Elephant News reporter Zhao Yongtao Chen Zhengyi
The Shangdu Ruins Museum, which took nearly ten years to build, has opened! Zhengzhou is known as the "Shang capital", the wall of the East Avenue that has been silent for thousands of years is a well-known relic of every Zhengzhou person, the city wall can not tell its own story, but the museum can. Based on the archaeological excavations of Zhengzhou Shangcheng over the past 70 years, the Zhengzhou Shangdu Ruins Museum organically integrates models, projections and cultural relics to tell the story of what happened in the land of Zhengzhou 3600 years ago.
National treasure among national treasures laid the foundation for zhengzhou's status as the shang capital
In a display case in Hall 3 of the museum, a 1-meter-high bronze ding quietly stands, and the excavation of this bronze ding has laid the foundation for the status of Zhengzhou Mall as the capital of the country.
In 1974, a bronze fangding with animal face pattern was unearthed in Zhangzhaiqian Street, Duling, Zhengzhou, also known as Duling Fangding. The Dingtong is 100 cm high, 62.5 cm long, 61 cm wide and weighs 84.6 kg, making it the largest bronze found in the early Shang Dynasty to date. Archaeologist Yang Yubin believes that the shape of the Ding belongs to the Royal Family of the Shang Dynasty, making the position of the Ruins of Zhengzhou Shangcheng as the capital of the early Shang Dynasty more stable. At present, the original of Duling Fangding is stored in the National Museum of China, and although it is only a replica in The No. 3 exhibition hall of the Shangdu Ruins Museum, it is enough to make people feel the power and honor of the Shang Dynasty royal family 3600 years ago.
In addition, in a display case not far from Duling Fangding, there is also a piece of porcelain, a blue-glazed porcelain statue. In contrast to pottery, the porcelain is made of kaolin clay. Under the light, it is obvious that there is a smooth glaze inside and outside the porcelain statue. The production temperature of porcelain zun is even more than 1200 °C, which is much higher than the 800 °C of fired pottery. The excavation of this "original porcelain" in Zhengzhou Mall has advanced the time when China began firing porcelain by more than 1,000 years, which has greatly broadened the horizon of academic research.
Modern means of light and shadow recreate the magnificent shangdu of 3600 years ago
The Shangdu Ruins Museum uses projection technology to recreate the grandeur of Zhengzhou Mall, allowing visitors to immerse themselves in visiting and entering the history that has disappeared in the long river of time in the changing light and shadow.
The prologue hall mainly has two parts, one is the ground projection of ancient and modern places, through advanced light and shadow technology, let the audience see the historical changes of the land of Zhengzhou from the Shang Dynasty to the modern era.
The large-scale restored sand table showing the layout plan of the early Shang Dynasty Wangdu is even more eye-catching, and the large sand table combined with the display form of digital projection intuitively presents the overall urban layout and functional partitioning of the Capital City of the Shang Dynasty in Zhengzhou.
In other exhibition halls, you can also see various large-scale scene restorations displayed against the background of the rammed walls of the Shang Dynasty, such as the scene of city building, the scene of casting copper, the large palace, the water supply and drainage facilities, etc. once again vividly show the magnificent momentum of the royal capital, and also vividly show the wisdom and diligence of the working people of the Shang Dynasty for tourists.
A museum has become a bridge of time and space spanning 3600 years
This 3600-year-old Shang Dynasty kings have gone through the Zhou, Qin, Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, with continuous cultural veins and endless connections, and have been in the central area of the city, the city site has not changed, the foundation is long and deep, and it is the cultural foundation of modern Zhengzhou's urban memory inheritance. On the basis of 70 years of excavation and research, the Zhengzhou Shangdu Ruins Museum will be committed to protecting, researching and making good use of the ruins of the Shang Dynasty capital city in Zhengzhou, strengthening the construction of museums and public cultural services, further systematically excavating the rich connotation and era value of the Zhengzhou Shang Dynasty capital, presenting the magnificent historical scene that has lasted for thousands of years, telling the vivid human story of ancient and modern times, and empirically demonstrating the brilliant Chinese civilization that is endless.
Zhengzhou Shangdu Ruins Museum is open to the public free of charge, and citizens who come to visit need to pay attention to the "Zhengzhou Shangdu Ruins Museum" WeChat public account and fill in personal information in the ticket reservation system to make an appointment.
In order to better serve the general public, the Zhengzhou Shangdu Ruins Museum will organize four voluntary interpretation activities every day. Among them, the time in the morning is 9:30 and 10:30, and the time in the afternoon is 2 and 3:00.