On May 18th, the "Yan Zhao Chengchun Trip-Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Coordinated Development Special Exhibition" opened at the Beijing Grand Canal Museum (East Hall of the Capital Museum), with 398 pieces (groups) of exhibits unveiled, leading the audience through the past and the present, appreciating the historical changes in the relationship between Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cities, and understanding the development process of the layout of the urban agglomeration.
At the entrance of the exhibition hall, a group of sand table models will present the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei style in three dimensions - surrounded by mountains on both sides, bordering the sea in the east, the Central Plains in the south, and dotted with cities along the Great Wall Cultural Belt, the Grand Canal Cultural Belt, and the Yongding River Cultural Belt in Xishan. Since ancient times, diverse civilizations have converged on this vast land, writing stories that have been inherited for thousands of years.
At the beginning of the exhibition, a 2 million-year-old stone core is quietly placed in a display case. "This inconspicuous stone is the material evidence that ancient humans transformed nature and began to make tools." Zhang Jie, the curator of the exhibition and deputy director of the preparatory department of the Beijing Grand Canal Museum, explained that the ancestors of the Paleolithic Age peeled off the stone chips from the collected natural stones by striking and pressing, and the last part left behind was called the "stone core", "This stone core unearthed from the Maquangou site in Nihewan, Yangyuan County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, traces the activities of ancient humans in the land of Yanzhao back to 2 million years ago." ”
Walking into the exhibition hall, three units of "The Formation of the Ancient Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei 'Capital Circle'", "The Formation of the Modern Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Urban Agglomeration", and "The Footprint of the Coordinated Development of the Contemporary Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei" are unfolded in turn, with 398 pieces (groups) of precious cultural relics and historical archives, revealing the internal connection of the "urban agglomeration" established in the history of urban relations, and telling the story of the "cultural lineage" and integrated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
At present, the largest bronze ritual vessel found in the Beijing area, the Jin Ding, has also been invited to the hall. Although it is a copy, you can still get a glimpse of the highly developed material civilization of Yan during the Western Zhou Dynasty from the simple and simple ornamentation on the tripod, and appreciate the 3,000-year history of the ancient capital Beijing. Experts interpret that after the establishment of the Yan Kingdom, the local ancestors brought new culture to the surrounding areas, and some bronze artifacts unearthed in Tianjin and Hebei also have the temperament of the Yan Kingdom in terms of shape and ornamentation.
Between the three places, the cultural context intersects, and there are many similar testimonies in the exhibition. A pair of Shang Dynasty iron-bladed bronze Yue, similar in "appearance", one large and one small, share the same showcase. Zhang Jie said that they were unearthed in the Taixi site of Gaocheng in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, and the Liujiahe site in Pinggu District, Beijing, "two places with a straight-line distance of more than 300 kilometers unearthed iron blades of similar nature and the same era, dating back to 3,500 years ago in the history of iron use on the mainland." ”
Precious cultural relics such as the Jomon open jar of the Shang Dynasty and the "Yun (Yan) Wangzhi" Ge of the Warring States Period vividly show the profound historical and cultural heritage of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region; Maps such as the four screens of the "Complete Map of Rehe" and the "Map of the Imperial Palace of Tianjin" reproduce the unique urban relationships and functions of the Gyeonggi region...... Walking through the clusters of display cases, attentive viewers will find that a huge "timeline" of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei memorabilia runs through the exhibition line, which is the curator's innovation in arranging the exhibition. "We deliberately designed this kind of long-term 'annotation' information to give the audience the feeling of standing in the long river of history to see the exhibition." Zhang Jie said that he hopes that everyone can understand the historical significance of key cultural relics while paying attention to them.
With the unveiling of this exhibition, the 11th-12th exhibition halls of the Grand Canal Museum in Beijing will be built into the "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Museum Exhibition Hall", which will serve as a permanent and normalized exhibition and display base for the coordinated development of museums in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, share cultural and museum resources, and form a regional cultural characteristic brand. The directors of the museums of the three places issued a cooperation initiative to jointly promote the coordinated development of cultural and museum work in the three places and serve the overall situation of the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.
Source: Beijing Daily client reporter Li Qiyao, Wu Yibin
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