The Shule River, under the Yin Mountain, the sky is like a vault, and the cage covers the four fields. The sky is clear, the wild is vast, and the wind blows grass low to see cattle and sheep. A thousand-year-old song "Song of The Edict" captures the beauty of the grassland.
The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is located in northern China, with an area of 1.183 million square kilometers, and the straight-line distance from east to west is more than 2,000 kilometers, which is almost equivalent to the distance from Beijing to Guangzhou. The museum is a window into the history and culture of the region, as well as an artistic temple that nurtures the soul. In history, the Inner Mongolia region is a big stage for the integration of various ethnic groups, and the cultural relics displayed in the Inner Mongolia Museum fully reflect the long history and culture here.
Dream back to the Mesozoic - Chagan Nol Dragon
Hundreds of millions of years ago, when dinosaurs were all over the earth, this land was once shaded with trees, growing dense ferns and tall conifers, which became the food source of plant-eating dinosaurs, resulting in a body length of 26 meters, a height of 12 meters, and a presumed weight of more than 50 tons of "giant" Chagan Noel dragon. The skeleton fossil integrity of this giant dragon is staggering more than 90%, and its excavation site is now the famous Xilin Gol grassland. Looking up at this prehistoric beast will always make people sigh and lament the wonders of nature.
Chagan Noordosaurus fossil
The dawn of civilization - the jade pig dragon
We are all "descendants of the dragon", the "Red Mountain Culture" found in Chifeng is famous overseas, and the Red Mountain Jasper Dragon, known as the "First Dragon of China", has been unearthed in Inner Mongolia. Inner Mongolia is one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization, and the Yellow River and Xiliao River have fed many ancestors of ancient settlements. The most representative of the jade pig dragon and the Gouyun shaped jade in the Hongshan jade, this jade pig dragon has a head shaped like a pig, and the back drill hole can be used for hanging. It is hard to imagine how the ancestors of hongshan more than 5,000 years ago used to make these exquisite jade objects.
Jade Pig Dragon
An eagle soaring over the steppe – the golden crown of the eagle
In the pre-Qin period, China gradually formed a pattern of integration with Yanhuang Huaxia as the core of cohesion and the "people of the five parties" sharing the world. Inner Mongolia Ordos is located in the Yellow River "several" character bay, rich in water and grass, but also in ancient Lin Hu and other tribes active place. This golden crown of eagles unearthed from the Hangjin Banner of Ordos used more than 1,300 grams of gold, made of turquoise, and made a movable eagle head through gold wire. Crowned bands decorate horses, horned sheep and tigers, they are interspersed with mortise and tenons for an ingenious design. This heavy golden crown really makes people feel that "if you want to wear its crown, you must bear its weight".
Eagle crown gold crown ornament
Eagle Crown (Crown)
Eagle Crown (Crown Hoop)
A thousand-year-old document - Juyan Hanjian
In the information age, more and more people are beginning to forget their pens and forget to write, and they can't help but be amused to think of seeing someone write "bunker" as "carved fort" not long ago. The ancients carved words on bamboo and wood, and later wrote in ink, and they should be cautious when writing. Yao is both a bronze wine vessel and an integral part of jianmu, and refers to writing articles in general. On the Gobi Desert of Ejina Banner in Inner Mongolia, the Jian Mu of the Han Dynasty was left, which is the famous "Juyan Han Jian". "The desert is lonely and the sun is shining", the word Juyan contains a smell of the vicissitudes of time, and these Jian Mu also record the long history of the frontier, or the edicts of the emperors, or the trivia of the border...
Juyan Hanjian (Mu Mu)
Lin deeply smelled the deer singing, and the beautiful person Jinbu Shake - Deer Horn Golden Bu Shake
Beginning in the Han Dynasty and flourishing in the Jin Dynasty, the bu shake is an important accessory in ancient Chinese costume. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Murong Xianbei was also famous for wearing a walking rock, and through archaeology, it was found that in the Xianbei tribe, this kind of delicate and luxurious headdress was mostly worn by a seven-foot man, which was a big surprise. However, in the famous "Female History Proverbs", this kind of flower-like step shake is also worn on the bun of the beautiful woman. Excavated in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, this deer antler golden step shake has to make people lament the creativity of the ancients, horses and deer, deer and trees, all things have animism, continuously extend upwards, the wearer's every move, will make the gold leaves sway, sparkling, like a dream. Its other pair of partners are in the National Museum's "Ancient China" exhibition, and you may wish to find a frame to appear together.
Antlers golden step shake
A good horse with a good saddle - gilded bronze saddle
When you come to the Inner Mongolian steppe, how can you not look at the harness? To say which generation of harness is strong, the Liao Dynasty harness should not be tolerated, after all, in the Song Dynasty's "Sleeve in the Brocade" was rated as "the world's one". This gorgeous gilded bronze harness was found in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, and once belonged to a Liao Dynasty horse, and the whole set of harnesses from the head to the tweezer really "decorated the love horse to the teeth". This set of harnesses is themed after deer and flowers, whether it is a quiet "lying deer" or a jubilant "running deer", it is vividly portrayed.
Khitan harness restoration
Necklace
Corsets
Tweezered trim
The big amber chain you haven't seen – the amber strand
Amber is a resin-like substance, condensed over hundreds of millions of years, and is rare and precious, amber is a very valuable ornament. But have you ever seen a large chain made of more than 300 pieces of amber? The Suwen Liao people have a thick burial custom, but this amber necklace is still breathtaking. Its owner was Princess Chen Guo, who lived in the middle of the Liao Dynasty, and she was the niece of Emperor Shengzong of Liao, and her tomb is located in Naiman Banner in present-day Tongliao, Inner Mongolia. This amber necklace is called a jewel, and this accessory has a close relationship with Buddhism. Some experts believe that some of the origins of amber in excellent quality may have come from today's Baltic Sea. Although it came from afar, this amber pendant is carved with lotus flowers, coiled dragons and other ornaments, which has a very oriental meaning. If you restore it into a necklace and take it out, it will definitely "attract attention" countless.
Amber
The gold cup and the silver cup are filled with wine - the golden cup of the ear
I remember attending an academic conference, and a roommate from Guangdong asked me as soon as I met: "Classmate, where are you from?" When I replied that it was Inner Mongolia, he said almost immediately, "Then your alcohol intake should be very good!" I was ashamed to say that "I am not good at drinking." Although Inner Mongolia has a long history of wine culture, the exhortations of "abstaining from drinking" and "drinking less" are also mostly found in the classics. This golden cup from the Xilin Gol steppe is a banqueting table for the nobles of the Yuan Dynasty. A large wine bowl plus a crescent-shaped handle, the following link a ring, just the thumb buckled the handle, the index finger hooked into the ring, you can directly scoop the wine, happy drink. However, those who imagine drinking today's liquor with this golden cup may be disappointed, according to the records of this golden cup drinking more wine. Even so, compared to today's various processes of drinking wine, such a golden cup is already very luxurious.
Ear gold cup
Goryeo porcelain in the medicine shop - dragon head shaped stone drops
The Inner Mongolia Museum displays many treasures from the ruins of Jining Road in ChayouqianQi, Wulanchabu City, most of which are porcelain. Most of these porcelains came from a large urn, imagining the situation of archaeologists at that time, it may be like opening a blind box now, and each urn may contain a surprise. Among them, there is a large jar of Longquan kiln, which contains a piece of celadon porcelain, and this item goes deep into the turtle, the head is like a dragon, and the shape is very similar to the gantu carrying the stele. It is a piece of stationery with a flower mouth on the back that can be filled with water, which is designed to be used to slowly add water when grinding ink, and according to expert speculation, this celadon belongs to Goryeo celadon porcelain. It was found in a former medicine shop, and it may have been the owner of the medicine shop who was overjoyed when he went to Goryeo to buy goods, so he brought it back to the shop on Jining Road.
Dragon's head shaped drops
The legend of the emperor in the city of Naturalization- the Imperial Sword
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Mongol Tumut Khan built Kuku and Tuncheng, which is today's Hohhot, and the Ming Dynasty gave them the name Naturalization. In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, when the Dzungar Khanate in western China rose, the Kangxi Emperor personally marched and stationed himself in the naturalization city of Xiaozhao, and after the end of the war, Kangxi left this sword. This sword is extremely delicately crafted, and the wrong gold craftsmanship produces a fine dragon pattern, and once the small church will display these imperial treasures on the "Sunshine Day" of the lunar calendar every year, and now it lies quietly in the museum for everyone to enjoy.
Imperial Sword
Inner Mongolia Museum is to understand the history and culture of Inner Mongolia, understand the joint expansion of all ethnic groups, the construction of the history of northern China,000,000,000 years of natural specimens and history and culture across the 2 billion to modern times, come to the Inner Mongolia Museum can feel the real glance at ten thousand years, feel the magic of nature and the thickness of history.