Friends who have seen "Dragon Babu" must be familiar with "Western Xia". Here there is the "Xixia Yipintang" with extraordinary force, the "Four Evil Meng" who are extremely vicious, and the "Menggu" who is haunted by the soul of the false bamboo. Of course, this is the impression of Xixia in the film and television drama. And what about the real Western Xia in history?
When the Mongol iron horse swept across the entire territory of Western Xia, the city was slaughtered, the tomb was destroyed, and the historical books and cultural relics of Western Xia were destroyed. It is buried in the yellow sand of the northwest and is little known.
Where can you find out what it looks like?
Answer: The Xixia Museum is indispensable! It is the first museum in China to display the history of the rise and fall of the Western Xia Kingdom with the Western Xia Royal Mausoleum as the background.
The Western Xia stupa has a dense eaves architectural shape and a unique style.
Come to Xixia Museum! From here, you'll meet a mysterious country!
From here, witness the rise and fall of a dynasty
It has a small territory and few resources, but it confronted the Northern Song Dynasty and Liao in the early stage, and the Southern Song Dynasty and Jin Dingzu in the later period, nearly 200 years.
From here, you will see its fierce folk style and strong force value
Genghis Khan, a generation of Tianjiao, failed to conquer Western Xia that year and died in Liupan Mountain.
From here, you will see the splendor of a civilization
Xixia created a splendid culture, especially it is worth mentioning that it created its own script, pushing the history of Chinese movable type printing a hundred years earlier.
When the Western Xia script is mentioned in the "Dragon Babu", there is this description: "The storm has taken the yellow paper, and I see that there are many foreign characters written on the paper with a vermilion pen... After reading it from beginning to end, he said: 'It is indeed the list of horses recruited by the king of Western Xia. ’”
The Western Xia script borrows from the shape of Chinese characters, not "bent and curved", but the pattern is Zhou Zheng, most of the strokes are more than 10 paintings, and there are more oblique pens such as skimming and twisting.
The Xixia Museum awaits your arrival. All its heritage has been devastated – countless storms, countless fires, countless excavations... It is a blessing that the cultural relics have been preserved to this day!
The museum has an exhibition area of 1883 square meters, a total of 9 exhibition halls, gathering the historical and cultural relics of Western Xia, of which "Western Xia Historical Relics Exhibition" selects the most representative Western Xia cultural relics 671 pieces, "Western Xia Research Achievements Exhibition", using physical objects, charts, paintings, photocopies, models, sound and light and other means, truly and vividly show people the history of the rise and fall of the Western Xia Empire.
Travel through time and space, admire the treasures in the collection, and appreciate the Western Xia style.
Unveil the mystery of Western Xia, come to the Xixia Museum~
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