Cross Lake Bridge Site Museum

The museum, located on the island in the middle of the lake, mainly displays the articles related to the cross Lake bridge culture. Eight thousand years ago, the ancient Xianghu Lake was formed by the backward irrigation of sea water. In order to survive, prehistoric people learned to make boats and fish. Xiaoshan people are convinced that the world's earliest canoe, lacquer bow, rice planting technology, and China's earliest herbal medicine pot all originated from the ancient Xianghu Lake, so they built this museum at the original archaeological site, presenting tourists with the vicissitudes of the past 8000 years. The discovery of the cross Lake Bridge site is another important Neolithic archaeological discovery in Zhejiang Province after the Hemudu site and Liangzhu site. It has pushed forward the civilization history of Zhejiang for a thousand years. The site is a sunken design with a modern sense, which is a rare and clean place.

Cross Lake Bridge Site Museum

Hangzhou Xiaoshan Lake crossing bridge site museum is located in the scenic Xianghu tourist resort, Zhejiang Province. It is a special museum that comprehensively reflects the archaeological excavation and research results of the Lake crossing bridge site. The Museum covers an area of 83 mu, with a construction area of 6800 square meters. The exhibition area is composed of the theme exhibition of "looking back eight thousand years" and the site protection hall. The overall building is in the shape of a boat. It was built in September 2009 It was officially opened to the outside world on June 28.

Development history

The cross Lake Bridge Site Museum is a special museum that comprehensively reflects the archaeological excavation and research results of the cross Lake Bridge site. It was formerly known as the temporary exhibition hall of the cross Lake Bridge site, which opened in April 2006. The new museum was completed and opened on September 28, 2009

Among them, unearthed bone, wood, stone and pottery were collected and displayed. The construction area is more than 6800 square meters, with an investment of 100 million yuan.

architectural composition

The whole building of the museum is in the shape of a boat. The shape is inspired by the earliest "canoe" in the world. From the plane shape to the three-dimensional shape, it adopts the "boat" shape organization. It's like a boat indulging in history is about to sail far away, which embodies the essence of the cross Lake Bridge Culture - the interaction between man and nature. The outer wall is made of rusty materials full of historical vicissitudes, which fully shows the massiness and vicissitudes of 8000 year culture.

Collection

Since its first excavation in June 1990, the KUAHUQIAO site has undergone three archaeological excavations. Among them, the canoe and related relics excavated in 2002 are 8000-7000 years ago, which is the earliest canoe in the world. The canoe was made by the fire scorch method. When it was unearthed, a large number of related relics and relics were found around it, such as pile frame structure, wood oar, stone, woven fabric, etc., which will have a significant and far-reaching impact on the study of China's shipbuilding history, transportation history and the world's shipbuilding history. Known as "the world's first boat", the cross Lake Bridge canoe takes the way of original site protection and lies in the ruins hall 6.5 meters below the bottom of Xianghu Lake.

1. The first part: the birth of cross Lake bridge culture

The overall path of human civilization is from mountains and caves to valleys and plains. According to the actual archaeological findings, the earliest Neolithic culture in Zhejiang is distributed in the mountainous area of central Zhejiang, and the cross Lake bridge culture is an early branch of the development from mountain culture to plain culture. The birth of the cross Lake Bridge civilization is closely related to the change of climate and environment. There was an intermittent cooling event in the early Holocene. The low latitude region of East Asia presented a dry climate. In order to survive better, human beings were forced to move downstream with more abundant water resources. Along the river, the people of the ancient lake crossing bridge came to the estuary area which is more suitable for human survival with the budding agricultural cultural tradition. At the time of 8000-7000 years ago, they developed rapidly and created a prehistoric civilization with regional characteristics.

2. The second part: the activities of the people who cross the lake bridge

The people of the bridge have lived on the shore of the ancient Xianghu Lake for nearly a thousand years. Agriculture, gathering, fishing and hunting support their basic life. They made bone, wood and stone tools as tools of production, and made all kinds of exquisite pottery as utensils of daily life. Woodworking technology has also been very developed, and mortise and tenon technology has appeared. It is commendable that people across the lake bridge are very rich in natural knowledge. People across the lake bridge know how to use raw lacquer to decorate wood, and use animal or plant glue to repair pottery. In their spiritual world The religious concept of worshiping fire and Japan has appeared.

3. The third part is the exploration of the origin of agriculture

The origin of agriculture is a historical event of human transformation from a grabbing economy to a productive economy, which is known as the "great agricultural revolution". This paper reveals the three centers of agriculture from the "world agricultural origin map", which shows that the origin of agriculture is closely related to human civilization. At the same time, the living form of human beings has begun to transition from hunting and gathering relying solely on natural resources to food production, among which the most striking is the domestication of animals and plants. More than 50% of the rice remains in the KUAHUQIAO site are obviously different from the common wild rice. They are cultivated rice after domestication. In the cross Lake bridge culture, domestication of wild boar is also an important link.

4. The fourth part focuses on the cross Lake Bridge site

It mainly shows the development process of discovery, excavation, research and cultural naming of the cross Lake Bridge site. The cross Lake Bridge site has been excavated for nearly 20 years since it was first excavated in 1990. The discovery of KUAHUQIAO site has broken the dichotomy system of Hemudu culture and Majiabang culture to Neolithic culture in Zhejiang Province, established a pluralistic pattern of regional culture, and set up a new coordinate for the formation of the overall concept in the study of Neolithic culture in the Yangtze River Basin. During this period, experts from all walks of life and multiple disciplines devoted a lot of efforts to the research and protection of the cross Lake Bridge site.

Visit information

Address: No. 978, Xianghu Road, Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province (near Xianghu Lake).

Transportation: you can get to k716 (get off at KUAHUQIAO station and walk 220 meters to the North) and k707 (get off at KUAHUQIAO station and walk 380 meters to the South).

Address: NO.978, Xianghu Road, Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou (near Xianghu)

Longitude: 120.22306258976

Latitude: 30.14264467514

Tel: 0571-83869286; 0571-8

Tour time: half an hour - 1 hour

Traffic information: take bus No.405, 515 and 716 to Hushan square station and walk about 250 meters

Ticket information: Free

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