The museum was completed and opened in October 1989. The museum is a classical palace-style building. The museum is surrounded by pines, cypresses, flowers and bamboos, and is surrounded by long corridors, complemented by mountains and rivers. The overall design integrates antique architecture and garden style, and has strong national characteristics. It is a heritage museum. The museum has three exhibition halls: Yinqueshan Han Tomb Hall, Bamboo Slips Exhibition Hall, and Cultural Relics Exhibition Hall.
In the center of the Yinqueshan Han Tomb Hall are the restored Western Han Dynasty Tombs No. 1 and 2. The funerary objects were copied and placed in the coffin in their original state. The walls of the oval exhibition hall are enlarged photos of the excavation site and unearthed bamboo slips. More than 7,500 bamboo slips were unearthed from two Han tombs. The bamboo slips in Tomb No. 1 contain 13 chapters of "Sun Tzu's Art of War", 16 chapters of "Sun Bin's Art of War" and five lost texts; the bamboo slips in Tomb No. 2 contain "Calendar of the First Year of Emperor Yuanguang of Han Dynasty". The unearthed bamboo slips from the Yinqueshan Han Tomb are of great value to the study of my country's military history, philology, ancient music training, ancient slip system and ancient calendar.
The first floor of the Bamboo Slips Exhibition Hall is divided into the "Sun Tzu Art of War" exhibition hall and the "Sun Bin Art of War" exhibition hall. The display combines pictures, text and objects to show the audience the two unearthed bamboo slips of military books, the combat practices of Sun Tzu and Sun Bin, the weapons of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, as well as the latest research results of Chinese and foreign experts and scholars. The second floor is the cultural relics exhibition hall, which displays the cultural relics unearthed from Han Tombs No. 1 and 2 as well as some cultural relics unearthed from more than 100 Han tombs in Jinqueshan and Yinqueshan since 1970. Among them, the silk paintings of the Western Han Dynasty are the second largest after the Hunan Mawang Another discovery after the pile of silk paintings is the only Western Han Dynasty silk painting unearthed north of the Yangtze River. Also on display are imitations of ancient weapons such as spears, daggers, halberds, crossbows, bronze swords, and bronze arrowheads, as well as warships, watchtower carts, trebuchets, ladders, pottery cauldrons, and bronze tripods.
The cultural relics exhibition hall is located on the second floor, displaying some of the fine cultural relics unearthed from more than a hundred tombs, including pottery, lacquerware, silk paintings and Han Dynasty stone statues. Among them, the Western Han Dynasty silk paintings are precious cultural relics. This silk painting was unearthed from Tomb No. 9 in Jinqueshan in May 1976. It was placed on the linen cover of the tomb owner's coffin. It is the only Western Han Dynasty silk painting unearthed north of the Yangtze River. The painting is rectangular, 200 centimeters long and 42 centimeters wide. It is outlined with red thin lines and painted flat with red, blue, white, black and other colors. The main content of the picture is divided into three parts: heaven, earth and underground. There is the sun and the moon in the sky, a golden crow in the sun, a toad and a jade rabbit in the moon; there are three fairy mountains in the world: Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou. There is a building in front of the mountain, and there is a lady sitting on the right side, and there is a maidservant in front of it. Three women stood in wait, and another woman knelt in front of the hostess with a container in her hand as a gesture of consecration. From this point on, several groups of life scenes of characters appeared in succession, including music and dance, greeting and seeing off guests, textiles, medical consultations, horn performances, etc., showing the tomb owner's daily life, banquets, and other life scenes. This is the first silk painting discovered north of the Yangtze River in China after the silk painting unearthed from the Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha, Hunan. It is not only a precious art treasure, but also of great significance for the study of ancient funeral systems, myths, legends and religious thoughts. This also fully reflects that Chinese folk painting art had reached a very high level at that time.
The unearthed bamboo slips from Han tombs prove that Linyi has been a gathering place for intellectual elites since ancient times, and it is also a city with prosperous military science. In April 1992, the Chinese Academy of Military Sciences, China Sun Tzu Art of War Research Society and Linyi Administrative Office *** jointly held the "Third Sun Tzu Art of War International Academic Symposium", which attracted more than 20 countries and regions including China, Britain, France, Japan and the United States. Hundreds of experts and scholars were invited to participate. "The Art of War" has been translated into more than 20 languages ??around the world. It is a key cultural relic protection unit in Eastern Province and the first bamboo slips museum of Han tombs in the country.
Sun Tzu's Art of War
Sun Bin's Art of War