February 9, 2022, is a special and memorable day. At six o'clock in the morning, at the behest of Wang Xiaojie, member of the party group of the Nanyang Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, secretary of the party branch and director of the Nanyang Museum, Yin Junmin, deputy secretary of the Wanbo Party Branch and director of the Cultural and Security Department, went to the Henan Museum to escort the national treasure prince Wuding back to Wanwan "provincial relatives".
"Prince Noon Ding National Treasure Provincial Pro Exhibition" is one of the important exhibitions and major planning activities of Nanyang City Museum in 2021, which was originally scheduled to open to the public in the Spring Festival in 2022, because of the sudden epidemic, this exhibition was temporarily stranded, but it could not stop the wanbo people's urgent desire to return to the "provincial relatives" of the national treasure. After the Spring Festival, the epidemic situation stabilized, and Wanbo immediately sent a team to welcome the national treasure "home".
Wanbo attaches great importance to the escort of national treasures, and Director Wang Xiaojie demanded: This transport involves national precious cultural relics, the task is heavy, we must carefully organize and strictly deploy, with high standards, strong organization, strict safety measures, starting from the packing, transportation, unsealing, exhibition of cultural relics, we must be cautious and cautious to ensure the absolute safety of cultural relics. On the same day, after a careful escort along the way, the prince arrived safely at the Nanyang City Museum at 4:30 p.m. on the same day.
Known as the "leader in Ding", the prince Wuding is a national first-class cultural relic, excavated in 1978 in Henan Province, No. 2 Chu Tomb, excavated a total of seven pieces, the shape and ornamentation are exactly the same, because the inscription on the Ding is engraved with the word "Prince Noon", so it is called Prince Noon Ding. Prince Wuding is the son of King Zhuang of Chu, the brother of King Gong of Chu, and the artifact of Prince Wu (also known as Ziyu), who served as the lingyin (prime minister) of the Chu state, because of the exact personal and place names, prince Wuding has become an important standard instrument for the study of Chu culture.
Huiwan "provincial relatives" Spring and Autumn Period Prince Noon Ding Tong height 61.5 cm, caliber 59 cm, wide body, corset waist, flat bottom, oblique vertical ears, around the body of the climbing six relief dragon, the animal mouth bites the edge of the Ding, the beast foot grasps the waist of the Ding, full of movement, as if it is about to take off. The Prince's Noonday Ding was formed by casting and welding, using new ideas such as mortise and intermediation, and its skill was superb, and it was the first-class level in the world at that time.
The beautiful shape, fine ornamentation and romantic and strange themes of Prince Wuding are the prominent characteristics of the culture and art of the Chu Kingdom. The long inscription expresses the remembrance of the ancestors, recounts the merits of prince Wu himself in his moral government, and teaches his descendants to use this as a criterion. The full text rhymes smoothly, and is a rare long beautiful text on the bronze ware of the Chu Kingdom, which has important historical value. In addition, the inscription is written with bird seals, which is known as the earliest "art character" in China.
After an intense and orderly exhibition, the "Prince Noonday National Treasure Provincial Pro-Exhibition" will be opened to the public on February 12 in the Nanyang City Museum Hall.
Director Wang Xiaojie stressed: The national treasure of The National Treasure Prince Wuding, unearthed in Nanyang, is the epitome and witness of Nanyang's long and splendid history and culture, and is now treasured in the National Museum of China and the Henan Museum, etc., becoming the treasure of the town museum, highlighting the infinite charm and great style of the Chu-style bronze ware in Nanyang. The "Prince Noon Ding National Treasure Provincial Pro-Exhibition" held by Wanbo this time is to let tourists get close to the national treasure, understand the profound Nanyang culture, and truly feel the historical status and contribution of "civilization in Wan".