■ Blue glazed stupa model, excavated in G1, site of the reconstruction and expansion project of the First People's Hospital of Guangzhou in the fifth dynasty of the Tang Dynasty (618-960 AD). Part of the green glaze falls off. The plan is hexagonal, and the base of the tower consists of a base and a three-level abutment; The three-story tower body is imitating the pavilion style, with a niche on the first floor, and a seated lotus Buddha statue is sculpted in the niche; Gather spires, tower remnants. One of them has an inscription at the bottom. Pan Weiqian/Photo
■ Gravel, Shang period (circa 1600-1046 BC), unearthed at the site of Zhuyuanling in Hetangxia Village, Huangpu District, Guangzhou. Pan Weiqian/Photo
■ "Lin Zhai Wine Dump" sauce glazed pottery chips, Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD), unearthed on the project site of Guangzhou Science Museum in Haizhu District. Pan Weiqian/Photo
■ Lin Yao (biography), Portrait of Chanali (facsimile), oil on canvas, circa 1835, Hong Kong Museum of Art. Photo courtesy of Yue Bo
■ Silver box, excavated from the tomb of King Wen of Nanyue, in the collection of the Museum of King of Nanyue. Photo courtesy of the hospital
■ Fragment of the cover of the "Huayin Palace", excavated at the base site of the No. 2 Palace of the Nanyue State, and collected by the Nanyue King Museum. Photo courtesy of the hospital
Tracing Yangcheng - New Archaeological Discoveries in Guangzhou in 2022
On April 25 this year, under the guidance of Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism (Guangzhou Municipal Administration of Cultural Relics), the exhibition "Tracing Yangcheng - New Discoveries of Guangzhou Archaeology in 2022" hosted by the Guangzhou Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, the Museum of the Second Tombs of the Southern Han Dynasty, and the Cultural Heritage Protection and Management Research Center of the Maritime Silk Road (Guangzhou) was officially launched at the Erling Museum of the Southern Han Dynasty. The exhibition will be held until December 17 this year.
Since 2020, the institute (pavilion) has carefully planned the annual new archaeological discoveries into a series of exhibitions "Tracing the Yangcheng" to share the latest archaeological results with the audience and friends in a timely manner. In 2022, "Guangzhou Archaeologists" completed 404 archaeological projects, 160 million square meters of investigation, 2.41 million square meters of exploration, 12,964 square meters of excavation, cleaned up 2,255 relics of various types, found 201 tombs of various periods, and unearthed 1,625 pieces / sets of various cultural relics.
A number of important prehistoric prehistoric pre-Qin sites such as Conghua Lion and Elephant, Huangpu Zhuyuanling and Nansha Synthesis provide important data for reconstructing the human history of the Pearl River Delta before the founding of Guangzhou. The historical period sites and tombs discovered by the First People's Hospital of Guangzhou, Liwan Hedong, Guangzhou Zoo, Zengcheng Shajiao Village and other projects are of great significance to explore the trajectory of Guangzhou's urban development. Among them, the site of the reconstruction and expansion project of Guangzhou First People's Hospital from Nanyue State to the Qing Dynasty was also selected as "Important Archaeological Discoveries in Guangdong Province in 2022".
From the new results of 18 archaeological excavation projects in Guangzhou in 2022, the exhibition selects about 260 pieces/sets of pottery, bronze, iron, silverware, crystal, shells and other excavated cultural relics for display, divided into three parts: residence, labor and burial. The exhibition strengthens the relationship between archaeological discoveries and current life, and connects the ancient ancestors' life, work, religious activities and concepts of life and death that can be presented by archaeological remains through the daily things that modern people have to face. The audience can learn about these relics and relics from their own familiar perspectives, observe and experience the daily life of the ancestors of Guangzhou, and dialogue with the ancestors living in the same area.
All the cultural relics in the exhibition are on public display for the first time, showing the audience the new discoveries and new achievements of Guangzhou archaeology in 2022: the remains of the pre-Qin dynasty in the cave, the production and living places of the large-scale Shang period, the architectural remains of the Nanyue period in the northwestern suburbs of Guangzhou, the accumulation of a large number of artificially processed shells, and the pottery pieces from the Xia Shang period to the Shang period in the strata accumulation in Haizhu District... These will provide the audience with the latest index to read Guangzhou. (Correspondent Sui Wenkao)
Why "Focus" Interprets the Guangdong Expo Boutique Exhibition
A few days ago, the reporter learned from the Guangdong Provincial Museum that the exhibition "Focus: Adaptation of Chinese and Western Visual Arts in the 18th-19th Centuries" held in the museum from September 30, 2022 to March 26, 2023 won the International and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Cooperation Award in the 20th (2022) National Museum Top Ten Exhibition Promotion Activities.
The exhibition "Focus: Adaptation of Chinese and Western Visual Arts in the 18th and 19th Centuries" is specially planned and organized by the Guangdong Provincial Museum in order to actively respond to the "Belt and Road" initiative, display the achievements of cultural exchanges and mutual learning, and promote all-round and in-depth cultural cooperation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Jointly with a number of cultural and museum institutions in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, through 130 pieces / groups of representative exhibits, it tells the story of Guangzhou export painters in the 18th and 19th centuries who innovated in three aspects: painting art, painting skills and materials, and created the Guangzhou era of dialogue and adaptation of Chinese and Western visual arts.
As an original exhibition of panoramic interpretation of Chinese export paintings, it is the first collective exhibition of the collection and research results of the "Chinese Export Paintings" collection of Guangdong Provincial Museum in the past 20 years.
The formal design of the exhibition closely follows the theme of the exhibition, and uses contrast, virtual reality, three-dimensional and other design techniques to reorganize various representative visual symbols to form distinctive artistic characteristics. The technology uses a glasses-free 3D studio, a panoramic immersive interactive experience "Chinese style room", an interactive touchscreen installation with a Canton women's group, a personalized guided tour of "Digital Intelligence Focus" combining big data and artificial intelligence, and a "virtual curator" mini program that combines big data and artificial intelligence to achieve "digital and accessibility innovation" of the exhibition.
The exhibition also expands its influence with the help of academic strength, cooperates with Sun Yat-sen University to hold relevant international academic seminars, and invites more than 200 experts and scholars from Hong Kong, Macao, the Mainland, as well as the United Kingdom, France and other countries to discuss and think on the globalization of visual arts. In addition, 6 special academic lectures, 12 public welfare education projects, and 258 online and offline exhibition supporting activities were offered.
"Focus" is here and now: Past and present, as an important starting point of the Maritime Silk Road, Guangzhou has always been a meeting place of Chinese and Western cultural horizons, and the focus of all-round and in-depth cultural co-construction in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. In this artistic journey that transcends the times, we see the long-cherished wish of Chinese civilization to set sail and lead the trend. (Correspondent Yue Boxuan)
The new permanent exhibition has a full view of the southern Xinjiang of Qin and Han
On May 18, International Museum Day, "Qin-Han Southern Xinjiang - Special Exhibition of the History of the Kingdom of South Vietnam" opened in the exhibition area of the King of Nanyue Museum. This is the first basic exhibition of the Nanyue King Museum after its establishment, with a total of more than 200 pieces (sets) of fine cultural relics, from the perspective of the diversity and integration of Chinese civilization, by displaying the excavated cultural relics and archaeological excavation materials of the sites and tombs of the Qin and Han period (especially the Nanyue period of the Western Han Dynasty) in Guangdong and Guangxi, combined with relevant historical records, leading the audience to witness the historical process of the gradual development of Lingnan and its eventual integration into a unified multi-ethnic country.
Through the display of various fine cultural relics and the latest archaeological research results, the "Qin and Han Southern Xinjiang - History of South Vietnam Special Exhibition" displays the glorious ancient historical and cultural features and characteristics of Lingnan region under the vision of the unified and prosperous era of the Qin and Han dynasties, and presents the political and cultural pattern of the integration of the family and country in Lingnan during the Qin and Han periods. The exhibition is divided into four units: "The Land of a Hundred Yue", "Qinding Lingnan", "Defending the Frontier and Camping Land" and "Thousands of Miles and the Same Wind".
"The Land of a Hundred Yues" presents representative archaeological findings from the two broad regions, and summarizes the regional appearance, ethnic composition and basic social development of the southern pre-Qin Ling Dynasty. As early as prehistoric times, Lingnan had certain exchanges and contacts with the Central Plains and surrounding areas.
"Qin Ding Lingnan" tells the story of Qin Shi Huang's conquest of Lingnan and the establishment of counties, which made Lingnan included in the political map of the Central Dynasty for the first time, promoted the development of local social economy, the integration of Han and Vietnamese nationalities, and the opening of overseas communication lines, opening a chapter in the large-scale development of Lingnan.
"Guarding the Territory and Camping Territory" focuses on the late Qin Dynasty, when Zhao Tuo established the state of South Vietnam for the stability of the southern region of Lingling and the tranquility of the people. The active management of successive South Vietnamese rulers has enabled Lingnan to achieve leapfrog development in political, economic, cultural, ethnic integration and overseas exchanges, and has made significant historical contributions to the eventual integration of South Vietnamese culture and Lingnan culture into the diverse and integrated Chinese civilization.
"Ten Thousand Miles with the Same Wind", introduces that after Emperor Wudi of Han destroyed the state of Nanyue, the Lingnan region was officially included in the territory of the county of the Han Dynasty. Since then, Lingnan has gradually integrated with the Central Dynasty in political, economic and cultural aspects, becoming an inseparable part of the pluralistic and integrated Chinese civilization.
The original basic display of the exhibition area of the tomb of the king of the Nanyue King Museum of the Nanyue is "Nanyue Collection Treasures - Exhibition of Cultural Relics Unearthed from the Tomb of the Nanyue King of the Western Han Dynasty", which takes the cultural relics unearthed from the tomb of King Wen of Nanyue in the 80s of the 20th century in the mainland as the core, and displays them according to the material, type and function of the artifacts, but the description of the overall historical situation of the Nanyue State of the Western Han is relatively insufficient. Therefore, "Qin-Han Southern Xinjiang - Special Exhibition of the History of the Kingdom of South Vietnam" was added as the basic display of the exhibition area of the tomb of the king, in order to build a historical framework and comprehensively and systematically describe the historical background of the country of South Vietnam. (Correspondent Wang Xuan, Nanyue)
■ Collection Weekly reporter Pan Weiqian