs of emperors of Northern Wei Dynasty and mural gallery. At the entrance of the underground tourist area are the tombs of emperors and celebrities in Luoyang.

Mausoleum area of the Northern Wei Dynasty

Located in the west of the museum, the exhibition area of the mausoleum of the emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty covers an area of about 70 mu, with a construction area of 600 square meters, imitating the architectural style of the Northern Wei Dynasty. The exhibition area is mainly composed of the jingling Mausoleum of Xuanwu emperor, Emperor Shizong of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the tombs of Wang Yuanqi and Wang yuancha in Jiangyang. The sealed earth of Jingling mausoleum is round, the diameter of rammed earth pile is 110 meters, the height is 24 meters, the momentum is magnificent, the structure is complete, the style of the tomb room is simple, the tone is elegant, which can make people systematically understand the basic features of the mausoleum of the northern Wei Dynasty, and have a more comprehensive understanding of the burial custom and mausoleum system of the Northern Wei Dynasty. There is a picture of the sky on the top of the tomb chamber of Yuanqi tomb. There are more than 300 stars in the picture. The bright stars are connected by lines, and the Milky way runs through the north and south of the whole picture. This picture is 400 years earlier than the Dunhuang star map. It is a precious material for the study of ancient astronomy in China.

Mural Gallery

Luoyang is a famous cultural relic city in China. Over the years, cultural relic workers have carried out archaeological excavation on a large number of ancient tombs and found many precious tomb murals. These murals cover Western Han, Eastern Han, Wei Jin, Tang Song and Jin Yuan Dynasties. The owners of Mural Tombs range from emperors, concubines, dignitaries to local petty officials and ordinary people. These murals have clear and delicate images, broad themes and contents, covering astronomy, geography, personnel and gods. They can be called a Chinese history written with images. They have become an important part of ancient Chinese painting art heritage, and have historical and cultural value that can't be compared or replaced by other ancient books.

According to Wang Aiwen, curator of Luoyang Ancient Art Museum, the exhibition contents of Henan ancient mural museum will include "seven colorful chapters - Henan tomb wall painting exhibition" and "the world of pictures - the history of Chinese ancient tomb murals".

Tombs of past dynasties

The typical tombs exhibition area is located in the east of the museum, covering an area of 44 Mu and a construction area of 7600 square meters. It is a group of buildings imitating the Han Dynasty. The whole building is divided into two parts. The above ground building is divided into two parts. From south to north, the first half of the hall is the white marble stone gate Que and the hall table; then it is the "Taixu" hall, in which there are sand plates distributed in the tombs of the past dynasties in Luoyang. In front of the hall, there are a pair of large white marble Tianlu and evil spirits repelling beasts of the Han Dynasty on the left and right sides. At the back of the hall is the Xuantang, which is the place to go in and out of the display room of the underground ancient tombs "Group sculpture of funeral ceremony for emperors in Han Dynasty" and "group sculpture of folk funeral ceremony in Luoyang at the beginning of the Republic of China". There is a corridor between the auxiliary hall and the Xuantang hall. The second half of the ground is 2 meters higher than the first half, with a quadrangle and "qiongge". The quadrangle building is the ground extension of the four underground halls, which is used for ventilation and lighting of the underground exhibition room; "qiongge" is built between the quadrangle buildings for visitors to rest and shopping. Two 2.5-meter-high white jade statues of the zodiac animals with human body and animal head are placed on both sides of the blue slate passage along the North-South central axis. The underground part is in the shape of "mouth". Four halls are built in the four corners, including the Han Dynasty, the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the Tang and Song Dynasties, and the comprehensive hall, to display precious cultural relics unearthed in the past dynasties in chronological order. The four halls are connected by a 3-meter-wide passage. On both sides of the passage are 25 typical tombs from the Han Dynasty to the song and Jin Dynasties. The typical tombs of three thousand years from the Xia Dynasty to the song and Jin Dynasties in Luoyang area are displayed in front of people. These tombs are various and colorful, either simple and elegant, or profound and grand, or luxurious and chic, or magnificent. Their architectural styles are different, reflecting one aspect of ancient architectural art in China. A total of 597 cultural relics are displayed in 25 tombs, such as pottery figurines and living utensils of the Han Dynasty, the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the Tri Color of the Tang Dynasty. In particular, the epitaphs of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Tang and Song dynasties are valuable materials for the study of calligraphy and the supplement of history. The rich and colorful murals in the tomb chamber constitute the distinctive features of Luoyang Ancient Tomb Museum. The contents of the murals are mostly immortal promotion, ghost fighting, four gods, fairy tales, historical stories, celestial images and the living scenes of the tomb owner. In terms of painting skills, he inherited and developed the painting and color painting art since the Warring States period, which had a far-reaching impact on the later painting and stone portraits.

Exhibition area of typical tombs of past dynasties

There are 25 typical tombs from the Western Han Dynasty to the song and Jin Dynasties. The contents include tomb architecture, brick carving art, tomb murals, unearthed cultural relics, etc., revealing some rules of the evolution of tombs and their funerary objects in Heluo area from the Western Han Dynasty to the song and Jin Dynasties. There are about 600 cultural relics on display in the tomb. The famous "Bu Qianqiu" and "Da GUI Tu" are the representatives of more than ten exquisite Mural Tombs. They are also the earliest extant physical painting works in China, and are the opening works of Chinese painting. The Nuo opera paintings are the most complete material materials reflecting the ancient Nuo opera culture preserved in China. The murals found in Luoyang include ghost fighting, immortality promotion, four gods, myths and legends, historical stories, astronomical phenomena and real life scenes. Both in content and technique, the works had a profound influence on later paintings and stone carvings.

Exhibition area of imperial mausoleum of Northern Wei Dynasty

Xuanwu emperor's tomb is 110 meters in diameter and 24 meters high. After more than 1500 years, it is still tall and magnificent. In 1993, with the approval of the State Council, the Institute of archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, together with Luoyang Ancient Tomb Museum, carried out a rescue excavation of the jingling mausoleum. The underground palace is located under the Fengqiu, sitting in the north and facing the south. It is composed of tomb passage, front passage, back passage and tomb chamber, with a total length of 54.8 meters. Jingling mausoleum has been robbed repeatedly in history. Only more than ten pieces of cultural relics, such as celadon pan Kou dragon handle pot, celadon bowl, pottery inkstone, stone tent seat and stone lamp, have been unearthed in the underground palace. However, the display of utensils in the underground palace has gone beyond the limitation of no Ming ware, plain tent and porcelain tile in the Northern Wei Dynasty. A 2.9-meter-high headless stone Weng Zhong was unearthed 10 meters southwest of the entrance to the tomb, which made up for the lack of historical records about Shinto stone inscriptions before the mausoleum of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Jingling has an important reference value for the study of the mausoleum system in the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Exhibition of the essence of ancient tombs

The exhibition is located in Henan ancient mural Museum in the north of Luoyang Ancient Art Museum. The mural museum was completed and opened in November 2011. The main body of the ancient frescoes Museum in Henan is a loft like building imitating the Han Dynasty. It has one floor underground and three floors above the ground, with a height of 24 meters and a construction area of 2300 square meters. The essence exhibition is mainly based on objects. According to the chronological order, it shows 53 groups of more than 90 tomb murals and painted carved bricks unearthed in Henan Province (mainly in Luoyang area). It covers 15 Mural Tombs in eight dynasties (periods) including Western Han Dynasty, Xinmang Dynasty, Eastern Han Dynasty, Northern Wei Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, Five Dynasties, Song Dynasty and Jin Dynasty. The murals are rich in subject matter, colorful characters and vivid images of flowers and birds, which truly represent people's spiritual world and material life at that time. The exhibition area provides e-books, electronic jigsaw puzzles, animations, display boards, video materials and other forms to help tourists understand the exhibition and increase knowledge and interest.

Address: Laocheng District, Luoyang City, Henan Province

Longitude: 112.41609037913

Latitude: 34.736133839425

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