Qingpu Museum

There are nearly ten thousand pieces in the collection of Qingpu Museum, whose shape is like a flying butterfly. By means of sound, light, electricity and other high-tech means, combined with scene restoration, materials, pictures, multimedia and other means, more than 1000 pieces of cultural relics are displayed. The treasures of the town hall include black pottery bird shaped statue, chicken heart shaped jade jar, black pottery bamboo woven lid jar, etc. The museum, designed by famous architect Xing Tonghe, has become an important place for public culture and education in Shanghai.

Qingpu Museum

The Qingpu museum was founded in October 1958 and its original site is in Town God's Temple, Qingpu. There are nearly ten thousand pieces in the collection. The new pavilion is located in Songze square, Qingpu District, with a construction area of about 8800 square meters. It looks like a flying butterfly. The whole building is divided into five main areas because of five ellipses. The middle part is the lobby, with the theme of the 8-meter-high stone relief "Ode to the green dragon", which is solemn and elegant. It is a public place to provide service and rest for the audience.

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Development history

On December 8, 2004, on the occasion of the 18th anniversary of the naming of Shanghai as a famous historical and cultural city, the new museum of Qingpu District held a grand opening ceremony and officially opened to the outside world, which has become a major event in the history of cultural development of Qingpu District. The opening of the new museum marks that the development of Qingpu Cultural Expo has entered a new stage. Qingpu Museum has a history of 46 years since its establishment. In the early days of liberation, the cultural relics and natural history of Qingpu County were managed by Qingpu cultural center. On October 1, 1958, Qingpu County Museum was officially established and opened. From then on. Qingpu County has a special cultural relics, museum institutions. In early 1959, with the support of Shanghai Museum and Shanghai Municipal Cultural Relics Management Committee, the revolutionary historical relics of Qingpu County were exhibited as the historical part of the museum. In 1960, under the guidance of the Shanghai Museum of nature, the Ministry of nature was opened up, displaying various models and specimens of Qingpu County's nature, geography and products. In 1960, Qingpu County Museum was awarded the advanced collective of Shanghai cultural and educational front.

Since its establishment, the museum has also taken on the responsibility of investigating, protecting and displaying cultural relics and historic sites in the county. The county's cultural relics and historic sites have been surveyed for many times. From 1959 to 1961, the people's Government of Qingpu County successively announced three batches of 32 cultural relics protection units. From 1960 to 1961, Qingpu County, together with the Shanghai Municipal Committee of cultural relics administration, made the first excavation of the Songze ancient cultural site, and unearthed a large number of cultural relics. It is of great significance and value to study and explore the original culture of Taihu Lake region and the origin of prehistoric human civilization in Shanghai. By 2004, 54 cultural relics and historic sites have been rated as cultural relic protection units at all levels. Among them, fuquanshan site has been rated as national cultural relic protection unit, other 8 municipal cultural relic protection units and 45 district cultural relic protection units.

After the reform and opening up, the Qingpu County Museum was established in November 1978 and restored to normal work. In 1980, it moved to the former Office of Qingpu County Town God's Temple. In 1982, together with the Shanghai Municipal Commission for cultural administration, we carried out an archaeological excavation of the fuquanshan ancient cultural site in Chonggu, and made great achievements. We discovered a large number of Neolithic Songze culture, Liangzhu Culture and tombs from the Warring States period to the Han Dynasty, and unearthed a large number of exquisite cultural relics, which are of great value in Archaeology and provide rich and accurate information for the study of Shanghai history. In 1984, Comrade Chen Yun personally wrote the name of Qingpu County Museum. On January 21, 1985, Qingpu County Museum solemnly held a plaque unveiling ceremony and a cultural relics exhibition of Fuquan mountain. In 1986, the County Museum demolished the original exhibition hall and the dilapidated buildings in the backyard of Town God's Temple, and built a two story archaize building with an area of more than 1000 square meters. The reconstructed Museum has nearly ten thousand cultural relics in its collection. It not only displays the typical cultural relics unearthed from the two ancient cultural sites of Songze and fuquanshan, but also introduces the local chronicles of ancient Qinglong Town, Qingpu Jianxian County, Qingpu jiaoan, Zhou Lichun uprising, and other celebrities of Qingpu, such as Ren Renfa, Guan Daosheng, Wang Qi, Wang Chang, he Shutian, Xia Ruifang, etc. In particular, the display of Qingpu ancient culture is quite unique, which has a good influence in the cultural and Expo circles of the whole country.

architectural composition

The Qingpu museum was founded in October 1958 and its original site is in Town God's Temple, Qingpu. There are nearly ten thousand pieces in the collection. The new museum is located in Songze square, Qingpu District, with a construction area of about 8800 square meters. It is designed by famous architect Xing Tonghe. The main body of the building is made of five intersecting ellipsoids, whose shape is like a flying butterfly. It adopts advanced architectural decoration materials, exquisite and shining.

The whole building is divided into five main areas by five ellipses. The middle part is the lobby, with the theme of the 8-meter-high stone relief "Ode to the green dragon", which is solemn and elegant. It is a public place to provide service and rest for the audience.

architectural style

The East and South wings are exhibition areas with an area of 3600 square meters, displaying more than 1000 pieces of cultural relics. The new museum breaks the traditional mode of cultural relics display, takes the new concept of modern museum communication science as the purpose, adopts sound, light, electricity and other high-tech means, combines cultural relics display with scene restoration, exquisite materials and pictures, multimedia assistance and other means, so that the audience can easily and happily understand the history of Qingpu and interpret ancient Shanghai.

"The source of ancient civilization in Shanghai" is the theme of South Wing exhibition. Starting from the completion of Shanghai, this paper introduces the exquisite cultural relics unearthed from the ancient cultural sites of Songze and Fuquan mountain in Qingpu, tells the long and colorful history of ancient Shanghai from Majiabang, Songze, Liangzhu and Maqiao culture to the spring and autumn and Han Dynasties, and tells the audience that Qingpu is the birthplace of ancient civilization in Shanghai.

"The charm of Shencheng water culture" is the exhibition theme of the east wing. Through the "vicissitudes", the audience can understand the water system changes and construction evolution of Qingpu in history. Qinglong Town Harbor Real Scene restoration area is magnificent, which reproduces the urban customs and prosperous scene of overseas trade port Qinglong Town in Song Dynasty. The "bridge culture" and "water town customs" show the moving customs and beautiful scenery of Qingpu in the Ming and Qing Dynasties by introducing the folk customs and customs of Qingpu. "Outstanding people" let the audience appreciate Qingpu since ancient times.

There are 3600 square meters of office, reception and temporary exhibition areas in the two northwest wings. The new museum will open to the world with a new look and contribute to the cultural cause of Qingpu.

Collection

Black pottery Bird Statue

It is 9.8 cm in diameter and 16.9 cm in height. It was unearthed from Liangzhu culture well in Xiyangdian fish pond, Zhujiajiao Town. A vessel for holding water or wine. High collar, round shoulder, hoop foot, simple shape. Four bird patterns of different shapes are carved on the abdomen. One looks like an ostrich, with a long neck forward, arched shoulders and long legs. It is moving forward rapidly; the other is a bird that lives in the habitat; and the two birds are separated by the positive image of a big bird flying with two wings. The lines are vivid. Bird patterns often appear on jades and pottery of Liangzhu culture.

Yuyu chicken heart

It is 4.2 cm long and 2.6 cm wide. It was unearthed from the Songze site.

Ancient ancestors thought that jade could keep corpses from rotting, so they put jade Han in their mouths. This custom was formed among Shanghai ancestors more than 5000 years ago.

This jade is made of actinolite Jasper. It is dark green and flat. One end is round and the other end is pointed. It is in the shape of a chicken heart. The middle hole is a large round hole, drilled on one side, with smooth surface. About 5800 years ago, it is an early utensil of Songze culture.

Black pottery jar with bamboo pattern and cover

It is 15.2 cm in diameter and 26.3 cm in height. It was unearthed from the Songze site. Container.

The shapes of cans are the most abundant, with different sizes. The black pottery pot consists of a lid and a body. The lid is in the shape of a shallow plate, and the catcher is in the shape of a ring foot. The mouth of the tank is vertical, and there is a circle of straight edge beside the mouth. There are 4 groups of small holes on the edge, 3 holes in each group, with a total of 12 holes. Small holes may be set along the mouth to prevent rainwater from seeping into the tank. The shoulder of the pot is round and plump, decorated with carved bamboo patterns, a total of 22 units, which are skillfully woven into one.

This kind of decoration reflects the living custom of ancestors who like to use bamboo vessels. The middle part of the pot is decorated with a zigzag pattern, and the bottom is a short circle foot, which is stable. Title = black pottery "t" shaped foot jar style = right SRC = 8bc3a701354e863f728da538 this pot has regular patterns and is a treasure of Songze culture pottery pot.

Black pottery "t" shaped feet

It is 16 cm in diameter and 24 cm in height. It was unearthed from the fuquanshan site.

A cooker for cooking food.

Liangzhu culture pottery was developed from the tripod of Songze culture. Its shape is exactly the same as that of the tripod, but it has been improved in the ware. A wide ridge protrudes in the middle of the inner wall of the pottery, which is used to hold the sheaths and increase the function of steaming. There is a small hole under the ridge, which can inject water according to the needs and increase the function of regulating water volume.

The cover is in the shape of a hat, with a small circle of foot catcher; the instrument foot is in the shape of a T, with vertical stripes on both sides of the foot. There is a layer of reddish brown pottery clothes on the outside of the body, and the upper abdomen is decorated with three convex arc string patterns, with simple and generous decoration.

Flat thin Jade axe

Fuquan mountain is 17.1cm high, 10.9cm wide and 0.6cm thick

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