The second season of "Museum City" - the origin exploration season of Chinese civilization, exclusively titled and broadcast by the national cellar 1573, which has been brewed for 450 years, will meet you tonight. In this program, Shan Jixiang and Wang Wei, the mentors of the source exploration, led the source exploration group Hulan, Wang Yuheng and Li Jie to the Yin Market of Anyang, Henan, in the bronze holy land, to explore the brilliance of the beginning of civilization. Yin Wu is the starting point and cornerstone of the Chinese civilization source exploration project, as a highly developed bronze civilization bearing place in the late Shang period, where we can analyze the Chinese civilization of about 5,000 years through various factors such as country, city, writing, metallurgy, etc. "Traceability" of bronze civilization is of great significance to the inheritance of ancient Chinese civilization.
In the tomb of women, "trace" the bronze civilization to explore the prosperous era of the Shang Dynasty
Yin Wu is an important site in the history of Chinese archaeology, not only the site of oracle bone discovery, but also excavated a large number of bronzes from the Shang Dynasty, taking us back to the peak of the Chinese Bronze Age. In this program, the source exploration group came to the site of Dasikong Village in Anyang, Henan Province according to the prompt of the bronze owl Zun in the source exploration box. At the excavation site, the excavation area is divided into several equal squares, and the walls of the cells are marked with various special symbols, such as: T9717, F54, H4498... What are the specific meanings of these symbols? Through the introduction of Yue Zhanwei, a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, we learned that the relatively rare bronze jue unearthed on April 13 was excavated at this site. But the Shang Dynasty ritual system is the Yao Jue system, why is it that only Jue has no Yao unearthed this time? Stay tuned for tonight's show.
The tomb of Nuhao is the only tomb of the royal family of the Shang Dynasty that has not been stolen since the scientific excavation of Yin Wu, so her burial artifacts completely retain the combination of bronze ceremonial vessels of the Shang Dynasty royal tomb. At the Anyang workstation, Yue Zhanwei, a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, showed the exploration group several cultural relics unearthed from the tomb of Wuhao and never exhibited to the public for the first time - Nuhao Bronze Yao and Women's Good Bronze Jue. The same is the unearthed tomb of the woman, why are several sets of Yao Jue not consistent? A total of 53 Yao and 40 Yao Jue were unearthed in the tomb of Wuhao, so many Yao Jue, who is Wu Hao? On the oracle bones displayed by Niu Shishan, a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the word "women's good" appears frequently, what are recorded? In order to have a deeper understanding of Wuhao, the exploration group came to the excavation site of Wuhao's tomb. The tomb of Wuhao unearthed 1928 artifacts, including 468 bronzes, many of which are national treasure-level cultural relics, which mainly stems from the technical difficulties of bronze casting in the late Shang Dynasty have been broken, in the period of King Wuding, the entire bronze casting technology, artistic modeling reached the peak, coupled with the special identity of the owner of the tomb, many of the tombs are national treasure-level cultural relics, some of which are even more unique, such as Sanlian and even square Yi. The length of the tomb is 5.6 meters, the width is 4 meters, and the distance from the surface is about 7.5 meters, the specifications are not large, what is the purpose of so many bronzes?
The museum imagines the Bronze Age and explores bronze technology
Sanjiazhuang Village in Anyang is not far from the Tomb of Nuhao, and is within the scope of Yinxu's World Heritage Site. Follow the source group to walk through the village, and you will find that the walls along the way are painted with bronze ornaments and oracle bones. Many children here know Oracle, and Shan Jixiang, the mentor of Tanyuan, improvised Hulan and Wang Yuheng's cognition of Oracle, who recognized the word "Qu" of Oracle as "socks"?
There are a large number of precious bronzes in the Henan Museum, and looking at them is like seeing a bronze age prosperity scene in the bronze casting workshop since the Xia Shang period. He Yuling, researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and deputy station director of the Anyang Workstation, led the source exploration group to come here to further understand the bronze culture. The bronze owl unearthed in the tomb of Nuhao attracted everyone's stops, the shape of the owl, the front feet like a war horse, the layers of ornaments, what is the meaning of the form and ornamentation? With such intricate patterns and designs, how was the bronze cast? Tonight's show will answer them all for you!
Chinese bronzeware has gone through the Xia, Shang, Western Zhou and Spring and Autumn Warring States periods, expanding from the initial single wine ware to all aspects of living utensils, occupying an important position in people's production and life, so many idioms related to bronze ware have been derived: Dingding Central Plains, Yiyan Jiuding, Bell Ringing Ding Food, etc. Today, we no longer use bronze, but bronze civilization continues in our lives to this day, which deeply reflects the continuity of Chinese civilization.
Who is the royal wife of the Shang Dynasty? Why are there a large number of bronze funerary objects in his tomb? At 20:20 today, lock in the second season of Beijing Satellite TV's "Museum City" - the source exploration season of Chinese civilization, in Anyang Yin Market, Henan, explore the brilliance of the beginning of civilization, and feel the charm of bronze civilization at its peak.