The three provinces and one city in the Yangtze River Delta bring together the splendid landscape and humanistic temperament on China's tourism map, and string together a boutique route of "famous cities, famous towns, famous villages, famous mountains, famous lakes, famous gardens and famous museums". The Anhui Museum, which has just appeared on CCTV's "National Treasure" with the "National Treasure- Level" cultural relics Ejun Qijin Festival, has become a recent popular punch-in museum, passing through the millennium in one day and feeling the wonders of the Anhui Museum together.
The Anhui Museum is divided into old halls and new museums. The old museum is located in the golden location of Sanxiaokou in Hefei City, the exhibition Chen building is an imitation Soviet-style building, the treasures of the self-playing museum have moved to the "new home", the old museum undertakes the exhibition task of various major historical nodes, the permanent exhibitions are "Anhui Revolutionary History Exhibition", "Anhui Paleontological Exhibition", "Anhui Good People Museum", etc., follow these exhibitions to touch the traces of history, feel the emotional stirring of patriotism.
Hefei Anhui Museum Old Hall. Courtesy of Hefei Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism
The new museum of Anhui Museum was completed and opened to the public on September 29, 2011, with bronze-like materials, located squarely at No. 87 Huaining Road, Hefei Municipal Affairs New District. The architectural shape reflects the Huipai architectural style of connecting five sides and returning to the hall of four waters, and when the sun shines, it is glowing with the unique color of metal, which is a kind of restrained contraction and does not have a dazzling reflection. Surrounded by water, sparkling and sparkling, the surrounding circle of green plants is evergreen, the most common is bamboo, permeated with the breath of high festivals. Residents of the surrounding communities often bring their children to play, shuttling through the bamboo forest, thick and lively.
Hefei Municipal Affairs District Anhui Museum New Museum. Courtesy of Hefei Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism
As the city's economic and political center moves south, the new museum of the Anhui Museum is surrounded by residential areas and commercial complexes, which have become a prosperous place. Looking up, the new hall of the Anhui Museum stands tall, several stories high, and you must walk a long corridor to enter the main entrance. After the online real-name reservation, the Ankang code scanned the code before entering the museum with peace of mind, which is also the norm under the epidemic prevention and control.
As soon as you come in, it is actually the second floor, the hall is simple and thick, and there are many historical pictures of Anhui famous artists around it, presenting the historical stories of different periods in Anhui. On the left-hand side are various thematic exhibitions that are often changed and renewed, most of which are treasures invited in from the outside, Saibei Jiangnan, cultural relics and paintings, each with its own advantages. From November 30, 2021 to February 28, 2022, the exhibition of cultural relics of the Xinjiang Silk Road is presented here. Walking in, the pastoral grape pattern faience clay pots write about the cultivation style of the region, the silk painted female dancing wooden figurines stand tall, the makeup and costumes reproduce the Tang Dynasty style of a thousand years ago, and the murals of the Kyzyl Grottoes are paved with walls.
To say that the treasure of the Anhui Museum is the treasure of the town museum, you have to take a closer look at the following ones. First of all, it is naturally Chu Dading, whose name is Zhuke Dading, and was unearthed from Shou County. This large man is 113 cm tall, 93 cm in diameter, weighs about 400 kg, and is majestic and full of style, with a round mouth, square lips, a bulging belly, a round bottom, and an ear. Feather wing patterns, bird head geometric patterns, relief animal head patterns, various decorative patterns with the simplicity and atmosphere of the Western Zhou Dynasty. The roots of the front foot and the outer wall of the lower left abdomen are each engraved with the word "Anbang", and the echo of history implies infinite beauty.
Anhui Museum "Treasure of the Town Pavilion" - Chu Dading. Courtesy of Anhui Museum
Let's take a look at the Ejun Qijin Festival, which debuted in "National Treasure", which is also a treasure from Shou County. The Golden Festival was a "duty-free pass" issued by the King of Chu to Ejunqi to transport goods during the Warring States period. 鄂 is the name of the place, and Qi is the name of the Ejun. On the golden festivals one by one, there are inscriptions on the wrong gold, recording the water and land routes from E to Yin, and in the small text, you can see through the precious historical materials of the Chu state's festival methods, tariff system, water and land transportation, economy and trade, historical geography, and the relationship between the king of Chu and the feudal lord.
Wu Wang Guangjian is like a pot, which is a dowry made by Wu Wang Guang for his female uncle Ji Si to marry Cai Hou. The copper square pot with the lotus petal lid of Cai Hou is richly decorated and is a treasure of bronze art in the Spring and Autumn Period. The dragon and tiger pattern four-ring brass drum seat is a tool for zhong ligong, and it is not known in which war it has inspired the momentum of the battle. The cloud-patterned copper five-pillar vessel unearthed from Tunxi resembles a modern router, giving birth to the feeling of crossing.
Rising from this pile of ancient bronze artifacts, the craftsmanship of the craftsmen faded away from the original roughness and became more and more skilled as the dynasties passed. In the exhibition area of "Jianghuai Zhenzhen", the double dragon hollow Xiaxia pendant, the Longquan kiln blue glaze furnace, the sunflower-shaped marigold, the Xuande blue and white flower and fruit pattern plate, the wood carving iron abduction plum... Or exquisite, or delicate, all reflect the diligence and wisdom of the people of Anhui.
"Jianghuai Zhenzhen" exhibition area. Courtesy of Anhui Museum
If you don't have time to go to southern Anhui, come to the Anhui Provincial Museum, 1:1 restoration, move the Huizhou ancient house over, the streets and alleys paved with bluestone slabs are written with the depth of the years, and the canola fields on the curtain are yellow and clear, presenting a different kind of "painting village", bringing swaying vitality to the pink wall Dewa. Huizhou ancient architecture adheres to the concept of "the unity of heaven and man", the site selection is mostly based on mountains and rivers, the spatial planning is rigorous, and the architectural carving is exquisite, among which the residences, ancestral halls and arches are the most typical local characteristics. High ridge cornices, stacked courtyards, winding paths, pavilions and water pavilions and other landscapes, let people be overwhelmed, carefully look at the story on the stone carved brick carving wood carving, there are Zhao Zilong single riding to save Ah Dou, Zhang Guo Lao upside down riding a donkey, Baizi Frolick Spring Map, the Ninth Dynasty Loyalists, Aoyu Lotus Heron, Qilin Crane... All are vivid, frozen expressions in an instant, and the echo of history is exquisite.
Come to Anhui can not return empty-handed, the four treasures of the study room is a cultural and creative products with historical temperature, come to the "Anhui four treasures of the house" exhibition area to taste it! Anhui is the hometown of rice paper, emblem ink, Xuan Pen, and She yan, and the "four treasures" are complete. The ink fragrance that comes to your face announces that you have entered a wonderful world, paper, ink, pen, and yan constitute indispensable utensils for pen cultivation and danqing, and auxiliary stationery such as pen holders, ink beds, yan drops, and water cups enrich the categories of library clearance. The exhibition hall also shows the production process of paper, ink, pen and stone, and can be carefully tasted, from which you can appreciate the ingenuity of the ancients and feel the profundity of Chinese culture.
In just one day, you will not be able to taste the treasure carefully. Maybe in front of a beautiful and elegant blue and white porcelain plate, or next to a bulky and ancient bronze, or before the iron painting of silver hooks, we shake the gods, these artifacts seem to have come to life.
When we are in the museum, there are echoes of history everywhere, and they are different echoes of various periods. Every you and I who come and go have a wonderful connection with the cultural relics, and seeing is a kind of witness, witnessing the essence of the four directions, witnessing the heavenly work of gathering thousands of craftsmen. (Fan Lihui)