Jimu news reporter Gao Dongqi Han Ting
45 years ago, farmers in Chongyang County, Xianning City, Hubei Province, inadvertently excavated a national treasure-level cultural relic, the Shang Dynasty Copper Drum, and handed it over to the state.
Over the past 45 years, Chongyang Copper Drum has been sent to the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom and other places for touring exhibitions, famous all over the world, is the treasure of the top ten towns of Hubei Provincial Museum.
45 years later, this national treasure returned to the "hometown" for the first time for the New Year, and was exhibited with other cultural relics in the Xianning Museum, accompanying the general public and tourists to celebrate the Spring Festival.
On January 25, 2022, the series of cultural tourism activities to benefit the people of Xianning to see the national treasures for the New Year was launched, inviting the majority of tourists to Xianning to "see national treasures, soak in hot springs, skate ice and snow, taste food, appreciate literature and art", and the Chongyang copper drum with a history of more than 3,000 years has become the biggest highlight.
Seeing the feelings of things, the septuagenarian tells about the excavation of national treasures
The Jimu news reporter saw at the exhibition site that the Chongyang copper drum is about 75 cm high and the diameter of the drum surface is about 40 cm, which is composed of three parts: the copper drum body, the copper drum seat and the copper drum crown.
"This bronze drum has a thick and simple texture, a strange and solemn shape, and a smooth and extensive pattern, which represents the production characteristics and level of bronze craftsmanship in the Shang Dynasty on the mainland." Fang Qin, director of the Hubei Provincial Museum, introduced that this copper drum is the earliest copper drum seen in the mainland, and it is also one of the only two-sided Shang Dynasty gluttonous copper drums that exist in the world, and the other side was lost in Japan in the early years and is now stored in the Kyoto Izumiya HakukoKan. As a national treasure-level cultural relic, the bronze drum is a precious physical material for studying the ancient bronze art of the mainland and the ritual music system of slave society, and has been selected as an "Exhibit of Chinese Cultural Relics" and has been sent to more than 40 countries and regions such as the United States, Britain and France for touring exhibitions. It was also publicly exhibited at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.
An old man with silver hair and a strong spirit was particularly excited when he saw the Chongyang brass drum. His name is Liu Sanbao, who is 74 years old this year, and before retiring, he served as the director of the Chongyang County Museum in Xianning City.
Facing the national treasure, Liu Sanbao's thoughts were pulled back to 45 years ago. On June 14, 1977, the Xinyan Brigade of Baini Commune in Chongyang County (now Dashi Village, Baini Town) received heavy rain and flash floods. Villagers Cheng Zhenghua, Cheng Guozhang and 4 other people went to the dashi river to check the flood, and Cheng Zhenghua suddenly found a strange big "knot". Go up and shake it with your hand, but don't shake it. The four of them dug together for hours and actually dug out a copper drum. The village cadres hurried to report to their superiors.
Liu Sanbao was working at the Chongyang County Cultural Center at the time, and the next day he rushed to the scene to check it out, and was surprised that it was a valuable cultural relic. So the national cultural relics regulations were publicized, and Cheng Zhenghua and others handed over the copper drum. Subsequently, cultural relics experts repeatedly examined and identified, confirming that this is a copper drum of the Noodle Shang Dynasty, dating back to about 3,000 years, and later collected in the Hubei Provincial Museum, which has become the treasure of the museum's top ten towns.
Today, cheng Zhenghua and four other farmers who excavated cultural relics on the spot have passed away, but the story of the copper drum is still circulating.
"I have a special love for Chongyang copper drums, and I have visited the Hubei Provincial Museum twice. In 1993, I learned in the cultural relics newspaper that the bronze drum was exhibited in the Forbidden City in Beijing, and I rushed to see it for two days. During the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the brass drum was exhibited at the Capital Museum, and I rushed over to admire it. In 45 years, Liu Sanbao told Jimu News reporters that every time he saw it, he was particularly kind.
Cultural tourism benefits the people, and 72 fine cultural relics accompany the New Year
Jimu News reporter saw that 72 fine cultural relics from the collection of the Hubei Provincial Museum were exhibited at the scene, featuring bronze, jade and porcelain, showing the archaeological achievements of the Wenbo people in Hubei Province for more than 70 years.
Among them, Chongyang copper drum and Yuanqinghua Four Love Tumei bottle are the treasures of the top ten towns of Hubei Provincial Museum. The Yuanqinghua Four Love Plum Vase is elegant and exquisite, depicting the four stories of Wang Xizhi Ailan, Tao YuanMing aiju, Lin Hejing Ai Meihe, and Zhou Dunyi Ailian, which is a very distinctive variety in ancient mainland porcelain and is known as "the panda in ceramics".
At the scene, the treasure of the Xianning Museum and Town Hall - Xianning Yong Bell, which is the heaviest Western Zhou Yong Bell found at present, was excavated in Tongshan County, Xianning City, which is of great significance for studying the process of Yangtze River civilization and the relationship between Central Plains civilization and southern civilization.
Many tourists came to visit, made an appointment registration, took the temperature, checked the green code, entered the venue and placed themselves in a time and space tunnel, and began the "treasure hunting journey".
The sixth grade students of The School of Shiyan Outer Chinese in Xianning City, Yi Meichen and Lu Junyi, rushed to the scene to visit. "Seeing so many national treasures at the door of Xianning's home is the first time." Learned a lot of knowledge and was an eye-opener."
Li Yuanjie, 32, brought her daughter and nephew to see the national treasure. "I used to be a docent at the Xianning Museum for 8 years, and all I saw were reproductions, and today I saw the real thing for the first time, and I was very excited." Li Yuanjie said.
It is reported that the exhibition will last from January 25 to March 31, no fee, there is also a lottery on the spot, hot spring tickets, ski tickets, souvenirs waiting for the public to draw, surprises continue, accompany the general public and tourists to celebrate the Spring Festival.
The integration of culture and tourism creates more beautiful poetry and distant places
Li Zhen, director of the Xianning Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, told Jimu News that Xianning City has carried out a series of cultural and tourism activities to benefit the people by "going to Xianning to see the national treasure for the New Year", including hot spring tourism preferential promotions, Jiugong Mountain ski lottery, the promotion of Xianning 100 specialties, and a variety of cultural activities for the benefit of the people, covering the 8th "Shanshui Xianning" art works invitation exhibition, "Happy New Year, Happy Winter Olympics - Our Beautiful Life" Xianning City 2022 New Year Cultural Benefit and "Village Evening" Demonstration Display Activities, "Ruihu Welcoming Spring" Dreaming of Xianning "Xianning Spring Festival Literary and Art Evening", "Civic Academy" online training class, "Reading Full of Fragrant City" series of reading activities. Through a series of activities, we will enrich the cultural life of the masses during the Spring Festival, create a festive and harmonious festival cultural atmosphere, enhance the popularity and reputation of Xianning, further stimulate the consumption of cultural tourism during the Spring Festival, and promote economic and social development.
In addition, Li Zhen introduced that Xianning has a tradition of cultural relics protection and will continue to move forward along the footsteps of its predecessors. In January this year, a joint archaeological team composed of the School of History of Wuhan University, the Xianning Museum and other units carried out archaeological investigation around the Western Zhou Dayong Bell excavated from Wangjiazui, Tiancheng Town, Chongyang County, and finally confirmed two important sites of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, Wangjiazui and Screwding, which had great research value. The archaeological investigation work in the two areas of Chongyang Baini and Tongshan Nanlin Bridge is also about to be launched, finding a more clear settlement and crowd carrier for the bronze heavy objects excavated in the past, sorting out the historical context of the development of civilization in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties in the region, and helping the exploration of Yangtze River civilization.
Li Zhen said that Xianning is known as the "South Gate of Hubei", and there are 8 national key cultural relics protection units and 54 provincial-level cultural relics protection units in the territory. This year's Xianning Municipal Government Work Report pointed out that it will do excellent global tourism, fully excavate the characteristic resources such as hot spring culture, red culture, three countries culture, brick tea culture, and vigorously promote special tourism projects such as hot spring health, healthy living, Wanli tea ceremony, lake and mountain color, and aviation experience. Promote the construction of The Xiangyang Lake China Cultural and Creative Industry Agglomeration Zone, and do a good job in the protection and utilization of cultural relics and industrial sites such as the site of Sun GuoHu City, the Wang Jiafa School, the Anti-Japanese Ruins of Tianyueguan, and the former site of the former Provincial Coal Machinery Factory. As a cultural traveler in the new era, we must learn from the spirit of our predecessors, promote the in-depth integration and development of culture and tourism, and create a better poem and distant place for the majority of tourists.