Yiwu Museum

Yiwu Museum

Yiwu museum is one of the earliest county-level museums in China, which is a local comprehensive museum. The establishment of Yiwu museum is divided into cultural relic preservation, protection, exhibition, teaching, cultural protection, archaeological relic restoration and other departments, which are responsible for the collection, collection, protection, research, display and exhibition of cultural relic specimens and collections, as well as the city's cultural relic protection. Its predecessor was the public education Museum established in 1927, which was reorganized into a cultural museum in 1950, and Yiwu museum was established independently in 1984. In December 1997, the museum was newly built and put into use. According to relevant data, the new Yiwu Museum covers an area of 8600 square meters. With a construction area of 3500 square meters, the building imitates the style of folk houses and is divided into three parts: exhibition hall, cultural relics warehouse and office room. There are more than 4000 cultural relics in the collection, including 18 national first-class cultural relics, 42 second-class cultural relics and more than 350 third-class cultural relics. The number of unearthed cultural relics and precious cultural relics ranks in the forefront of all counties and cities in central Zhejiang.

Collection

There are more than 4000 cultural relics in the collection, and the number of unearthed cultural relics and precious cultural relics ranks in the forefront of all counties and cities in central Zhejiang. The collection is rich in cultural relics, with strong local characteristics. The collection is classified according to stone tools, jade, ceramics, bronze, iron, gold and silver, calligraphy and painting, bamboo and wood horn teeth, textiles, etc. The collection is characterized by the original Celadon of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Wuzhou kiln porcelain of the Han and Six Dynasties, gold and silver ware of the Song Dynasty, and Longquan kiln porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty. The most important objects of the collection are the carved figure stories, the silver plate and the Golden Dragon unearthed from the kiln collection of the Song Dynasty.

Basic Display

According to the order of Yiwu's historical development, "Yiwu historical relics exhibition" displays the unearthed cultural relics from the Neolithic Age to the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the historical relics of the main local historical celebrities. Among them, the most distinctive are the primitive porcelain of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Wuzhou kiln porcelain of the Han and Six Dynasties, gold and silver ware of the Song Dynasty and Longquan kiln porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty.

museum piece

The original celadon bottle has short straight mouth, flat edge, wide shoulder, oblate abdomen, lower abdomen adduction, flat bottom and concave inside. There are symmetrical ears on the shoulders. The ears are made of circle and triangle patterns, and a ferocious armored warrior with a sword in one hand and a shield in the other. The samurai shoulders are pasted with a bust on the wall. The shoulder is decorated with four groups of concave spiral patterns, and the middle is decorated with water ripple patterns. Flat cover, margin adduction as the mouth, top heap plastic three sheep shaped button.

In Northern Song Dynasty, celadon covered jars had a slightly open mouth, round lips, short straight neck, bulging abdomen and curling feet. There is a pair of double mud strips and a pair of single mud strips on the neck and shoulder. The abdomen is engraved with a lotus petal. Round cover, covered with lotus petals. Gray white body, fine and firm, the whole body is green glaze, the glaze is thin and bright.

The bronze Buddha statue of the Northern Song Dynasty is 26 cm high. The Buddha has a bun on the top and a spiral hair on the forehead. Ears drooping shoulders, lips slightly closed, with a smile, face plump, beautiful. Put your hands on your abdomen and apply Zen meditation seal. The upper part of the body is bare, with long sleeves and shoulders; the lower part of the body is in a long skirt, with bare feet standing on the covered rosette. Behind the Buddha there are flame head light and backlight.

The gold bun of Ming Dynasty consists of three parts: ring, eaves and cover. It is woven into a net with very thin gold wires, and connected by three thick gold wires. There are three patterns of money patterns on the left and right sides, each with a circle on the outside and a square on the inside. It's as thin as a cicada's wing and exquisite in craftsmanship.

Related information

Location: No.126, Chengzhong North Road, Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province

Transportation route: No.8, No.11, No.818, no.k122 bus

Opening hours: 8:30-11:00, 14:00-16:30

Closing day: Monday

Postal Code: 322000

Address: 126 Chengzhong North Road

Longitude: 120.08363

Latitude: 29.316375

Tel: 0579-85540405

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