On December 27, 2021, the 12th anniversary of the discovery of Cao Cao's Gaoling tomb in Xigaoxiao Village, Anyang, Henan, was first made public, and Anyang City announced at the Anyang Cultural and Tourism Cultural and Creative Integration Development Promotion Conference that the Cao Cao Gaoling Museum plans to be fully opened to the public on May 1, 2022, with Liu Qingzhu, a famous archaeologist and former director of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, as honorary curator, and the position of executive curator is open to recruitment nationwide.
Renderings of The Gaoling Museum Figure Dahe Newspaper
Since the discovery was announced in 2009, Cao Cao's Gaoling Tomb in Anyang has attracted much attention from all walks of life. According to media reports, Cao Cao's Gaoling will be fully built into a Three Kingdoms Cultural Heritage Park, becoming an important platform for studying the culture of the Three Kingdoms and the history of the Han and Wei Dynasties. The Cao Cao Gaoling Museum, which will open next year, will be the first phase of the site cultural park, located in Area A, mainly for the display of Cao Cao's life deeds and cultural relics. In 2019, the main building of the museum was completed, and the cultural relics entered the installation stage.
Cao Cao Gaoling Museum in the exhibition Figure Dahe Bao
Although Cao Cao's Gaoling tomb has been excavated repeatedly, a number of cultural relics have been excavated, and about 250 pieces have been restored. The most important of these is the inscribed stone plaque that helps determine the identity of the tomb owner, which is in the shape of a gui, which is engraved with "Euphorbia of the Tiger commonly used by the King of Wei Wu" and "The Short Spear of the Tiger often used by the King of Wei Wu".
Cao Cao's Gaoling unearthed a stone tablet inscribed "King Wu of Wei"
In addition, there are ceremonial utensils such as bluestone gui and bi; weapons such as iron armor, swords, hammers, and crossbows; miscellaneous utensils such as copper-lipped bow hats, umbrella hats, bells, and coal-fine stone tiger carvings; pottery stones, stone pillows, copper belt hooks, buckles, heads, plutonium, rings, hat nails, silver buckles, heads, ornaments, iron tent components, mirrors, cuttings and other utensils; jade beads, crystal beads, agate beads, jade pendants and other ornaments; stoves, ear cups, plates, pots, pots, pots, trays, pots and other ceramics.
Agate Cake Eastern Han Dynasty ~ Three Kingdoms (Wei) Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology Collection 2008 ~ 2009 Henan Anyang Cao Cao GaoLing excavated
Cao Cao's Gaoling unearthed an inscribed stone pillow
Earlier, Pan Weibin, the host of the excavation of the "Cao Wei Gaoling" in The West High Cave of Anyang County, talked about the uniqueness of the Cao Cao Gaoling Cultural Relics Exhibition in an exclusive interview with China News Agency. He said that the sense of the exhibition will be very strong, and each cultural relic will have a detailed interpretation, such as the excavated Gui, why does it appear here? What does this mean? What does the unearthed weapon have to do with Cao Cao's identity? And each cultural relic has a coherence with each other, and no cultural relics will appear suddenly.
Anyang West High Cave Gaoling Front Chamber
Pan Weibin introduced: "Most of the cultural relics exhibitions in some museums are more traditional, and our cultural relics exhibition will be a 360-degree all-round display, with background introduction, use methods, functional introductions, and some problems that can reflect the burial system at that time, which may not be seen in other museums, the content is relatively rich, the language is popular, and the audience can understand it at a glance." ”