A few days ago, the "treasure of the town hall" of the Mianyang Museum and one of the "five absolute" cultural relics excavated in Mianyang, the Western Han human body meridian lacquered wooden figurines appeared on CCTV's "China National Treasure Conference".
Jointly produced by the Central Radio and Television Corporation and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the program, with the theme of "Reading China from National Treasures", presents nearly a thousand cultural relics from more than 140 museums across the country on the screen through the way of cultural and knowledge competition, leading the contestants and the audience into a wonderful journey to explore China's 5,000-year-old brilliant civilization. The appearance of the Western Han Dynasty human meridian lacquered wooden figurines not only witnessed the glory of ancient Mianzhou's medical skills, but also let the audience feel the thick historical and cultural accumulation behind the cultural relics.
Western Han Dynasty human meridian lacquered wooden figurines
The national treasure wooden figurines come from Mianyang
In the "China National Treasure Conference" program broadcast by CCTV, the Western Han human meridian lacquer wooden figurines are in an upright posture, with sagging hands, slightly mutilated limbs, and the black and shiny lacquer surface is more than a dozen cinnabar red lines, and the combination of red on a black background is particularly eye-catching. As the earliest human medical model marked with meridian flow injection in the era discovered in the world so far, the Western Han Dynasty human meridian lacquer wood figurines show the ancient exquisite lacquer wood production process and the profound chinese medicine civilization of the mainland.
This national treasure, which shocked the contestants and the audience, was hidden in the Mianyang Museum.
"According to the mountains as a state, east of Tianchi, west of Fushui, shaped like the Big Dipper, Wolong Fuyan." This is the depiction of Mianzhou City in the Tang Dynasty's "Yuanhe County System". Inspired by this, the new museum is shaped like a crouching dragon lying on the western foothills of Fuller Mountain, enjoying the beauty of the four seasons on the banks of Furong Creek and gazing at the brain sculpture of the "City of Wisdom" in the Scientist Park. As a modern comprehensive museum with complete functions and complete facilities, Mianyang Museum has a complete exhibition system and strong regional characteristics, bringing together the essence of Mianyang's history, humanities and nature, and integrating history, cultural relics, intangible cultural heritage and natural exhibition in one museum.
The Western Han Dynasty human meridian lacquered wooden figurines are collected in the historical and cultural exhibition hall on the first floor of the museum. Because of its precious value, together with the Eastern Han Dynasty cash cow, bronze Buddha statue, Han Dynasty bronze horse, Eastern Han Rap Figurines and called the cultural relics unearthed in Mianyang "Five Absolute", highlighting the profound historical and cultural heritage of Mianzhou.
The fastest model in medical history
In the Historical and Cultural Exhibition Hall on the first floor of the Mianyang Museum, there is a unique glass booth, through which you can clearly see a human body model placed inside, which is the Western Han Dynasty human body meridian lacquered wooden figurine. Although the mannequin is not tall and small, its existence can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty.
In the book "Fujiang Relics: Movable Cultural Relics of Mianyang", it is written that the Western Han Dynasty human meridian lacquer wooden figurines were excavated in 1995 at the Western Han Dynasty Wooden Tomb at No. 2 Shuangbao Mountain, Yongxing, Mianyang. In the early 1990s, the wooden tomb of No. 2 Shuangbao Mountain in Yongxing Town was discovered, and the staff excavated some lacquer figurines in the tomb. In 1995, the staff was pleasantly surprised to find a wooden figure with black paint on its body in the middle of a number of lacquer figurines, and its black human body surface depicted the meridian route of the whole body with red lacquer lines. Later, it was studied and demonstrated by archaeologists that it was a human meridian figurine used by doctors in the Western Han Dynasty.
According to the data, the Western Han Dynasty human meridian lacquered wooden figurines are 28.1 cm high and have 19 cinnabar red lines on the surface, of which 8 are red lines on the front, 5 are on the back, 5 are longitudinal lines for the head, and 1 is for the horizontal line. Because the model of the human body meridians coincides with the meridian accounts of the human body excavated from the Yellow Emperor's Inner Meridian and Meridian Chapter, the Mawangdui of Changsha and the Han Tomb of Zhangjiashan in Jiangling, experts in the history of Traditional Chinese medicine believe that the lacquer figurine draws the path of the twelve meridians of the human body, which is the earliest three-dimensional model of acupuncture meridians in the history of mainland medicine, and its value is "comparable to that of the Peking Ape Man skull".
"China National Treasure Conference" shows the Western Han Dynasty human meridian lacquered wooden figurines (video screenshot)
Supporting the history of traditional Chinese medicine in Mianzhou
The reporter saw in the Mianyang Museum that in addition to the eye-catching human meridian lacquered wooden figurines in the center of the exhibition hall, the two sides of the booth ladder also displayed a number of colorful and multi-faceted human meridian diagrams. Among them, in the northeast direction of the display cabinet, there is a Fu Weng stone stele, commemorating the originator of traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture in ancient Mianzhou "Fu Weng".
"At the beginning, there was an old father, who did not know where to go, often fished in Fushui, and fixed the number fuweng. Weng begged to eat in the human world, saw the sick, and the needle and stone were in place from time to time. "The Book of Later Han and the Biography of Guo Yu" shows that in the late Western Han Dynasty, there was an old man in Fu County, who was good at the art of needles and stones, and wrote the "Needle Sutra" and the "Diagnosis of Pulse Method" medical books, and Guo Yu, a famous tai doctor in the early Eastern Han Dynasty and the imperial period, was his disciple. Since then, the famous doctors in Mianzhou have been endless for generations, so it is no accident that the human meridian lacquer wood figurines were unearthed in Mianyang, which also proves that the meridian medicine technology and important medical achievements made in Mianyang at that time were highly developed. Tang Yuliang, an expert in Mianyang literature and history, also wrote in the book "The Mystery of Mianzhou" that the human meridian lacquer wooden figurine is the proof that acupuncture came out in Fuxian County in the Han Dynasty.
Mianyang is one of the birthplaces of Chinese medicine culture, with the reputation of "the hometown of Chinese medicine" and "the storehouse of Chinese medicine", the story of Fu Weng and the excavation of the Western Han Dynasty human meridian lacquer figurines are the best evidence of the highly developed meridian medicine technology in ancient Mianzhou.
Today, as the "treasure of the town hall" of the Mianyang Museum, the Western Han Dynasty human meridian lacquered wooden figurines not only show the development of Traditional Chinese medicine in the Mianyang Western Han Dynasty, but also a strong proof of the long history and culture of Mianyang.
(Mianyang Daily Rong media reporter Zheng Jinrong intern Zhang Jingyuan text/photo)
Editor: Tan Peng