Chaohu Museum

Chaohu Museum

Chaohu City Museum is a national three-level Museum, which was founded in 1997. It is located on fangwanggang at the east end of Jiankang Road, adjacent to Qishan and Gushan in the East and Chaohu in the West. It is built on the basis of the restoration and protection of the original site of fangwanggang Han tomb, and belongs to Chaohu City Bureau of culture, radio, television, press and publication. Since its opening to the outside world in 2000, it has made use of its unique advantages to devote itself to the historical research, cultural relic protection, exhibition, social propaganda and education of Chaohu region. It is an important window to publicize and display the long history and splendid culture of Chaohu region.

brief introduction

Chaohu museum was established in 2002 on the basis of fangwanggang Han Tomb Museum, with a planned construction area of 10000 square meters. It is the largest comprehensive museum in Chaohu City and a provincial patriotism education base. At present, there are three parts open to the public, namely "Chaohu Han tomb unearthed cultural relics exhibition", "fangwanggang Han tomb original site exhibition" and "Lingjiatan site unearthed jade exhibition". There are more than 10000 pieces of cultural relics in the collection, including 39 first-class cultural relics, 35 second-class cultural relics and 77 third-class cultural relics. The number of cultural relics and first-class and second-class cultural relics in the museum ranks first in the province. Among the collections, a large number of exquisite lacquer wood and jade unearthed from fangwanggang Han tomb and beishantou Han tomb occupy a prominent position in the country. After the free opening, the museum further enriched the exhibition content, improved the original "Chaohu Han tomb unearthed cultural relics exhibition" and "fangwanggang Han tomb original site exhibition", and opened a new "Lingjiatan site unearthed jade exhibition".

Construction background

The "Han Tomb Museum" of Chaohu museum was founded in 1997. It is a local special museum. It was built on the basis of the restoration and protection of the original site of the Han tomb in fangwanggang. Since its opening to the outside world in 2000, it has made use of its unique advantages to devote itself to the historical research, cultural relic protection, exhibition, social propaganda and education of Chaohu region. As a patriotic education base in Anhui Province, it is an important window to publicize and display the long history and splendid culture of Chaohu. With the development of social economy and city, and in order to meet people's growing spiritual and cultural needs, Chaohu municipal government decided to expand Chaohu Museum on the basis of Han Tomb Museum in 2001. The project started in December 2002. The Chaohu museum under construction covers an area of 80 mu, with a planned construction area of 18000 square meters, of which the main Museum covers an area of 10000 square meters, and the architectural style is imitation of Chinese architecture. The newly expanded Chaohu museum is unique in integrating regional culture with the spirit of the times.

Construction progress

People who have visited Chaohu museum have this feeling. After walking through the magnificent gate and steps, they find that there is a pool and vegetable field in front of them, and there is no museum area for cultural relics exhibition. Recently, the reporter learned from Chaohu museum that the main building of Chaohu Museum, which started construction in 2002, was stranded several times due to the lack of funds. Only three antique buildings and gatehouses built in the early stage remained vacant for nine years.

However, since 2018, Chaohu City Museum has started to build a new museum, and the basic construction has been completed so far. The total land area of the new and old venues is 50012.28 square meters, with a total construction area of 9933.41 square meters (including 9410.45 square meters above ground and 522.96 square meters below ground). The two venues are divided into three floors above ground and one floor below ground. The total height of the building is about 20.8 meters.

Basic Display

The exhibition is mainly based on the unearthed cultural relics from fangwanggang Han tomb and beishantou Han tomb in Chaohu. The exhibits are divided into bronze, jade, lacquer wood and so on. It expounds the historical status and important influence of Han culture in Chaohu Area.

The exhibition of the original site of the coffins in fangwanggang Han tomb shows the large-scale coffins in the original site of fangwanggang Han tomb. This paper introduces the structural characteristics, excavation and achievements of the coffins in fangwanggang Han tomb.

"Lingjiatan site unearthed jade Treasures Exhibition" introduces the splendid culture and highly developed jade production technology of Lingjiatan site, a national key cultural relic protection unit, more than 5000 years ago.

Collection

overview

Chaohu Museum of Anhui Province, with a collection of 4326 cultural relics, including a number of "national treasure" level cultural relics, was planned to be built in the late 1990s. Due to the special geographical location of Chaohu Lake in history, important cultural relics have been discovered in recent years, and the collection of cultural relics has been increasing.

At present, a large part of the thousands of unearthed cultural relics in the collection are from the Western Han Dynasty, among which there are many treasures. It is a unique piece of jade from the Western Han Dynasty collected in the museum. There are also a number of such precious national first-class cultural relics in the museum.

Gold plated copper rosefinch in Western Han Dynasty

The rosefinch stands on the four petaled flower with its feet straight up, its head raised and its tail raised to make it fly. Gilded surface, beautiful shape, is a rare art treasures.

Rosefinch with ring treading tiger

The vessel is tubular, with three short feet. On one side, a rosefinch stands on a tiger, and on the other side, a bear is carved as a handle. The rosefinch is lively, the tiger is vigorous and powerful, and the bear has both shape and spirit. The shape of the whole ware is unique, and the composition is ingenious, which can be called Hanyu boutique.

Blue and white jade with tiger pattern and hook

The shape of the vessel is larger. The uncinate body is flat and rectangular, and the uncinate part is slightly protruding. The pattern adopts the combination of openwork and relief, the head and hook are carved into the shape of dragon head, and the left and right sides are carved with a tiger, the head of the tiger is opposite.

White jade wearing cloud dragon pattern ring

The jade is crystal clear and white. The ring is flat. The hidden method is used to carve the decoration. Bear, tiger, deer, monster and flowers and plants are engraved on the front, and six dragons are engraved on the back.

Architectural design

Chaohu museum is located at the east end of the South District of the economic and Technological Development Zone. You can see a huge Han que archway standing on the hillside from the east of Jiankang road to the end of the road. The front of the archway is carved with a strong inscription of "Chaohu City Museum", and the back is engraved with soft and simple designs of dragon, tiger, rosefinch and Xuanwu commonly used in Han Dynasty.

Stepping over the high and thick stone threshold of the hanque memorial archway, we are faced with hundreds of square meters of square paved with large blue stones. On the east side of the square, there are long blue stone steps, each of which has 18 steps on a platform, with a total of five floors. There are stone railings on both sides of the steps, and the top of the stone railings is carved in the style of the roof of the Han Dynasty. 1、 On the platform of the third and fifth floors, there is a subsidiary hall. The shape of the three auxiliary halls is the same. The whole building is in the shape of a curved ruler, with blue brick walls and black tile roofs. The red brackets under the eaves are thick and powerful. The floor of the house is paved with small gray stone slabs, and the interior walls are snow-white.

"After the completion of Chaohu City Museum, it will be divided into general history museum area, Han Dynasty Material Civilization Museum area, revolutionary cultural relics museum area, temporary exhibition area and other parts.". "There are thousands of cultural relics in the museum's collection, including a number of national first, second and third level precious cultural relics," the staff of the municipal museum said

After the completion of the new museum, it will echo with the built Han Tomb Museum in fangwanggang, provide an image explanation for the long history and profound cultural accumulation of Chaohu City, and provide a good historical and cultural education base for the general public and young students.

Free access

According to the requirements, on March 26, 2008, the Municipal Museum officially opened to the public free of charge. Over the past two years, the Municipal Museum has always adhered to the basic policy of cultural relics work and the requirements of "Three Closeness", closely focused on the free opening of museums, carefully organized, innovated measures and optimized services to ensure the safe, standardized and orderly development of free opening. After the free opening, the city museum has comprehensively updated and upgraded the security and anti-theft monitoring and alarm system, thoroughly repaired and reconstructed the fire alarm system, and added fire-fighting facilities. In order to ensure the quality of each visitor, the free opening is implemented. The number of visitors is limited to 1000 per day in the form of free tickets. At the same time, the construction of the team of commentators is strengthened.

After the free opening, the museum further enriched the exhibition content, improved the original "Chaohu Han tomb unearthed cultural relics exhibition" and "fangwanggang Han tomb original site exhibition", and opened a new "Lingjiatan site unearthed jade exhibition". Since the free opening of the Municipal Museum, the number of visitors to the museum has increased sharply, which is 20 times of that before the free opening. In 2009, it received 150000 visitors. It is reported that from March 2008 to April 2010, it has received 300000 visitors, including nearly 100000 minors, accounting for one third of the visitors. Free opening expands the service space of the museum as a public cultural facility, increases its popularity and attraction, and expands the penetration and influence of excellent culture.

Cooperative cause

In 2008, Chaohu City Museum reached an agreement with Anhui University, and Chaohu City Museum officially became the employment practice base for college students of History Department of Anhui University.

The reason why Anhui University chose Chaohu as an internship base for college students of history department is that Chaohu City has a profound cultural heritage. The Hexian ape man site, Yinshan ape man site and Lingjiatan site all have important influence and significance. The internship can play a greater role in training students. Many students from the Department of history of an university are practicing with the archaeological team in Lujiang County. Chaohu Lake is rich in cultural and museum resources, but there are many problems

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