Museum of Chinese characters
The Museum of Chinese characters is located at No. 656, east section of Renmin Avenue, Anyang City, Henan Province. Approved by the State Council, it is a national special museum integrating the functions of cultural relic protection, display and scientific research, and also the first museum with the theme of writing in China.
The museum is a group of post-modern buildings with modern architectural style and the charm of the court of the Shang Dynasty. It is composed of Zifang, square, main hall, Cangjie hall, science museum, research center, exchange center and other buildings, covering a total area of 143 Mu and a total construction area of 34500 square meters. A total of 4123 cultural relics have been collected, including 305 first-class cultural relics, involving oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, bamboo slips and silk calligraphy, the history of the development of Chinese characters, the history of Chinese calligraphy, ethnic minority characters, world characters, etc. On November 29, 2007, the first phase of the Chinese character museum project started, and officially opened on November 26, 2009.
The first batch of national primary and secondary school students' research and practice education bases.
Development history
On April 20, 2001, Anyang City started the work of applying for the world cultural heritage of Yin Ruins. Li Keqiang approved that the text museum should be built in Anyang.
On August 14, 2002, when Li Keqiang was investigating in Anyang, he demanded that the construction of the Museum of Chinese characters should be approved as soon as possible, and be fully supported as a key project supervised by the Henan provincial government.
On November 12, 2005, the reply of the general office of the State Council on the naming of Anyang character Museum (GBH [2005] No. 94) approved that "the name of the character museum to be built in Anyang, Henan Province can be designated as" Henan Chinese character Museum ".
On October 20, 2007, the letter of the general office of the State Council on Approving the renaming of Henan Museum of Chinese characters (GBH [2007] No. 107) approved that "the proposed Henan Museum of Chinese characters can be renamed as the Museum of Chinese characters".
On November 29, 2007, the first phase of the project started.
On November 16, 2009, the Museum of Chinese characters opened.
In November 2019, the alliance of "watch Chinese characters" was established.
Exhibition Profile
Collection
Important events
From January 6 to 7, 2008, Shan Jixiang, then director of the State Administration of cultural relics, investigated and guided the construction of the Museum of Chinese characters.
On the afternoon of October 22, 2008, Zhao Weisui, then Vice Minister of the Ministry of culture, inspected the construction of the Museum of Chinese characters.
On the morning of March 13, 2009, Guo Shucheng, then deputy director of Henan Provincial Department of culture, inspected the construction of the Museum of Chinese characters.
On May 15, 2009, Yang Liping, then director of Henan Provincial Department of culture, and his party inspected the construction of the Museum of Chinese characters.
On September 10, 2009, Dr. Datuk Seri Huang Yanyan, then Minister of tourism of Malaysia, led an overseas tourism delegation to visit the Museum of Chinese characters.
On the afternoon of January 19, 2010, Guo Yinqiang, then director of Luoyang Municipal Bureau of cultural relics, and Wang Xiu, director of Luoyang Museum, visited the Museum of Chinese characters.
On the afternoon of October 16, 2010, Host Zhao Zhongxiang visited the Museum of Chinese characters.
On the morning of March 5, 2011, nearly 40 Linzhou reporters of Anyang daily visited the Museum of Chinese characters.
On the afternoon of May 29, 2012, the special protection brigade carried out fire safety knowledge training in the square in front of the Chinese character Museum.
On April 20, 2013, the Chinese character Museum carried out an elevator rescue drill.
On the afternoon of November 13, 2014, the Chinese character Museum Volunteer Service Group's character culture on campus propaganda activities entered the douuying primary school in Anyang City.
On the afternoon of January 16, 2015, the Chinese character Museum, together with the Civilization Office of Beiguan District and the Anyang tuberculosis prevention and Control Institute, went to xiyucao village to carry out cultural and medical activities in the countryside and to express sympathy to the people in need.
On the afternoon of April 21, 2016, the Chinese character Museum Volunteer Service Group entered Anyang NO.4 middle school to promote the character culture on campus.
On November 16, 2019, the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Chinese characters museum will be held in Anyang, Henan Province.
Venue features
China Chinese characters Museum Chinese characters are the main background of the world, with Chinese characters as the main body, and China's ethnic minority characters as an important component. With full and accurate information, rigorous layout, scientific methods and modern exhibition methods, the Chinese characters show the same Chinese characters, brilliant culture and brilliant civilization, and collect the essence of Chinese characters in the past dynasties, and explain the configuration features of ancient Chinese characters. And evolution.
At the same time, from the unique perspective of ancient Chinese characters, it reflects the research results of Oriental Chinese civilization and Chinese language and characters, which has the dual mission of popularization and academic.
The completed Museum of letters shows the essence of the Chinese characters in the past dynasties through the exhibition of cultural relics and modern display methods, showing the configuration and evolution of ancient Chinese characters, as well as the research achievements of China's civilization and China's language.
Exhibition hall introduction
The first exhibition hall in the history of Chinese characters
There have been several ancient ideographic and phonographic characters in the history of world civilization, such as the Western Asian pictograph, the Egyptian hieroglyphic, the Indian halaban and so on. They are important symbols of early civilization, but due to various reasons, they are submerged by history. Only Chinese characters stand in the forest of World National culture with their character of keeping pace with the times and broad tolerance . This exhibition hall mainly introduces the emergence and evolution of Chinese characters.
The second exhibition hall of the development history of Chinese characters
Inscriptions on bronze ware in Shang and Zhou dynasties are the general name of inscriptions on bronze ware. Inscriptions on bronze ware have been used for more than 1200 years. Among many pre Qin characters, inscriptions on bronze ware occupy an important position. It reflects the basic situation of the development and changes of Chinese characters in more than 1000 years before Qin Dynasty unified characters with small seal script. This exhibition hall mainly introduces the emergence and development of Jinwen.
The third exhibition hall of the development history of Chinese characters
Lishu, with its strong practicability and easy to write, replaced Xiaozhuan as the main font in Han Dynasty. In more than 400 years of the Han Dynasty, calligraphy changed from official script to Zhangcao, kaishu and Xingshu. The continuous change of calligraphy style makes the art of Chinese character calligraphy develop continuously, and injects fresh aura and vitality into Chinese traditional culture. This exhibition hall mainly introduces the development and evolution of Lishu.
The fourth exhibition hall of the development history of Chinese characters
Among the 55 ethnic minorities in China, more than 20 ethnic groups use their own characters in varying degrees. In the current national characters, Mongolian, Tibetan, Uygur and other ethnic groups use the traditional national characters formed in history. The literature and cultural relics of these characters provide valuable information for us to understand China's ancient social system and social life. This exhibition hall mainly introduces the writing and development of ethnic minorities in China.
The fifth exhibition hall of the development history of Chinese characters
In the early stage, people communicated information by saving seal cutting, but the concept of characters had not yet been formed. Later, oracle bone inscriptions began to appear when they were carved on tortoise shells and animal bones. In the Yin and Shang Dynasties, a large number of characters were carved on pottery, jade and bronze, which gradually became mature. With the invention of papermaking and printing, people began to compile books by themselves. In the 1970s, Chinese characters entered the computer age, which made Chinese character information processing technology from scratch. This exhibition hall mainly introduces the discovery and evolution of text carrier.
Interactive and imaging Hall
With the continuous development of society, interaction has become a common way of communication between people, and interactive teaching has become a mainstream teaching method. This exhibition hall makes people understand the development and evolution of Chinese characters more intuitively by means of interaction and images.
Special exhibition hall
Calligraphy is the writing art of Chinese characters and the symbol of Chinese traditional culture, which is unique in the world's cultural and artistic treasure house. This exhibition hall mainly displays all kinds of calligraphy and calligraphy introduction.
Honors
In January 2011, five construction projects of the Museum of Chinese characters won the Luban Prize of China Construction Engineering.
In May 2011, the basic Exhibition "history of the development of Chinese characters" of the Museum of Chinese characters won the "special prize of the Ninth National Top Ten exhibitions".
On March 1, 2016, the Chinese character Museum won the honorary title of "Henan foreign publicity and interview base" and the "advanced unit of foreign publicity" in 2015.
On June 1, 2016, the Museum of Chinese characters was awarded the "international cultural exchange base for overseas Chinese in China".
In September 2019, it was named "national patriotic education demonstration base" by the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee.
In December 2019, it won the award of "excellent exhibition work of Henan Museum" and the titles of "advanced collective of social education work of Henan Museum" and "advanced collective of free opening work of Henan Museum".
Organization setup
office
Responsible for the museum's comprehensive coordination, secretarial, personnel, financial, reception and other work.
Cultural relics collection management department
To be responsible for the collection and management of cultural relics, the protection and research of cultural relics
Chinese PinYin : Zhong Guo Wen Zi Bo Wu Guan
Museum of Chinese characters
Shuangyuewan scenic spot. Shuang Yue Wan Guan Jing Dian
Former residence of Soong Ching Ling in Shanghai. Shang Hai Song Qing Ling Gu Ju
Tonglushan ancient copper mine site. Tong Lv Shan Gu Tong Kuang Yi Zhi
Wangcheng Jijiang Bridge. Wang Cheng Wei Jiang Qiao