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1. The Palace Museum: Map of the Upper River of the Qingming Dynasty

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Qingming Upper River Map, one of the top ten famous paintings in China. It is a northern song dynasty custom painting, the only surviving fine work seen by the Northern Song dynasty painter Zhang Zeduan, which is a national treasure-level cultural relic, and is now stored in the Palace Museum in Beijing.

2. National Museum of China: Houmu Pengding

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Houmu Pengding, also known as Simu Pengding and Simu Peng Dafangding, is a casting of the late Shang Dynasty, excavated in 1939 in Wuguan Village, Anyang City, Henan Province, and is now stored in the basic exhibition hall of "Ancient China" of the National Museum of China

3. Capital Museum: Bo Ji

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The Western Zhou Dynasty Mane, full name "Bull's Head Pattern Belt Gaiber Matrix Mane", is a bronze vessel of the early Western Zhou Dynasty. It was excavated in 1974 at Tomb No. 251 at the Liulihe Ruins in Fangshan District, Beijing. It is now in the collection of the Beijing Capital Museum.

4. Tianjin Museum: Taibao Ding

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It belonged to the early Western Zhou Dynasty, and was excavated from Liangshan in Shouzhang County, Shandong Province. The body has ridges and ornaments, and the abdomen has the three words "Taibao Cast", which is to assist king Zhou Cheng's summoning. It is now in the collection of Tianjin Museum.

5. Hebei Provincial Museum: Golden Jade Cloth

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Western Han Dynasty, excavated in 1968 from the tomb of Liu Sheng, king of Zhongshan Jing in Mancheng, Hebei Province. The whole set of "jade clothes" shares 2498 pieces of jade, and the gold wire is about 1100 grams. In addition, there are 48 agate beads under the neck, and a jade belt hook at the waist. It is now in the collection of Hebei Provincial Museum.

It belongs to the Warring States period, and for the first time vividly reproduces the shape of the bucket arch in the Warring States period with a physical appearance. It is now in the collection of Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics.

6. Shanxi Museum: Jin Migratory Bird Zun

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The Jinhou bird is 39 cm high, 30.5 cm long and 17.5 cm wide. The whole bird is shaped by a bird looking back, with a slight head and an upright crown. The bird is plump and its wings are rolled up. On the back of the bird, a small bird quietly clings to each other and becomes the catcher on the lid of the bird's vessel. There is an elephant head under the tail, and the trunk is rolled up, forming a stable three-point support with the legs, and the whole body is covered with ornaments. The shape is realistic and vivid, and the concept is peculiar and ingenious. The inside and bottom of the bird's lid and abdomen are cast with the inscription "Marquis of Jin as Xiang TaiMu Bao Zun Yi", which can be proved to be a ceremonial vessel of the Zong Temple.

7. Qinghai Provincial Museum: Red Earth Cloud Pearl Day Tianjin

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It belongs to the Northern Dynasty period. This object has a strong exotic style and is very precious. It is now in the Qinghai Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology.

8. Institute of Archaeology of Shanxi Province

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It belongs to the Northern Qi period and was excavated in 1979 from the tomb of Lou Rui in Taiyuan, Shanxi. The "Kurama Travel Map" is located in the middle column of the west wall of the cemetery and unfolds in a long scroll. It is now in the collection of Shanxi Provincial Museum.

9. Inner Mongolia Museum: Crown of the Xiongnu

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The golden crown is 7.3 cm high, 30 cm long and weighs 1394 grams. It is a combination of an eagle-shaped crown, a hemispherical crown and a crown band, and is embossed with animal ornaments. It was excavated in 1972 in the Tomb of the Xiongnu in Hangjinqi, Inner Mongolia. Known as the "Treasure of the Steppe", the Eagle Top Gold Crown is the golden crown ornament of the Xiongnu chieftains found so far, representing the highest level of precious metal craftsmanship of the northern peoples of the mainland during the Warring States period.

10. Liaoning Provincial Museum: Duck-shaped glass note

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It belongs to the Northern Yan period. Light green vitry, bright, translucent, slightly silvery-green rust. A pair of triangular wings of a ducklet are glued with glass strips on the back. The shape of this vessel is vivid and chic, which is very rare in early glassware. It is now in the collection of Liaoning Provincial Museum.

11. Shun Museum. Di Xin patrols Bi Bu Jia

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Di Xin Patrol Bi Bu Jia is a relatively complete oracle bone. There are 258 oracle bones on it, which is the second most of all oracle bones in the world if you count by word count. That oracle bone belongs to the turtle's belly carapace, that is, the bone on the turtle's stomach.

12. Famen Temple: Buddha Bone Relic

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It was also excavated from the underground palace of Famen Temple. The first of the Eightfold Treasure Letter is the place where the Buddha refers to the place where the relics are hidden

13. Xi'an Forest of Stone Steles Museum: Shitai Filial Piety

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The Shitai Filial Piety Classic, prefaced, annotated and written by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, and the seal of the crown prince Li Heng (Emperor Suzong of Tang), engraved in the fourth year of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang 's Tianbao (745 AD). The inscription is written in 18 lines, 55 characters in lines, the calligraphy is neat, plump and gorgeous, and the knot body is solemn and magnificent.

The rough is made of four fine black stones, rectangular columns, inscribed on all sides, 620 cm high and 120 cm wide. The top of the stele is carved with a double-layered flower crown surrounded by Ganoderma lucidum patterns, and there are three layers of stone platforms under the stele, so it is called the "Stone Platform Filial Piety Classic". The rough stone is now in the Forest of Steles in Xi'an.

14. Shaanxi History Museum:

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Western Han gilt silver bamboo knot copper smoker. The Western Han Dynasty gilt silver bamboo section copper smoker is a national treasure. Excavated in 1981 in Maoling, Shaanxi Province, it has a height of 58 cm and a caliber of 9 cm. In ancient times, there was a custom of burning incense, or burning incense clean rooms or smoking clothes and dyeing quilts. During the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty gave a gilded gold and silver bamboo knot copper smoker as a gift to his sister Princess Yangxin Chang, which is also known as the wife of the Han Dynasty general Wei Qing. In 1981, this imperial gift was unearthed in Maoling, Xingping County, Shaanxi Province, and although it has gone through a thousand years, it is still shining.

15. Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum of Qin Shi Huang: Bronze Carriage and Horse

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It belongs to the Qin Dynasty. There are two times, one in front of the other and one after. After restoration, the size is about one-half of the size of a real horse. It is now in the collection of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum of Qin Shi Huang.

16. Hanyang Mausoleum Museum: Smiling Figurines

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The Group of Burial Sculptures in the Yang Tomb where the Chinese Han Jing Emperor Liu Qi (reigned 157-141 BC) and Empress Wang were buried together

17. Anhui Provincial Museum: Cast Guest Big Copper Ding

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It belongs to the Warring States period and is the largest and heaviest Ding since the Zhou Dynasty. It is now in the collection of Anhui Provincial Museum.

18. Guyuan Museum: Gilded gold and silver pot

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The gilded silver pot is a metal handicraft of the Persian Sassanid Dynasty, dating back to 1500 years, and its exquisite craftsmanship has a typical Persian Sassanid style, but its theme pattern depicts ancient Greek mythology.

19. Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum: Five stars out of the East to benefit China

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Five-star out of the East to benefit China, Han Dynasty brocade arm guard, for the national first-class cultural relics, China's first batch of prohibited to go abroad (border) exhibition of cultural relics. It is known as one of the greatest discoveries of Chinese archaeology in the 20th century. In October 1995, members of the Sino-Japanese Niya Site Academic Expedition found the tapestry in an ancient tomb at the Niya Site in Minfeng County, Hotan District, Xinjiang. It is in the collection of Xinjiang Museum.

20. Shanghai Museum: Su Zhong, Marquis of Jin

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It belongs to the Western Zhou Dynasty, and was excavated in 1992 from tomb No. 8 of the Marquis of Quwo Jinhou Cemetery in Shanxi. There are inscriptions on it, all carved with sharp tools, the knife marks are very obvious, and the inscriptions can be connected, which completely records the whole process of the eighth day of the first month of the thirty-third year of King Li of Zhou (846 BC), and the Jin Marquis Su was ordered to cut down the Yiyi.

21. Nanjing Museum: Wrong silver and copper bull lamp

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This lamp structure is divided into three parts: lamp holder, lamp lamp and flue. The pipe is located above the lamp and is tightly attached to the short tube protruding above the cow's head. The lamp is lit in the lamp plate, and the smoke is introduced into the abdominal cavity of the copper cow lamp holder through the smoke pipe, and the smoke is filtered through the clear water in the cow's abdomen, which reduces the volatilization of the smoke and ensures the freshness of the indoor air.

22. Suzhou Museum: Northern Song Dynasty Pearl Relic,

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The Zhenzhu Relic Is a precious Buddhist artwork made in the sixth year of the Northern Song Dynasty, which has a history of nearly a thousand years. It is a container for storing relics connected with seven treasures such as pearls.

The treasure building is 122.6 centimeters high and was first found in two layers of wooden letters. The main part is made of nan wood and is divided into three parts from the bottom up – the Meru Seat, the Buddha Palace, and the Pagoda.

23. Yangzhou Museum: Yuanji blue glazed white dragon pattern plum bottle

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The Yuanji blue-glazed white dragon pattern plum vase is Jingdezhen porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty, which the Yangzhou Museum purchased in 1978 from the exhibition of cultural relics reports held in Beijing and is now in the Yangzhou Museum.

Yuanji blue glazed white dragon pattern plum bottle height 43.5 cm, caliber 5.5 cm, bottom diameter 14 cm, maximum abdominal diameter 25.3 cm, plum bottle mouth small, short neck, shoulders. Gradually converge below the shoulders to the near bottom. The whole body is cast with a blue glaze, and the yunlong and baozhu are glazed with blue and white glaze.

24. Zhejiang Provincial Museum: Fuchun Mountain Residence Map

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Fuchun Mountain Jutu is an ink painting on paper created by the Yuan Dynasty painter Huang Gongwang in 1350, one of the top ten famous paintings in China. Huang Gongwang was painted by his disciple Zheng Fan (a useless teacher), changed hands several times, and was buried in the first two sections for "burning paintings and martyrdom". The first half of the volume: the remaining mountain map, now in the collection of the Zhejiang Provincial Museum; [1] The second half of the volume: the useless division volume, now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.

25. Fujian Museum: Bronze burning

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Western Zhou, height 76.8 cm, length 29.8 cm, weight 100.35 kg. The large cymbal is cast in double-fan combinations, with 18 papillary-like pieces on each side. The body is covered with ornaments based on cloud thunder patterns, and the upper half of the Yong is decorated with a pair of beasts on each side, and the cloud thunder pattern forms a variant animal face pattern. The spiral belt is decorated with a thin cloud thunder pattern and is decorated with a prominent hook C-shaped pattern. The dance surface is decorated with symmetrical thick cloud thunder patterns in four groups. The bell face is decorated with a thick and deep cloud thunder pattern, only the tunnel in the center of the drum is slightly raised, and it is decorated with a light and fine patterned animal face pattern.

26. Jiangxi Provincial Museum: Shangbeast-faced deer-eared four-legged bronze ware

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Shangbeast face deer ear four-legged bronze lute, excavated in 1989 in Xingan Oceania, Jiangxi Province, Jiangxi Provincial Museum collection. It is 105 cm high and weighs 78.5 kg. The animal-faced deer-eared four-legged bronze urn is the largest bronze ware, known as the "King of the Lynx".

27. Qingdao Municipal Museum:

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Western Zhou, height 76.8 cm, length 29.8 cm, weight 100.35 kg. The large cymbal is cast in double-fan combinations, with 18 papillary-like pieces on each side. The body is covered with ornaments based on cloud thunder patterns, and the upper half of the Yong is decorated with a pair of beasts on each side, and the cloud thunder pattern forms a variant animal face pattern. The spiral belt is decorated with a thin cloud thunder pattern and is decorated with a prominent hook C-shaped pattern. The dance surface is decorated with symmetrical thick cloud thunder patterns in four groups. The bell face is decorated with a thick and deep cloud thunder pattern, only the tunnel in the center of the drum is slightly raised, and it is decorated with a light and fine patterned animal face pattern.

28. Qingzhou City Museum: Zhao Bingzhongyuan voucher in the 26th year of the Ming Wanli Calendar

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Zhao Bingzhong's scroll is the temple examination paper of Zhao Bingzhong in the twenty-sixth year of the Ming Wanli Calendar (1598 AD), and it is the only authentic temple examination volume in the mainland. This volume is the only authentic copy of the imperial examination scroll in mainland China (the palace archives of the National Palace Museum in Taipei contain several copies of the Qing Dynasty scrolls), which is extremely valuable.

29. Henan Museum: Lotus Crane Copper Square Pot

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It belongs to the middle of spring and autumn. With a lid, ears, circle feet, a center of gravity on the lower abdomen, and various additional decorations decorated under the body, not only caused an exceptionally magnificent decorative effect, but also reflected an important change in the aesthetic concept of bronze art in the Spring and Autumn Period. This pot was originally a pair, one is now in the Palace Museum in Beijing, and the other is in the Henan Provincial Museum.

30. Zhengzhou Museum: Gluttonous Milk Nail Pattern Copper Fangding

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Shang Dynasty (1600 BC - 1046 BC), height 81 cm, mouth length 55 cm, mouth width 53 cm, weight 75 kg, zhengzhou Xiangyang Hui food factory bronze cellar excavation in 1982. The copper mouth is nearly square, flat folded edge, square lip, there are round arched outer grooved ears on the mouth edge, the ears are slightly outward, the inner surface is plain, and there is a circular arch convex ribbed inside the outer ear groove; the bucket-shaped square abdomen, flat bottom, with four cylindrical empty feet underneath. The abdomen is decorated with a ribbon stripe and a milk nail pattern, which is composed of wide lines and a raised nose, similar to a relief; the milk nail pattern is decorated in the four corners of the abdomen and the lower abdomen. There are smoke marks on the wall of the abdomen and between the bottom and feet.

31. Luoyang Museum: Stone to ward off evil spirits

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It was excavated in 1992 in Luoyang Mengjin Huimeng Town Oil Mill, this stone to ward off evil with the neck and limbs of the five S-shaped composition of the overall shape, and with the limbs and the thick long tail of the dragging ground to form 5 support points, S-shaped bending, is the prelude to the burst of strength; 5 support points, giving people a sense of stability and health.

32. Hubei Provincial Museum: Zeng Houyi Chimes

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Zeng Houyi chimes belong to the Warring States period cultural relics, excavated in 1978 in Suizhou City, Hubei Province, Zeng Houyi tomb, is China's so far the largest number of found, the most complete set of chimes, its excavation rewrote the history of world music.

33. Jingzhou Museum

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The Tiger Seat Fengjia Drum is a cultural relic with great Chu characteristics, although it is a musical instrument, but the craftsmen have skillfully integrated music and artwork, which makes it a landmark cultural relic of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

34. Hunan Provincial Museum: Zen clothes with straight plain yarn

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Western Han Dynasty, excavated in 1972 from the Mawangdui No. 1 Tomb in Changsha, Hunan Province. Weighing 49 grams, light as smoke, as thin as cicada wings, the weaving technology is superb, it is really ingenious. This yarn garment should belong to Xin Chai. It is now in the collection of Hunan Provincial Museum.

35. Guangdong Provincial Museum: Western Zhou Copper Cup

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Excavated in 1972 in Xinyi Liwei (Rosin Factory), it was identified as a wine vessel of the Western Zhou Dynasty, which is 26.2 cm high, with a unique and unique shape, a dignified shape, intricate ornamentation and fine carving. The body is a "mane" body, the dragon-headed spout is high, the three legs are separated, the wrench is exquisitely combined by two empty dragons, the lid body is also refined into a raised dragon head decoration, and the whole body is decorated with a hammer pattern, thunder pattern and gluttonous pattern, and its shape and ornamentation are typical of Western Zhou utensils.

36. Museum of the Nanyue King of the Western Han Dynasty: Angular Jade Cup

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Western Han Dynasty, excavated in 1983 from the tomb of the Nanyue King of the Western Han Dynasty. It is the only han dynasty relic before the Ming Dynasty, and occupies an absolutely important position in the history of jade. It is now in the collection of the Museum of the King of Nanyue in Guangzhou.

37. Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Museum. Western Han Xiang heron pattern copper drum

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This exhibit is a metal vessel from the Western Han Dynasty, the chest and waist have been cut off when it is buried, and the chest is decorated with six groups of feathers rowing patterns, and the two ends of the boat are high. It is now in the collection of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Museum.

38. Chongqing China Three Gorges Museum: Three Sheep Zun

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Excavated in 1980 at Lijiatan on the banks of the Daning River in Dachang Town, Wushan County, Chongqing City, with a height of 42.8 centimeters, it was originally collected by the Wushan County Cultural Management Institute, and transferred to the Chongqing China Three Gorges Museum in June 2005, and is currently displayed in the exhibition hall of "Far Cuba and Chongqing". The shape of the device is flared, neck, folded shoulders, curved abdomen, high circle foot. The body is decorated with cloud and thunder patterns, and the shape and ornamentation are generally characteristic of the late Shang period of the Central Plains culture, and the vague ground patterns and rugged casting styles show strong local characteristics. Therefore, the Sanyangzun should be a self-made heavy vessel under the strong influence of the Shang culture of the Ba people, and it is the earliest large bronze container seen in the ba people's homeland so far. The device has important academic value for the study of the mining and metallurgical technology, cultural processes and the relationship between the Shang culture of the ancient Ba people.

39. Sanxingdui Museum: Bronze Sacred Tree

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There are a total of eight Shang bronze sacred trees, of which the completely restored one is 395 centimeters high, which is the largest single bronze cultural relics found in the world, and has been named the No. 1 sacred tree. There is also a tree with only the lower part of the body, which is named the second sacred tree. The first sacred tree is composed of two parts, the base and the main body, the top of the tree has been broken, the base is as if three mountains are connected, the main trunk is three layers, climbing at the top of the mountain, the branches of the tree are divided into three layers, each layer is three branches, there are two fruit branches on the branches, one upward, one drooping, the fruit holder is huge, the whole tree has a total of nine birds, standing on the fruit of the upward fruit branch, a dragon extends the main trunk side by side, ready to fly. On each side of the second sacred tree, there is a kneeling bronze statue with a mutilated forearm.

40. Sands Museum: Sun God Bird

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The Shang Zhou Sun God Bird Gold Ornament is a gold vessel of the Shang Zhou Period. It was excavated in Jinsha Village in 2001 and is now in the collection of Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum.

The overall gold ornament of the Shang Zhou Sun God Bird is a round thin sheet, with an outer diameter of 12.5 cm, an inner diameter of 5.29 cm, a thickness of 0.02 cm, and a weight of 20 grams. The pattern is divided into two layers, with twelve rotating toothed rays of light distributed at equal distances on the inside; the outer layer consists of four identical birds flying counterclockwise.

The gold ornament pattern of the Sun God Bird of the Shang Zhou Dynasty is currently designated as a symbol of Chinese cultural heritage by the national cultural relics.

41. Chengdu City Museum: Stone Rhinoceros

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The beast-shaped stone sculpture excavated on the northeast side of Tianfu Square in Chengdu, Qinhan, Qinhan, is 3.3 meters long, 1.2 meters wide, weighs about 8.5 tons, is shaped like a rhinoceros, standing, with a plump and strong trunk, thick and short limbs, and a curly cloud pattern carved on the trunk of the lower jaw and forelimbs. The Huayang Guozhi ShuZhi records that "King Xiaowen of Qin took Li Bing as the defender of Shu... Make a stone rhinoceros with five heads, to aversion to water essence. "The stone rhinoceros may be related to Li Bingzhi water and has extremely high archaeological research and artistic value."

42. Sichuan Provincial Museum: Elephant head animal face pattern copper

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Elephant head animal face pattern copper silk is a cultural relics excavated in The Bamboo Tile Street in Pengxian County, Sichuan Province, this cultural relic is a vessel used to hold wine, the copper skull has a lid on it, a straight mouth and square lips, and two ears, surrounded by bird-shaped protrusions, and the carved ornaments are divided into three sections, and there is a dragon in the middle.

43. Tibet Museum: Zhu Mo painted two-body clay pot

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The tibetan museum's collection of two-body clay pots was excavated at the site of Qamdo Karo in the Tibet Autonomous Region in the late 1970s. The two-body clay pot with sand and yellow pottery texture, the diameter of the clay pot is 11.3cm, the bottom diameter is 8.4cm, and the height is 19cm, which reflects the highest level of pottery in the Caro culture at that time.

44. Datong City Museum: Sima Jinlong's tomb unearthed lacquer screen

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It belongs to the Northern Wei Dynasty, and was excavated in 1965 from the tomb of Sima Jinlong in Datong, Shanxi. It is now in the collection of Datong City Museum.

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