Xinyang Museum

The Xinyang museum is open to the public free of charge. It is a symbolic public cultural facility in Xinyang City. There are more than 20000 collections of bronzes, gold and silver, jade, stone tools, ceramics, wood lacquerware, animal and plant fossils, among which there are nearly 2000 sets of cultural relics above the third level. Among them, the bronzes are the most famous.

There are seven basic exhibition halls in Xinyang Museum. With the theme of "Huaishang hometown - Xinyang historical and cultural tour", and the sequence of the historical development of Southern Henan, the museum comprehensively and multi dimensionally displays and interprets the cultural atmosphere of Xinyang through six parts, namely, ancient homeland, Huaishang princes, king style of Chu, tiantiangenqin, tea flavor, Yufeng and chuyun.

Xinyang Museum

Xinyang museum is located in the middle of Xinba street, Yangshan New District, Xinyang City, Henan Province. It covers an area of 34000 square meters, with a total construction area of nearly 30000 square meters. In April 2008, Xinyang Museum started construction. On September 8, 2010, Xinyang Museum opened to the public.

According to the information on the official website of the museum in May 2020, the exhibition area of Xinyang museum is nearly 10000 square meters. There are more than 20000 sets of bronzes, gold and silver, jade, stone tools, ceramics, wood lacquerware, animal and plant fossils, among which there are nearly 2000 sets of cultural relics above grade 3. Among the cultural relics in the collection, bronzes are the most famous.

In September 2018, the State Administration of cultural relics and China Museum Association awarded Xinyang Museum as a national second-class Museum.

In December 2019, Xinyang Museum won the title of "advanced collective of Henan Museum free opening work".

Historical evolution

In April 2008, Xinyang Museum started construction.

On September 8, 2010, Xinyang Museum opened to the public.

architectural composition

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Xinyang Museum covers an area of 34000 square meters, with a total construction area of nearly 30000 square meters, including an exhibition area of nearly 10000 square meters. There are seven basic exhibition halls in Xinyang Museum, which are Huaishang's hometown, ancient homeland, Huaishang's princes, Chu's Wangfeng, tiantiangenqin, tea's Tianxiang, Yu's chufeng.

Basic Exhibition

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Xinyang Museum has an exhibition area of nearly 10000 square meters and seven basic exhibition halls. They are preface hall, ancient homeland, princes of Huaishang, Wang Feng of Chu, Gen Qin of the world, Tianxiang of tea, Chu Yun of Yu, which show the history of Huaishang civilization in Xinyang.

 

Lobby

Under the blue starry sky in the preface hall, two giant cultural columns stand in the middle, representing the Central Plains culture and Chu culture. The column relief and the ring top spray painting belt show the "top ten cultural relics" unearthed in Xinyang. The ancient sunken boat of the Huaihe River 3500 years ago is a physical witness of the passage of boats in the upper reaches of the Huaihe River as early as the Shang Dynasty, and is one of the treasures of our museum.

 

Ancient homeland

The exhibition hall of ancient homeland displays ancient animal and plant fossils unearthed in Huaibin, Gushi and Pingqiao, and Neolithic cultural relics unearthed in Huangchuan, Huaibin and Shihe. As early as 8000 years ago, a considerable scale of primitive agriculture appeared on both sides of the Huaihe River in Xinyang, and a large number of Neolithic cultural relics were discovered. Pei Ligang culture, Yangshao culture, Qujialing culture, Longshan culture and so on have gathered here.

 

Huaishang princes

The exhibition hall of Huaishang princes mainly displays "Huaishang culture". During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, it was the southern barrier of the Central Plains Dynasty. A large number of exquisite bronzes were unearthed in Luoshan Tianhu, which is known as the "little Yin Ruins". According to research, it was the cemetery of Xiguo in the Shang Dynasty. After the Shang Dynasty, there were more than 10 vassal states in the upper reaches of the Huaihe River, such as Shen, Xi, Jiang, Huang, Xian, Bai, Lai, Liao, fan, etc "Huaishang culture".

 

The king of Chu

Wang Feng exhibition hall of Chu mainly displays the development sequence and characteristics of Chu culture in Xinyang, excavates the stories behind the cultural relics, and reproduces the beautiful chime music and dance of Chu palace, so that the audience can be influenced by history in an unforgettable experience. Xinyang is known as "the head of Chu and the tail of Yu". The Chengyang site is the largest, best preserved and of great archaeological value among the six existing Chu cities in China. It is a key cultural relic protection unit in China. In 1957, Chu tombs No. 1 and No. 2 of Changtaiguan were excavated here, and the music "Dongfanghong" played by the chime bells from the tombs was widely recognized with China's first man-made earth satellite It's a good story. In addition, it is also the southernmost city where Confucius traveled all over the world, and the allusions of "Ye Gong asked the government" and "dead sheep mended the law" also happened here..

 

The root of the world

The exhibition hall of tianxiagenqin mainly shows three times in history that Gushi people from Xinyang moved to Fujian from the south, especially the historical contributions of Chen Zheng, Chen Yuanguang and his son, Wang Chao and Wang Shenzhi in the Tang Dynasty. The exhibition is connected by a bridge, implying "hometown of overseas Chinese"; transplanting the tree expression of biology to design a magical "root relative tree"; introducing "virtual host", electronic book flipping, computer touch screen "Minnan people and Hakka people", "dialect and local language to know family", etc.

 

The fragrance of tea

The exhibition hall of tea rhyme Tianxiang consists of three units: "Xinyang asking tea", "Jiaming Tiancheng" and "the art of tea". The cheyun tea house, one of the "eight tea houses" in the late Qing Dynasty, is partially restored, and the "red tea house" is set up to display tea extracts, tea sets, tea art, tea customs and tea affinity. The tea sets displayed here are warm, simple and grand, and all of them are full of a strong flavor of life. With a cup of green tea, you can be at ease. This is the true portrayal of Xinyang people's pursuit of simple and warm life.

 

Yu Feng and Chu Yun

The exhibition hall of Yufeng chuyun shows Xinyang mountains, rivers, cultural scenes, folk customs and intangible cultural heritage through real experience and scene interaction, forming Xinyang folk customs Grand View Garden. The story of a small town has a long history.

 

Special exhibition

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Since the special exhibition was set up on September 8, 2010, Xinyang Museum has held 49 special exhibitions, including "collection exhibition of Zhongshan China Radio Museum", "picture exhibition of Jigong Mountain Villa", "calligraphy and painting exhibition commemorating the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China", "industry and Information Technology Exhibition" during the tea culture festival and Jigong Mountain International Culture Research Association "Cup" Xinyang first industrial photography competition picture exhibition, "ancient gaze - Ancient African Art Exhibition", "dream back to tea city - Li Jiayuan calligraphy exhibition", "pen and ink thousands of miles old family style - Liu Baoguang. Zeng Jian calligraphy report Exhibition", Henan Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee "accelerate the transformation of leadership, boost the construction of Central Plains Economic Zone" calligraphy and painting photography competition tour exhibition, "Spring Song" - the first member works exhibition of Chinese Calligraphers Association in Xinyang City, the famous family calligraphy and painting exhibition of the 20th International Tea Culture Festival in Xinyang, and the special exhibition of cultural relics donated by Mr. Hua Shaofeng Entering Xinyang -- mianbei · famous extension of Xi'an stele forest and Xi'an stele forest, Xinyang calligraphy works exhibition, celebrating the 65th anniversary of the founding of the CPPCC and Shi Yeming calligraphy works exhibition, "love China and pursue dreams" Xinyang calligraphy fine art exhibition, the first "xizhouren calligraphy and painting art exhibition", "welcome the new year · send Xianghe" New Year Painting spring joint exhibition, Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts Professor Li Zhixiang art exhibition Danqingrun tea town - the 23rd Xinyang International Tea Culture Festival, the invitation exhibition of national famous calligraphers and painters' works, the Chinese soul and the Chinese dream -- the hometown exhibition of Cao Yong's oil paintings, Mr. Zhang Zhenqi's paintings, the Pingqiao District Village photography competition, the painting and calligraphy exhibition commemorating the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Anti Japanese War, the painting and calligraphy exhibition commemorating the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Anti Japanese War, the Nanyang Chinese painting rubbings exhibition, the Dabie Mountains The charity calligraphy and painting exhibition of helping the disabled, the first calligraphy exhibition of Xinyang City, the first calligraphy exhibition of Xinyang City, the calligraphy exhibition of Li Qiang, the atmosphere of the imperial capital, the city and life of Beijing during the Qianlong period, the second photography exhibition of the old district, and the first Xinyang tea culture calligraphy competition of "zhengshantang · Xinyang red cup" commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the long march of the Red Army It also includes the Nomination Exhibition of famous calligraphers' works, the 2016 Xinyang tour exhibition of small oil paintings in Henan Province of beautiful Central Plains, the joint exhibition of Xinyang genealogy and family training hall, the exhibition of "Long March magnificent epic" to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Long March, the exhibition of Wang Fuping's watercolor works, the photography exhibition of "civilized Xinyang in my eyes", the exhibition of master Lanwu's works, and the Memorial Exhibition of Red Cross One belt, one road, 80th anniversary paintings and 100th anniversary paintings and calligraphy, the painting of Xinyang, the Xinyang, Xinyang, Xinyang, Shanghai and Shanghai. The second calligraphy exhibition and the oil painting in the Central Plains of China ——Hundreds of oil painters from Henan Province enter Xinyang painting exhibition, calligraphy tea town - National Painting and calligraphy works invitation exhibition, silk road porcelain language - Jingdezhen Ceramic Art Exhibition, calligraphy poetry · famous artists and Qingchuan Pavilion painting and calligraphy collection exhibition

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