How can you come to Wuhan without going to the Hubei Provincial Museum?
Hubei Provincial Museum is located in the scenic East Lake Scenic Area in Wuchang District, Wuhan. Founded in 1953, it has a history of 67 years. Hubei Provincial Museum, as one of the eight state-level museums under the key construction of the central government, is famous for its large scale, rich collection and strong scientific research strength. Covering an area of 8 1.909 square meters, the building area is 496 1.065438 square meters, and the collection of cultural relics reaches more than 260,000 pieces (sets).
Among the dazzling collection of cultural relics in Hubei Provincial Museum, many of them are national treasures, and four of them are even called "treasures of town halls". They are Gou Jian's sword, Ceng Houyi's chime, Yun County's skull fossil, Yuan Qinghua and the plum vase of Four love figure.
Gou Jian, the King of Yue, is a household name. When I was a child, who didn't learn the story of "serving the salary and tasting the courage"? When I grew up, who didn't hear the legend of stone, but what happened to Gou Jian's sword?
Sword is a common weapon. During the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, most of the battles in the north were dominated by chariots. Bows and arrows are used to shoot at each other from a long distance, while swords and halberds cross at close range, so this short weapon is useless. But in the south, rivers are densely covered, which is not conducive to car competition, and the sword has its place. Therefore, Yue and Wu, located in the south, cast swords far beyond those in the Central Plains, casting many swords.
Gou Jianjian, the King of Yue, is one of them.
Gou Jian, the King of Yue, has a sword length of 55.7 cm, a sword width of 4.6 cm and a handle length of 8.4 cm. Beautiful shape, sharp blade, reflecting the highest level of Yue Zhujian, known as "the first sword in the world". 1 96565438+February, this sword of Gou Jian, the King of Yue, which is now in the Hubei Provincial Museum, was unearthed at TombNo.1,jiangling county, Jingzhou City, Hubei Province.
As a national treasure, the sword of Gou Jian, King of Yue, has never been exhibited for decades, and will only be exhibited briefly on such an important day as the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. On March 20th, 20 19, Gou Jianjian, King of Yue, was listed in the third batch of cultural relics prohibited from leaving the country for exhibition.
1978 At the end of February, when a certain unit of Wuhan Air Force was building a radar repair shop in the suburbs of Suizhou, it accidentally discovered a large ancient tomb named Zeng Houyi's Tomb. After the rescue excavation, a total of 6.5438+0.5 million pieces of cultural relics were unearthed from the tomb of Zeng Houyi, including various bronzes, gold jade articles and bamboo slips. Zeng Houyi's chime is one of the most famous bronzes.
The chime is a percussion instrument, which appeared in the Warring States period. Before 1978, more than 40 sets of chimes had been unearthed all over China. Compared with these chimes, Zeng Houyi has the largest number of chimes (*** 65 pieces), the heaviest weight (up to 3,500 kilograms), the most complete melody (complete twelve tones), the widest range (spanning five octaves), the best preservation, the highest sound quality and the finest workmanship, which represents the highest achievement of China's pre-Qin ritual and music civilization and bronze casting technology.
Such cultural relics are not only the "treasure of the town hall" of Hubei Provincial Museum, but also the "instrument of the town hall" of the country.
In June 5438 +2002 10, Zeng Houyi's chimes were listed in the first batch of cultural relics prohibited from going abroad.
As we all know, the earliest human beings were transformed from ancient apes. In the process of apes becoming human, they have to go through four stages: Raemakers, Australopithecus, Ape and Fossil Homo sapiens. For a long time, China discovered Lamarck, Homo sapiens and fossil Homo sapiens, and found evidence of their existence. Only Australopithecus fossils have never been found.
Until archaeologists discovered human skull fossils in Yunxian County, Hubei Province. ...
In the 1970s and 1980s, archaeologists discovered a large number of primitive human teeth fossils, stone tools, animal fossils, pottery and bone implements in Yunxian, Yunxi and Fangxian, Shiyan, Hubei Province, and determined that Shiyan was one of the areas where early human activities were frequent, and began a key investigation in 1988.
Where there is a will, there is a way. On May 18 of the following year, archaeologists excavated a basically complete human skull fossil in Tomi Village, Qingqu Town, Yunxian County. More than ten experts and scholars, including China archaeologist and paleoanthropology expert Jia Lanpo, confirmed that this human skull fossil belongs to Australopithecus. Its appearance not only proves that China is one of the birthplaces of early human beings, but also fills the gap in the development of ancient human beings in Asia.
Later, this human skull fossil was named "Yunxian people" and was collected in Hubei Provincial Museum.
The so-called "Yuan blue and white" refers to the blue and white porcelain produced in the Yuan Dynasty. Blue-and-white porcelain is one of the mainstream varieties of China porcelain and occupies a very important position in the history of world ceramics. It began in the Tang Dynasty and matured in the Yuan Dynasty. Blue-and-white porcelain in Yuan Dynasty is famous for its exquisite craftsmanship, and it has become a priceless work of art because of its rarity.
In 2005, archaeologists conducted a rescue excavation of Ying Tomb in Zhongxiang City, Hubei Province, and unearthed a batch of blue-and-white porcelain, celadon, blue-and-white porcelain, gold wares and jade articles, including two blue-and-white plum blossom vases.
One of them is called Four Love Tumei Bottles. The bottle is painted with four pictures of literati, namely, Ailan by Wang Xizhi, Ai Ju by Tao Yuanming, Ailian by Zhou Dunyi and Ai He Mei by Lin Hejing. The glaze is white and blue, and the color is green and gorgeous. It is the best work in Yuan blue and white.
It is no exaggeration to describe the four plum bottles in Love Map with "priceless".
On July 12, 2005, a blue-and-white jar named "Guiguzi Down the Mountain" was successfully auctioned at a price of140,000, including commission equivalent to RMB 230 million. This shows the value of this love figure plum bottle of Yuan, Qing and Hua.
By the way, Wuhan Museum also has a plum vase with love pictures of Yuan, Qing, Hua and Si, both of which are very similar in style. However, the lover of Wuhan Museum bought plum bottles from the people.