Text/Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Huang Zhuhui Correspondent Huang Suzhe
Photo/Courtesy of the organizer
On March 24th, the "Silk Road Guanghua: Guangdong Long Cultural Relics Joint Exhibition" opened in the first and second exhibition halls on the third floor of the Guangdong Provincial Museum.
Guangdong and Gansu jointly presented this large exhibition, relying on the fine cultural relics of Guangdong and Long provinces, selected more than 500 cultural relics collections of cultural institutions in the two places for exhibition, many of which were unveiled in Guangdong for the first time.
Poster of "Silk Road Guanghua: Guangdong Long Cultural Relics Group Exhibition"
The exhibition is guided by the Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics and the Gansu Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics, co-sponsored by the Guangdong Provincial Museum (Guangzhou Lu Xun Memorial Hall) and the Gansu Provincial Museum, and co-organized by the Guangzhou Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology (Southern Han Erling Museum).
The exhibition is also supported by the Dunhuang Research Institute, the Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, the Maijishan Grotto Art Research Institute, the Gansu Jianmu Museum, the Dunhuang Museum, the Tianshui Museum, and the Nanyue King Museum (The Research Center for the History of the Southern Yue State of the Western Han Dynasty).
"Lu Silk" and "Hai Silk" travel through time and space to gather in Guangdong
Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian to "hollow out" the western region and sent envoys to the countries of the South China Sea, and from then on, the East and the West broke through the shackles and exchanged frequently, enriching and accelerating the process of world civilization.
During the Sui and Tang dynasties, after the Qin and Han dynasties, Chinese history entered the era of the second great unification dynasty, and Dunhuang, located in the northwest and Guangzhou in the southern port, played an important role in the Silk Road.
During the Song and Yuan dynasties, the various ethnic groups in the northwest developed together, and the southern sea trade also flourished. After the fifteenth century, with the advent of the era of great navigation, Gansu Jiayuguan and Guangdong Guangdong Customs became the intersection of Chinese and Western cultures, increasingly synchronized with the world... At a key juncture in history, the Overland Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road both developed and echoed each other, jointly pushing ancient China to the world.
Exhibition site
Gansu, located in northwest China, connects the Central Plains and the interior of Asia and becomes a necessary transportation artery for the "Overland Silk Road"; Guangdong, located in South China, faces the vast South Pacific Ocean and has an important trading port of the "Maritime Silk Road".
They are thousands of miles apart and closely related.
The "Silk Road Guanghua: Guangdong-Long Cultural Relics Joint Exhibition" allows the overland Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road to gather in Guangdong across time and space.
According to the organizers, the "Silk Road Guanghua: Guangdong-Long Cultural Relics Joint Exhibition" uses a macroscopic perspective to interpret the internal relationship between the north and the south, introduces the history and origin of the Hexi Corridor in Gansu and the Tonghaiyi Road in Guangzhou, presents the cultural history of cross-regional ideological and technological dissemination and mutual learning in the same time and space, and deeply explains the profound impact of the silk road changes on Chinese civilization.
More than 500 cultural relics have witnessed the prosperity of the Silk Road
Winged beast bronze beam cup, high relief animal face pattern gold belt buckle, bear stomping brick, Hu ren lead camel figure mold printing brick, pigeon pattern brocade fragment, silver collar, Persian blue glazed pottery vase, treasure elephant carving painted brick, shadow plastic flying sky, copper tire painting enamel open light figure picture hanging jar and water basin... The many cultural relics on display at the exhibition site are very stunning.
Based on the latest archaeological discoveries and historical documents, this exhibition is divided into three parts: "The Rise of the Silk Road", "The Prosperity of the Silk Road" and "The Light of the Silk Road", showing the prosperity of the Silk Road.
Dragonfly eye glass beads on display
According to the curator, the exhibition hall design, according to the development characteristics of the Silk Road in different periods and the combination of exhibit elements, deepen the audience's understanding of the history in the context of the "Belt and Road", and explore the different civilizations of the "Land Silk" and "Sea Silk". Through the introduction of two dragonfly eye glass beads unearthed in Gansu and Guangdong respectively, the exhibition leads the audience to experience the east-west exchange of culture and art and the development of the north and the south.
Adopting the display method of combining physical objects and scene restoration, it leads the audience through the ancient station buried in the desert, visits the solemn grottoes, climbs the winding Great Wall, and cooperates with the multimedia interactive technology of sound, light and electricity to create an immersive exhibition atmosphere.
In the public area between Exhibition Hall 1 and Exhibition Hall 2, the audience can also observe the painting process of the grotto murals on the spot, guiding the audience to return to the historical creation site and deepen their understanding of grotto art.
Exquisite cultural relics such as the "Long Live" character wadang on display at the scene
The exhibition will continue until June 26, and visitors can book admission tickets through the official WeChat public account of the Guangdong Provincial Museum and go to the exhibition hall to see the glory of the Silk Road.
Polyhedra gold beads on display
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