In this article, "cuo" is an alternate word, and the original glyph is shown in the figure. Courtesy of Hebei Museum
Shijiazhuang, China, March 3 (Reporter Gao Hongchao) The "Wang Cuo Era" new book launch and book donation ceremony, co-sponsored by the Hebei Museum, the Hebei People's Publishing House, and the Hebei Provincial Library, was held at the Hebei Provincial Library on the morning of the 3rd. The book takes the representative cultural relics excavated from the tomb of king Zhongshan as the core context, fully interprets the historical and cultural information contained in the cultural relics, organically combines cultural relics, documents and historical thinking, and depicts the panoramic picture of the Warring States Zhongshan Kingdom.
In the 1970s, the tomb of King Cuo of Zhongshan unearthed precious cultural relics such as the wrong gold and silver four dragons and four phoenixes copper scheme, and fifteen copper lamps, which shocked the world. In October 2021, at the 3rd China Archaeological Conference, China's "Top 100 Archaeological Discoveries in a Hundred Years" was officially released, and the tomb of King Zhongshan of the Warring States of Pingshan, Hebei Province was selected.
The new book launch and book donation ceremony of "Wang Cuo Era" was held in Hebei Provincial Library. Courtesy of Hebei Museum
Zhongshan Kingdom is known as the "Eighth Hero of the Warring States". In the middle of the Warring States period, the Zhongshan Kingdom moved its capital to the area of Sanji Township in Pingshan County, Hebei Province, reaching its peak and becoming the most powerful "country of a thousand multiplications" outside of the "Seven Heroes of the Warring States". This is a mysterious ancient country that looms in historical texts such as the Chronicle of History.
Liu Weihua, author of "The WangCuo Era", spoke at the meeting. Courtesy of Hebei Museum
Starting from the perspective of cultural relics research, "Wang Cuo Era" restores the history of Zhongshan Kingdom and its people's life history through cultural relics, explores the cultural connotation of cultural relics, and comprehensively restores the historical features of Zhongshan Country alongside politics, economy, military and folklore.
"What kind of people, in what kind of environment and state of mind, and with what kind of superb skills have created these magnificent cultural relics?" The author of the book, Liu Weihua, has been engaged in the study of the history and culture of Zhongshan for nearly 20 years. She said that in the process of writing the book, she paid great attention to the restoration of the static objects reflected in the cultural relics into organic living history through in-depth research and analysis.
The scene of the new book launch. Photo by Wu Guangyan
Wang Binxian, secretary of the party committee and president of the Hebei People's Publishing House, said on behalf of the publisher that the book is another high-quality book newly launched by them, which has important social value and practical significance for promoting the study of the history of the Warring States, finding the roots of Chinese culture, and vigorously promoting Chinese civilization.
Xu Yanhong, deputy director and researcher of the Hebei Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics, believes after reading the book that the book not only has the temperature of history, but also has the breadth of perspective, while reflecting the history of Zhongshan, it also describes the entanglement between Zhongshan and the Warring States, typically reflecting the turbulence of the Warring States period. (End)