When it comes to museums, many people may think of all kinds of jewellery, the magic of goldware, or valuable collections, but they may ignore that there is an "International Museum Day" every year. In 1977, the International Museum Association designated May 18 every year as International Museum Day.
China has a long history and a vast land with abundant resources. As a major cultural relic country in the world, there are countless precious collections in museums all over my country.
And each museum has its own "Treasure of the Town Hall", which shows the cultural connotation in different historical backgrounds. Next, let us experience the inheritance of history from the "Treasure of the Town Hall".
RIVER ON THE QINGMING FESTIVAL
BEIJING PALACE MUSEUM
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The Riverside Painting in Qingming Dynasty is one of the ten famous paintings handed down in China. In the five-meter-long scroll, a huge number of people of various colors, cattle, mules and donkeys and other livestock, cars, boats, large and small ships, houses,
bridges, and towers have their own characteristics, reflecting the characteristics of Song Dynasty architecture. We show the prosperous scene of the Song Dynasty Bianjing city nine hundred years ago, although it is also a "prosperous age" with a sense of worry. It has high historical value and artistic value.
At the same time, under the interpretation of a modern perspective, "The River on the Qingming Festival" is not only a rare famous painting, it is also a well-known story, a cultural heritage. For 900 years, it has been based on "The River on the Qingming Festival". "" as the theme of re-creation in an endless stream, to this day, it is still deeply loved by modern people.
FOUR SHEEP FANGZUN
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CHINA
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the shape is simple, beautiful and majestic, and it is dynamic and quiet. It is called "the perfect bronze model." This artifact is considered to be the pinnacle of traditional clay casting method. Due to the incredible level of this masterpiece, it was once mistaken for a new casting process.
STEPMOTHER WUDING
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CHINA
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Step-mother Wuding (called Simuwuding), the full name is Stepmother Wu-Dafangding. It is a masterpiece of bronze culture during the Shang and Zhou dynasties. It is the largest and heaviest bronze ritual unearthed in the world so far,
and it enjoys the reputation of "Treasure of the Town". The Houmu Wuding is a representative work of China's Yin Dynasty bronzes, marking the development level of bronze casting technology in the Shang Dynasty and China's superb casting level.
SNOW SCENE AND COLD FOREST MAP
TIANJIN MUSEUM
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This picture depicts the magnificent scenery of snow-capped mountains in the north. In the painting, the snowy peaks stand on the screen, and the mountains are towering and snow-capped. In the deep valleys and cold forests, Xiao Temple is hidden,
the flowing water is waveless, and the mountains and gully are full of clouds. Its mountains take the upward and high-distance trend, its water creates a calm and condensed state, and its tree paintings are deep and cold. This picture depicts the magnificent scenery of snow-capped mountains in the north.
JADE DRESS
HEBEI PROVINCIAL MUSEUM
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emperor and some of his nearby ministers is knotted with gold threads, which is called "golden jade clothing". The ancients believed that jade could keep the bones immortal, and even regarded it as a noble ritual vessel and a status symbol.
JIN HOU BIRD ZUN
SHANXI MUSEUM
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The bird statue of the Jin Dynasty embodies the perfect combination of the two most popular Xiao-shaped decorations of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the bird and the elephant. The inscription "Jin Hou Zuo Xiang Taishi Bao Zun Yi" is cast on the inside and
bottom of the bird statue, which can prove to be an ancestral temple. Ritual vessel. The statues of Jin Migratory Birds are realistic and vivid, with peculiar and ingenious design, exquisite decoration and luxury, making it a rare treasure in Chinese bronze art.
CROWN OF THE HUNS
INNER MONGOLIA AUTONOMOUS REGION MUSEUM
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a crown band. There are embossed patterns of sheep and wolves on it. The eagle stands on the top of the hemispherical golden crown and looks down at the scene of the wolf and the sheep fighting on the crown.
DONGPING HAN TOMB MURAL
SHANDONG MUSEUM
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These murals are the earliest and most well-preserved early murals discovered in Shandong so far, and they are extremely rare in the whole country. The pictures are colorful, well-proportioned, concise and smooth lines, exquisite and exquisite,
and vivid and lifelike, reflecting the superb artistic level and painting skills of painters in the Han Dynasty. For the study of the funeral system, folk customs and paintings of the Han Dynasty, its value is self-evident.
THE REVOLVING VASE WITH THE ENCIRCLING PICTURE OF EMPEROR QIANLONG OF THE QING DYNASTY
NANJING MUSEUM
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The rotating bottle is a unique bottle style created by the Qianlong official kiln. The craft is complex and the structure is ingenious. The biggest feature is that a rotatable inner bottle is set in the hollow bottle.
The picture on the outer bottle shows Emperor Qianlong riding a horse with a rein, followed by a flag bearer and hunting dogs. The mezzanine is painted with a group of officials bowing down.
If you rotate the inner tank, the Qianlong hunting scene will be vividly displayed in front of you, and you can see the large group of people walking through the mountains like an animation, like a horse lantern, which is very artistic and enjoyable.
XIAO HEYUE CHASING HAN XINMEI BOTTLE
NANJING CITY MUSEUM
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This cultural relic is a rare treasure among blue and white porcelain in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, and one of the three best Chinese porcelains. It has a very unique blue pattern decoration, which reflects the extremely high level of firing.
Small mouths, full shoulders, oblique abdomen, shin, flat bottom, beautiful shape, round and smooth lines, graceful and luxurious, giving people a solemn beauty. The shoulder and abdomen are engraved with the story of "Xiao Heyue chasing Han Xin". The blue patterns painted on the porcelain vase are of various levels and are very unique.
WANG XI SHANGYU TIE
SHANGHAI MUSEUM
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The cursive style of "Shangyu Tie" is free and easy, relaxed and natural, and not rigid. In terms of brushwork, first of all, it does not rely on light and heavy lifting and pressing changes to enrich the content of the line, but enriches the connotation of the line with rhythm and running speed,
supplemented by lifting and pressing. Secondly, the structure emphasizes the change of opening and closing, and it can be retracted freely, so the visual effect of the font structure shows a kind of "tension" characteristic.
FUCHUN MOUNTAIN RESIDENCE
ZHEJIANG PROVINCIAL MUSEUM
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The picture of Fuchun Mountain Residence is a calligraphy and calligraphy of the Yuan Dynasty. It is a representative work of Huang Gongwang. With the Fuchun River in Zhejiang as the background, the whole picture is elegantly decorated with ink, and the arrangement of mountains and water is dense and dense. It is one of the "Top Ten Famous Paintings in China".
In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, it was passed to the collector Wu Hongyu. Wu Hongyu loved the painting so much. He even ordered the painting to be burned and buried before his death. It was rescued from the fire by Wu Hongyu’s nephew, but at this time the painting had been burned into one big and one small. Two paragraphs. The longer back section is now in the Taipei Palace Museum.
MOIRÉ BRONZE DAQUAN
FUJIAN MUSEUM
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The drum is decorated with deformed beasts, and both sides are decorated with cloud and thunder patterns. Yong is also decorated with deformed beasts. The co-casting of Dachao double fan, vigorous and solid, with a stable and simple style. It exhibits a high level of casting technology and is the largest bronze unearthed in Fujian.
WARRING STATES PERIOD CHU DADING
ANHUI MUSEUM
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The cast-off copper tripod is also known as the Chu Ding or the large cast-off tripod. Warring States bronzes, round mouth, square lips, puffed belly, round bottom, three feet. This tripod is majestic and can be called a heavy weapon of the Kingdom of Chu. This tripod is majestic and can be called a heavy weapon of the Kingdom of Chu.
In 1958, Chairman Mao Zedong inspected the Anhui Provincial Museum. He carefully observed the patterns on his ears, the inscriptions on the mouth and the embossed patterns on the feet, and asked about the origin of the tripod. He also looked down inside the tripod and said jokingly. : "You can cook a cow inside."
FOUR-LEGGED BRONZE BARREL WITH DEER EARS AND BUSINESS ANIMAL FACE
JIANGXI PROVINCIAL MUSEUM
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Deer has vertical horns, short tail curls, and scales. The abdomen of the zeng is decorated with four groups of animal face patterns. The foot bag is full of embossed animal face patterns. It is huge, powerful, strange and strange, and has good stability.
SPRING AND AUTUMN LOTUS AND CRANE SQUARE POT
HENAN MUSEUM
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The spring and autumn lotus and crane square pot is a bronze wine or water container in the middle of the spring and autumn. The various additional decorations with cover, ears, and ring feet, the center of gravity on the lower abdomen, and all over the body, not only create an unusually magnificent decorative effect,
but also reflect the important changes in the aesthetic concept of bronze art in the Spring and Autumn Period. The lotus and crane square pot not only has delicate and novel decorations, but also has a complex structure and exquisite casting. It is a model of bronze craftsmanship in the Spring and Autumn Period.
YUE WANG GOUJIAN SWORD
HUBEI PROVINCIAL MUSEUM
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In the late Spring and Autumn Period, the bronzes of the Yue Kingdom were not rusty for thousands of years because the sword was plated with a layer of chromium-containing metal. It is engraved with the eight characters of "Yue Wang Jiuqian, used by himself".
This sword is extremely cold and sharp. After more than 2,400 years, it still has clear and exquisite decorations. In addition, "things are named after people", and its historical and cultural value is very high. This sword is hailed as "the world's first sword" by the people of the world. It can be called a national treasure of our country.
ZENG HOU YI CHIME
HUBEI PROVINCIAL MUSEUM
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The Zenghouyi chime is a huge musical instrument composed of sixty-five bronze chimes, with a range of five and a half octaves and twelve semitones. Its superb casting technology and good musical performance have rewrote the history of world music,
and it is called a "rare treasure" by Chinese and foreign experts and scholars. It shows the great achievements of my country's bronze casting technology, and also shows the degree of development of ancient Chinese music science.
SU YARN ZEN CLOTHING
HUNAN PROVINCIAL MUSEUM
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It represents the highest level of silkworm rearing, silk reeling and weaving in the early Western Han Dynasty. In this plain fabric garment, the garment is made of yarn material. Because it has no color and no lining, it is called the plain fabric garment in the unearthed catalogue.
BRONZE SITTING DRAGON IN THE JIN DYNASTY
HEILONGJIANG PROVINCIAL MUSEUM
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The bronze sitting dragon was a royal artifact of the early and mid Jin Dynasty. The dragon takes a sitting position, with his left forelimb raised high, and there is a cloud connecting with his left hindlimb. The right forelimb touches the ground and connects with the right hind limb.
The tail is cocked and curled, and the forelimbs liè protrude above the shoulders, reflecting the curling hyena on the head and the flying hyena on the back.
This bronze sitting dragon of the Jin Dynasty inherited and carried forward the advantages of the previous generation of dragons and expanded according to its own strong local characteristics, forming its own unique artistic language.
BLUE AND WHITE CLOUD DRAGON PATTERN HIGH-FOOT BOWL
JILIN PROVINCIAL MUSEUM
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A blue and white high-footed bowl with a dragon pattern in the Yuan Dynasty, with extravagant mouth and deep belly. There are three convex string patterns on the high ring feet, which are bamboo-shaped.
The edge of the mouth is blue and white Tang grass pattern. The inner wall is printed with two dragons in the dark. The outer wall is painted with a blue and white dragon, and lined with flame patterns. The blue and white color is verdant and bright, and the lines are smooth and powerful.
SONG HUIZONG RUIHE PICTURE
LIAONING PROVINCIAL MUSEUM
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"Ruihe Tu" is a treasure among Zhao Ji's calligraphy and painting, and it is rare that poems, books, and painting tools are excellent works. The picture depicts a spectacular scene of cranes hovering above the palace.
The painting techniques are exquisite and exquisite, the cranes in the picture are like clouds and mists, and their postures are varied and each has its own characteristics.
YUNLONG CHARACTER PATTERN TURNING HEART IVORY BALL
LIAONING PROVINCIAL MUSEUM
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Engraved and engraved with auspicious clouds, more than ten strong dragons or hidden heads and tails, or hidden tails and heads, pass through the clouds.
Twenty-one small balls are carved in layers in the big ball, the balls are in a circle, and they can be turned layer by layer, and they are decorated all over the floor.
The three-section pillar has six layers of openwork small ivory balls on the top, and the decoration is the same as the elephant ivory ball on the top;
on the bottom is the openwork Cirrus vulgaris Yunlong four-legged seat with a pillar-shaped support plate carved on the top. The exquisite and ingenious carving craftsmanship is breathtaking.
THOUSAND GOLDEN MONKEY KING INKSTONE
GUANGDONG PROVINCIAL MUSEUM
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There are large slices of fish brain jelly (a type of stone pattern) in the inkstone hall, surrounded by fire Surrounded by other colors, it forms a squatting macaque pattern, and even the eyes, nose, mouth and forefoot are clearly visible, which is very lifelike, hence the name.
XIANGLU PATTERN BRONZE DRUM
GUANGXI ZHUANG AUTONOMOUS REGION MUSEUM
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This is a metalware from the Western Han Dynasty. The chest and waist were cut when it was put into the soil. The chest was decorated with six groups of feathered boating patterns. Some of the artifacts in the tomb have obvious Dian cultural colors.
At the same time, the unearthed artifacts of the Central Plains, such as the Liubo chessboard and the bronze sitting figurines, not only reflect the creative talents of the people of all ethnic groups in the southwest, but also reflect their relationship The Han nationality has close ties in politics, economy, and culture.
SONG CELADON WHITE GLAZED FLOWER MOUTH PHOENIX HEAD POT
HAINAN PROVINCIAL MUSEUM
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The green-white glazed flower-mouth phoenix head pot has a white and delicate embryo, with a glaze color and a greenish white, which looks like a green-white jade.
The mouth has a four-petal flower pattern, symbolizing a phoenix crown, and the diameter is decorated in the shape of a phoenix head. The back part of the phoenix head is hook-shaped, just like the feathers of a phoenix.
This phoenix first bottle is a product that blends Chinese and Western cultures. It subtly blends the oriental charm with Western decorative arts. It is a rare porcelain treasure.
GILT BRONZE BULL
NINGXIA MUSEUM
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The gilt bronze bull is a bronze ware from the Xixia period. It reflects the superb level of the Xixia bronze casting process and is a treasure among the Xixia art.
This bronze-cast ox is squatting and lying down. The body is strong, well-proportioned, realistic in shape, and large in size.
The copper bull is hollow, and the appearance is full of gold. The craftsmanship such as smelting, mould sculpture, casting, polishing and zijin needs to be integrated in the production, which reflects the superb level of Xixia bronze casting craftsmanship and is a treasure among Xixia artworks.
MA TA FEIYAN
GANSU PROVINCIAL MUSEUM
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Ma Chao Fei Yan, also known as Ma Chao dragon bird, copper galloping horse, horse raiding crow, eagle plundering horse, horse riding flying falcon, Lingyun galloping horse, etc., are bronzes of the Eastern Han Dynasty,
and have been regarded as a symbol of the superb foundry industry in ancient China since they were unearthed. . From a mechanical analysis, Ma Ta Feiyan found the center of gravity for Feiyan, resulting in stability.
This kind of romanticism highlights the vigorous and vigorous look of the horses, and gives people rich imagination and appeal. It has both a strong feeling and a moving rhythm. Ma Ting Feiyan is also a wonderful work of Chinese bronze art.
SILVER TEAPOT WITH DANCING HORSEBIT AND CUP PATTERN
SHAANXI PROVINCIAL HISTORY MUSEUM
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The shape of the pot adopts the shape of the skin of the nomads in northern my country. The body of the pot is oblate, with a small vertical tube opening at one end, and a lid covered with lotus petals.
The top of the pot has a silver chain and a bow-shaped pot. The handles are connected. This shape is not only convenient for riding out and hunting, but also convenient for daily use.
It shows the unique ingenuity of the artisans in the Tang Dynasty. On both sides of the silver kettle, the embossing technique is used to create a dancing horse.
TERRACOTTA WARRIORS
TERRACOTTA WARRIORS AND HORSES MUSEUM
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The terracotta warriors and horses in Shaanxi are world-renowned. Among them, the kneeling servant in Pit No. 2 of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses is one of the finest pieces.
He kneels on the ground with his right knee and squats with his left leg. It is the best interpretation of the achievement of unified hegemony.
BRONZE SACRED TREE
SICHUAN SANXINGDUI MUSEUM
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There are eight bronze sacred trees, bronzes of the late Xia Dynasty. There is a dragon hanging from the lower part of the sacred tree. The dragon's head is down and the tail is up.
On the side of the No. 2 sacred tree, there is also a winding dragon. The image of the sacred tree and the sacred dragon makes the sacred tree show extraordinary charm and profound symbolic significance.
The bronze god tree cast 3000 years ago is extremely spectacular and unique in the world.
SUN BIRD GOLD ORNAMENTS
SICHUAN JINSHA SITE MUSEUM
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EASTERN HAN DYNASTY COPPER CHARIOT
BULL AND TIGER COPPER CASE
WU YANG SHIQUE
Hanque is a pair of decorative buildings in front of temples or mausoleums. It is the earliest stone-like decorative building with wood-like structure in my country.
TWO-BODY CLAY POT
JADE CABBAGE
DONGPO FLESH-SHAPED STONE
MAO GONGDING
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