Hebi Museum

Hebi Museum

Hebi museum was founded on March 20, 1976, and moved to the intersection of South Huaxia Road and Xiangjiang Road in Qibin District in 2004. It is a comprehensive museum integrating exhibition, collection, scientific research and social education. With a construction area of 18400 square meters, including 8300 square meters of Museum exhibition hall, the museum was officially opened to the public in January 2005, and was rated as a national second-class Museum by the State Administration of cultural relics in May 2009. There are more than 50000 cultural relics in the collection, including 13 categories of porcelain and pottery.

Development history

Hebi museum was founded on March 20, 1976. The new museum is located at the intersection of Huaxia South Road and Xiangjiang Road in Qibin district. The foundation was laid on September 6, 2002. It was completed and moved to the new museum in 2004. The new museum was officially opened to the public in January 2005.

In May 2009, Hebi museum was rated as a national second-class Museum by the State Administration of cultural relics.

architectural composition

area covered

The new Hebi Museum covers an area of 60 mu, with a construction area of 18400 square meters, including 8300 square meters of exhibition hall. The main body of the European architectural style complements with the green pines and cypresses in the wide square, the flower bed green space and the novel and unique leisure corridor, forming a gorgeous and colorful urban landscape.

Exhibition

On the third floor of the museum is the exhibition of urban construction achievements of Hebi City, which vividly shows the long history, glory and beauty of Hebi City. Starting from the basic situation and historical civilization of Hebi City, this paper shows the development changes and brilliant achievements since the establishment of Hebi City, and describes the future prospect of Hebi City.

The fourth floor of the museum is a temporary exhibition hall. From 2005 to may 2014, the Museum held more than 60 temporary exhibitions. The exhibition covers many aspects, such as the excellent historical and cultural relics exhibition introduced from foreign museums, the exotic culture exhibition introduced from foreign countries, and the local artists' works exhibition in Hebi. It has gradually developed into a cultural window to open up the vision of the public, and also a powerful platform to display the cultural life of the public.

On the fifth floor of the museum, there is a permanent display of "long song of Hebi - Exhibition of ancient civilization of Hebi". In September 2012, the exhibition opened to the public with a new look, displaying more than 500 pieces of exquisite cultural relics. In order of history, it shows the historical civilization of Hebi from ancient times to Qing Dynasty. It mainly introduces the local porcelain making, iron smelting and coal mining techniques of Hebi, and gives a new impression to the audience This is a more appropriate historical picture.

Since the completion of the new Municipal Museum, it has held more than 70 exhibitions and received more than 500000 visitors from home and abroad, playing an important role in promoting education and disseminating historical and cultural knowledge.

Collection

There are more than 50000 cultural relics in the museum's collection, including 13 categories of porcelain, pottery, iron, bronze, jade, coins, ancient calligraphy and paintings, fossils, bronze mirrors, stone carvings, silver, mussels, and wood, of which more than 1600 are precious. The Hebi kiln ceramic ware of past dynasties is the most distinctive.

The exhibits are from four sites from prehistory to Warring States Period: huawo site in Gaocun township of Qi County, Liuzhuang site, Weiguo cemetery in Xincun village, and aristocratic cemetery of Eastern Zhou Dynasty in Songzhuang of Qi county.

Huawo site is an early Neolithic cultural site far earlier than the late Shang Dynasty. The site was discovered in March 1979. In the summer of the same year, the Anyang cultural relics management committee carried out the development and trial excavation. Four ash pits were cleared. The excavated artifacts have a unique style. Stone tools are mainly made by grinding, and then by beating. There are shovels, axes, chisels, grinding rods, and a small number of pointed utensils, scrapers and other microliths. Pottery is hand-made, with low temperature and fragile quality. All of them are red pottery. The pottery can be divided into clay and sand. The decoration includes embossing, scratching, cone carving, castor dot, etc. It has small mouth, two ears and three feet. Huawo site is one of the few prehistoric sites in Northern Henan Province. It has its own unique style as well as new Zheng Peiligang and Handan Cishan cultural types. It has important reference value to study the relationship between Pei Ligang and Cishan culture

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The Liuzhuang site in Hebi City is located in the south of Liuzhuang village, dalaidian Town, Hebi City, in the north of Henan Province, on the second and third terraces on the North Bank of the Qihe River, and 662km away from the main canal of the middle route of the south to North Water Diversion Project. The site covers an area of more than 300000 square meters. The main canal of the middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion project occupies an area of about 70000 square meters, and the excavation area is 7700 square meters. It is found that the dasikong type cultural relics of the Yangshao era and a large-scale public cemetery of the pre Shang culture. 336 tombs are distributed within 110 meters from east to west and 55 meters from north to south, with clear layout and regular arrangement. There are more than 400 pieces (sets) of burial objects. The unearthed pottery reflects the historical characteristics of the pre Shang culture, which is characterized by the integration of the surrounding multi-cultural factors in the development process. The site was rated as "the top ten new archaeological discoveries in China in 2005" by the State Administration of cultural relics, China cultural relics newspaper and China Society of archaeology. In 2012, Science Press published the excavation report of Liuzhuang, Hebi, xiaqiyuan cultural cemetery compiled by Henan Bureau of cultural relics.

Xincun, xunxian County, is a cemetery of the aristocrats of the Wei state in the Western Zhou Dynasty, covering an area of more than 15 hectares. It was excavated four times from 1932 to 1933, including eight large tombs, six medium tombs, 54 small tombs, and 14 Che Ma Keng and Ma Keng tombs. Tombs are rectangular vertical tomb, with coffins, straight body buried. Most of the tombs are 3-4 meters long. The tomb is more than 10 meters long, with a north-south passage and a two-story platform. Unearthed artifacts include bronze tripod, Cuan, Cuan, Zun, you, Jue, Cuan, Fangyi, weapons such as GE, spear, halberd and arrowhead, tools such as axe, chisel and chisel, as well as many chariots, horses and miscellaneous utensils, as well as utensils of gold, pottery, jade, mussels, bone horns, bamboo and wood. In 1964, a special issue of archaeology, Xin Village, Junxian County, was published. During the period of the Republic of China, a large number of bronzes were stolen and excavated by the local people and scattered to overseas museums.

A rescue archaeological excavation was carried out from February to November 2009 at the Eastern Zhou noble cemetery in Songzhuang, Qi county. A total of 104 tombs from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to the song and Yuan dynasties have been found, including more than 60 tombs from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, 10 of which have been excavated. There are two kinds of tombs in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, one is A-shaped tombs and the other is vertical tombs in earth pits, both of which are east-west. Six Jia shaped tombs were excavated, which were composed of a passage and a chamber. The tomb road is located in the east of the tomb, with regular straight wall, slope shape and rutting marks at the bottom. The chamber is square. The wall of the tomb is nearly straight or slightly inward, in the shape of a bucket. At the bottom of the tomb, there are two terraces, side boxes, coffins, martyrs and waist pits. The utensils box used to place funerary objects is made of wood materials. The top of the box is covered with wood. There are mat marks on the sides and bottom of the box. The burial utensils were all wooden single coffins and single coffins. There are two kinds of burials, one is lateral bending limb, the other is straight limb. Among the coffins were buried weapons, chariots and horses, bone shells. The waist pit is located under the coffin, with dog bones. Martyrs were mostly distributed in the eastern, northern and western sides of the coffin. There are three vertical cave tombs in tukeng, the plane of which is nearly square or rectangular. The structure of the chamber is basically the same as that of the A-shaped tomb. There are two terraces, side boxes, coffins, martyrs and waist pits. Funerary objects include bronze, jade, pottery, etc. Among them, bronzes are divided into ritual, musical instruments and weapons. There are jade tiger, jade fish, jade ring, jade huang, jade brand and so on; pottery is a combination of fish, pot, bean and pot. There are also copper chariot and horse accessories, seashells, pearls, copper fish, etc. According to the unearthed objects, the age of the tomb should be from the spring and Autumn period to the Warring States period.

Visit information

Opening Hours

8:30-11:50 a.m. and 14:30-17:50 p.m. every day

(group visits need to be made one day in advance)

Traffic information

No.22 bus

geographical position

Hebi museum is located in Hebi City in the north of Henan Province. Hebi City is a transitional zone from the eastern foot of Taihang mountain to the North China Plain. It is 475km away from Beijing in the north, 110km away from Zhengzhou in the south, and only 50km away from Anyang. As the capital of Shang Dynasty and the capital of Wei state, Hebi was an important economic and political center at that time. In the Warring States period, Hebi was the capital of Zhao state, Zhongmou.

Honors

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

Address: Xiangjiang Road

Longitude: 114.297155

Latitude: 35.722976

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