The Suide Han Portrait Stone Exhibition Hall is located next to Fusu's tomb on Shuzhishan Mountain in the city. It was built and opened to the outside world in 1998. It is an architectural style imitating the Han Dynasty's hanging mountain style and four roofs. It consists of three parts: the gate house, the exhibition profile and the exhibition hall. With a total construction area of ??289 square meters, it is magnificent, simple and elegant.
Description of the exhibition hall
The exhibition hall is surrounded by masonry walls on both sides, with an iron gate in the middle, and a giant banner stone sculpture "Shaanxi Suide Han Portrait Stone Exhibition Hall" on it. On both sides of the gate are stone-carved couplets: "The pure stone remains in Han culture today, and the exquisite carving will long remember the ancient craftsmen." The banners and couplets were inscribed by Mr. Qi Gong, a famous Chinese calligrapher, with powerful, elegant and graceful writing.
Entering through the gate is a spacious "patio"-style exhibition gallery, in the shape of a "back", supported by 12 red logs, with glass frames on the four walls, displaying selected Han Dynasty portrait stones. rubbing. There are legends about Fuxi and Nuwa, as well as scenes of hunting, singing, dancing, and war during the Eastern Han Dynasty. These precious rubbings have the artistic effect of traditional folk paper-cutting, with lifelike images and unique styles.
Stepping into the exhibition hall, the surrounding walls are inlaid with more than a hundred portrait stone carvings with unique contents and different styles. There are legendary and romantic scenes such as "The Queen Mother of the West", "Fuxi", "Nuwa", "Feathered Man Holding Grass", "Jade Rabbit Pounding Medicine"; there are "Confucius meets Laozi", "Two peaches kill three scholars", "Jing Ke assassinates the King of Qin" and There are historical scenes such as "Loyal, filial and filial women"; there are agricultural and nomadic scenes such as "oxen plowing and planting crops", "horses grazing", "horse hunting"; there are "traveling with carriages and horses", "welcoming guests and banquets", and "thousands of horses galloping". and "pulling bows and throwing spears" and other magnificent scenes of ancient wars; there are "dance", "acrobatics", "Liu Bo", "pot throwing" and other ancient cultural and artistic scenes from the Eastern Han Dynasty; there are also "slaughtering pigs and sheep", "Cooking in the kitchen", "drawing water from the well" and other scenes reflect the life customs of the feudal manor in the Eastern Han Dynasty. These rare pictures, with their simplicity, simplicity, powerfulness, rough outlines and originality, prominently express the ingenuity and rich creativity of the ancient working people.
In the center of the exhibition hall, there is a restored model of a Han Dynasty portrait stone tomb reduced to a quarter (Tomb No. 1 of Yanjiacha excavated in 1975). The tomb is in the shape of a "ten" with a tomb door in front. , the middle is the hall, the left and right are the side rooms, and the last is the bedroom. There is also the restored tomb of Yang Mengyuan (excavated in 1972) outside the Han Painting Museum, which is in the shape of "Lu", with a hall in the front and a bedroom in the back. The inlay structure of the portrait stones in the two Han tombs is quite exquisite, and they are the best examples of the inlay method of portrait stones in the Han tombs in northern Shaanxi.
Collection-History
The collection of Han portrait stones in Suide has a history of more than 50 years. A total of more than 500 Han portrait stones have been unearthed, of which more than 200 have been transferred to Beijing and Xi'an. , collected by national and provincial museums. Currently, the museum has more than 300 Han portrait stones in its collection, accounting for more than 80% of the total number of Han portrait stones unearthed in counties in northern Shaanxi. It mainly reflects the social life style of the Eastern Han Dynasty for nearly 50 years from the second year of Yongyuan (90 AD) to the third year of Yongjian (128 AD).
Artistic value
The Suide and Han portrait stones are colorful, broad and profound. Entering the exhibition hall is like walking into a long time and space tunnel. An irresistible magical force makes people feel the endless life and indomitable fighting spirit of human ancestors.
Artistic Charm
The Suide Han Portrait Stone Exhibition Hall has attracted great interest from many cultural relics and archaeologists and tourists since its opening to the outside world. After traveling through mountains and rivers to visit and investigate, many experts and scholars spoke highly of the precious cultural relics in the collection.