At 19:00 on December 25, "National Treasures Exhibition season" was broadcast on the CCTV Variety Channel of China Central Radio and Television Corporation. In this issue, curators from 30 participating museums across the country gathered together to unveil the mystery of the "National Treasure" cultural relics special exhibition for the audience. Zhang Yuancheng, president of The Shanxi Museum, brought 3 cultural relics from the collection to the CCTV "National Treasures Exhibition season" cultural relics special exhibition, and highlighted the "Hu people eat cakes and ride camel figurines".
In this program, the most eye-catching "Hu people eat cake and ride camel figurines (Sui)", 45.7 centimeters high, was excavated from the tomb of Huo Luche in Shagou Village, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province. The owner of the tomb, Huo Luche, served as an official of Northern Qi, such as False Huang Qi, Envoy Jiejie, Xiangguo, and Shuozhou Assassin History. In the tomb, there are a large number of pottery figurines, including honor warriors, maid figurines, trick riding figurines, samurai figurines, etc., showing some of the life scenes of the tomb owner before his death. Among them, there are 2 pieces of camel riding figurines unearthed, and the cultural relics seen at the scene are very exquisite and vivid. The camel stood on a rectangular bracket with its head held high, a blanket between the twin peaks, carrying silk, leather bags and other items, and on the leather bag sat a person, thick eyebrows, deep eyes and high nose, and a round felt hat on his head. The most interesting thing is that he still has a loaf of bread in his hand and is eating it as he walks. A major highlight of this artifact is the cake in the hands of a Hu merchant sitting on a camel, known locally as "naan", a food that can be stored for a long time, and after it was introduced to China, it was called "Hu Cake". The camel, known as the "boat of the desert", is the animal that is easiest to walk and transport in the desert, and judging from the goods carried on the back of the camel, it is a commodity in the trade at that time.
At the same time, the cultural relics "Four-sided Buddha Shrine Statue Pagoda (Northern Wei)" are 40 cm wide at the bottom, 33 cm wide at the top and 45 cm high. The Buddhist art of the Northern Dynasty developed rapidly, opening caves and making statues, becoming popular, and experiencing a process of continuous localization and nationalization. In the early days of the Northern Dynasty, most of the Buddha statues were foreign appearances with high noses, deep eyes, and thin clothes; in the middle and late period, they gradually became Sinicized, showing the image of "famous men" with beautiful bones and clear bones and clothing belts. "Six-curved floral pattern gold cup (Tang)", pass height 5.4 cm, caliber 7.9 cm, bottom diameter 3.5 cm. In 2004, it was transferred to the Shanxi Museum by the public security organs of Shanxi Province.
The theme of the "National Treasures exhibition season" cultural relics special exhibition depends on the water. The first unit is "Source", stopping to gaze at the little stars at the beginning of civilization; the second unit is "Flow", showing the exchange and integration between peoples and nationalities, between local and external, and between human beings and nature in history; the third unit is "Hui", which tries to answer how the ideas, tempered skills, and collected classics of the ancestors have made us condense into a whole, and what contributions China has made to the development of the world. At the "National Treasures exhibition season", the curators of the 30 museums participating in the exhibition also brought the "thick earth cube" collected from important local archaeological sites, and worked together to build the "Why China" installation on the spot and launched the special exhibition. At present, all the creative works have been imported into the exhibition hall of the Palace Museum of Wenhua Hall, and will present a multi-dimensional innovative special exhibition together with many cultural relics.
Source: Shanxi Daily
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