In the eyes of many travelers, Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, may be just a transit city and is not suitable for special trips here, but in fact, in my opinion, as one of the first national historical and cultural cities, Kunming is indeed suitable for staying for 2-3 days to appreciate its unique civilization.
If you don't have much time, it's worth spending half a day strolling around the Yunnan Provincial Museum in Guandu District and visiting Yunnan south of Caiyun.
Founded in 1951, the Yunnan Provincial Museum is the first museum in Yunnan Province, with a collection of more than 220,000 cultural relics, of which more than 500 have been listed as national first-class cultural relics, and with such a rich collection, they have been successfully selected as the first batch of national first-class museums.
Because of the large number of cultural relics, if you want to discover the beauty of Yunnan in a short period of time, you may wish to focus on the following cultural relics, which are the most surprising ones for me by the Yunnan Provincial Museum.
Item 1: Stacked drum-shaped hunting scene shellfish containers
This shell reservoir is one of my personal favorites among several Western Han Dynasty shell containers in Yunbo, the entire shell storage is made of two drums overlapping welding and casting, the bottom layer can see the welded casting of 4 sleeping cows, between the carcass and the waist welded cast 4 crouching deer.
The focus can be on the cover section, which is a vivid hunting scene where two men can be seen riding horses, one of which is welded and cast into a full body gilded.
The two men were armed with weapons, and the horses were hunting down a running deer together, and next to the deer could be seen standing people, holding weapons in both hands, preparing to hunt another deer.
If you look closely, you can also see that in addition to the characters and deer, there are also dogs, rabbits, and foxes, which makes the picture more plump and shows the scene of hunting and killing by Yunnan people in the Han Dynasty.
There are still many bronzes in the Yunnan Provincial Museum, and travelers can also pay attention to the bronze shell vessel of the Four Bull Gilded Knights, the Bronze Case of the Warring States Bull and Tiger, the Bronze Pillow of the Fierce Tiger Attacking the Bull, and the Stacked Drum Shell Container of the Western Han War Scene.
Item 2: Silver backlit golden Akhye Kannon statue
This is one of Ma Ji's favorite cultural relics during his trip to the Yunnan Provincial Museum, which comes from the Qianxun Pagoda of Dali Chongsheng Temple, which is one of the most classic cultural relics in Dali, that is, the Song Dynasty in the Central Plains.
The entire statue is about 30 meters high, and it is a pure gold Buddha statue cast on the basis of the Dali kingdom 'Akaya', the so-called 'Akaya' is also guanyin in the Central Plains.
The statue of Guanyin wears a Buddha's heavenly crown on her head, a skirt, a bouquet of flower-shaped belts, and barefoot. The backlight part is also very exquisite, because the raw materials are hollowed out to make a boat-shaped backlight, and if you look closely, you can see that the backlight pattern is very rich, in addition to the conventional lotus pattern, there are bead patterns and flame patterns.
It can be said that with such a rich yunnan Dali national style and rare cultural relics, the statue of Guanyin of Akhaya has become one of the treasures of the Yunnan Provincial Museum.
Item 3: Song Dali National Silver Gilded Gold-winged Bird
Like the statue of Guanyin Guanyin, I was also pleasantly surprised by the Dali National Silver Gilded Gold-winged Bird of the same period, which was also featured in the National Treasure Program, which shows its high value.
The golden-winged bird, called "Kalura" in Sanskrit, is known as the protector of Dali, and it is also the Eight Heavenly Dragons in Buddhism. It is said that the golden-winged bird was originally fierce and could conquer the dragons. Later, the golden-winged bird converted to Buddhism and became the protector of Buddhism.
Looking at this artifact, the whole golden-winged bird is about 18.5 cm tall, with a head like an eagle's head, a sharp beak and claws, a crown of feathers on the head, a flame-like tail, and five gorgeous crystal beads embedded in it.
It can be seen that although the goldfinch is much smaller than expected, the overall shape is extremely exquisite, the craftsmanship is very delicate, showing the majestic goldenfinch.
It can be said that Buddhism has had an extremely important position in Yunnan since ancient times, especially in the Dali Period, which became the state religion, and through these cultural relics in the Yunnan Provincial Museum, we are shown the realm of the Myoxiang Buddha Kingdom.
Of course, as a rich collection of Yunnan Provincial Museum, there are naturally more than the above three cultural relics that are worth appreciating, such as the bright gold inlaid red sapphire crown, the Song Guo Xixi Mountain Travel Chart Axis, the three figurine bronze lamps, the seal of the King of Dian, and the five-color offering tower. (Author: Horse and stop, life is about walking, the journey needs to be recorded!) ）