This year marks the 110th anniversary of the founding of the National Museum of China, and the archaeology of the National Museum has gone through more than a hundred years of spring and autumn. Today, the National Museum held the media open day of "Accumulation of Thick and Wide - Exhibition of Archaeological Achievements of the National Museum", introducing the characteristics of this exhibition and the main achievements of the archaeology of the National Museum in the past century. It is reported that the exhibition will be open to the public on July 2.
At the National Museum's "Accumulation of Thick and Wide - Exhibition of Archaeological Achievements of the National Museum", many important cultural relics excavated by archaeology were unveiled. Beijing News reporter Pu Feng photographed
Chen Keshuang, curator of the exhibition, introduced that the exhibition is divided into four parts: the initial sketch, the blue wisp of the road, the progress with the times, and the new chapter of the times, which comprehensively shows the development process of the archaeology of the National Expo, with a large time span and a rich number of exhibits.
"The exhibition contains more than 240 representative cultural relics excavated from archaeology, involving about 70 archaeological excavations and survey projects hosted or participated in by the National Museum for more than 100 years, from Paleolithic archaeological sites to Qing Dynasty underwater shipwreck excavations, from different periods and different angles, presenting the audience with a long history of Chinese civilization." Chen Keshuang said.
Excavated from the dabaozi mountain site in Lixian County, Gansu Province, qin zigong that reflects the liturgical music system in the early Qin dynasty. Beijing News reporter Pu Feng photographed
Chen Keshuang introduced that the carbonized rice excavated from the Hanjing site in Sihong County, Jiangsu Province, which is 8500-8000 years old, the Qin Mu Gonggong, one of the five masters of the Spring and Autumn Period, which is only found in archaeology at the Maojiaping site in Gangu County, Gansu Province, and the skeleton of the giant camel of Jinyuandong, the largest camel seen in the history of the earth so far, are all representative collections of this exhibition.
The skeleton of the giant camel of Jinyuandong, the largest camel seen in the history of the earth, is on display. Beijing News reporter Pu Feng photographed
Zhuang Lina, vice president of the Guobo Archaeological Institute and research librarian, introduced that in the 1920s, modern archaeology took root in the land of China. In 1921, the "National Museum of History", the predecessor of the National Museum of China, sent Qiu Shanyuan and others to Julu, Hebei (now Julu County, Hebei Province) to excavate the ancient city of the Song Dynasty, pioneering the chinese historical and archaeological atmosphere. Since then, it has successively carried out ancient tomb excavations in Xinyang, Henan and Zhijiang, Hubei, and carried out cultural relics surveys in Beijing, Hebei, Jin, Mongolia, Henan, Lu, and Xin.
A Northern Song Dynasty green-glazed iris kiss unearthed in 1921 in julu's ancient city of Julu, Hebei Province. Beijing News reporter Pu Feng photographed
Zhuang Lina introduced that on February 27, 2003, the China History Museum and the Museum of the Chinese Revolution were officially merged to form the National Museum of China, and the archaeological cause continued to flourish.
In 2018, the National Museum established the Archaeological Institute, which consists of four archaeological research institutes in ethnic and frontier areas, fields, science and technology, and the environment, as well as the Public Archaeology Office. The functions and roles of the Archaeological Institute in the museum have been strengthened, and a new pattern of archaeological work has gradually been formed. Zhuang Lina said.
Edited by Chen Jing
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