Hunan Provincial Museum

This is the largest comprehensive museum of history and art in Hunan Province. It has a rich collection of cultural relics, especially the Han Tombs in Mawangdui, bronzes of Shang and Zhou dynasties, Chu cultural relics, ancient ceramics, calligraphy and painting, and modern cultural relics.

More than 3000 precious cultural relics were unearthed from the three Han Tombs in Mawangdui, most of which are well preserved. There is a plain yarn sample garment, as thin as cicada wings, 1.28 meters long, with long sleeves, weighing only 49G, and excellent weaving skills. More than 100000 characters of silk books and lost books have been unearthed from tomb 3. The drawing skills of the topographic map unearthed from tomb No.2 of the Han Dynasty are similar to those of modern maps, and they are highly appraised.

The female corpse unearthed from Mawangdui No.1 Han tomb has a complete body, moist body, movable joints and elastic soft tissue, which is a miracle in antisepsis.

When you come to Changsha, you have to come to the museum to see the splendid civilization more than 2000 years ago.

Hunan Provincial Museum is located at No. 50, Dongfeng Road, Kaifu District, Changsha City, Hunan Province. It is the largest museum of history and art in Hunan Province, covering an area of 49000 square meters and a total construction area of 91000 square meters. It is one of the first batch of national first-class museums, one of the eight national key Museums jointly built by the central and local governments, the advanced collective of the national cultural system, and the advanced collective with outstanding contributions built by a strong cultural province. Since its establishment, Hunan Provincial Museum has taken the protection and inheritance of excellent history and culture as its own responsibility, integrating the collection, collection, research, exhibition, education and service of cultural relics. Over the years, as a cultural landmark of Changsha City, it has attracted thousands of tourists. It is a national key Museum representing the regional civilization of China and an important window for people to understand the process of Huxiang civilization and appreciate the mystery of Huxiang culture. After more than half a century of construction and development, Hunan Provincial Museum has made remarkable achievements in exhibition, social education, public service, cultural and creative development, operation and management, etc. it has become one of the most influential museums in China and ranks among the international advanced museums. On October 11, 2018, he was selected into the list of "national primary and secondary students' research and practice education base". On October 1, 2019, Hunan Provincial Museum held exhibitions and performances around the theme of celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the people's Republic of China, presenting 70 years of great changes.

Royal Dragon silk painting

The Warring States period (475-221 BC) is 37.5 cm long and 28 cm wide. The lines of facial expression are delicate and delicate, while the lines of dress expression are smooth and stretch. It just shows the texture and elegant state of the robe. It is known as the outstanding representative of early Chinese portrait painting. People call it the double Bi of pre Qin painting art together with "dragon and Phoenix silk painting".

Shang Dynasty pig shaped bronze statue

It is 40 cm high and 72 cm long. It was unearthed from Jiuhua shipshape mountain in Xiangtan in 1981. The pig unearthed in Jiuhua, Xiangtan is in the shape of a wild boar. There is a cover, and the catcher is incomplete. According to the remaining situation, it will be restored to Phoenix shape. Eyes straight, tusks exposed, ears erect, limbs strong, tail drooping. There is a round tube hole at the front and back of the elbow, which passes through the abdomen and goes straight to the other elbow.

Painted coffin in black

Painted coffin on the shuttle in the clouds of the magical monster. The coffin is painted with red paint inside and black paint outside. The flowing and unrestrained clouds are drawn in the colors of red, white, black, yellow and green. There are more than 100 animals and gods in different shapes interspersed in the clouds, forming 57 pictures with different contents. This is the typical work of cloud pattern lacquer painting in Han Dynasty.

Plain gauze clothes with curved train

In the early Western Han Dynasty, the length of the garment was 160 cm, the length of the sleeve was 195 cm, the width of the cuff was 27 cm, the width of the waist was 48 cm, and the weight of the garment was 48 G. The curved train (triangle skirt) is covered from left to right, and the garment is longer. The style is similar to the deep garment which was popular at that time. Most scholars believe that Xin Zhui, who was the prime minister's wife, wanted to show her gorgeous coat patterns, so she put a single coat on the outside of her robe.

T-shaped silk paintings of Han Tombs

In 1972, a silk painting was found on the cover of the inner coffin on the fourth floor of the No. 1 Han tomb in Mawangdui; in 1973, a painting was also found on the Hunan Provincial Museum on the cover of the inner coffin on the third floor of the No. 3 Han tomb in Mawangdui. These two silk paintings are both wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, so they are generally called t-shaped silk paintings. The content of silk painting is divided into three parts: Heaven, earth and earth. The sky part is painted in the widest place at the top. In the upper right corner, there is a red sun. In the sun, there are golden crowns. In the hibiscus tree under the sun, there are eight suns.

Daheren square tripod with facial pattern

Dahe square tripod with human face pattern is the only tripod decorated with human face pattern in China. In the late Shang Dynasty. It is 38.5 cm in height, 29.8 cm in length and 23.7 cm in width. Unearthed in Huangcai Town, Ningxiang County. The color is green, the body is slightly rectangular, the mouth is slightly larger than the bottom, the two ears are upright, four columnar feet, the upper part of the feet has animal patterns, and the outer surface of the body is decorated with semi relief human face. There are clouds and thunder around the face, horns on both sides of the forehead and claws on both sides of the chin.

Preface to Lanting copied in Tang Dynasty

The texture of the text of this volume is silk, yellow brown, also known as "yellow silk", which is 24.5 cm in length and 65.6 cm in width. At the end of the text, there are "Fu Yin" and "Zi you" under "Si Wen". In front of the volume, Dong Qichang, a famous calligrapher, painter and connoisseur of the Ming Dynasty, wrote the word "Mo Bao" (remains). In the volume, Xiang yuanbian, a connoisseur of calligraphy and painting in the Ming Dynasty, collected many seals. At the end of the volume are the postscripts of Wang Shu, he Tianjun, Tang Yujian, Gu Chun, Liang Zhangju, Liang Tongshu, sun Xingyan, Shi Xuyu, Li Zuoxian and Han Chongzhu in the early Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty.

Display of Han Tombs

The three Han tombs excavated in Mawangdui, Changsha from 1972 to 1974 are one of the most important archaeological discoveries in the 20th century. More than 3000 precious cultural relics and a well preserved female corpse were unearthed from the tomb. Among them, lacquerware represents the highest level of painting industry in the early Han Dynasty; silk shows the achievements of textile technology; silk painting describes the mysterious fantasy of heaven and the desire for eternal life; silk calligraphy inherits the knowledge and wisdom of the sages; female corpse is a miracle in the history of human antisepsis. The 284 cultural relics displayed on display are the cream of the unearthed relics of the Han Tombs in Mawangdui.

Key exhibits

Plain gauze clothes with straight train in Western Han Dynasty

T-shaped silk painting in Western Han Dynasty

Painted coffins in Heidi of Western Han Dynasty

Lacquer Fang with cloud pattern in Western Han Dynasty

Display of bronzes in Shang and Zhou Dynasties

The earliest bronzes in Hunan are Shang Dynasty relics in tonggushan and Shimen Zaoshi, Yueyang, about 3500 years ago. In the late Shang Dynasty, Hunan entered the heyday of bronze culture, and a number of bronzes with both central plains characteristics and local characteristics appeared. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, bronzes with southern characteristics began to appear, and at the same time, bronzes of the state of Chu also appeared, which constituted a situation in which the bronze culture of the state of Chu was the first in Hunan during the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period.

Hunan Shang and Zhou bronzes play an important role in Chinese bronze culture. Hunan Museum has a large number of Shang and Zhou bronzes. The exhibition of Hunan Shang and Zhou bronzes selects 72 bronzes and 11 jades. Although they are only a few, we can see the development of bronze culture in Hunan, as well as the bronze cymbals and animal products The bronze objects of the bronze type enrich the connotation of Chinese bronze culture.

Key exhibits

Bronze statue of Shang Dynasty

Shang pig shaped bronze statue

Bronze cymbals with animal face pattern in Shang Dynasty

Ceramic display of famous kilns

Daoxian yuchanyan pottery is one of the earliest pottery in China. In the middle of Eastern Han Dynasty, celadon was fired in Hunan.

More than 400 porcelain kilns from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty have been found in Hunan. The glaze color of Xiangyin kiln porcelain is crystal clear and transparent, which was favored by the government. Changsha kiln in Tang Dynasty, which has been covered with dust for a long time, is the first flourishing of China's colored porcelain, and underglaze painting is the epitome of folk painting art.

Key exhibits

Jade pot spring vase

Western Jin Dynasty celadon Figurines

Dancing figure porcelain pot with brown spot and decal in Changsha kiln of Tang Dynasty

Tang Dynasty Changsha kiln green glaze brown green color lion's seat poetry porcelain pillow

Calligraphy exhibition in Ming and Qing Dynasties

Calligraphy is an ancient and unique traditional art in China, a unique carrier of Chinese culture, with Chinese characters as its aesthetic representation. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the pursuit of numerous calligraphers formed a diversified system of calligraphy.

The collection of calligraphy works of Ming and Qing Dynasties is abundant, and the art covers a wide range, especially the calligraphy works of Hunan celebrities. The calligraphic works of Ming and Qing Dynasties displayed here are the epitome of the inheritance, innovation and development of Chinese calligraphy by calligraphers all over the country, especially in Hunan Province.

Key exhibits

Li Dongyang's running script poetry volume (Ming Dynasty)

Zhu Yunming's cursive Yueyang Tower record volume (Ming Dynasty)

Zhao Zhiqian's regular script couplet (Qing Dynasty)

Dong Qichang's running script (Ming Dynasty)

Painting exhibition in Ming and Qing Dynasties

On the basis of Tang and Song Dynasties, Ming and Qing painting tends to be personalized, focusing on the two trends of traditional imitation and reform and innovation. The "imitation" school stresses the inheritance of tradition and the expression of techniques, while the "innovation" school pays attention to the connotation of painting and the form of brush and ink. At the same time, it advocates the organic combination of poetry, calligraphy, painting and seal to make the artistic conception of Chinese painting more meaningful, profound and implicit.

The museum has a large collection of paintings of Ming and Qing Dynasties, some of which are rare in China. The 58 works displayed in the exhibition hall are only a small part of the paintings of Ming and Qing Dynasties. However, the development of the painting art of Ming and Qing dynasties can be linked.

Key exhibits

Chen Lu's picture of plum blossom

Qiu Yingfeng River Fishing Map axis

Badashanren pine deer map axis

Yun Shouping flower album

New discovery display

The exhibition hall is located in the northwest of the second floor of the new exhibition building of Hunan Provincial Museum, with an area of about 400 square meters and a total of 133 exhibits (groups). It was on display on January 18, 2003 for more than 10 years

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