Follow the treasures of Jincheng and taste the Silk Road civilization
Green-glazed pottery pond
Green-glazed terracotta well
Green-glazed terracotta stove
A few days ago, with the power of 10 museums such as Gansu Provincial Museum, Nanjing Museum and Lanzhou Museum, the special exhibition "Zhouche Silk Road" opened at Suzhou Bay Museum with the Silk Road and cultural relics unearthed and handed down along the Grand Canal of China as the main exhibits, and more than 166 exquisite exhibits were unveiled in a concentrated manner, which is the first time in China to gather the imprint of the east, west, south and north civilizations, from the Silk Road to the Grand Canal millennium presentation. Among them, five Han Dynasty cultural relics of Lanzhou Museum, including the green-glazed pottery well, the green-glazed pottery pond, the copper pot, the green-glazed pottery stove, and the garlic copper flat pot, made a stunning appearance. It is reported that the exhibition will last until April 16.
The special exhibition "Zhouche Silk Road" is divided into four units: ancient roads, commerce and trade, integration and access, presenting the social and cultural exchanges between China and the outside world, Jiangnan and Mobei in different historical periods, telling the stories of the rise and fall of cities, economic and trade exchanges, customs and people on the Silk Road Canal, and reproducing the glorious years under the symbiosis of civilization. In the exhibition, the "Silk Road", which has the largest cultural, trade, religious and technological exchanges in human history, slowly unfolds, and the great scientific and technological achievements created by the working people of all generations with wisdom are presented to the world through the "Boat and Car Silk Road".
This exhibition brings together the collections of many provincial and municipal museums such as Gansu Provincial Museum, Nanjing Museum, Lanzhou Museum, Wuwei Museum, Jiuquan Museum, Shandan County Museum, Qingcheng County Museum, Gaotai County Museum, Lingtai County Museum, etc., combined with the cultural relics collected by Wujiang Museum, a total of about 166 exhibits (sets), including 120 cultural relics (sets) above grade 3. In the next three months, the exhibition will tell the story of the Silk Road and the Grand Canal to citizens on the shores of East Taihu Lake.
"In recent years, we have strengthened our self-confidence in history and culture, adhered to the use of the past for the present, introduced the old, and actively explored new ways, new methods and new measures in the protection, management, activation and utilization of cultural relics in our collection." Zheng Wei, deputy director of the Lanzhou Museum, told reporters: "I hope that these 5 cultural relics in the collection can be brought."
Leading the guests of the domestic and external exhibitions to dialogue with the special exhibition, spanning 2,500 years of time and space at the intersection of tradition and locality, Jiangnan and Mobei, feeling the interweaving and integration of Silk Road and Grand Canal civilization, and tasting the longevity and splendor of Silk Road civilization in the long river of time. ”
Five Han Dynasty cultural relics depict humanistic feelings
Cultural relics are the cultural background of a city, which can outline the humanistic feelings and cultural atmosphere of Lanzhou. The reporter learned that the Lanzhou Museum has a total of 5 Han Dynasty cultural relics participated in the exhibition: green glazed pottery well, green glazed pottery pool, copper pot, green glazed pottery stove, and garlic copper flat pot.
Among them, the green-glazed pottery well is 26.2 cm high, 9.4 cm at the mouth and 12.5 cm at the bottom, which is a third-class cultural relic in the collection of Lanzhou Museum. Taojing, as an important part of the Han Dynasty model Ming ware, is commonly found in tombs during the Two Han Dynasty. The Han Dynasty advocated Confucianism, governed the country with "filial piety", advocated thick burial, and the funeral concept of "death is like life", which led to the burial of pottery well models in the tombs of the Two Han Dynasty, which imitated the real well facilities and made them into models and buried them in the tomb for the deceased to enjoy. In the Han Dynasty, well facilities were widely used, and a large number of well remains have been unearthed in Han Dynasty residential, agricultural and handicraft sites found by archaeology.
The green-glazed pottery pond is 15 cm high, 32 cm at the mouth and 16 cm at the bottom, and is a third-class cultural relic in the collection of the Lanzhou Museum. There are vivid shapes of ducks, geese, turtles, frogs and other shapes in the Taopi Pond, representing that the tomb owner had such a family property during his lifetime. Pichi refers to ponds and marshes that build embankments on natural slopes to store water to irrigate farmland. The history of the construction of Pichi on the mainland is very early, and legend has it that when Xia Yu was controlling water, he was engaged in the project of "Pijiuze". The use of topographic water storage for irrigation was more common in ancient times, especially in the Han Dynasty, when the Pichi project was greatly developed. Fish farming, poultry, lotus root, water chestnut and turtle breeding in Pichi can not only improve the economic income of farmers, enrich people's food sources, but also play a role in beautifying the environment and purifying water quality.
The green-glazed pottery stove is 21 cm high, 28 cm long and 19.5 cm wide, and is a second-class cultural relic in the collection of Lanzhou Museum. The pottery stove reflects the production life and ideological concepts of the people at that time. There are two main reasons why the pottery stove model was popular in the Han Dynasty, one is that the prevalence of the large land ownership economy in the Two Han Dynasty made the wealthy aristocracy occupy the main position in society, and the concept of "death is like life" prompted them to bury a large number of bright vessels in order to continue to enjoy prosperity and wealth in the netherworld. Second, because the idea of sacrificial stoves in the Han Dynasty contributed to the popularity of pottery stoves.
The other two exhibits in this exhibition, copper pots and garlic copper flat pots, are also third-level cultural relics in the collection of Lanzhou Museum. Among them, the copper pot diameter is 10.5 cm and the height is 35 cm, and the garlic copper flat pot diameter is 4 cm and the height is 30 cm.
Li Chao, chief reporter of Lanzhou Daily
Photo courtesy of the Municipal Museum
Responsible editor: Wang Xuwei