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Northern Henan is adjacent to my southwestern part of Lu, so there are more tours. This time, I came to Anyang.
Anyang west of the Taihang Mountains, east of the North China Plain, a Huan River across the east and west, Beijing-Guangzhou Railway runs through the north and south, the geographical situation is very important, the history and culture is particularly rich, is the ancient capital of the Seven Dynasties, one of the eight ancient capitals of China. As a famous historical and cultural city, Anyang is still the most attractive to the world as the capital of the Shang Dynasty, which is the only Shang capital with historical records and confirmed by oracle bones and excavated cultural relics.
Yin Ruins is located in Xiaotun Village, northwest of Anyang City, and the nearby area. The Huan River flowed from the mountains in the west, like a ribbon flying in the wind, bending and drifting eastward. The river turns from east to west to north to form a semi-enveloping structure, embracing the ruins of the Yin Ruins Palace Zongmiao Temple. On the other side of the Huan River, another bend of the river embraces the ruins of the Yin Tombs.
The main area of the museum is slightly rectangular from north to south, and there is a long east-west strip area in the south of its west side, which makes the whole bowuyuan look like an ancient goto. The gate of Yin Ruins is red and wooden, like three juxtaposed "kai" characters, slightly higher in the middle and slightly lower on both sides, and the two square areas vacated between the "kai" characters each have a circular jade dragon pattern. This design suddenly pulled people's perspective from modern to ancient. Enter the gate to see the world-famous Simu Pengding, which is now in the National Museum of Beijing, and what you see here is an enlarged imitation, about two people tall, enough to shock tourists.
North of Simu Pengding, there is a tall palace stretching from east to west, the palace was built on the base site of the Shang Dynasty palace, in accordance with the architectural style of "Maozi Tu Steps" and "Four Heavy Houses" recorded in the literature, that is, on the elevated earthen platform, the beams, purlins and rafters were made of wooden beams, purlins and rafters to make a building skeleton, and the roof of the temple was sloped on all sides, with two eaves. The thatched roof of the temple is suddenly different from the hall of the Ming and Qing dynasties.
The Yin Ruins Museum is located in the southeast of the antique hall. Winding down the ramp, under the feet is a sign of the extension of the Chinese dynasty, along the way, it is like crossing the road through time, when you walk to the Shang Dynasty carved line, you also enter the exhibition area gate. The clear water in the large hall contains a tortoiseshell-like ornament, and a stone plate on one side is inscribed with the seven oracle bones written by Mr. Dong Zuobin. After that, the exhibition hall visited was full of bronzes, oracle bones and other cultural relics excavated from the Yin Ruins, Ding, Yi, Zun, And Xue were all there, gold, jade, pottery, and stone, all existing, large and small, making people dizzy. Through the visit, I learned about the birthplace of Chinese archaeology, the historical process of Yin Ruins and oracle bone excavation and collation for more than 100 years since the beginning of the last century, and the major research results of the "Four Halls of Oracle Bones" (Guo Moruo DingTang, Dong Zuobin YanTang, Wang Guowei Guantang, luo Zhenyu Xuetang).
Out of the museum, I looked at the Forest of Steles and the Oracle Cave. The stele is written in oracle bones, which can intuitively feel the charm of the earliest Chinese writing. The cellar cave refers to the ash pit discovered in 1936, and more than 10,000 pieces of oracle bones were excavated at a time, so it is called the earliest oracle bone archive in China.
Most of the antiquities in Yin Ruins are the remaining building foundation sites, on which wooden stakes are marked with the location of the foundation and pillar foundations. There are many burial pits between the base sites, and through the glass covered on the ground, you can see the carriages and horses, martyrs, and dogs buried inside. The Shang Dynasty attached great importance to the ancestors of heaven and earth, and killed people and animals as martyrdom every time they were sacrificed, which made people see the cruel side of slave society.
In the southwest corner of the museum, there is the tomb of the woman, which was excavated in 1976. "Good" is her name, and "woman" indicates madame status. After her death, she was called "Xin" and was called "Empress Xin" by her descendants the Shang King. Although Wu Ding had more than 60 wives, Shehao was his first queen and was deeply loved by Wu Ding. She was the first female general in Chinese history with accurate records, leading the Shang Dynasty army to conquer the north and south, and made great achievements for the Expansion of the Shang Dynasty' territory. Many of the bronzes unearthed in the tomb can be called the best of bronze, and the statue of the woman in front of the tomb reflects the contemporary artist's understanding of this ancient heroine.
Go to Yin Ruins, get in close contact with the ancestors of 3,000 years ago, and harvest a lot. Those who like calligraphy must come to Yin Ruins, and the best people who like culture come to feel the feelings!
Author: Lu Ming, male, born in 1960, pen name Yellow River into the sea. Retired cadre of Yuncheng County CPC Committee, Chairman of Yuncheng County Writers Association, President of County Poetry Society. He is a member of the Shandong Writers Association, the vice president of the Heze Poetry Society, a special researcher of the Shuihu Culture Research Base of Heze University, and a scholar of historical and cultural research in Yuncheng County. He has published more than 100 essays, more than 20 novels, and more than 1,000 poems and poems in various newspapers and online platforms such as Guangming Daily, Shandong Literature, and Times Literature, of which Heze Fu was published in Guangming Daily. He is the author of six cultural books, including "Zhengyu Water Margin", "Impression of Water Margin", "Exploration of Good Han Culture", "Yuncheng Literature and History Examination Strategy" (three volumes), and the chief editor of "Selected Literary Works of Yuncheng", "Yuncheng Wenyun", "Water Margin Biography", and "Water Margin Wine Story" four works. In Heze TV Station, he lectured on the thirteenth issue of Water Margin Culture.
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