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I can't remember exactly, but it was the first time I came to the Chinese Painting Museum. As a native of Nanyang, the traffic is naturally convenient to come and go, but it is not the main reason, the more important reason is that in the Han Painting Museum, there is a treasure that treasures the spiritual banner of Bo Yuanxiong, which is always haunted by dreams in the heart, haunting the shadows continuously, and when you don't go every now and then, you feel that your brain is empty and there is no comfort.
When you come to the front of the museum, you can stare at the two majestic Han Que into view. Behind the Han Que, the pines and cypresses are hidden, and a group of majestic buildings stand tall, with white walls and green tiles, majestic and heavy, showing the majestic atmosphere of the Great Han. No, it is not a building in the ordinary sense, but a dynastic palace, which contains the politics, life, culture, customs of a thousand years ago... The stirring souls of that era!
What was Nanyang like 1,800 years ago? Zhang Heng's Nandu Fu has an exquisite description: "Yu Xianle Du, both beautiful and healthy! Accompany the south of Beijing, the sun of Juhan. Cut the abundant soil of Zhou Chu and cross the Jingyu into a frontier. ...... Its treasure is precious, then golden and jade, with pearls of luminous light. Copper tin lead kai, ochre chalk yellow. Green purple, green and purple millet. Taiyi surplus grain, medium yellow jade. Matsuko Shinpi, Red Spirit Unraveling Horn. The cultivator yang guang in the abyss of Qingling, and the wandering girl makes pearls in the song of Han Gao..."
However, Zhang Heng depicted only the scene of the Han Dynasty. If the tentacles are stretched, it is even more long-standing——
Since the opening of Pangu, the mountains and rivers have been established, and Nanyang is the basin: Qinling, Funiu, Tongbai Mountain, west, north and east three-way arch; Baishui, Tang River, Turbulent Water, Danjiang River, Huai River, east, middle and west are crisscrossed. The mountains and rivers are beautiful, the land is fertile, the plants are lush, and the organisms are flourishing. There are remnants of dinosaur battles in xixia in ancient times; there are also traces of the life of ancient apes drilling wood for fire and burning stoves and barbecues in Nanzhao Xinghua Mountain; Fangcheng, Yahe, Tong, Tang, Zhen, and Huai all have petroglyphs left by prehistoric human carved stone memories; there are more Nanyang Huangshan ruins, which are most likely the city where the Yellow Emperor accepted the handover of the throne of Shennongyan Emperor Zen...
As for the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, Nanyang began to seal the marquis and establish a state, refusing to complete statistics, there were more than ten lü, xie, shen, deng, tian, indate, tang, jiao, analysis, and e. Around the Spring and Autumn Period, Chu destroyed the kingdoms, occupied Nanyang, and divided Jianghuai. Qin also destroyed Chu, unified China, deposed the princes, and ruled by thirty-six counties, with Nanyang County administering thirty-six counties, one of the two largest counties in the country. The Western Han Dynasty continued the Qin system. The Eastern Han Dynasty even added another county, with a county jurisdiction of thirty-seven counties, becoming a veritable "first county under the heavens".
During the Western Han Dynasty, people thought about governance, social stability, the construction of water conservancy, the development of farming, the establishment of iron smelting, and the expansion of commerce and trade. Nanyang soon became one of the "five major cities in the country" along with Chang'an, Luoyang, Handan and Linzi. The Eastern Han Dynasty was more than the Western Han Dynasty, because Nanyang was Liu Xiu's hometown and anti-Mang rebellion, and among the military generals of the Wen Dynasty, the Nanyang people occupied nearly half. After the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were forty-seven princes who were divided into Wan. The relatives of the emperor and the state are innumerable, and the princes will look at each other in the first house, "the soldiers and women will be educated, and the heads of the qian will look up to the wind". It makes it the "second largest city in the country" after the capital Luoyang.
The great political and economic prosperity has stimulated the great development of ideology, science and technology, and culture. The medical saints Zhang Zhongjing, Kesheng Zhang Heng, and Zhisheng Zhuge Liang in the "Five Saints" of Nanyang appeared in the Han Dynasty. What we want to talk about now is the prosperity of the culture of the Han Dynasty, including literature, including music, song and dance, painting, sculpture and other fields, have achieved great development and prosperity by leaps and bounds.
However, in the past 1,800 years, as China's recognized "strongest" two Han Dynasty, its magnificent atmosphere, swallowing mountains and rivers of brilliant scenes, has long been covered by thick historical smoke, especially dazzling music, painting, song and dance, sculpture art, we can only read the text description in the history books, and the original physical object, but has become an undevelopable code.
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However, as long as it is gold, it will eventually emit a sparkling light. The majestic scene of the Han Dynasty, which once shook the world and swallowed mountains and rivers, was finally revealed by Tiangong in the summer of 1931 AD, intentionally or unintentionally.
The sudden continuous rain caused the torrent to rush down from the depths of Funiu Mountain, breaking through the embankment of the Baihe River, sweeping through the villages on both sides, and rushing away a Han tomb next to caodian village eighteen miles southwest of Wancheng. The valuable cultural relics in the tomb have long been stolen and looted, leaving only some heavy tombstones. On these immovable tombstones, there are many incomprehensible patterns and words engraved.
This unexpected news led the archaeologists to the scene, and they were overjoyed to see it: the tombstones were carved by the Han Dynasty pictures from two thousand years ago! Although these Han portrait stones are dilapidated and incomplete, they are washed and spliced one by one, and they immediately change from cold stones to objects with temperature and life.
Like those slightly clumsy lines on the stone, those seemingly simple but imaginative pictures, are telling the spiritual orientation of the people in the Han Dynasty, the first understanding of the universe and the world, showing the life scenes of the princes and nobles and the farmers in the city in that era, the soldiers going out on expeditions, the craftsmen and farmers, the marriage and funeral, the song and dance entertainment... Combining all this is a panoramic picture of Han Dynasty life.
The tombstones solve the mystery of the millennium and instantly alarm the archaeological community. Including Mr. Lu Xun, Zhang Jiamou, Yang Tingbin, Sun Wenqing, Wang Zhengshuo and other benevolent people from Nanyang, they began to collect Han portrait stones everywhere, and soon more than 100 Han portrait stones were found in the ancient city wall of Nanyang in the Qing Dynasty, the Bowang Bridge in Fangcheng County, and the Han tombs in Xinye, Dengzhou and other places.
With the support of the Government of the Republic of China at that time, the original Nanyang Han Painting Museum was founded in October 1935. The building is located in the Nanyang People's Education Hall (now the backyard of the Wolong District Radio Station), and there are 118 Han portrait stones in the collection. Luo Zhen, the sixth administrative inspector of Henan Province at that time, wrote a special inscription on the "Nanyang Han Painting Museum Creation and Repair Record".
After the founding of New China, the protection of Chinese paintings received strong support. In 1957, the Henan Provincial Government allocated special funds to renovate the Seven-Hole Bridge and demolished dozens of Han portrait stones. In 1958, the provincial government allocated special funds and decided to build a new Chinese painting museum on the east side of the Wuhou Ancestral Hall in Wollongong. In 1959, the construction officially began, and Mr. Guo Mo, who was the president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the time, wrote the name of the Museum for Chinese Painting. After the completion of the new museum, there are more than 30 workshops and corridors, an exhibition hall area of 900 square meters, and more than 500 collection portrait stones.
In the 1970s, the collection of Han portrait stones continued to soar, from more than 500 stones to more than 1,000 stones, and the capacity of the exhibition hall became saturated again. In 1976, the reconstruction of the new building began on the northeast side of the original building, and was completed in 1979. The exhibition hall of the new museum covers an area of 1700 square meters, exhibits 187 fine portrait stones, and the total number of portrait stones in the collection has reached 1500.
However, with the increase in the stock of Han portrait stones and the cracks in the original museum, in 1986, the province and city decided to rebuild the Han painting museum in the southeast of Wollongong. Construction of the new building began in 1988 and was completed at the end of 1999. The current Chinese Painting Museum is a national first-class museum. Its collection and exhibited Han portrait stones total more than 2,500 pieces. The number and scale are the highest in the country.
(To be continued)
Source of this article: The Ballad of the Wolf