April 19, 2024 is the 15th United Nations Chinese Language Day. In 2010, the United Nations established "Gu Yu" in the 24 solar terms as Chinese Day to commemorate the contribution of Cangjie, the "ancestor of Chinese writing". Chinese characters play an important role in cultural transmission and civilization exchanges, and have also left footprints of its evolution in cultural relics. Chinese characters carry a long history, record the trickling wisdom of the land of China, and have rich aesthetic connotations and profound symbolic meanings. Step into the world of Chinese characters in cultural relics and explore the "unforgettable" historical memory.
Anyang, Henan, Yinxu Museum, "Who is the Son - Yinxu Garden Zhuangdongdi Oracle Bone Special Exhibition" attracted many audiences. Pieces of exquisite oracle bone inscriptions, showing the origin and development story of Chinese characters, attracted a large number of visitors to stop and visit. The picture shows the exhibition hall of the oracle bone exhibition, with pieces of oracle bones arranged vertically in curves. Photo by Kan Li
Anyang, Henan, Yinxu Museum, "Who is the Son - Yinxu Garden Zhuangdongdi Oracle Bone Special Exhibition" attracted many audiences. The picture shows an oracle bone fragment carved with a divination. Photo by Kan Li
The inscription of He Zun, a national treasure of the Western Zhou Dynasty, is the earliest source of the word "China". The picture shows Baoji, Shaanxi, the special exhibition of "He Zun", the treasure of the Bronze Museum. Photo by Dang Tianye
The character "Ji" in "Da Liu Jiyin" is a small seal script, the printing style is the standard late Western Han Dynasty style, and the seal button is also a typical late Western Han Dynasty style. The picture shows the "Great Liu Mark" unearthed from the tomb of the Marquis of Haiyang under a magnifying glass. Photo by Liu Xianguo
Hunan Qiyang Huxi Stele Forest is the largest open-air cliff stone carving stele forest in China, with 505 cliff stone carvings. On the cliff stone carvings of Kai, grass, Li, and seal, it is the inscription poem of countless literati and scholars since the Tang Dynasty, and the handwriting is still clearly legible after thousands of years of wind and rain. In recent years, Qiyang has immersed the forest of steles in the public through digital means. The picture shows tourists taking photos in the digital experience exhibition hall of the Stele Forest in Qiyang, Hunan. Photo by Tang Xiaoqing
Unearthed in 2012 in the Han Tomb of Laoguanshan in Chengdu, the "Tianhui Medical Jane" is famous in the academic community because it has been confirmed to be the only "Bian Que Medical Book" unearthed in China. According to the Chengdu Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology Cultural Preservation Center Director Xiao Liang revealed, 930 bamboo slips buried in the silt for more than 2,000 years before they were unveiled, the cultural preservation work is extremely difficult, after more than 10 years, the protection and restoration of the "Tianhui Medical Jane" "dawn", or in the past two years can be completed, and the public can meet. The picture shows the "Tianhui Medical Jane" after the completion of the repair, and the text on it is clearly visible. Photo by Zhang Lang
The Jinshanling Great Wall was built in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, located at the junction of Luanping County, Chengde City, Hebei Province and Miyun District, Beijing, this section of the city wall is about 500 meters long, almost completely made of bricks with words, the bricks are engraved with the words "Wanli six years Zhenyu Qi Bing Building" and "Wanli Six Years Zhenwu Camp Right Building". The Zhenluqi Barracks and Zhenwu Barracks were both troops who were sent here to repair the Great Wall. When they fired the bricks of the Great Wall, they engraved the names and dates of their troops into molds and printed them on the bricks. The picture shows the text bricks on the wall of the Jinshanling Great Wall. Photo by Liang Zhiqing
The Manuscript of the Sacrifice of the Nephew is now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, with a width of 59.6 cm and a length of 29.2 cm. "The Manuscript of the Sacrifice of Nephews" is a draft manuscript of the great calligrapher Yan Zhenqing in the Tang Dynasty, which has a large number of deletions and smears, but it is known as "the second line of books in the world", which is comparable to Wang Xizhi's "Lanting Collection Preface". The picture shows visitors watching Yan Zhenqing's "Manuscript for the Sacrifice of Nephews" (copy). Photo by Yi Haifei
In the special exhibition "Chinese Characters in China: Chinese Civilization Between the Founders" on display at the Chengdu Museum, visitors look at Zhu Yunming's cursive "The Story of Yueyang Tower". Photo by Wang Lei
Similar to today's New Year's money, as early as the Han Dynasty 2,000 years ago, people had the custom of giving each other New Year's money on the occasion of bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new. In the Gansu Bamboo Slips Museum, a large number of Chinese Slips in the collection have detailed records about the New Year's Eve, which makes people feel the rich atmosphere and ritual of the ancients. The picture shows a part of the "Four Seasons and Moons Summons" displayed in the Gansu Bamboo Slips Museum. Photo by Li Yalong
In 1995, a Han Dynasty brocade arm guard was unearthed at the Niya site in Minfeng County, Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, which was woven with eight Chinese characters in seal style of "Five Stars Out of the East to Benefit China", which is the earliest "China" word unearthed in Xinjiang. "Five Stars Out of the East to Benefit China" Han Dynasty Brocade Arm Guard (also known as "Five Star Brocade") is a national first-class cultural relic, known as one of the greatest discoveries of Chinese archaeology in the 20th century, now collected in the Xinjiang Museum, is one of the "treasures of the museum". Photo by Liu Xin
The Chongqing Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology started the cultural relics protection work of the Baima Avionics Hub Project, and carried out archaeological excavations on 17 underground cultural relics within the scope of the project, among which the harvest of the No. 1 tomb of the Western Han Dynasty at the pass is the most important, and more than 600 pieces of precious cultural relics such as lacquerware, woodware, bambooware, pottery, and bronze ware have been unearthed. It is worth mentioning that the "dry branch wooden scum" unearthed by this archaeology is the first time found in the country. The picture shows the cultural relics unearthed by the archaeological "Ganzhi Wooden Raft". Photo by Chongqing Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
The special exhibition "Chinese Characters in China: Chinese Civilization Between the Founders" was exhibited at the Chengdu Museum. The picture shows the carved tortoise shell. Photo by An Yuan
The picture shows the Henan Museum, the 26th year of the edict of Qin Shi Huang. Photo by Han Zhangyun
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