Ma'ao Museum

Ma'ao town is located in the northwest of Dinghai, known as "Jingtao" in ancient times. According to research, ma'ao is a famous "hometown of marine cultural relics" in Zhejiang Province. There are ma'ao ancient cultural sites, ma'ao Museum, ancient dwellings, beacon towers, etc. Ma'ao ancient cultural site group is the largest, most complete and most abundant original village site in Zhoushan Archipelago. Ma'ao mound culture belongs to the branch of Hemudu culture. The pottery pot unearthed in the mound has traces of rice 6000 years ago, which is confirmed by experts' research as one of the evidences of the eastward migration of "Daotang culture" from ancient Yue to Japan. Ma'ao museum is located at the west end of Baima street in ma'ao town. There are some precious cultural relics in the museum, such as the giant stone plough of the Neolithic age, the finely ground ritual implements chisel shaped implements, the rare sky rock meteorite, and the exquisite folk cultural relics, showing the life, production, season, etiquette, culture and other customs of the island residents.

Ma'ao Museum

Ma'ao Museum, located in ma'ao street, Dinghai District, is the first town level museum in Zhejiang Province. It has exquisite folk cultural relics and rare tianluoqi stone meteorite and other colorful exhibits. It vividly outlines the formation and development of ma'ao culture for more than 5000 years, describes the formation and development of ma'ao ancient culture, and describes the relationship between ma'ao ancient culture and Hemudu and Liangzhu cultures The history and technological process of Zhoushan sea salt production are introduced.

Museum overview

Located in ma'ao street, Dinghai District, ma'ao museum is the first town level museum in Zhejiang Province, with a construction area of 1260 square meters. It has three exhibition halls: "the first village on the island", "sea salt culture" and "island folk customs". The cultural relics on display include the huge stone plough of the Neolithic age and the finely ground ritual instrument chisel shaped instrument. They show the life, production, season, etiquette, folk culture and other customs of the island residents. The marine culture has a strong flavor and is highly educational, knowledgeable and ornamental.

Introduction to the Museum

Ma'ao museum is located in Baima street, ma'ao. It is the only museum in the province to show 6000 years of civilization history of island fishing village. Ma'ao museum is divided into the exhibition area inside the museum and the exhibition area of outdoor ruins. The exhibition area of ma'ao Museum mainly introduces ma'ao mound ruins. The whole Museum covers an area of 3335 square meters, with a building area of 1260 square meters and a room area of 630 square meters. The outdoor ruins exhibition area of ma'ao Museum mainly introduces ma'ao mound ruins. The total area of the site is 140000 square meters. There are 5 in Neolithic age and 15 in Eastern Zhou Dynasty. From the second attempt to explore its cultural connotation, it, together with Hemudu culture and Liangzhu culture, has become one of the cultural birthplaces of the Chinese nation. It also provides material evidence for exploring the origin of Japanese culture. Ma'ao archaeology proves that Zhoushan Island has a civilization history of about 1000 years. For this reason, ma'ao is known as the "hometown of marine cultural relics".

Ma'ao site

At first, no one knew Ma Ao, and he didn't care. He just found that the bricks and tiles fired from the mounds were very smooth and delicate. From time to time, he could pick up a few pottery and stone gadgets. In September 1979, provincial archaeologists visited these mounds and found that they belonged to the Neolithic age. Only then did ma'ao people know that they were guarding 140000 square meters of ancient cultural sites. According to the identification of archaeological experts, there are 99 mounds, of which 29 have rich cultural connotations. There are 12 in the Neolithic age and 8 in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. More than 500 pieces of cultural relics from the Neolithic Age to Shang and Zhou dynasties, spring and autumn and Warring States, Qin and Han Dynasties to Ming and Qing dynasties have been unearthed, including stone tools, pottery, spinning wheel, bone ware, ancient kiln sites, bronzes, shells, clams and other marine remains. Among them, stone arrowheads and stone knives for fishing and hunting account for a large proportion. In November 1994, Wu ruzuo of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and archaeologists of Zhejiang Province conducted a trial excavation of Yangtan mound, and authoritatively revealed the stratigraphic relationship of ma'ao mound site. A large number of traces of rice were found on the excavated red pottery with sand, and the longitudinal veins of rice were clear. This discovery made experts ecstatic. They all agreed that 6000 years ago, the ancestors of ma'ao created a prehistoric culture with the combination of fishing, hunting and rice farming as the main body, which came down in one continuous line with Hemudu culture.

As a popular science education base, ma'ao Museum highlights its popular science function as well as its tourism function. Based on the existing mounds, unearthed cultural relics, meteorites from outside, beacon towers, sea salt production exhibition and island folk customs exhibition, we publicize to tourists and teenagers the living scenes of the ancestors of the Neolithic age, the composition and formation process of meteorites, the role of beacon towers and the production process of sea salt, and carry out the ancient beacon towers exhibition and sea salt production exhibition with the museum as the base Science popularization exhibition in the countryside.

Interior landscape

There are "the first village on the island", "sea salt culture" and "folk customs on the island" halls in ma'ao Museum. The cultural relics on display include all kinds of stone tools and pottery of the Neolithic age, as well as finely ground ritual vessels. This paper introduces in detail the relationship between ma'ao ancient culture and Hemudu, Liangzhu Culture and Japanese culture. There are many archaeological relics in the museum, which are vivid It vividly shows the formation and development of the life and culture of the island ancestors 6000 years ago. In addition to the exhibition area of ma'ao Museum, there are also ancient Post Pavilion, ancient post station, ancient post road, ancient beacon tower, longtankang, zhaojunshan beacon tower, Lin ancestral hall, antique street, mound and other scenic spots.

Ma'ao mound site group has the largest scale, the most complete preservation and the richest cultural connotation of the original village sites found in Zhoushan Archipelago. Ma'ao cultural sites are distributed in the "V" shape of Ao in the south of Wofo mountain. It is said that there are 99 mounds of different sizes here, and it is verified that there are 20 mounds. According to the unearthed cultural relics, it can be inferred that in ancient times, it was a bay. When the tide was high, the shallow part of the Bay was submerged by the sea. The ancestors had to choose the higher mound to live. Most of these mounds were artificially piled up by the ancestors, and a small amount of them were impacted by sediment. At that time, the level of productivity of the ancestors depended on the natural conditions and engaged in farming, fishing and hunting. From the analysis of shells and animal bones unearthed, the main things of the ancestors were marine creatures and mountain beasts. At that time, there were also the simplest ceramics for making daily necessities and production tools.

Exhibitions and collections

Cultural relics unearthed from yangtandun site

In 1979, archaeologists discovered 140000 square meters of ancient cultural sites on the mounds in the Coastal Hilly plain area of ma'ao town (now ma'ao Street), Dinghai District, Zhoushan City. After preliminary excavation, there are 12 Neolithic sites with a cultural layer of 60-80 cm thick, and a number of stone tools and pottery have been unearthed. There are 8 cultural sites of Shang and Zhou dynasties, which unearthed a large number of hard pottery with printed patterns. Yangtandun site is located in yangtanli, ma'ao, Dinghai. It is a relatively complete Neolithic primitive pottery making area, covering an area of about 1000 square meters. Most of the fragments of red pottery with sand left traces of rice. Experts believe that Zhoushan Islands began to plant a large number of rice 5000 years ago.

In the Neolithic age, there are huge stone plows, finely ground ritual implements, chisel shaped implements, exquisite folk cultural relics, and rare rocks in the sky, such as meteorites The rich and colorful exhibits vividly outline the formation and development of ma'ao's 5000 year old culture, describe the formation and development of ma'ao's ancient culture, describe the relationship between ma'ao's ancient culture and Hemudu, Liangzhu and Japanese cultures, introduce the history and process of Zhoushan sea salt production, and show the life, production, season, etiquette and folk culture of island residents It has a strong atmosphere of marine culture and is highly educational, knowledgeable and ornamental.

Cultural relics unearthed from liangmaodun site

The liangmaopengdun site was discovered in 1983. The existing area is about 1700 square meters, and the cultural layer is about 1.6 meters. The unearthed artifacts include pottery, stone tools and adobe. There are fragments of red pottery with sand, argillaceous red grey pottery and red pottery with charcoal. They are decorated with rope and scratch patterns. The shape of the vessels can be identified as cauldron, tripod, pot, bowl and support. Stone tools include axes, arrows, chisels, sickles, spinning wheels, knives, and earth breakers, which are ground all over the body. The pottery is mainly composed of sand mixed pottery and argillaceous red gray pottery with plain surface. The shape of the ware is cauldron, tripod, pot, bowl, elephant trunk shaped feet, etc.; the stone tools are polished, including axe, stone, arrow, chisel, sickle, spinning wheel, knife, soil breaker, etc. Its cultural connotation is different from that of Hemudu culture in Ningshao area and Liangzhu Culture in Taihu Lake Basin. The site is of irreplaceable value not only for the study of Zhoushan history, but also for the study of the spread of ancient Chinese culture to Japan. The liangmaopengdun site, known as the "hometown of marine cultural relics", is a famous historical and cultural town in Zhejiang Province. It is the largest, best preserved and most abundant original village site in Zhoushan Archipelago. There are 5 sites in Neolithic age and 15 sites in Eastern Zhou Dynasty. The unearthed cultural relics include pottery, stone tools, red baked clay and adobe. Most of the pottery are fragments, which can be identified as cauldron, tripod, pot, bowl, elephant trunk shaped legs, etc. the pottery is mainly made of red pottery with sand, followed by argillaceous red gray pottery, occasionally with charcoal; the decorative patterns are mainly plain, and a few are decorated with rope and scratch patterns. Stone tools include stone axe, stone block, stone arrowhead, stone chisel, stone sickle, stone spinning wheel, stone knife with handle, stone crown and stone earth breaker, all of which are polished. Using shale and slate to make farming tools -- plow, sickle, etc. There are three kinds of ploughs unearthed in the site: slanting handle shaped, fish fin shaped and isosceles triangle. One of them is a large triangular stone plough with a length of 68 meters

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