"Tang monks take the sutra and pillow" Courtesy of Guangdong Provincial Museum
Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Huang Zhuhui correspondent Huang Suzhe
Tonight at 19:00, the "National Treasure Exhibition Season" broadcast by CCTV Variety Channel ushered in the end. In this episode, curators from 30 participating museums across the country will bring "thick earth cubes" collected from important local archaeological sites to jointly build "Why China" installation works on the spot to launch the special exhibition.
Among them, Xiao Haiming, director of the Guangdong Provincial Museum (hereinafter referred to as "YueBo"), participated in the launching ceremony of the special exhibition with the collection of soil and precious cultural relics "Tang Monks Taking Scripture Map Pillows" collected from the Shixia Ruins (hereinafter referred to as the "Shixia Ruins") in Qujiang District, Shaoguan City, Guangdong Province, an important archaeological site in South China.
Why choose the Shixia site soil?
Why is the soil collected at the Shixia site listed in The National Treasure?
According to reports, from 1973 to 1978, the Shixia site carried out three archaeological excavations, found a large number of housing sites, ash pits, kiln sites and other remains, cleaned up 132 tombs, and unearthed more than 10,000 pieces of various utensils. These findings provide extremely important and typical physical materials for studying the cultural connotation, chronology and relationship with other cultures from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age in Guangdong, and for exploring the social and historical issues such as the disintegration and phased development process of primitive society in China, and are also important physical evidence for exploring the social and cultural development of Lingnan from primitive society to before the Qin and Han dynasties.
The site was rated as one of the 100 major archaeological discoveries in China in the 20th century, and is an important harvest of archaeology in South China.
"Song Jinxiang ornament" courtesy of Guangdong Provincial Museum
Two precious cultural relics entered Beijing to participate in the exhibition
The special exhibition of cultural relics of "National Treasures" is exhibited in the Forbidden City, of which two cultural relics are from Yuebo, namely "Tang Monks Taking Sutra Picture Pillows" and "Song Jinxiang Ornaments".
"Tang monks take the scriptures and pillow" is a representative work of the Cizhou kiln in the Yuan Dynasty. This porcelain pillow is not only a practical object of daily life, but also an extremely exquisite ceramic handicraft. Paintings and decorative motifs have both the characteristics of flower and bird paintings and the depiction of folk mythological stories. In particular, the story of the Tang monks drawing on the pillow provides valuable information for the study of the writing process of China's famous mythological novel "Journey to the West". This is one of the early images of the Tang monks' sutras that have survived to the present, which not only reflects the superb artistic achievements of folk porcelain painters, but also is physical evidence of reference value for studying the history of the novel "Journey to the West".
The "Song Gold Necklace" is the first gold vessel from the wreck of the "Nanhai I", which is woven from four strands of eight gold threads, one of which has four small rings at one end, which can be used to adjust the tightening. Although the "Song Jin Xiang Ornament" has sunk into the South China Sea for nearly a thousand years, it is still dazzling. Its craftsmanship is not traditional Chinese, suggesting that the shipwreck may have been related to overseas trade activities.
Making a National Treasure "Identity Card"
Together with the "Tang Monk Taking The Scripture Pillow" and "Song Jinxiang Ornament", there is also a national treasure "identity card" - Caizha Lion Head, which was produced by Xiao Haiming and CCTV host Venena in Foshan for this special exhibition.
According to reports, the "treasure certificate" is the product of the collision of cultural relics with intangible cultural heritage elements and folk customs in various places. "Caizha Lion Head" is based on the creation of the Guangdong Cultural Relics Golden Lacquer Wood Carving Grand Shrine, integrating the lion dance culture of Lingnan region, and combined with the national intangible cultural heritage Caiza (Foshan Lion Head) craft.