Artifacts are the language and content of the museum
As the largest thematic museum of the city wall in The country
The Nanjing City Wall Museum will use more than a thousand cultural relics
Tell the story of the city walls
thereinto
The "big one" is the biggest
Nothing is from Lichuan County, Jiangxi
"Moved" ming dynasty brick kilns
In order to better protect the cultural heritage of nanjing city wall, the Nanjing city wall protection and management center implements off-site protection of a brick kiln and a brick blank remains in the Lichuan brick kiln site in Jiangxi Province, and exhibits them in the Nanjing City Wall Museum, and the largest "big" cultural relics have become a major feature of the museum.
It's a story full of coincidences and hardships in the process...
Serendipity discovery.
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In January 2017, during the Spring Festival, the Nanjing City Wall Protection and Management Center received a message from Huang Yougen, a potter in Jingdezhen City, Jiangxi Province.
When Huang Yougen returned to his hometown of Lichuan County for the Chinese New Year, he noticed that the water level of the Litan River in his hometown had plummeted, and a large number of kiln remnants were revealed on both sides of the river. Because of his long-term work in the firing of ceramics, he found that these kilns scattered on the riverbank were quite different from the kilns that fired ceramics. Through many inquiries and investigations, he learned that this area had indeed fired city bricks for the nanjing city wall, and speculated that these kilns were Ming Dynasty brick kilns.
Puzzled, he sent a photograph of the site of the kiln and part of the kiln to the center of the city wall.
Got the news
A research team composed of several experts in the center of the city wall
Immediately rush to Lichuan, Jiangxi
Embarked on a journey of "root-seeking"
During the investigation of the kiln site group, experts carefully noticed the phenomenon of neatly arranged and vertical strips on the ground, and speculated that this area should be the place where brick blanks were concentrated more than 600 years ago.
At the site of the site, the research team identified the kiln furnace system at the same time, but also found scattered broken bricks at the mouth of the kiln, the top surface of the city bricks can still faintly see the inscriptions of "Jianchang Province" and "Xincheng County", although the brick body has a small amount of sand, but the brick mud is delicate and of good quality...
The findings are largely confirmed
This is the site of the official kiln of the Nanjing City Wall Bricks
Difficult migration.
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Since the kiln site group is in the flooded area of the Hongmen Reservoir, after the completion of the floodway gate renovation project of the Hongmen Reservoir, the reservoir will accumulate water again, and the kiln site group will once again sink in the Litan River.
To better protect the brick kiln
The Nanjing City Wall Protection and Management Center decided to implement off-site protection for the brick kilns. After many field investigations and repeated studies, the city wall center dispatched professional technicians to relocate the Lichuan official kiln in accordance with the requirements of cultural relics protection norms.
Badu Village, where the brick kiln site is located, faces water on three sides, and on one side is mountainous, only a long and narrow dirt road in the countryside can be walked. Bad weather conditions and geographical location made the transportation of brick kilns very difficult.
In order to safely transport the remains of the kiln and bricks to the road, the staff specially rented excavators in the local area, widened the dirt road near the kiln site, and brought stones to flatten the dirt road, so as to ensure that the trailer would not fall into the mud when transporting the brick kiln and brick remains.
To achieve the integrity of the brick kiln protection and handling
Two cranes on site are hoisted at the same time
The brick kiln of the Nanjing City Wall in Lichuan County, which will weigh more than 5 tons, will be built
Slowly separated from the excavation
After nearly 10 hours and more than 800 kilometers of travel
It was eventually transported to Nanjing
Elaborate and unique display.
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How to turn this "big" brick kiln
"Escort" into the museum in its entirety
The center of the city wall was at the time of the construction of the museum
So he planned early
The staff will be the museum construction and cultural relics into the museum overall arrangement, because the museum construction adopted the reverse method of construction, therefore, after the completion of the museum board construction, the brick kiln into the museum work, through the museum roof specially left to take the soil mouth, the kiln hoisting into the museum.
At this moment, the brick kiln stands quietly in the exhibition hall.
Behind it, there is a huge exquisite hand-painted wall, reproducing the grand scene of the first time experts saw the ruins of the Lichuan brick kiln in Jiangxi - there are many brick kilns distributed along the river, these brick kilns are relatively well preserved, similar in size, the shape is typical of the steamed bun, and there are three chimneys on it, stretching and staggering, which is spectacular!
The transparent display cabinet in front of the brick kiln displays items found during the inspection of the site, such as the iron fork used to burn the city bricks and the city bricks with the inscription "Xincheng County", showing the public the brick burning site more than 600 years ago.
With the physical display, next to the brick kiln body, multimedia equipment synchronously plays the documentary audio and video of the inspection of the brick kiln site in Lichuan, Jiangxi, so that visitors can see the brick kiln at the same time, but also can deeply understand the process of discovery of the brick kiln site.
The site was spanned by a research team of more than 800 kilometers
Brought to Nanjing brick kilns and brick billets
It is now
One of the important exhibits in the Nanjing City Wall Museum
It was the city wall of Nanjing more than 650 years ago in Lichuan, Jiangxi
An important historical witness to the firing of city bricks
It is also the physical epitome of tens of millions of kilns
It shows the city wall of Nanjing
Behind this vast city wall
The superb skills and hard work of the broad masses of working people
The display of the brick kiln of the Nanjing City Wall in Lichuan County not only scientifically and effectively protects the brick kiln, so that the brick kiln with a history of more than 650 years is no longer submerged in the water of the Litan River; moreover, as an early representative of the brick kiln of the Ming Dynasty, its display also builds a bridge between the museum and archaeology and sites, and the use of a variety of display means makes the visit and tour in the museum more scene-oriented, allowing visitors to touch the history more truly.