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Tonight, a Peruvian folk song "Song of the Mountain Eagle" was played at the Jinsha Site Museum, kicking off the "Inca - Peruvian Andean Civilization Special Exhibition". Guided by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Peru, the Sichuan Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics and the Chengdu Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism (Chengdu Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics), and hosted by the Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum, the exhibition displays 168 pieces/groups of exhibits from 14 Peruvian museums, including the National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, History and the Inca Museum, including bone tools, ceramics, metals, stone tools, wood, textiles, paintings and mummies, etc., comprehensively displaying the development of the Inca Empire, social life, Artistic achievements and cultural heritage, looking back at the rise and fall of civilizations in the Andean region, where the Incas were located, which lasted for thousands of years.
Zhu Zhangyi, director of Jinsha Site Museum, said: "Since its opening, Jinsha Site Museum has focused on international cultural exchanges, and has cooperated with more than 20 countries and regions around the world to hold cultural relics tours and academic conferences, building a bridge for exchanges and mutual learning between civilizations. In the future, Sands will continue to promote dialogue among civilizations and cultural exchanges through 'bringing in' and 'going out'." The exhibition will be officially open to the public from January 10 and will run until April 10.
Eight civilizations laid the foundation for the glory of the Inca Empire
The Inca civilization, one of the three major civilizations in the Americas, originated in the Peruvian Andes and flourished in the 15th and 16th centuries AD, leaving behind a large number of world-famous historical and cultural relics.
Today, the reporter saw at the exhibition site that in order to clearly present the background and appearance of the prosperity of the Inca Empire, the exhibition is divided into four parts: the preface hall, the first unit "The Ancient Civilization of the Andes", the second unit "The glorious epic of the Inca Empire" and the tail hall, explaining the daily life, artistic achievements, spiritual beliefs and cultural heritage of the Incas, and tracing the Caral culture of the Andes from about 5000 to 3500 years ago, to the cultural replacement during the conquest of the Inca Empire by colonizers in 1572.
Based on the long and continuous timeline of the Andes, this exhibition selects representative artifacts of various civilizations in the region, so that the audience can clearly perceive the characteristics and achievements of each civilization. It is worth mentioning that although the Inca civilization and the ancient Shu civilization are thousands of miles apart, the ancestors of the two places have a common spiritual belief in sun worship. Therefore, spiritual beliefs such as sun worship and gold worship in the Andean region are also the themes of this exhibition, aiming to let the audience feel the wonderful collision of "harmony and difference" between ancient Shu and the Incas.
Professor Eleaza Crucinta, President of the Inca Museum of Peru and Rector of the National University of Cusco, who came to Chengdu for the first time, was full of interest in the culture of Sands. He told reporters that both the Sands and Inca cultures had sun worship. He hopes that through this exhibition, the Chinese audience can deepen their understanding of Peru and let more people understand the Inca culture.
In the exhibition, a gold mask from the Sican culture in Peru faces the gold mask unearthed from the Jinsha site, presenting the mask art common to ancient civilizations in the world. In addition, there are stirrup-crust vases that reflect the philosophy of Peru's ancestors, cat-shaped gold cloaks that vividly depict animal worship and ritual rituals, and Nazca textiles that have remained luster for more than 1,000 years...... All represent the eve of the prosperity of the Inca Empire and laid a solid foundation for the Inca civilization. Walking into the "Glorious Epic of the Inca Empire" section, the audience can see the faience wine storage jug as large as 1 meter high, as small as the tiny knots on the auspicious knots, the mysterious adult mummies wrapped in gauze, the delicate accessories such as necklaces and pins, and the elegant pottery decorated with various animal patterns and geometric patterns...... Both are the culmination of the high development of the Inca Empire in the fields of architecture, economy, and cultural beliefs.
Machu Picchu has been restored to its former glory
In order to give the audience a refreshing feeling, the design concept of this exhibition combines traditional and contemporary art elements. The exhibition hall is dominated by ancient pottery brown and fabric blue, supplemented by terraced green, sun gold and other colors, highlighting the Peruvian cultural background and cultural relics. On the exhibition wall, the stretching ridges of the Andes Mountains are abstracted into zigzag lines, and the traditional trapezoidal architecture of the Incas is decomposed into geometric shapes, in which the kaleidoscopic splendid Andean civilization is staged in turn. Walking through the exhibition hall, the Inca legends and gods on the exhibition wall, the huge Nazca painting projection on the ground, and the cloth exhibition wall highlighting the texture of the Inca fabric are all "small ideas" designed to fully mobilize the audience's visual, auditory, and tactile senses.
It is worth mentioning that the exhibition also uses the form of scene restoration to present the ruins of Machu Picchu and the ruins of the Pyramid of Huacaplana, etc., allowing the audience to wander around these spectacular historical sites and feel the charm of human cultural heritage.
Around the exhibition, a Peruvian culture-themed cultural and creative area was also set up, which gathered 133 cultural and creative products of various types such as accessories, ornaments, and daily necessities, so that the audience could take culture home while visiting. In addition, Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum will also expand the scope of the exhibition to the vast museum park, and successively launch themed lantern groups, floral exhibitions and Peruvian cultural extension science displays, and invite Peruvian cultural experts and scholars to bring exhibition theme lectures to the audience.
Chengdu Daily Jinguan News Reporter Wang Jia Video Wang Jia Editor-in-charge He Qitie Editor Wang Qi The picture is provided by the organizer