It is an all-wood antique building with the architectural style of Liao and Jin dynasties, with simple and magnificent shape. Together with Chongfu Square Grand Stage and E Guogong Weichi Temple, it constitutes three ancient buildings in Shuocheng District.
The treasure of the town hall, the Thousand-Buddha Stone Pagoda Temple in Caotiandu in the Northern Wei Dynasty, was placed in the statue hall of the museum, and the tower body is now preserved in the Taipei History Museum. At that time, the stone pagoda was composed of three parts: tower foundation, tower body and tower brake, with a height of about 3 meters, a tower height of 2.5 meters, and nine floors of * * *, and the tower body had many 1400 * * embossed Buddha statues. Especially the standing Buddha statue, which is 1.8 1 m high, is similar to a real person. Unfortunately, the stone pagodas were looted after the Japanese army occupied Shuo county in 1937. Today, although the tower brake is seriously corroded, the fine silky carvings are still vivid.
Mayi Museum has seven exhibition halls: finishing hall, sculpture hall, painting and calligraphy hall, ceramic hall, bronze hall, stone carving hall and miscellaneous hall.
Calligraphy and Painting Museum is the third exhibition hall of the museum, which displays the calligraphy works of four top scholars in Qing Dynasty, namely Lu Runxiang, Wang Renkan, Cao Hongxun and Huang Siyong. Among them, Lu Runxiang's calligraphy works are a pair of seven-character couplets with ink and wash paper running script, which are square, bright and close to the charm of Ou Yangxun. The most amazing thing is that the twelve screen strips written by Cao Hongxun are golden silk with five-color brocade edges, carefully mounted, with round and beautiful brushwork, dignified and concise, and excellent regular script. The calligraphy works with the four top scholars are the paintings and calligraphy works of the second person in the Qing Dynasty.
In the ceramic hall of the fourth exhibition hall, there is a Fahua porcelain sculpture fired in Ding kiln in Ming Dynasty. It is a national first-class cultural relic, with white glaze printed flat plate, shallow and slightly curved abdomen, delicate and firm fetal quality, and peony flowers printed in the center of the plate.
The fifth exhibition hall is the bronze hall, which contains a replica of the painted bronze goose fish lamp in the Western Han Dynasty (the real thing is in the Palace Museum). Painted bronze goose fish lamp is 53cm high, unearthed in 1985 Zhaoshibazhuang, Shuo County. The copper lamp body is painted with black, white, red and green color patterns, and the lamp panel and lampshade can be rotated to open and close to prevent wind and adjust illumination and direction. In addition, the fish body, goose neck and goose body of the lamp are hollow and communicated, so that smoke and dust can be sucked into the stomach of the goose to dissolve water and purify the air, and each part can be disassembled for convenient cleaning.
The Stone Carving Hall is the sixth exhibition hall. Two classic buildings more than one meter high record the development of tantric Buddhism in Shuozhou area of Liao Dynasty, while a stone tablet of Hangfang Garden with a height of 180cm, a width of 93 cm and a thickness of 18cm records in detail the grand scale of Marshal Wu's residence in Liao Dynasty and its later conversion to Liling Temple. The inscription is in the form of running script, and the calligraphy looks vigorous and has a deep charm, about 1 100 words. This stone tablet was originally located in Qiling Temple in the southeast of Xiying Village, Shuocheng District. It was moved to the stone forehead of Beichengmen in Shuozhou in the third year of Ming Hongwu. /kloc-in the summer of 0/972, the stone forehead of Beichengmen in Shuo County fell and broke into two pieces, and people were transported back to Chongfu Temple.
A large bamboo-shaped iron cannon displayed in the utility room of the last exhibition hall was dug up at the foot of the Great Wall of Ming Dynasty in 1980s. The caliber of the big iron gun is larger than the bottom diameter, and the words "Lucky in the 22nd year of Wanli" are cast under the mouth edge, and the words "Shenchibao Middle Road" are cast on one side of the gun body. There is also a big iron knife more than two meters high on display in the hall. Knife and handle are made of iron. According to textual research, it was used in martial arts training and martial arts examination in Ming Dynasty. There are also rumors among the people that this knife was used by Wei Chijingde when he was young.
win an honour
The National Museum Accreditation Committee organized experts to record and review, and National Cultural Heritage Administration recognized Mayi Museum as a national third-class museum.
The Ant Museum was also named as a provincial patriotic education base by the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee.
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Opening hours: 8: 00 am-65438 in summer+02: 00 pm-8: 00 am-65438 in winter+08: 00 pm-65438+02: 00 pm-65438+07: 30 pm.