Cultural relics in Leizhou Museum

This museum has a rich collection of cultural relics. * * * There are about 3,000 historical relics, revolutionary relics and animal fossils, such as ceramics, gold and silver wares, jade articles, stone carvings, Gu Shuhua and coins. Appraised by national and provincial famous experts, cultural relics 1, 16, 10 1, 428. Among these cultural relics, the cultural relics unearthed from local ancient tombs, ancient sites and ancient kiln sites have the most local characteristics. During the Neolithic period, there were more than 400 stone tools, such as stone axe, stone casting, stone ring, stone owner and net pendant. , collected in seven hill sites such as Louling and Yingdian North in this city, and collected many pieces of sand pottery. It shows that in the Neolithic Age four or five thousand years ago, our ancestors had already worked and lived in Leizhou. There is a stone shovel with symmetrical edges and corners in the stone tools, which is smooth and polished, and can be compared with the stone shovel in China Cultural Relics Exhibition.

Archaeological investigation shows that Leizhou has ancient kiln sites in Tang Dynasty, and there are more than 50 ancient kiln sites in Song and Yuan Dynasties. Many villages are named after kilns, such as Wanyang (the homonym of "kiln" and "foreign" in Leizhou dialect), Houyang, etc., and their production is quite prosperous. Folk kiln products are often unearthed in ancient tombs. The museum has collected more than 70 unearthed celadon pots, porcelain pillows and coffins. Colored porcelain pots and pillows have beautiful shapes and crystal glaze. The side decoration is painted with string pattern, grass pattern and copper coin pattern. Turn on the lights, draw lotus flowers, chrysanthemums, wind birds and figures, and write auspicious words or poems. Multi-layer composition, clear primary and secondary, smooth lines, ink and wash characteristics, strong local flavor, with the characteristics of the northern Cizhou kiln in the Song Dynasty. Uncovering color, commonly known as storing red, is an underglaze monochrome painting, which was first used on porcelain, creating a precedent for the combination of ceramics and painting, and laying the foundation for future blue-and-white porcelain and multicolored porcelain. Mr. Feng Xianming, a ceramic expert in the Forbidden City, spoke highly of it when he was alive. Song Liangbi and Zeng Guangyi, old experts of the Provincial Museum, both wrote articles and commented. Four pieces were collected and exhibited by the Guangdong Provincial Museum, and 18 pieces were exhibited in the cultural relics exhibition from the Five Dynasties to the Qing Dynasty in the exhibition hall of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. There are three pieces of income in China Ceramic Catalogue Guangdong Volume. These blue glazed colored porcelain are important materials for studying the history of Guangdong colored porcelain and the spread of Cizhou kiln system in China. Other pottery in the collection also has many exquisite utensils. For example, 29 carved bricks unearthed from the tomb of Yuan Zaju were published in the national magazine Archaeological Collection, reflecting the customs of southern China. In the Ming Dynasty, blue and white engravings were exhibited in Hong Kong. Among the scattered cultural relics collected, there are Neolithic painted pottery dating back 4000 years; Pottery pots in Han dynasty; There were also many rare blue and white porcelain wares in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Bronzes include bronze swords in the Warring States period, bronze mirrors with inscriptions unearthed from the tombs of the Song Dynasty, bronze powers in the Yuan Dynasty, iron cannons with inscriptions in Kangxi, and iron clocks with inscriptions in Qianlong. "Collection of Ancient Books and Paintings" includes Xie Chen, Governor of Leizhou Fujian in Qing Dynasty, and Chen Changqi, Editor of Hanlin Academy in Qing Dynasty; Jishi Shu Li Jinxi of the Hanlin Academy; Jinshi Cai Chong; Chen; Wu, minister of war; Paintings and manuscripts of Ba Gong Liang Chengjiu and others, as well as paintings by folk painters Chen Henian and Lin Huai. These works reflect the cultural and artistic achievements of Leizhou celebrities in the Qing Dynasty. During the Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty, Chen's paintings and calligraphy were the most famous artists. Chen, a talented person in Guangdong, is knowledgeable and good at painting, especially deer and crabs. In his later years, he taught at Leiyang College for 30 years. The museum has a collection of more than 20 of his paintings and calligraphy. The works collected by foreign painters and calligraphers include Ruan Yuan, Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi in the Qing Dynasty, Yang Shoujing, a great calligrapher in Hubei Province, He, one of the "Four Kings" in the Qing Dynasty, Wang, Shangguan Zhou, Guilin Chen Yingzao, Wu Fengzao, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, Lin Shaotang, a scholar in western Guangdong, and Peng Yuqun, a minister in the Qing Dynasty. Among them, the calligraphy works of Yang Shoujing, a great calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty in Yidu, Hubei, are the most precious. Yang Shoujing is a tongzhi juren. The Artist's Dictionary introduces that he is good at textual research and accurate appraisal, and he is well-known for his epigraphy, especially for his four-body book. He befriended Chen, a juren from Leizhou. When he received Chen's obituary, he was deeply saddened and decided to do something for his old friend. Handwritten calligraphy was given to Qiao Sen's friendship before his death, and all the books were donated to the funeral cause. Therefore, Leizhou can preserve a more authentic Mo Bao in Yang Shoujing. On his deathbed, Yang Shoujing wrote an epitaph and elegiac couplet for Chen (these precious stone carvings are now in our museum). There are also imperial edicts from Jiaqing and Xianfeng periods in the Qing Dynasty in the museum. Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty presented a "poem tablet" to Xie in Fujian. This "poem tablet" is a very precious cultural relic. In terms of stone carving, there are stone statues of Confucius and his disciples in Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, and stone inscriptions of Zi Kui in Wanli period in the Ming Dynasty, which are like picture scrolls, with a high artistic level (the ancients thought that Kuixing managed the literary movement and highly respected it). The stone tablet of Leiyang Academy in Qing Dynasty, the epitaph of Chen, and the tablet inscribed by Yang Shoujing. There was also a stone tablet with the word "Zhonghe" at the west gate of Leizhou City in Hongwu period of Ming Dynasty.

Ancient coins include Wulin and Daquan 50 unearthed in Han Dynasty, Bao Tong in Gan Yuan and Bao Tong in Kaiyuan in Tang Dynasty, and a large number of Bao Tong in Qian Lai and Ming and Qing Dynasties. The silver (gold ingot) unearthed in Ming Dynasty is especially precious. Bao Tong, a cultural relic handed down from ancient times, is a big copper coin with a diameter of 14 cm and an inner hole length of 2. 5 cm, weighing 2. 1 kg is really a rare money king in China. This coin has the same appearance and specifications as the banknote rubbings in the coin dictionary Daqing Zhenku. It is said that in the early years of the Republic of China, eunuchs stole money from the national treasury, and three of them were bought by the British at a high price. Now there are only two in China, which cover the priceless treasures in money.