City trip, where is the first destination you would most like to go to?
My answer will always be museums.
Tang Taizong Li Shimin said: "With history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall of the people"; the British philosopher Bacon said in "On the Quest for Knowledge": "Reading history makes people wise."
Museums are the protectors and recorders of history, as well as an important temple for the protection and inheritance of human civilization. It is the spiritual connotation of a city and the traveler's first understanding of an unfamiliar city.
Whether it is a large-scale provincial exhibition or a small-scale exhibition, when the museum becomes the link between the public and multiculturalism, the city becomes more three-dimensional, and the three-dimensional range exceeds all the high-rise buildings.
With the opening of the new museum of Hubei Provincial Museum to the public, it has attracted the attention of countless citizens and tourists.
The new museum has permanent thematic exhibitions such as "Eight Hundred Years of the Chu Kingdom", "Zeng Houyi", "Zeng Shijia - Zeng Guo of Archaeological Revelations", "Yue Wang Gou Jian Sword Special Exhibition", "Liangzhuang King Treasures", "Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition" and so on.
At the same time, the treasure of the museum has been promoted from the "Big Four" in the past to the "Top Ten" today.
In addition to the four "treasures of the town hall" of Zeng Houyi chimes, the yue wang gou jian sword, the skull fossil of the Yunxian people and the yuan qinghua four love tumei bottle, there are six other "treasures of the town hall".
They are ZengHou Yizun Pan, Yunmeng Sleeping Tiger Land Qin Jian, Tiger Seat Bird Drum, Painted Figure Carriage and Horse Travel Map, Shijiahe Jade Portrait and Chongyang Copper Drum.
At present, the three treasures of the town hall, Namengmeng Sleeping Tiger Land Qin Jian, Shijiahe Jade Portrait and Chongyang Copper Drum, have not been exhibited.
The total area of the new museum and the old museum is 113,800 square meters, the exhibition area is 36,000 square meters, the existing collection is more than 240,000 pieces (sets), and nearly 1,000 national first-class cultural relics (sets).
Part of the wall of the new museum is a glass curtain wall and a dragon pattern relief, and two large white spiral ladders are faintly visible inside.
At present, the white spiral ladder has become a popular spot for many young people to take photos and punch cards, but the most memorable thing is the exquisite cultural relics of "a thousand years at a glance".
As one of the "treasures of the town hall", the combination of Zenghou Yi chimes and the brilliant starry sky art presents a highly developed ancient liturgical civilization.
The sound of a thousand years of natural sounds echoes in the vast starry sky, no matter how quickly time is lost, it cannot flow away from the inheritance and respect of Chinese descendants for Lile.
How invincible is a thousand years, how many invincibles are there? How lonely is invincible? The Yue King's sword was probably too much to say.
In the exhibition hall of about 300 square meters, it is only one thing. Since the opening of the new museum, the crowds surrounding it have changed from wave to wave and marveled at it.
The sword is 55.6 cm long and 5 cm wide. After more than 2500 years, the decoration is clear, the cold light is compelling, there is no rust, and it is known as "the first sword in the world".
After many years, the original "Tiger Bird Drum", one of the treasures of the town hall, was exhibited again. This musical instrument is one of the necessary props in the warring states historical drama and is the best representative of the output of Chu culture.
This is also one of the most surprising national treasures since the opening of the new museum, 135.9 centimeters tall, consisting of two tigers and two phoenixes, phoenixes stepping on tigers, surrounded by six pythons. The Chu people Chongfeng was very fanatical.
Another new "Treasure of the Town Hall" painted characters traveling in cars and horses is very low-key, but the appearance is extremely technological.
This is a lacquer painting scene depicting the carriage and horse travel of characters in the Warring States period, with a total length of 87.4 centimeters and a total of 26 characters, which is known as the earliest existing long-scroll "comic strip" in China.
On the wall directly opposite this artifact, the video GIF brings the "artifact to life" and makes people immersed in an immersive viewing exhibition.
It is as if all the characters in the painting appear in front of us, so that today we really feel the travel etiquette of the Chu people, and the pigs and dogs leap and the cars and horses are orderly, which is very natural.
Due to the orderly length, there are no more treasures of other town museums, but every artifact in the museum is worth savoring, and no amount of text description is as good as your personal exploration at a glance.
At the same time, you will also find that the lighting and exhibition space design of the new museum is more elaborate than that of the old museum, full of the fusion of Jingchu cultural elements and modern technology.
Such as constant temperature and humidity system, low reflection glass, modern information technology, etc., can not only carry out in-depth protection of cultural relics, but also allow the audience to have a better sense of experience when visiting.
The biggest intuitive feeling for me is that the harmony between the dark part of the light and the brightness of a cultural relic makes the color of the cultural relic itself just sink in the flow of time, forming a thicker and gentler historical description.
And the overall space is just the right shade, and the presentation of cultural relics is just the right brightness, so that the space between the cultural relics and the building itself has a tacit understanding of the harmony, this harmony not only has a wonderful color pouring, but also grasps its practical value, but also brings me a quiet atmosphere of browsing history.
No matter how many tourists come and go around, no matter how many sounds are mixed, they can't break the tranquility of my gaze at history. Throw yourself into it, forget the flow of time, and the mystery of the East is always overwhelming.
If this museum is likened to a circle of the Chu state, "moderate brightness" is the most important role in the circle.
If there is no light, the circle is black, and the prosperity and high civilization of the Chu people will lose their color.
If the light is too straightforward and endless, history loses its sense of layering and three-dimensionality. On the contrary, the mutual adjustment between light and dark presents the multidimensional nature of the world.
Of course, "moderate brightness" is also one of the best measures for the protection of cultural relics, reflecting safety, reductitution and comfort. This is a great test of the museum's lighting management and precise illumination and exposure control of the exhibits.
How is the Hubei Provincial Museum doing in this regard? Let's take a look at it on the weekend.