1978, the bells of Zeng Houyi were unearthed in Sui County, Hubei Province. The clock stand is 748 cm long and 265 cm high. There are sixty-five chimes in the whole set, which are hung on a square copper wooden clock rack in eight groups in three layers. Maximum clock height 152.3 cm, weight 203.6kg. Each clock can play two tones of a third scale, and a full set of clocks has twelve semitones, which can be rotated in the palace. Tone train is a popular C major, which can play music with five, six and seven tones. Zeng Houyi's chime was made in the early Warring States period, and its excavation rewrote the history of world music, which was called "rare treasure" by experts and scholars at home and abroad.
? "Bell diplomacy"
Close the distance between China and the world.
? 1992, "Special Exhibition of Cultural Relics Unearthed from the Tomb of Zeng Houyi" was held in Tokyo, Japan. During the exhibition, Zeng Houyi chimed bells and other ancient musical instruments played with the exhibition. In the spacious concert hall, the audience were intoxicated by the famous songs such as Chu Shang, Cherry Blossom and Four Seasons, which are familiar to the Chinese and Japanese people.
1995 In the spring, the annual "European Culture Festival" was held in Luxembourg. In April of that year, the "China Zhou Dynasty Art Exhibition" held by Hubei Provincial Museum was held in Luxembourg. The chimes and chimes were performed live at the same time, which attracted more than ten media reports from Luxembourg, Germany, Britain, France and other countries. The magic performance of chimes has made European audiences from "extremely interested" to "loving and paying attention" to China.
Former US Secretary of State Dr. Kissinger visited the Hubei Provincial Museum 1982, 1996. 1June, 1999, Kissinger took the opportunity of discussing cooperation projects in Wuhan to visit the Hubei Provincial Museum again, and chimed the bell to play "Auld Lang Syne" and other music, which won bursts of amazement and warm applause.
? As the cultural emissary of China, chime has set foot in more than 20 countries and regions by 20 14, and about one tenth of the world's population has experienced the beauty of chime in various ways. 150 Foreign guests from more than 50 countries and regions have heard chimes played in China, and many foreign countries have also played them themselves.
"Ring and Play"
? "Golden Sound and Jade Virtue" in the Olympic Games
On the podium of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Chinese and foreign audiences witnessed the birth of the Olympic gold medal in the music of Jin Sheng Yu Zhen. This is also the first time that chime music has appeared in world sports events.
The award music of the Beijing Olympic Games is called "Golden Jade Chorus", which is a blend of the original sound of the ancient chime and the sound of the jade chime, forming a grand effect of "golden sound and jade vibration", which is consistent with the design concept of "golden jade and good marriage" of the Beijing Olympic Games. The Biography of Jin Shengyu is from Mencius Zhang Wan: "Confucius is a masterpiece. A master, a golden voice, and a jade vibration. " ? The original sound of this song comes from the Ceng Houyi ancient chime of Hubei Audio-visual Museum; Jade chimes, which are in harmony with chimes, are also made of jade collected from Hubei.
? Tiger bird drum
Tiger bird drum is an important musical instrument of Chu State in the Warring States Period. It has a history of more than 2200 years, and is the most typical historical relic unearthed from the Chu tomb in Jingzhou, Hubei Province, with strong Chu cultural characteristics.
The main body of Tiger Bird Drum consists of two lakes, two peaks and a flat drum, all carved from nanmu. The wooden tire is painted with raw lacquer and painted with decorative patterns such as phoenix and tiger. Tiger spots, phoenix feathers and patterns are mainly red, yellow and black. The painting lines are smooth, the image is lifelike, the shape is beautiful and lifelike.
Tiger and bird stand symmetrically and beautifully, with two tigers squatting, their heads held high, their limbs bent and their backs standing. On the back of the tiger, there is a singing phoenix with long legs. In the middle of the standing Ming-feng with his back to him, a big drum is hung on the crested phoenix with a red rope. The whole body is painted with black paint, and the tiger feathers are painted with red, yellow, gold and blue. In the combined image of two phoenixes and two tigers, the phoenix is tall and mighty, looking up at the sky, while the tiger is short and crouching on the ground, which reflects the Chu people's consciousness of worshiping the phoenix and yearning for peace and the spirit of conquering wild animals and not fearing violence. The whole instrument is lifelike and colorful, which is not only drum music, but also an artistic masterpiece.
? Tiger Bird Drum is now in Jingzhou History Museum, Hubei Province.
Tiger bird frame drum stamp
Stamps, known as "national business cards", show the world and represent the image of a country. Tiger Bird Drum, a national first-class cultural relic unearthed in Jingzhou, stands out for its rich historical and cultural heritage, smooth appearance and unique design. Together with the "Gugudanni" pottery pot unearthed in Romania, it constitutes the "charming double comfort" of the "lacquerware and pottery" special stamp.
The 23rd Universal Postal Union Congress was held in Bucharest, Romania. China and Romania jointly issued a set of two special stamps on lacquerware and pottery, and held a grand launching ceremony in Salonda Square, Jingzhou City, Hubei Province.
The stamp pattern of China is "Tiger Bird Drum Lacquerware" unearthed from Jingzhou Museum, and the stamp pattern of Romania is the unearthed cultural relic "Gudanni" pottery jar. Jingzhou, Hubei' has finally stepped onto the national business card.
? The material of the stamp "Tiger Bird Drum" was photographed by Jin Ling, a senior photographer of Jingzhou Museum, and designed by Wang, a famous young stamp designer in China. Each stamp adopts the specification of 36mm x 36mm, and the State Post Bureau has also introduced two formats: small version and large version. China's circulation is about 1 1 ten thousand, and Romania's circulation is 1 ten thousand.
? Fossils of human skull in Yunxian county
Hubei and western Hubei are important places to find ancient human fossils. 1989, 1990, Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology found two human skull fossils in Yunxian County, and scientifically determined that the human skull in Yunxian County was an upright human skull about/kloc-0.0 million years ago.
This fossil belongs to Australopithecus, about 2 million years ago, which proves that China is one of the birthplaces of early human beings, providing precious physical evidence for the study of human development history and filling the gap in the development of ancient humans in Asia. Professor Jia Lanpo highly praised the discovery of the Australopithecus yunxian, and its significance was comparable to that of the first skull discovery of Peking man, and named it Yunxian man.
1989 In May, two complete ancient human skull fossils were unearthed in Yunxian County, which were confirmed by experts to be ancient human fossils more than/kloc-0.00 million years ago.
This discovery changed the legend that human beings originated in Africa.
The discovery of skull fossils of "Yunxian people" declared to the world that the ancient Han River was the cradle of Chinese culture. People in Yunxian County are the ancestors of the Chinese nation. At present, there is a head of Yun Xianren and an exhibition hall of Yun Xianren in the place where Yun Xianren was unearthed.
Two archaeological discoveries of human skull fossils in yunxian county. 1989 In May, Yunyang Regional Museum (Shiyan Museum) organized cultural relics cadres in the whole region to make up the records of cultural relics. The first skull fossil The first skull fossil was discovered at Quyuan Hekou School in Yunxian County on June 5438+08, 2008 by an investigation team composed of Qu from Yunxian Museum and Yunxi County Cultural Management Institute, with the number I skull fossil.
1From May to June, 1990, Hubei Institute of Archaeology, Yunyang Regional Museum and Yunxian Museum jointly carried out trial excavation and found the second skull fossil, No.2 skull fossil.
Later, two consecutive excavations were carried out, and a large number of associated animal fossils and hundreds of stone tools were obtained.
The discovery of two complete skull fossils caused a sensation in ancient human archaeology. According to preliminary research, they are considered as fossil materials of Australopithecus. With the deepening of research, from its morphology, Yunxian people have both the primitiveness of Homo erectus and the evolutionary characteristics of Homo sapiens. He was identified as Homo erectus and named "Yunxian Man". It was in the early Middle Pleistocene, about 80-1100,000 years.
Because of the unprecedented integrity of the two skull fossil specimens, it has high academic research value for the origin and development of human beings.
Skull Fossil I was published by Science and Technology Daily 1989, and was selected as one of the top ten science and technology news in China. 1990 was selected as one of the top ten archaeological discoveries in China during the Seventh Five-Year Plan period and that year by China Cultural Relics Newspaper. And issued a certificate to Yunyang District Museum.
Many excavations since 1990 have unearthed 24/kloc-0 pieces of stone tools, such as stone cores, stone chips, chopping tools, scrapers, stone hammers, etc., as well as a large number of double-sided tools with knocking marks, gravel and hand axes. Mammalian fossils associated with human fossils are very rich, and the number of complete skulls and mandibles is rare in other sites.
? Two birds and a white jade pot
? Longfeng Tonglun Yu Pei
? Long Yu Pei.
Jade inlaid gold plated copper pillow surface
The copper pillow inlaid with jade and gold has a top length of 15.2, a width of 14.8 and a height of 2.5cm. This device is the end face of the pillow and consists of two boxes: the inner frame is sapphire and the outer frame is copper. Each box contains 14 gems. The inner frame is inlaid with blue and white jade carving "litchi".
Qing Guangxu Geyou Store First Ring Ear Blue and White
? Porcelain statues 800 years ago
The Neolithic Age in China was a historical stage in which the clan commune system in primitive society went from its peak to its decline. It takes the emergence of agriculture and animal husbandry as an epoch-making symbol, which marks its leap from relying on nature's gathering and fishing economy to transforming nature's production economy. The appearance of grinding stone tools, ceramics and textiles is the basic feature of this era. Therefore, the Neolithic Age is a new starting point for the development of ancient economy and culture in the history of China. As far as we know, the Neolithic culture in China is at least 10000 years ago, and the actual starting age should be earlier; It generally lasts until around 2000.
China is the place where pottery first appeared in the world. Dating the early pottery unearthed from Yuchanyan site in Hunan Province confirms that it appeared around 18000, which is 8000 years earlier than 10000 generally recognized by academic circles. With the successful determination of the age of early pottery unearthed from Xianrendong site in Jiangxi, the age of pottery in southern China was advanced to 20,000 years ago. This means that the earliest pottery in the world appeared in China, spread from Xianrendong site in Jiangxi and Yuchanyan site in Hunan, and reached Russia and Japan successively, and was preserved in Asia. This process embodies the significance of cultural and scientific exchanges, and is also an important contribution of early human beings in China to the development of regional civilization.
Immortal Cave Site: Among the top ten archaeological discoveries in 20 12 judged by American Archaeology magazine, the earliest pottery in the world, which was discovered in China only 10,000 years ago, was selected.
Qing Guangxu Geyou Store First Ring Ear Blue and White
Porcelain statues 800 years ago
Qing Guangxu blue-and-white porcelain is famous for its delicate fetal glaze, bright blue-and-white, simple and diverse, and exquisite ornamentation. There are various shapes, including display porcelain, daily life porcelain, sacrificial vessels, export porcelain and so on. ...
Qing Guangxu Geyou Store First Ring Ear Blue and White
? Porcelain statues 800 years ago
The neck is tied with a rich epaulet, which is decorated with rings and ears. Elegant shape and moist glaze color. Draw blue and white string pattern, banana leaf pattern, lotus pattern, banana leaf pattern and string pattern from mouth to toe. Clear patterns, smooth painting, bright blue and white hair color.
Five treasures of celadon
The blue-and-white porcelain bottle is 36.8 in height, 20. 1 in shoulder diameter, 5 in caliber, 9.1.6 in bottom diameter and 9. 1cm in cover diameter.
? Yuan Qinghua's "Four Love Characters Mei Ping"
In 2006, the "Four love figure Plum Bottles" unearthed from the tomb of the King of England in Zhongxiang City were Yuan Dynasty pottery. The four love figure plum bottles are 38.7cm high, 6.4cm in diameter and13cm in bottom diameter. In Mei's abdomen, Wang Xizhi, Tao Yuanming, Zhou Dunyi and Lin Hejing were painted with love for Mei and crane respectively.
? Blue and white dragon plum blossom bottle'
Blue-and-white plum vase with dragon pattern, Yuan Dynasty (1271-kloc-0/368), unearthed from the tomb of King Jing of Zhongxiang in 2006, with a height of 35.4, a caliber of 5.6 and a base diameter of11.2cm..
? Blue glazed double-beast golden ear bottle
Cuiqing porcelain glaze bowl
? Betty Wong Gou Jian Peijun Jian
Betty Wong Gou Jian Peijun Jian
(Gou Jian's Sword)
1965, the sword of Gou Jian, the King of Yue, was unearthed at TombNo. Wang Shan 1 in Jiangling, Hubei Province. Gou Jian's sword was made in the late Spring and Autumn Period. It is 55.7 cm long and 4.6 cm wide. The middle ridge of the sword is ridged and decorated with black diamond patterns. On the front, there is a bird seal inscription "Gou Jian, King of Yue, acts as a sword". The front of the sword lattice is inlaid with blue glass and the back is attached with turquoise.
Yue Wang Gou Jian Peijun Jian Peijun
? A secret that has been immortal for thousands of years
The sword of the King of Yue, Gou Jian Peijun Sword, was a bronze ware of the State of Yue at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period and a national first-class cultural relic. /kloc-in the winter of 0/965, the Chu tombs of Wangshan, jiangling county, Jingzhou City, Hubei Province were unearthed.
? The reason why Gou Jian's sword is stainless for thousands of years is that the body of the sword is plated with a layer of chromium-containing metal. Through nondestructive scientific testing, its main alloy components are copper, tin, lead, iron, sulfur and so on. This pattern contains high sulfur, because copper sulfide can prevent rust.
Among the bronzes cast in wuyue, the weapons are exquisite and beautiful. In the middle and late Spring and Autumn Period, with the need of wuyue's foreign military expansion, its weapon casting industry also showed unprecedented development and prosperity. Therefore, "Wu Ge Jian Yue" was not only envied by people at that time, but also its good reputation remained immortal and was praised by all previous dynasties. ...
In 494 BC, Wu Yuejun fought a life-and-death battle, and the Vietnamese army was defeated. Gou Jian, the king of Yue, became the groom of Fu Cha, the king of Wu. After 20 years of hard work and humiliation, Gou Jian returned to Yue, appointed a virtuous minister, developed production and made a comeback. It took nine years to destroy Wu and become the last overlord in the Spring and Autumn Period. "Hattori Shallow" is the name of Gou Jian, the King of Yue. He is eating his bread and drinking his intestines. And this sword is the legend of the king of the Spring and Autumn Overlord.
? Gou jianjian
"The First Sword in the World" and "The Sword of the Emperor"
1965655438+February, archaeologists unearthed more than 600 cultural relics in a Chu tomb in Jiangling, Hubei Province, including the sword of Gou Jian, the King of Yue, which is called "the first sword in the world". Archaeologists at the scene recalled that an excavator accidentally cut his finger while holding a sword, and his blood flowed. Someone tried to sharpen his blade again, and with a little effort, he cut the 16 layer of white paper.
This sword is 55.7 cm long, 4.6 cm wide, 8.4 cm long and weighs 875 grams. There are two lines of bird inscriptions near the Jian 'ge: "Qian Qiu (Gou Jian) of Yue used his sword at first sight", which proves that this sword is the legendary sword of Gou Jian of Yue. Gou Jian's sword, the king of Yue, is exquisite in craftsmanship and extremely cold and sharp, which shows the superb skill of the sword maker. After more than 2400 years, there are still clear and exquisite patterns on the sword. In addition, it also has high historical and cultural value, and is praised by the world as "the first sword in the world", and it can be called the national treasure of China.
? The sword of Gou Jian, King of Yue, was unearthed in the tomb of Chu nobles in Jiangling, Hubei. There are two main opinions: one is dowry, saying that Gou Jian once married his daughter to King Zhao of Chu as a concubine, so this sword was probably given to the State of Chu as a gift when he married her, and later the King of Chu gave it to a nobleman, so it became the funerary object of this noble of Chu. Another opinion is the trophy, that is, from 309 BC to 306 BC, when Chu sent troops to cross the country, the Chu army took the sword and brought it back to Chu, which eventually became a funerary object.
? ? Jade carving of "Su Wu Mu Yang"
? Green? Copper? appliance
Over the years, many Shang bronzes have been unearthed in Jianghan Plain. These bronzes are scattered, and their styles are mostly consistent with those of the Central Plains at the same time, so they have not received as much attention as the bronzes unearthed in Hunan. During the Erligang culture period, Panlongcheng in Huangpi became the cultural center of Jianghan Plain, and the ruins of Panlongcheng and the bronzes unearthed from Panlongcheng became the focus of research. In contrast, few people pay attention to the scattered bronzes unearthed in Jianghan Plain. The rise of Panlongcheng has had an important impact on the development of bronze culture in Jianghan area and even in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. In order to understand the cultural features of Jianghan Plain after the rise and abandonment of Panlongcheng, and the relationship between Jianghan Plain and bronze culture in other areas of Shang Dynasty, it is necessary to investigate the bronzes unearthed in Jianghan Plain.
Bronzes unearthed from Panlongcheng site are most concentrated in Jianghan Plain in Shang Dynasty. According to the published data, the bronzes in Panlongcheng mainly come from tombs and sacrificial pits, including Li, Jue, Li, Ding, Li, Li, Pan, Zun and Li. For the bronzes in Panlongcheng, the excavation report has been systematically analyzed, and the changes of various bronzes in the morning and evening have been summarized, which is similar to Shang culture. There are many other special studies, and it is also pointed out that the types, combinations, shapes, patterns and casting techniques of Panlongcheng bronzes and Erligang bronzes are basically the same except for their individual shapes and patterns in the later period.
Ding Sheng
Copper ban
? True Wu Dadi show true picture?
People ride camel lights.
The bronze man holds the lamp.
Wen Feng Fang Ding
? Seal of Hankou Anti-enemy Support Association from all walks of life
"Jin Ming Guan Feng"
1976, "Jin Ming Guan Feng" was unearthed from the Southern Tusi Cemetery in Maoerbao, Xuanen County. The crown no longer exists, only 29 ornaments are left. This set of golden rockhopper ornaments, with complex shape, exquisite workmanship, is worthy of being the top grade.
? Turquoise inlaid gold ornaments
Tao Yu
? Landscape figure Tusol flowerpot
Sterling silver anti-smuggling ship model
? Li's "Unique" Horizontal Criticism