Plain Museum

Pingyuan museum is one of the key Museums in China, with rich collections. From August 1949 to April 1952, Pingyuan province was established, and Xinxiang City was the capital of Pingyuan province. Pingyuan museum was established in 1949. In 1958, Xinxiang museum was established in the former site of Pingyuan provincial Party committee. Later, in 2011, the new museum was completed, the plain museum was restored, and the original Xinxiang museum was merged.

Plain Museum

Founded in 1949, Pingyuan Museum, located in Xinxiang City, Henan Province, is one of the national key Museums.

The predecessor of the museum is the former Pingyuan Provincial Museum, Xinxiang City Museum and Xinxiang City Archives, which were established in 1949. In 2007, the total investment was about 300 million yuan. In 2011, the museum was merged into a comprehensive building integrating Museum, archives, historical records and urban construction archives.

The museum has a planned total land area of 7.5 hectares, a total construction area of 52585 square meters, and three floors above ground. The first floor is the warehouse, technical room, equipment and electrical room and parking lot; the second and third floors are exhibition space and office room, with 19 cultural relics exhibition halls and 6 archives exhibition halls.

Collection

The Pingyuan Museum has more than 30000 cultural relics, including more than 10000 precious cultural relics and 63 national first-class cultural relics. There are 19 halls in the museum, 16 of which are used to display cultural relics. Among them, 12 exhibition halls are fixed exhibition halls and 4 temporary exhibition halls. On the west side is the general history exhibition hall of "Muye Huazhang". Starting from the cultural relics of Longshan culture and Yangshao culture in the stone age, it can be divided into four chapters: primitive society, Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, Han, Wei, Sui and Tang Dynasties, song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. The categories include bronzes, ceramics, calligraphy and painting, bamboo and wood wares, rubbings, jade wares and stone sculptures, especially bronze wares of Shang and Zhou dynasties It is famous for calligraphy and painting in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and rubbings of ancient steles. On the east side is the cultural relics exhibition hall, which is divided into five special exhibitions, namely "collection of bronzes Exhibition", "collection of ceramics exhibition", "collection of calligraphy and painting exhibition", "collection of fine rubbings Exhibition" and "statue art exhibition". A total of more than 1000 fine cultural relics are displayed, including bronzes, porcelain, calligraphy and painting, and rubbings. Most of the cultural relics were unearthed in the original plain province. No matter the amount of collection or the value of collection, they are among the best in the province's prefecture level museums. Among them, the treasures of the town hall include a number of precious bronzes such as zuxinyou, fuhaofangzun, niumianwenyou, and stone carvings, stone carvings and stone tablets such as stone carvings of the Northern Wei Dynasty and rubbings of stone drum inscriptions. In addition, there are more than 1700 works of calligraphy and painting from the Qin and Han Dynasties to modern times, such as Zhao Zi'ang, Dong Qichang, Shi Chunhui, Li kuchan, Bai Xueshi and so on.

Architectural features

Pingyuan museum is located in the science and technology and culture square of the new district. The building develops in an arc along the planned road, emphasizing the harmonious coexistence with the surrounding environment and organic integration with the environment, forming an open cultural square, generating an interesting space of "dialogue", and expressing its own unique cultural temperament and architectural character. The planned total land area is 7.5 hectares, with a total construction area of 52585 square meters. It has three floors above the ground and a frame shear wall structure with a height of 24 meters. The first floor is the warehouse, technical room and equipment and electrical room; the second and third floors are exhibition space and office room. The overall planning of the museum emphasizes the design idea of "people-oriented and material oriented", and highlights the solemn, grand and inclusive character of the government square. Using modern and atmospheric design techniques, according to the central axis of the municipal government office building, the symmetrical layout is adopted to successfully build an orderly urban space and create a strong sense of place for the museum. At the same time, on the basis of the axial symmetry layout, each single building has its own unique character. This kind of dialogue reflects the urban context and regional culture, and creates a fully harmonious urban space between man and nature. The courtyard is one of the top ten landmark cultural buildings in Xinxiang. In terms of architectural art, one of them is the "light of China" - the spread of the spirit of civilization. With the help of the radial planning picture of the planning form and the unique personality of the architectural image, through the huge solid scale of stone with vertical lines, and its rhythmic arrangement, it forms the overall momentum of the museum, implying the pastoral land of Xinxiang, which is the place of Xia, Shang and Qing Dynasties Zhou Dynasty is the center of China's earliest Dynasty and the birthplace of Chinese civilization. The second is the "historical rings" - the precipitation and inheritance of history. The plane of the plain museum is semicircular, which reflects the continuity of history by echoing with the "tree rings" in shape and texture. She means that the city is a growing city, and the plain Museum officially records the "growth rings" in the process of the city's growth, so that people can pay attention to her memories through these "growth rings". The third performance is "Taihang Mountains" - regionality and growth. The architectural image of Pingyuan Museum emphasizes the vertical sense of growth and the undulating situation. The appearance is strong and resolute, and the people of Pingyuan are indomitable.

Historical evolution

Pingyuan Museum, formerly known as Pingyuan Provincial Museum, was founded in 1949 and is one of the key Museums in China.

Pingyuan province was abolished in November 1952, and the Museum of Pingyuan province was changed into the Cultural Relics Museum of Xinxiang City Library.

In 1958, Xinxiang Municipal Party committee and municipal government allocated special funds to repair and protect the former site of Pingyuan provincial Party Committee on a large scale, and established Xinxiang Museum at the former site of Pingyuan provincial Party committee.

The former site of the provincial Party committee is a legacy building in Xinxiang, the capital of the plain Province in the early days of the people's Republic of China. The former building is mainly gray blue, with a strong Soviet style.

In 1996, Xinxiang City established a sports center for hosting the Eighth National Games. The storehouse and office of Xinxiang museum were moved to the south section of Heping Road. The storehouse is a four story building with many exhibition halls. The first exhibition hall of Xinxiang museum is located in the people's Park of Xinxiang City. The main building has two floors, with a total area of 1000 square meters. It is the basic exhibition place of the museum. In recent years, due to various restrictions, it has been unable to adapt to the cultural relics exhibition; the second exhibition hall is located in the main hall of Dongyue Temple, Pingyuan Road, Xinxiang City. The main hall is a Jiuji Xieshan style building in the Ming Dynasty, with an area of 200 square meters. It is a temporary exhibition place. It holds more than 10 exhibitions every year and is open to the society free of charge. It is an excellent patriotic education base in Henan Province, which has been held in recent years The more influential exhibitions include "bronze art garden" and "history of Xinxiang revolutionary struggle".

In November 2011, the plain museum was established and the original Xinxiang museum was merged.

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