During the Spring Festival, the museum attracted many visitors, and Sanxingdui Museum continued to be at the peak of visitor flow, which has exceeded the highest number of visitors in the same period of the past year. Some netizens posted pictures and texts on social platforms, saying, "Sanxingdui Museum fights in groups... Crashed into the display case... The cultural relic falls..."The accompanying picture shows a bronze artifact at the bottom of the display table, and the whole is in a lying position on its side. Sichuan Guanghan Sanxingdui Museum announced the specific situation through an official Weibo release on January 26. On the same day (January 25), tourists were pushed and shoved due to a dispute, and the cultural relics were intact, and tourists were criticized and educated. The content is as follows,
Yesterday (January 25) afternoon, a dispute between visitors in our museum attracted everyone's attention. What happened: two spectators had a spat while competing to see the cultural relics in the Bronze Hall, and there was a physical altercation, and the cultural relics slipped and fell in the display case due to the shaking of the display case. The security and cultural protection personnel of our museum immediately took emergency disposal measures, and after a comprehensive and careful inspection, the cultural relics were not damaged, and the cultural relics are currently on display normally. The local police station has also conducted criticism and education for the two parties in accordance with the Regulations on Administrative Punishments for Public Security. After this incident, we further strengthened our security inside and outside the pavilion to ensure that similar situations do not happen again. ”
During the Spring Festival, our museum has continuously been at the peak of visitor flow, which has exceeded the highest number of visitors in the same period of the past year. We have promptly activated emergency plans such as reservations, flow restrictions, and diversions, increased security and service forces, and strived to ensure the safety of cultural relics and the safety of exhibitions.
Sanxingdui Museum Bronze Hall was completed in 1997, the exhibition hall space is relatively cramped, the new hall under construction is expected to be completed and opened next year, the level of facilities has been greatly improved. Sanxingdui Museum said that we encourage visitors and friends to abide by the relevant regulations of the museum, care for cultural relics, visit the exhibition in a civilized manner, create a good viewing environment, and better experience the broad and profound ancient Shu culture and Chinese culture.
It's what knocked over
The reporter noted that in response to rumors that some netizens questioned that the bronze statue was a "replica", the bronze kneeling statue that slipped down on January 25 was unearthed in 1986 in Sanxingdui No. 2 Sacrifice Pit, a key cultural relic protection unit in the country, and was identified as belonging to the late Shang Dynasty.
Measuring 8.2 cm wide and 14.6 cm high, the portrait has a wide face, and his hair is combed from front to back and then curled forward, and the hair style is quite characteristic of local ethnic groups. This portrait not only adopts a kneeling posture, but also wears a bracelet and stockings, showing an extraordinary identity, and its demeanor and temperament show a noble status compared with the stone sculpture kneeling statue unearthed at the Sanxingdui site, and the status of the two symbols can be said to be "worlds apart". Therefore, experts tend to believe that the figure should probably depict the image of a witch praying for sacrifice.
Fighting in a museum, this is outrageous. Fortunately, the cultural relics are safe and sound, which is a little reassuring. Some netizens said, fortunately this is a bronze, what if it is porcelain? The consequences are unimaginable.
In recent years, domestic and foreign tourists have frequently damaged cultural relics and depicted them on monuments, and the Public Security Administration Punishment Law and the Criminal Law have clearly stipulated such acts. The Law on Administrative Punishments for Public Security stipulates that anyone who carves, defaces, or otherwise intentionally damages cultural relics or scenic spots protected by the State shall be given a warning or a fine of not more than 200 yuan; where the circumstances are more serious, they shall be detained for not less than 5 days but not more than 10 days, and shall also be fined between 200 and 500 yuan.
If it is intentional destruction of precious cultural relics protected by the State or cultural relics designated as national key cultural relics protection units or provincial-level cultural relics protection units, the punishment shall be fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and a fine or both, in accordance with Article 324 of the Criminal Law; where the circumstances are serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years, and shall also be fined. Even if it is unintentional, but it causes serious consequences, it also commits the crime of negligent damage to cultural relics, and is punishable by fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention.
Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Zhang Nan
Proofreading by Tao Shangong