A museum is a place where the cultural heritage of nature and humanity is collected, displayed, collected and studied. When it comes to museums, everyone should have been there, and for visitors, what they want to see most is of course the "treasure of the town museum", because this is not only the most important cultural relics of the museum, but also represents the strength of the museum's collection. Hangzhou is the capital city of Zhejiang Province and an important tourist destination in China, and many tourists come to Hangzhou to see the highest collection of cultural relics representing Zhejiang. Zhejiang Provincial Museum is the largest comprehensive museum in Zhejiang Province, but also one of the top ten museums in the country, today I will take you to see, Zhejiang Bo's "top ten town museum treasures".
Photographed in August 2020 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
Zhejiang Provincial Museum was founded in 1929, after more than 90 years of development, has now formed gushan pavilion area, Wenlan Pavilion, Wulin museum area, West Lake Art Museum, Huang Binhong memorial room, Sha Menghai former residence, Cultural Protection scientific research base and other seven scenic spots, the collection of cultural relics reached more than 100,000 pieces. The treasures of zhejiang bo's top ten town halls that tourists most want to see are concentrated in the wulin pavilion area located on the north side of Wulin Square in the center of Hangzhou.
The Wulin Pavilion area of Zhejiang Provincial Museum has a construction area of more than 20,000 square meters, which is divided into three floors, and the first floor of "Yuedi Long Song - Zhejiang History and Culture Exhibition" is an important cultural relics display area. The exhibition hall takes the development of the age as the main line, and gradually shows the historical and cultural development of Zhejiang, as well as the important cultural relics unearthed, the first treasure of the town hall displayed is: neolithic Hemudu culture double bird chaoyang pattern ivory carving, also known as "Hemudu culture double bird sunrise pattern ivory butterfly".
This exhibit looks inconspicuous, but it has a great future, has a history of nearly 7,000 years, and is an artistic treasure of original ivory carving. The ivory carving is 16.6 cm long, 5.9 cm wide and 1.2 cm thick, and the front is carved with a set of patterns with a yin line, with a concentric circle in the center and a light engraved on the outer circle, resembling the sun. It was excavated in 1978 at the site of Hemudu in Yuyao, Zhejiang Province, and is a national first-class cultural relic.
Further in, history seems to be closer to us, and here is a second treasure of the town hall: the Neolithic Liangzhu culture Jade. Liangzhu culture not only represents the history of Zhejiang, but also empirically proves the 5,000-year-old Neolithic human cultural history of the Chinese nation.
This piece of jade is 8.9 cm high, with an upper shot diameter of 17.1-17.6 cm, a lower shot diameter of 16.5-17.5 cm, an outer diameter of 5 cm, and an inner diameter of 3.8 cm. Weighing 6500 grams, the shape is wide and large, the ornamentation is unique and cumbersome, it is the largest and heaviest and most exquisite piece of Liangzhu Jade Chun that has been discovered, and is known as the "King of Chun", which is a national first-class cultural relic.
With the development of history, we came to the Spring and Autumn Period, where the third treasure of the Zhejiang Provincial Museum is displayed: the Spring and Autumn Trick Music Copper House. The entire copper roof is 17 cm high, 13 cm wide and 11.5 cm deep. The scene of music and dance in the Spring and Autumn Period is fully displayed. It is a national first-class cultural relic.
This one is: the Warring States Yue King's will is to sword. Although this sword is not as good as the "first sword under the heavens" Yue Wang Gou Jian sword, it is rare that more than 2,000 years of history can still be preserved so well. The sword is made of bronze, 52.4 cm in total length, with the inscriptions on the obverse: 戉 (越) King, and on the back inscribed: The will of the emperor. It is understood that the purpose of the person is Zhuji, and Yu Xuan is to gouge his son and Yi, and this sword is the sword that hooks his son Yue Wang and Yi. It is a national first-class cultural relic.
The "Fuchun Mountain Residence Map" painted by the famous painter Huang Gongwang in the Yuan Dynasty has been called one of the "Top Ten Famous Paintings in China". This painting was painted by Huang Gongwang for Zheng Fan (a useless teacher), with the Fuchun River as the background, the whole painting is light and elegant, and the arrangement of mountains and water is appropriate, which is Huang Gongwang's representative work.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, this painting was acquired by the collector Wu Hongyu, who loved it so much that he ordered it to be burned and buried before his death, but fortunately he was rescued from the fire by his nephew. However, this painting has also been burned into two sections, one large and one small, and the longer back section is called "Useless Master Scroll", which is now in the collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei, and the first section is called "Leftover Mountain Map", which is what we see in front of our eyes. This is also the most well-known treasure of the town hall in Zhebo, and many tourists come to it.
One of the treasures of Zhejiang Bo's town hall: the Northern Song Dynasty painted clay bodhisattva statue. Unearthed in the White Elephant Pagoda of Wenzhou, Zhejiang, the Buddha statue is 64 cm high, the form of Bixiao, the color depiction of gold, wonderful, very brilliant beauty, is a model of color sculpture, is a treasure in clay sculpture. It is a national first-class cultural relic.
The Zhejiang Provincial Museum has a number of Tang Dynasty guqins, among which this Sunset Style "Cai Feng Mingqi" seven-stringed qin is considered to be one of the treasures of the town hall. It is 124 .8cm long, 16.3 cm wide on the forehead, 18 .8cm at the shoulders, 12.5 cm wide at the tail and 5.4 cm thick.
The shape of "Cai Feng Mingqi" is simple and elegant, with ice cracks and small flowing water breaks on the back, which is beautiful and chic. The top of the dragon pond is engraved with the name of the "Cai Feng Mingqi" piano, and the lower part is a three-paragraph praise inscription of the modern piano master Yang Zongji. This qin is the most cherished one of Yang Zongji's "Half Hundred Qin Zhai" and is included in the "Qinxue Series", which has an extraordinary status in the guqin industry during the Republic of China period.
The Qing gold leaf appliqué palanquin is stored in the "Ten Mile Red Makeup - Red Makeup Furniture in Ningshao Wedding Customs" museum on the third floor of the Wulin Pavilion Area. This palanquin is a Qing Dynasty Ningbo-style palanquin, which was built by ten craftsmen and teachers in Xiangshan, Fenghua, Ninghai and other places, which took ten years to complete, and cost a total of more than 10,000 man-hours, so it is also known as "Wangong Palanquin".
The palanquin is 150 cm long, 90 cm wide and 27 cm high. The entire palanquin is all connected by a mortise and tenon structure, without an iron nail, a total of 250 characters, flowers, birds, insects and beasts, with the reputation of "the world's first palanquin", highlighting the superb skills of ancient Chinese craftsmen.
The Zhejiang Provincial Museum has a total of ten treasures of the town museum, in addition to the above eight pieces, there are two pieces of the "Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Wuyue Kingdom Sterling Silver Gilded Ashoka Pagoda Pagoda" excavated in 2001 in the Leifeng Pagoda Underground Palace of the West Lake, which is now in the Gushan Pavilion area of the Zhejiang Provincial Museum. The other is "Yuanlongquan kiln celadon boat-shaped stone drops" Because of this trip, the Longquan kiln celadon museum is in a closed museum, failed to shoot, I hope that the next time I go to see the real face, then show it to the majority of friends.