Jinguo Museum is the first thematic museum in Shanxi Province built on the basis of the national key cultural relics protection unit "Qucun - Tianma Ruins". It is located in Quwo County, Linfen City, Shanxi Province. The author was recently invited to come here to interview and shoot.
After the archaeological excavations of archaeologists, more than 12,000 pieces (sets) of various precious cultural relics such as bronzes and jade have been excavated from the Jinhou cemetery, and the cemetery also has 10 funerary car and horse pits, as well as houses, pottery kilns, sacrifice pit sites in various periods, etc. Of which no. 1 car and horse pit has unearthed 48 funerary chariots and more than 100 war horses, which is the largest carriage and horse pit found in The Western Zhou Dynasty in China.
In 1992 and 1993, it was selected as one of the "Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries in China" for two consecutive years. In 2001, it was rated as one of the 100 major archaeological discoveries in China in the 20th century, and its archaeological and cultural value sensationalized the country and shocked the world, and its excavation results provided support for the solution of the problem of the chronicle of the kings of the Western Zhou Dynasty in China's "Xia Shang Zhou Dynasty Project".
Jinguo Museum is the first thematic site museum in our province built on the basis of "Tianma-Qucun Ruins", and it is also the only platform in China to fully display Jin culture. Qucun - Tianma ruins is the location of the early capital of the Jin Dynasty, is a veritable "source of the Three Jins", was identified by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage as one of the 100 major sites for key protection, the site in addition to the Neolithic, Qin Han, Jin Yuanming cultural relics, the most abundant is the Jin culture, especially in the site of the Jin Marquis cemetery 9 generations 19 Jin Marquis and his wife tombs discovery and excavation, the Study of Jin Culture in China to a new field and height.
The Jin Dynasty was born in the land of Guhedong, founded for more than 600 years, after 38 generations of monarchs, created a glorious feat of dominating the Central Plains for more than 150 years, is a brilliant period in the history of Shanxi, and has a profound impact on the development and evolution of Chinese civilization. The site is the best proof of the long history, on the bank of the Xun River in the jinnan region of Shanxi, the Jinguo Museum, the first large-scale site museum in Shanxi Province that integrates cultural relics collection, protection, research and display of cultural relics, is also the only platform in the country to completely display the historical and cultural features of the Jinguo, through the ruins, physical objects and pictures, the 600 years of the glorious history of the Jinguo are condensed in the Exhibition.
The burial system of carriage and horse is a system in which ancient Chinese nobles were buried with carriage and horse ware or real carriages and horses. It is a manifestation of the hierarchy, and the higher the status of the person, the more chariots and horses are buried. In Qucun, the Tianma ruins, the largest is the No. 1 Chema Pit. The No. 1 carriage and horse pit is 21 meters long from east to west, 15 meters wide from north to south, rectangular, 4.8 meters deep, the east is a horse, the west is a car, and the horse and vehicle are buried separately, which is different from the car and horse pit of the Shang Dynasty. Most of the horses were lying in a disorderly state, stacked on top of each other, at least 105 horses, the posture of the horses was messy, some of the legs had traces of binding, showing signs of fierce struggle, and still maintained the posture of painful struggle at the moment of death, so that it can be judged that these horses were buried alive. The 48 cars in the west are arranged in six neat rows, the whole car is buried here, after more than 2800 years of underground corrosion, although the wooden structure of the wheel has become one with the mud, only the traces and bronze ornaments remain, after restoration, its outline is still clearly visible.
It is this Jinguo Museum with a thousand years of historical and cultural heritage that stands here, looking forward to meeting you in the journey of life, which will take you through time and space, dialogue heaven and earth, and go to appreciate the changes and magnificent waves of the three thousand years of the ancient country of China and the six hundred years of the Spring and Autumn Jin Kingdom.
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