On March 24th, the "Silk Road Guanghua: Guangdong Long Cultural Relics Joint Exhibition" jointly sponsored by the Guangdong Provincial Museum (Guangzhou Lu Xun Memorial Hall) and the Gansu Provincial Museum opened at the Guangdong Provincial Museum, and 154 pieces (groups) of cultural relics collected by the Gansu Provincial Museum were exhibited.
It is understood that the "Silk Road Guanghua: Guangdong-Long Cultural Relics Joint Exhibition" takes the chronological order as the context, based on the latest archaeological discoveries and historical documents, and is divided into three parts: "The Rise of the Silk Road", "The Prosperity of the Silk Road" and "The Light of the Silk Road", introduces the history and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 changes of the Silk Road on Chinese civilization.
(Dragonfly Eye Glass Beads)
Relying on the fine cultural relics of Guangdong and Long provinces, the exhibition selects more than 500 cultural relics from many cultural institutions in the two provinces, such as the Guangdong Provincial Museum, the Gansu Provincial Museum, the Nanyue King Museum, and the Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology. At the entrance of the exhibition hall, one of the "dragonfly eye glass beads" on display side by side is the collection of the Gansu Provincial Museum and the other is the collection of the Guangdong Provincial Museum. The Gansu Provincial Museum collection of cultural relics winged beast bronze tiliang cup is also debuted in Guangdong, the winged beast bronze cup is cleverly designed as a four-legged beast with two wings, with the dragon as the beam and the phoenix as the cover button.
(Bronze winged beast.) Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC - 476 BC) Gansu Provincial Museum Collection. The image of the winged beast was popular in Central Asia, West Asia and the Eurasian steppes in the early days, and spread to China around the Warring States period. ）
The gold belt buckle of the high-relief animal face pattern of the late Warring States period, which has attracted much attention, is now in the Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology. The main body of the gold buckle is a beast head, carved in high relief; the head of the beast is carved with a pattern of dragons and beasts fighting, and decorated with beads, cirrus, pinnate patterns, etc.; the eyes of the beast head are inlaid with blue glass beads. This artifact has two artistic styles, the Central Plains Huaxia and the Border Rongdi.
(High-relief animal-faced gold buckle.) Late Warring States period (300 BC - 221 BC) Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology Collection. This artifact has two artistic styles, the Central Plains Huaxia and the Border Rongdi. ）
Gansu and Guangdong are thousands of miles apart, but they are closely related in history. Gansu, located in northwest China, connects the Central Plains and the interior of Asia, becoming a necessary transportation artery for the "Overland Silk Road"; Guangdong, located in South China, faces the vast South Pacific Ocean, has an important trading port of the "Maritime Silk Road", and both places play an important role in the construction of the "Silk Road" and trade exchanges between the East and the West. This exhibition will help deepen the audience's understanding of the "Belt and Road" and further explore the different civilizations of the "Silk Road" on land and sea.
It is reported that the exhibition will last until June 26.
Zhou Yanwen, an all-media reporter of Lanzhou Daily
Photo courtesy of Gansu Provincial Museum
Edited by Zong Chengxian