Luoyang Jinshi character Museum

Luoyang Jinshi character Museum

Luoyang Jinshi character museum was founded in March 2012. It is the only character special museum founded by private capital after the Chinese character Museum. It was funded by Zhu Xiaojie and Zhu Xiaohui and is located at No.1 Longmen Avenue (in China Garden) in Luoyang. The museum is mainly engaged in the collection, protection, research, display and exchange of literary relics. In the exhibition hall, material materials and illustrations are used. The contents of the exhibition are arranged according to the order of the history of Chinese characters, mainly in the Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, song and Yuan Dynasties and other mature characters. At present, there are more than 2000 literary relics and specimens, covering different historical periods and regions of Chinese civilization. It is a treasure house for studying ancient Chinese calligraphy and calligraphy.

Development history

In October 2012, Luoyang Jinshi character Museum carried out digital construction, and cooperated with Baidu Encyclopedia to build Luoyang Jinshi character Museum in Encyclopedia digital museum. The digital museum will be able to experience nearly 100 pieces of exhibits of Luoyang Jinshi character Museum online, focusing on displaying ancient character specimens and objects of various categories.

architectural composition

Luoyang Museum of inscriptions is the only one with private capital. Its collections are mainly divided into the following categories: Brick inscriptions of Han and Jin Dynasties, tile inscriptions of Northern Wei Dynasty, stone inscriptions of past dynasties and historical materials of epigraphy. Luoyang Jinshi character Museum has more than 100 ancient books of Jinshi, such as Shuowen Jiezi, Yushi, Jinshi cuibian, Huanyu Zubei Lu, hanxiping Shijing canzi Jilu, etc. in order to protect and inherit the precious cultural heritage, collecting historical materials of Jinshi has become another important task of Luoyang Jinshi character Museum. In order to better protect the cultural relics with characters left by our ancestors and promote the great development of Luoyang culture, it is the fundamental purpose of Luoyang Jinshi character Museum.

Collection

Brick inscriptions in the Eastern Han Dynasty

It is made of discarded City bricks with plain surface in the Han Dynasty and carved with a sharp tool from right to left. This kind of carving method makes the brick text lose the charm of pen and ink to a great extent, and forms a kind of vigorous and natural gold and stone flavor. Different from the official script on the inscriptions at that time, it did not have the change of broad head and swallow tail, nor did it have the obvious brushstroke, nor did it have the style of strict rules and regulations like Xiping Shijing, ritual stele, caoquan stele, etc. it is a kind of official script style that is different from both the Han Dynasty stele and bamboo slips and silk script, and it is a pure used and unmodified calligraphy style, Its only writing consciousness is simplicity, which is also the important reason for the naivety and simplicity of these brick inscriptions.

Brick inscriptions in Western Jin Dynasty

The Western Jin Dynasty is in the primary stage of epitaph development. The epitaph of Western Jin Dynasty was inherited from Cao Wei and Yu Xu, so the form of epitaph was not fixed. The calligraphy style of brick writing in the Western Jin Dynasty inherits the legacy of Han and Wei Dynasty brick writing and has a new development. His calligraphy is not lost in the Han and Wei brick bold and simple bearing, and in the structure and style than the Han and Wei brick changes more abundant. In addition, the number of other characters and variant characters in brick writing in the Western Jin Dynasty is increasing, which is also a feature of folk calligraphy, especially in this period. However, because the folk calligraphy culture is not high, calligraphy without formal training, and can be "unscrupulous", random out of the fun. This is the most basic feature of ancient brick writing, so it is more treasured by Jinshi and calligraphers.

Tile inscriptions in the Northern Wei Dynasty

The Northern Wei Dynasty was a model of the integration of foreign culture and Central Plains culture. After Emperor Xiaowen carried out the reform of Chinese culture, what he showed in culture and art was the inheritance of Han culture. There is no big breakthrough in the evolution of the characters in this period. Generally speaking, people will take "oblique drawing and tight knot" as the ultimate description of calligraphy in the Northern Wei Dynasty, but this only applies to the inscription calligraphy in Luoyang period, not to the folk calligraphy at that time. There are two remarkable characteristics of the tile inscriptions in the Northern Wei Dynasty: one is the folk craftsman's calligraphy, the other is the carving before burning. We can see that these tile inscriptions appear in different styles, such as official script, regular script, running script and cursive script. Some of them are extremely fluent in writing, while others are extremely clumsy. The reason for these differences is probably related to the cultural level of the engravers. At the same time, some craftsmen may not be able to write and need to be engraved by others, so the signatures of many different contents are similar to those written by one person. "Carve first and burn later" means to carve words on the unfinished tile before firing. Because the tile is soft and can move the pen freely, the characters formed are closer to the real level of the writer than the stone tomb brick.

Inscriptions of past dynasties

The best inscriptions of Xiping Shijing in Eastern Han Dynasty are in Luoyang, the best inscriptions of Santi Shijing in Cao Wei Dynasty are in Luoyang, the best inscriptions of Biyong in Western Jin Dynasty are in Luoyang, and the best inscriptions of Longmen 20pin in Northern Wei Dynasty are in Luoyang. Luoyang in the Tang Dynasty, as the cultural center of China, is a place where scholars gather. A large number of precious inscriptions are also left in Luoyang, which is the soul of the cultural capital of Luoyang. The inscriptions in Luoyang Museum of inscriptions are mainly epitaphs of the Northern Dynasties and Tang Dynasty. These epitaphs record all kinds of social activities of the ancients, and provide rare material materials for the study of cultural and martial arts of several dynasties. They are important evidence for proving history, rectifying history and supplementing history. They can be regarded as a history of stone inscriptions, an ancient archives and a research center It is a treasure house of ancient Chinese calligraphy.

Visit information

Opening Hours

9:00-18:00 am

All year round

Address: No.1 Longmen Avenue, Luoyang (in China Garden)

Address: China Garden, Luoyang

Longitude: 112.4584

Latitude: 34.6561

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