Guided by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and sponsored by the Central Radio and Television Station and the Palace Museum, the special exhibition of cultural relics of "National Treasures" is like a window, and the bucket room can be seen as big as the Chinese Qiankun and the meaning is far away; just like the ruler, the length of the source of civilization and the breadth of nourishment can be measured between pitches. The holding of the special exhibition of national treasures is inseparable from the generations of archaeologists who have excavated the remains, revealed history, and transformed new knowledge.
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of modern Chinese archaeology, 30 participating museum directors gathered at the scene of the "National Treasures Exhibition season" and invited Jin Ruiguo, deputy director of the Department of Museums and Social Cultural Relics of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, to write an article for the launching ceremony. 30 museums collect soil from archaeological sites spanning thousands of miles and spanning thousands of years from the land of Shenzhou, and gather soil into tools to jointly open the special exhibition of cultural relics of "National Treasures"!
Ma Xiaolin (President of Henan Museum):
Henan Museum, collected soil from the Yangshao site of Henan Shichi. In 1921, the Swedish scholar Anderson and the Chinese scholar Yuan Fuli co-presided over the first archaeological excavation, and the archaeological discoveries represented by the Yangshao site broke the saying that Chinese culture "came from the west", and modern Chinese archaeology began!
He Yuling (Deputy Director of Anyang Workstation, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences):
Yin Ruins Museum, collected from the yin ruins of Anyang, Henan. Since the official excavation in 1928, through the excavation and study of palaces, royal tombs, oracle bones, bronze and jade, the history of the Shang Dynasty has become increasingly clear. When the country is in danger, we will invigorate the national spirit and cultivate the backbone of culture and culture in the wave of rise!
Lu Chaohui (Deputy Director of Shandong Museum):
Shandong Museum, collected soil from the ruins of Chengziya, Longshan Town, Zhangqiu, Shandong. Discovered in 1928, it is the first prehistoric site independently discovered and excavated by Chinese national academic institutions and Chinese archaeologists, and is a representative site and name place of Longshan culture. The polished black pottery unearthed at the site, as thin as an eggshell, is "the most exquisite production of the earth's civilization four thousand years ago"!
Chen Shuihua (Director of Zhejiang Provincial Museum):
Zhejiang Provincial Museum, collected from the Liangzhu site in Yuhang, Zhejiang. It was first discovered in 1936. With its tall palaces, complete capitals, huge water conservancy projects, developed rice farming, and thousands of exquisite jade objects symbolizing power and faith, the Liangzhu site has become a sacred place that proves the history of Chinese civilization for 5,000 years!
Wei Quan (President of Sichuan Museum):
Sichuan Museum, collected from the Wen Weng Stone Room in Chengdu, Sichuan. Founded in the last year of the Jing Emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, it has been running the school for more than 2,000 years, without interruption or relocation, with outstanding learning style and talents. In 1938, the Houshu Remnant Stone Classic was discovered here, and in the midst of the chaos, Rongcheng still had a continuous context.
Zhao Shengliang (Secretary of the Party Committee of Dunhuang Research Institute):
Dunhuang Research Institute, collected soil from the foot of The Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Gansu. It is the largest, longest-lasting, richest and best-preserved treasure trove of grotto art in the world. Generations of Mogao Cave people have adhered to the desert, are willing to dedicate, have the courage to take responsibility, forge ahead, and leave a supreme treasure for future generations!
Chen Yongzhi (President of Inner Mongolia Museum):
Inner Mongolia Museum, collected soil from Inner Mongolia and Linger Tuchengzi ancient city ruins. Numerous archaeological excavations since 1960 have uncovered city sites and thousands of tombs that stretched from the Eastern Zhou to the Jin Dynasty. The ancient city has been used for more than 2,000 years, and has witnessed the glory of Shengle in the early northern Wei Dynasty and the Dadu Protectorate in the Tang Dynasty. Its unique geographical location of leaning backed by the Yin Mountains and the Yellow River in the west has formed a rich heritage of the interaction between agricultural and animal husbandry civilizations and the cultural exchanges between the East and the West in history.
Fang Qin (Director of Hubei Provincial Museum):
Hubei Provincial Museum, collected from the Shijiahe site in Tianmen, Hubei Province. Excavations began in 1955 and are the largest known prehistoric central settlement in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. The indiscriminate pursuit of Jing Chu and the source of the Zhengjiang and Han Dynasties prove that the Chinese civilization is diverse and integrated, and the stars are scattered!
Fan Haitao (Deputy Director of Yunnan Provincial Museum):
Yunnan Provincial Museum, collected from the ancient tombs of Shizhaishan in Jinning, Yunnan. Excavations began in 1955, as the tomb of the kings of Dian and the nobles of the Dian Kingdom, it is a symbol of the history of civilization in Yunnan and even the southwest region from the Warring States to the Han Dynasty, and the "Seal of the King of Dian" unearthed in it confirms the historical truth of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's "Shiyi Prefecture County, Giving the Seal of the King of Dian" recorded in Sima Qian's "History of Southwest Yilie"!
Zhou Ping (Secretary of the Party Committee of the Forest of Stone Steles Museum in Xi'an):
Xi'an Forest of Steles Museum, collected from the ruins of the Imperial City of Tang Chang'an City in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. Tang Chang'an City, with its strong national strength and open and inclusive attitude, became the largest and most prosperous city in the world at that time, and the archaeological work that has continued since 1957 and combined with documentary records has enabled us to see Tang Chang'an again!
Hou Ningbin (Director of Shaanxi History Museum):
Shaanxi History Museum, collected from the ruins of Qin Xianyang City in Xianyang, Shaanxi. Since 1959, a large number of relics from the Warring States to the Qin Dynasty have been discovered, which provides rich information for the study of the historical process of the Qin people from the western border into the main Guanzhong, changing the law and striving to become stronger, and finally completing the great cause of reunification, which is an important witness to the formation of the system and civilization of the unified multi-ethnic state in China!
Li Qi (Vice President of Baoji Bronze Museum):
Baoji Bronze Museum, collected from Jiacun Town, Baoji County, Shaanxi Province. In 1963, He Zun excavated here, and the inscription yu qi 'Zhaozi China, Zi Zi Min' content is the earliest written record of the word "China".
Jia Jianwei (Director of Gansu Provincial Museum):
Gansu Provincial Museum, collected from the ruins of Majiayao in Lintao, Gansu. In 1964, the trial excavation and the gradual establishment of the prehistoric cultural development sequence in the TaoHe River Basin and even the Ganqing area were of great value to exploring the development process of Chinese civilization's pluralism, integration and mutual integration!
Luo Xiangjun (President of Hebei Museum):
Hebei Museum, collected soil from the Han tombs of Mancheng, Hebei. Mancheng Han Tomb is the tomb of Liu Sheng, the King of Zhongshan jing in the Western Han Dynasty, and his wife Dou Xuan, excavated in 1968 more than 10,000 important cultural relics such as Changxin Palace lamps, golden jade clothes, and wrong Jinbo mountain furnaces, allowing us to break through the literature and intuitively feel the highly developed economic culture and high-spirited spiritual outlook of the Han Dynasty!
Duan Xiaoming (Director of Hunan Provincial Museum):
Hunan Provincial Museum, collected from the Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha, Hunan. The Mawangdui Han Tomb, which began excavation in 1972, is the collective name of the three tombs of the Western Han Dynasty Changsha State Minister Li Cang, His Wife Xin Chai and Son Li Feng, and more than 3,000 precious cultural relics such as T-shaped paintings and plain yarn single clothes have been unearthed, which is one of the most important archaeological discoveries in the world in the 20th century!
Xiao Haiming (Director of Guangdong Provincial Museum):
Guangdong Provincial Museum, collected from the Shixia site of Qujiang, Guangdong. Excavations began in 1973, gathering cultural relics from the late Neolithic to the Spring and Autumn Period, filling the gap in the archaeological culture before the Qin and Han dynasties in the Lingnan region, and providing important support for the study of the early civilization in the southeast coastal area of China!
Tian Jing (Vice President of the Qin Shi Huang Emperor Mausoleum Museum):
Qin Shi Huang Emperor Mausoleum Museum, collected soil from The Mausoleum District of Qin Shi Huang in Lintong, Shaanxi. Since 1974, the results of each archaeological excavation have caused a sensation in the world, and the dream of the First Emperor Wanshi Jiangshan and Hexiang for nine days has become clearer and clearer, and the great unification has since opened its source and flowed into a mighty river, which will not be abandoned for eternity!
Guo Sike (Director of the Confucius Museum):
Confucius Museum, collected from the ruins of the ancient city of QufuLuguo in Shandong. This is the hometown of Confucius and the birthplace of Confucian culture. From the eight questions to the Kong carp passing through the court, countless familiar stories are sung here. Since the archaeological survey in 1977, it has provided irreplaceable and important evidence for us to understand the history and culture of the Zhou Dynasty!
Zhang Yuancheng (President of Shanxi Museum):
Shanxi Museum, set soil from the shanxi Xiangfen Tao Temple site, since the excavation in 1978, found the city site, writing, bronze, found the earliest observatory site in China, while unearthing painted dragon plates, earth drums, stone chimes and other exquisite cultural relics, and the historical records recorded "Yao Du Pingyang" in line with the proof that more than 4,000 years ago there has been a kingdom, into the era of civilization.
Song Meng (Director of Suzhou Inscription Museum):
Suzhou Inscription Museum, collected soil from Suzhou Confucian Temple in Jiangsu Province. The Suzhou Confucian Temple was founded by Fan Zhongyan in 1035, and the Ming and Qing dynasties have the reputation of "the crown of Jiangnan Academy". The Suzhou Inscription Museum, established on its site in 1986, presents many inscriptions and treasures to the world, practicing the creed of educating people and helping the world for thousands of years.
Liu Ning (Deputy Director of Liaoning Provincial Museum):
Liaoning Provincial Museum, collected from the niuheliang site in Chaoyang, Liaoning. Excavations began in 1983, and the ancient country of Hongshan shows us the thick accumulation of civilization. Exquisite cultural relics such as goddess statues, jade people, jade dragons, altars, goddess temples, and stone tombs have witnessed the glorious past of Hongshan culture.
Hu Min (President of Anhui Museum):
Anhui Museum, collected soil from the site of Lingjiatan in Hanshan, Anhui. Since 1987, archaeology has excavated many relics such as large altars, especially a large number of exquisite and unique jade artifacts such as jade people, jade dragons, jade eagles, jade turtles, jade plates, etc., marking the transition of primitive clan society from theocracy to royal power!
Wang Qizhi (Vice President of Nanjing Museum):
Nanjing Museum, collected from the ruins of Dongshan Village in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province. Excavations began in 2008, revealing for the first time a number of high-grade tombs of the Songze culture in the early and middle periods of the Yangtze River, and the implementation of partition burial with small tombs, indicating that there has been obvious social stratification around 6,000 years ago, which is the earliest known example in China!
Juedan (Director of the Potala Palace Management Office):
Potala Palace, collected soil from the foot of the Red Mountain of potala palace in Lhasa, Tibet. Since 1989, the state has invested a lot of money to protect and repair the precious cultural relics of the Potala Palace. From the largest ancient book protection project represented by the Bayeux Sutra so far in 2019 was officially launched, I believe that in the future, the Potala Palace will show the richness and variety of Chinese civilization in a more intuitive and vivid way!
Yu Zhiyong (Director of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum):
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum, collected from the ancient city of Ulabo in Urumqi, Xinjiang. As the county seat of Luntai county from the Tang Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, as early as more than a thousand years ago, the central government stationed troops here. The Tang Dynasty border poet Cen Shan lived here for many years and wrote the famous "Three Absolute Perfections of Luntai". "Suddenly, like a spring breeze in the night, thousands of trees and pear blossoms bloom."
Xie Xiaoting (Executive Deputy Director of Suzhou Museum):
Suzhou Museum, set soil from Mr. Wen Hengshan's hand planted under the vine. In 2002, Mr. Pei grafted the wisteria branches planted by Wen Zhengming in the Humble Administrator's Garden more than 480 years ago to the new Suzhou Museum. Now Wen Teng seeds have become the star cultural creation of Su Bo, sown to the world through tourists, symbolizing the opening of the Suzhou cultural vein and endless leaves!
Yang Zhigang (Director of Shanghai Museum):
Shanghai Museum, collected from the site of Qinglong Town, Qingpu, Shanghai. Since 2010, the tang and Song dynasty Longping Temple pagodas, housing sites, wells, casting ruins and porcelain accumulation of multiple kiln sites have been discovered, confirming that as early as the Tang and Song dynasties, Shanghai was an important foreign trade port on the Maritime Silk Road!
Thunderstorm (Director of Sanxingdui Museum):
Sanxingdui Museum, collected from the Sanxingdui site in Guanghan, Sichuan. Yangtze River civilization source, three stars with the moonrise! Since 2019, six more sacrificial pits have been excavated, and eye-catching precious cultural relics such as gold masks, bronze altars, and sacred tree pattern jade chun have been unearthed, providing new physical materials for the study of the historical process of chinese civilization's pluralistic integration!
Wu Zhiyue (President of Fujian Museum):
Fujian Museum, collected soil from the ruins of Liusheng Pagoda in Quanzhou, Fujian. Quanzhou, as the "World Maritime Trade Center of Song and Yuan China", has just been inscribed on the World Heritage List in July 2021. At that time, sailors from all over Asia, Africa and Europe, as long as they looked at the spire of the Six Victory Tower, knew that they were about to anchor in the world's most prosperous port, the Port of Thorn Tong. Liusheng Tower was arguably the most popular navigation mark in the world at that time!
Wang Yuegong (Vice President of the Palace Museum):
The Palace Museum, collected from the former site of the Forbidden City Office. At the beginning of 2022, under the guidance of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the Special Exhibition of Cultural Relics jointly organized by the Central Radio and Television Station and the Palace Museum and 30 museums across the country will be grandly opened in the Wenhua Hall of the Forbidden City!
Why China! 30 wenbo herringbs are sonorous and strong! The 30 groups of "thick earth cubes" that run through ancient and modern times, and 30 cultural heritages full of Shenzhou are only the tip of the iceberg of China's century-old archaeological process, but they show us the chinese civilization of diversity, continuous and inclusiveness! From 1921 to 2021, Chinese archaeologists explored the unknown, revealed the origin, and constantly built archaeology with Chinese characteristics, Chinese style, and Chinese style, providing the Chinese nation with the answer of the era of "why China"!
Source: CCTV