A city's museums will make the city thicker, especially those with rich collections, which can let you appreciate the humanistic beauty of the city in a short period of time.
During my trip to the northeast, I visited a lot of museums, such as Heilongjiang Museum, Jilin Museum, China Industrial Museum, Daqing Museum, etc., but when it comes to the museum that surprises me the most, then it must be the Liaoning Provincial Museum, which ranks first in Liaoning.
Although the scale of the collection of 112,000 cultural relics is not as large as the number of collections of some of the top museums in China, the Liaoning Provincial Museum has also become one of the top museums in China with its distinctive cultural relics.
It can be said that among the many cultural relics in the Liaoning Provincial Museum, the most distinctive is the Tang and Song Dynasty calligraphy and paintings and the remains of the Liao Dynasty, such as "Lady Yu Chun Tu of the State of Yu", Song Huizong's "Cursive Thousand Characters" and "RuiHe Tu", "Lady of the Hairpin Flower" and so on are all national treasure-level cultural relics, and many times when they come to Liaobo, they may not be able to encounter it.
In contrast, the cultural relics in the history exhibition hall of the Liaoning Provincial Museum are mostly displayed in real objects, which makes people feel better. These artifacts contain porcelain, Buddha statues, and artifacts of some ethnic characteristics. The number of cultural relics can be quite large, and the focus can be paid to the most representative artifacts below.
Ethnic minority goldware
When I walked in the Liaoning Provincial Museum, I always felt that there were many gold artifacts here, which may have something to do with the rule of ethnic minorities here, and the three yans of the Murong family of the Xianbei tribe, the Liao Dynasty of the Khitan and other powerful forces in the north were all in Liaoning.
These gold objects on display can be seen in their glorious years, there are many types of gold, including horseshoe gold seals, stirrups, accessories and so on.
The most surprising thing among the many gold objects is this Bouquet-shaped Golden Step Shake of the Three Swallows Period, which was a common step headdress for women at that time. If you look closely at the golden step shake, you can see that the whole artifact is divided into two parts, the base and the trunk, and the shape is extremely exquisite, especially the pure gold leaves on the branches are extremely light, and it seems that they can swing with the wind.
Liao Dynasty porcelain
I have always felt that the art of the Liao Dynasty is not inferior to the Tang and Song Dynasties, and even higher, especially in terms of Buddha statues and porcelain, it presents the unique aesthetic style of the Khitan nation.
In the Liaoning Provincial Museum, a special exhibition hall is used to display Liao Dynasty porcelain, these porcelain shapes are extremely rich, in addition to the common long-necked bottles, such as the grassland ethnic chicken crown pot, phoenix head bottle, turtle-shaped pot, etc. are more characteristic than the Central Plains porcelain.
In addition to the rich shape, the practicality of Liao Dynasty porcelain is also very strong, such as pot-shaped Liao porcelain can be used to hold water and wine; for example, porcelain statues can be used for offering, such as Liao porcelain bowls, plates, plates, cups, etc. are often used for daily life.
It can be seen that the Liao Dynasty porcelain with so many characteristics can be called "a strange branch in the history of Chinese ceramics".
Artifacts from the Silk Roads through the steppes
There is also a number of very characteristic cultural relics in the Liaoning Provincial Museum, which are imported from the grassland Silk Road, and among these imported products, the duck-shaped glass note excavated from the tomb of Feng Sufu in Beipiao City is the most precious.
If you look closely, you can see that the glass is light green translucent throughout, and the overall shape is in the shape of a duck, which can be said that such a shape of glassware is an isolated case in early Chinese cultural relics. Since there was no glass manufacturing process in the society at that time, it is very likely that this duck-shaped glass note came to Northern Yan from ancient Rome through the grasslands of the Rouran country, recording the exchanges between the East and the West of the Grassland Silk Road.
These are some of the most popular cultural relics when Ma Ji stopped at the Liaoning Provincial Museum, although they are not too popular, but they witness the long and diverse cultural relics of Liaoning, which is very meaningful. (Author: Horse and stop, life is about walking, the journey needs to be recorded!) ）