Good luck in the Year of the Ox The cow hidden in the museum
The Pegasus soared into the sky, and the Golden Bull galloped forward. In order to celebrate the Spring Festival and further enrich the cultural life of the people in the city during the Spring Festival, the Municipal Bureau of Culture, Sports, Radio, Film and Tourism carefully planned and presented gifts, and from February 4 to February 27, it grandly launched the cultural tourism online theme literary and artistic activity of "Intangible Cultural Heritage, Wuwei is the Most Chinese", with the six themes of "cutting out the New Year scene, Hanmo dance dragon and phoenix, national treasure showing auspiciousness, folk customs passing on the hometown, flavoring the Spring Festival, and reading the Spring Festival", showing you the profound history and culture of Wuwei and inviting you to appreciate the unique folk customs of Wuwei. May this deep friendship bring joy and auspiciousness to the people of the city, and wish Wuwei more brilliant and brilliant!
The cow is one of the twelve Chinese zodiac signs and ranks second. The new year is coming, Xiaobian wishes you the spirit of the cow in the Year of the Ox, every day upward channeling, cattle people do cattle things, do not look at others, the Year of the Ox makes the cattle strong, it belongs to you the most cattle. There are too many cows to say, today Xiaobian takes you to see how many cows are hidden in various museums in Wuwei.
Yuan Dynasty Tianzhu bronze yak
Tianzhu County belongs to Tibetan areas, yak is one of the earliest domesticated livestock of the Tibetan ancestors, for thousands of years, yak with its hardy and weight-bearing disposition to run unswervingly in the snowy plateau, shouldering the heavy responsibility of "snowy boat", it can be said that the Tibetan people's clothing, food, shelter, and travel are inseparable from yak, Tibetan people's dependence on the life of yak, gradually evolved into a spiritual belief, this bronze yak is also the embodiment of this belief. The worship of cattle totems exists all over the world, but the worship of yak totems only exists in Tibetan areas of China, and the yak is the spiritual symbol of Tibetan culture and the source of national vitality.
Copper yak, Yuan Dynasty, first-class cultural relics. It was excavated in 1972 in Youai Village, Haxi Town, Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County. Length 118 cm, height 77 cm, abdominal diameter 30 cm, angle length 40 cm, weight 75 kg. The yak is in a standing posture, the head is slightly forward, the mouth is half open, like a "moo" roar, the back is high and raised, the horn is greatly bent, the yak skirt hair and neck hair are boldly selected, the tail hair is like a brush head that has sucked enough ink, the creative concept is novel and chic, and vividly reproduces the robust physiological structure characteristics of the yak. From the high and raised ridge of the yak, the sharply curved horn and other local characteristics, it can be judged that it has male physiological characteristics. The yak tail lines and the face, eyes and nose of the bull head form an echoing relationship, making the overall statue appear more harmonious and unified, breaking the bulky and dull feeling caused by the large size and single action, so that the image of the yak is rough and majestic.
"Plough" in Oracle
The glyph is the shape of an ox pulling a plough to open the soil
The Qing Dynasty 'Banana Xuan Suilu' "Shu Ren Zi Hou Xie" says:
"Everything begins with morning glory. Morning glory, ugly also. One day and two places"
"Heaven one, dry; earth two, kun." Qian's is the beginning of all materials, and 'Kun' is the birth of all materials."
The idea that has been shaped by thousands of years of agrarian economy
He is very respectful of cattle in the cultivated fields
The City Museum paints wooden cows and pears
In 1972, Wuwei grinding mouth was unearthed. The cow is 31 cm long, painted black, and draws its eyes and nose in white; the cow is tall and stout, standing on all four hooves, and pulling a plough with its head down. The length of the plough is 18 cm, the plough head is 3 cm wide, painted black, from the model, the wooden plough production technology is advanced, consisting of a plough tie rod, a handrail, a plough arrow (control depth), and several parts of the plough head. Although this wood carving was buried as a Ming instrument at that time, it was an advanced agricultural farming tool model in the Western Han Dynasty, and was selected into the textbook of "Ancient Chinese History", providing extremely valuable physical materials for the study of the advanced science and technology of agricultural farming in the Western Han Dynasty in China. The wooden single ox ploughing model excavated by Wuwei Mozuzi in the late Western Han Dynasty was used to pull the plough with a ox, which further indicates that there was a single ox ploughing at that time. From "two cattle and three people" to a single ox ploughing with one person supporting the plough, this is a major progress in the ploughing technology of the Han Dynasty, and it is also a major innovation in agricultural farming technology at that time, which not only saves a lot of labor, but also greatly improves the production efficiency of farming. As a result, much of the uncultivated land was reclaimed, the area under cultivation expanded rapidly, and agricultural production developed as never before.
Municipal Leitaihan Cultural Museum Ox
In September 1969, among the 99 bronze carriages and horses excavated from the Leitaihan Tomb, did you see only horses? In fact, there is also a hornless, earless, square-headed cow figurine, ranked at the tail of the large-scale carriage and horse honor guard, which is the only cow figurine unearthed from the tomb of Wuwei Leitai Han, why does a cow appear in the horse array? Because it is a mascot, it means that the soldiers who go out to fight can fight and return safely and triumphantly.
City Museum ink painted wooden ox cart
For a long time
The special role of cattle in agricultural production
Respected by people
And because of it
Perseverance, pioneering forward, for the benefit of the people
The character of hard work and resentment, not afraid of sacrifice
Praised by people
Unearthed in Mozuizi, Xinhua Township, Wuwei, Gansu Province, the cow is 29 cm long and the car length is 61 cm, Han Dynasty, wooden, composed of two parts: cattle and carts. The cow is made of body, legs, ears, tail and horns carved and glued, and the whole body is painted black, and the body is full and strong. The car has high wheels, eight spokes, double long spokes, the car is rectangular, the left, right and rear three sides of the box plate is higher, the front is lower, the ox is driven in the spoke, as a pull car, is a complete transport ox cart model.
City Museum Year of the Ox Cultural and Creative Bookmark
This year is the Year of the Ugly Cow, Wuwei City Museum and Ningxia University have cooperated to launch a set of Xixia Zodiac zodiac series bookmarks to bring you New Year blessings, the idea of the Zodiac Cow Bookmark comes from the gilded bronze bull and lotus seat unearthed from the Xixia Tombs, whether you belong to the cow or not, this cultural creation is the auspicious thing for your "cow" to turn around in the Year of the Ox.
On the occasion of the advent of the 2021 Ugly Year, Xiaobian wishes you the endurance of the cattle, the perseverance of the yak, the vitality of the buffalo, the divine power of the iron bull, become the most cattle person, achieve the most cattle things, good luck in the Year of the Ox, and happiness for the family.
Source: Festivals and Publicity And Promotion Section