Xiangfan Museum

Xiangfan Museum

synonym

Xiangfan Museum generally refers to Xiangfan Museum

Xiangyang museum is a comprehensive museum of historical relics, located in Zhaoming terrace of Xiangyang ancient city.

Zhaomingtai is a high-rise antique building rebuilt in 1993, covering an area of 4202.2 square meters and a construction area of 9739 square meters.

Now there are two basic exhibition halls and three temporary exhibition halls. The exhibition hall covers an area of more than 3200 square meters. The theme of the exhibition is "listening to the sound of civilization" From the collection of nearly 40000 cultural relics, 879 pieces (sets) of all kinds of fine cultural relics are selected, and the clear context and profound details of Xiangyang's history and culture since 200000 years ago are displayed in the form of pictures, objects, models, audio and video.

Development history

Original Museum

The former Xiangyang museum is located in qiaolou, South Street, Xiangcheng District, Xiangyang City. According to historical records, in the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, he yuan, the magistrate, built a platform with two doors and built a Qiao tower on the platform with a base under which a double eaves double-layer brick and wood structure house was built. The base is 40 meters long from north to south, 16 meters wide from east to west and 6.4 meters high. The building is 9.6 meters high, east-west, with two-story double eaves and hard mountain wood structure. It has 5 rooms in width and 3 rooms in depth. It was destroyed at the end of Ming Dynasty. Qing Yongzheng five years (1727) in the site of reconstruction, after many repairs. The ancient Qiao tower faces east in the west, and is a timber structure building with brick and stone platform. After the founding of new China, the building was rebuilt. Later, it used to be a Xiangfan Museum. In November 2002, it became a key cultural relic protection unit in Hubei Province.

Now Xiangyang Museum

Xiangyang museum is located in Zhaoming terrace of Xiangyang ancient city. Zhaoming terrace is a high-rise antique building rebuilt in 1993, covering an area of 4202.2 square meters and a building area of 9739 square meters. Now there are two basic exhibition halls and three temporary exhibition halls. The exhibition hall covers an area of more than 3200 square meters. The basic theme of the exhibition is "listen to the sound of civilization, the charm of the north and the South - Xiangyang ancient history and culture exhibition". 879 pieces (sets) of all kinds of fine cultural relics are selected from the nearly 40000 cultural relics in the collection. The exhibition shows Xiangyang's history and culture since 200000 years ago in the form of pictures, objects, models, audio and video It is a clear context and profound connotation of history and culture since the founding of the people's Republic of China.

Since its establishment in April 1975, nearly 70000 pieces of cultural relics and specimens of different ages and categories have been collected through archaeological excavation, social donation, folk collection, receiving and transferring, and allocation, among which 102 pieces of first-class cultural relics, 378 pieces of second-class cultural relics, and 4709 pieces of third-class cultural relics have been classified. There are a wide range of collections, including pottery, copper, porcelain, iron, lead and tin, gold and silver, lacquer wood, jade, stone, agate, materials, crystal, wax, bone, teeth, horn ware, calligraphy and painting, rubbings, etc. The bronze wares of Shang and Zhou dynasties are especially distinctive. The most concentrated bronzes are those of the vassal states from the late Western Zhou Dynasty to the late spring and Autumn period. The quantity and quality of bronzes with inscriptions rank the first in the province. The vassal states involved include e, Deng, Zeng, Chu, Zheng, Wei, Cai, Huang, Wei, Xian, Ying, Wu, Xu, Xu, Qin, etc. There are also a number of complete cultural relics of the Three Kingdoms period, bronze mirrors from the Warring States period to the Qing Dynasty, rich brick portraits of the northern and Southern Dynasties, small Taoist statues of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and thousands of original rubbings in the collection. The revolutionary cultural relics, documents and materials in the museum are blank.

As a public cultural service organization, Xiangyang Museum has relatively complete service facilities, such as visit notes, guide map, various signboards, electronic display screen, audience rest area, audience opinion book, etc., which warmly remind everyone to visit in a civilized way and timely disseminate service information.

Over the past four years, Xiangyang Museum has received more than 1200 visiting groups at home and abroad. The total number of visitors is 350000 per year, which has achieved good social benefits.

In order to let people understand the cultural relics of Xiangyang Museum and highlight the history and culture of Xiangyang, we have published two Atlas of "cultural relics of Xiangfan Museum collection" and "cultural relics display of Xiangfan Museum", and will soon publish two books of cultural relics popularization, namely "Xiangyang historical traces scanning" and "Xiangyang treasure Tour".

In order to fully display Xiangyang's profound historical and cultural heritage, publicize Xiangyang to audiences at home and abroad, timely report the city's rich civilization achievements to the general public, meet people's diversified cultural appreciation needs, and attract the public to enter the museum for many times, the city museum also actively organizes temporary exhibitions to give full play to the museum's publicity and education function. 18 temporary exhibitions have been held, including "calligraphy and painting exhibition of Chinese modern masters", "memory of Xiangfan - a century old Xiangfan photo exhibition", "the first bronze horse in China - bronze horse unearthed from the tombs of the Three Kingdoms in Fancheng", "important new discoveries exhibition of the third national cultural relics survey in Xiangyang City", "fighting against cultural relics crime and protecting cultural wealth - Gucheng recovery cultural relics exhibition" "Xiangyang fine cultural relics exhibition unearthed from chenpo tomb", "Xiangyang good wind day - the first Xiangyang cursive calligraphy exhibition", "Xiangyang good wind day - the first Xiangyang cursive calligraphy exhibition", "spring of Xiangyang cable in Chutian - calligraphy and painting exhibition of Wang Taixiong and Wang Shilin", "cultural relics exhibition donated by Qin Furong", "glorious course and great achievements - Celebrating the 90th week of the founding of the Communist Party of China" "Towards the Republic in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the 1911 Revolution", "Jiang Jialin's art works exhibition", "Liu Changbin's art works exhibition of poets chanting Xiangyang", "the spirit of the dragon, the flying of the dragon in Xiangyang, the descendants of the dragon" and "the national flower contending for beauty, the beauty of the country, and the prosperity of the people" - CAI Mingzhen, Zhang Jinpeng's art exhibition of calligraphy and painting, and Wang Binkun's ticket art exhibition 》"Seven years of grassroots travel - the cultural heritage protection achievement exhibition of the ear picker" and so on. He went to Beijing successively to participate in the exhibition of the achievements of the special action against cultural relic crime in key areas of China, to Wuhan to participate in the exhibition of Jingchu Yinghua, a joint exhibition of cultural relics collected by museums of the whole province, and to Xi'an to participate in the exhibition of the origin and development of ancient Chinese wall paintings. In 2013, we actively carried out the "Xiangyang treasure pictures Tour Exhibition" and sent the exhibition to schools, communities, troops and other places.

Xiangyang is a famous historical and cultural city with a history of more than 2800 years. There are tens of thousands of precious cultural relics in Xiangyang. Zhaomingtai, where the museum is located, is the landmark of Xiangyang City and the leader of the longest antique Culture Street North Street in China. Xiangyang has always been a place for military strategists and literati. There are abundant cultural relics on the ground and underground. There are more than 10000 cultural relics in the museum, among which bronzes, ceramics, ancient calligraphy and paintings, and ancient stone carvings are the most valuable. A cultural relic expert said: "the statue of Confucius painted by Wu Daozi and the stone carving of Meng Haoran painted by Wang Wei are all national treasures. The number of bronzes also ranks first in the province. To a great extent, the Xiangyang Museum concentrates on the artistic essence and historical treasures that have been discovered in Xiangyang for thousands of years.

Xiangyang New Museum

The new Xiangyang museum is located in fenghuangshanchong, east of Xian, Xiangcheng District, covering an area of 212 Mu and a construction area of 30000 square meters. After the completion of the new museum, it is not only a palace to display Xiangyang's fine cultural relics and long history, but also to meet the needs of citizens and tourists for leisure and entertainment. On the north side of the square with hundreds of square meters, the academic lecture hall, exhibition hall and office building of the museum are well arranged. The outside of the main building is modeled on the ancient city of Xiangyang, forming a three story square platform building. In the middle stands a four story Pavilion style building with four corners and four storeys. It is named Fenghuang Pavilion according to the Fenghuang mountain on its back. At that time, Fenghuang Pavilion will echo Zhaoming terrace in Xiangyang City in the north and xianshou Pavilion on Xianshan mountain in the East.

Basic Display

The Xiangyang historical exhibition in the museum takes Xiangyang ancient history and culture as the theme of "listening to the sound of civilization and appreciating the charm of North and South" With an area of 2000 square meters, there is not only an interactive exhibition integrating sound, photoelectric and other technologies with leading technology in the country, but also a fine cultural relics exhibition reflecting the progress of Xiangyang civilization. It is divided into two layers and five units, displaying nearly 1000 exquisite precious cultural relics from the Stone Age to the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Xiangyang.

When you enter the hall, you will see a lacquer painting showing the beautiful scenery of Xiangyang. Lacquered bean with petals of dragon and snake in the Warring States period, a landmark sculpture after lacquer painting, is a fine lacquer ware of the state of Chu. Beside them are the statues of Song Yu, the king of Chu Zhuang and the famous poet of Chu Ci, Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty, Wang can, the seven sons of Jian'an, Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong, the poet of Wolong, Meng Haoran, Zhang Ji and PI Rixiu of Tang Dynasty, and Mi Fu, the great calligrapher of Song Dynasty.

The first exhibition hall Xiangyang in prehistoric period

(200000 years ago - 21st century BC)

Relevant archaeological documents show that human beings lived and multiplied in Xiangfan more than 100000 years ago. This period of history will be restored and displayed with modern science and technology.

In the 1970s, archeologists found Paleolithic stone tools in Shanwan, Taipingdian camp slope and other places near Dengcheng in the north of Fancheng. Especially the archaeologists from 1990 to 2000

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