Dingzhou Museum

Dingzhou Museum

synonym

Dingzhou museum is generally designated as a municipal museum

Dingzhou museum is located in the south of Zhongshan East Road in Dingzhou City, close to Kaiyuan Temple Tower, Gongyuan, Confucian temple and Yan Yangchu's former residence. Dingzhou Museum covers an area of about 55 mu, with a total construction area of 25600 square meters, an exhibition area of 7000 square meters, and a total investment of 380 million yuan. There are four floors above the ground and one underground. It is a national key Museum and a first-class risk unit.

There are more than 50000 cultural relics in the collection of Dingzhou Museum, including 3 Chinese precious cultural relics and 965 precious cultural relics. The collection is rich in pottery, porcelain, jade, stone, gold, silver, copper, bone, wood and so on, mainly in the Han Dynasty and Song Dynasty, with strong local characteristics and characteristics of the times. According to the characteristics of the collection, basic exhibitions such as Han tomb que, Buddha of the Northern Dynasties, Tianxia Dabai, Millennium beyond the dust, documents of the southern part of the capital, and hometown starry sky will be displayed.

Historical evolution

Founded in 1959, the original site is located in Dingzhou Confucian temple.

In 2014, the construction of Dingzhou museum began.

In January 2017, he moved to the current site.

On August 28, 2018, after four years of preparation and construction, Dingzhou museum was officially opened to the public.

architectural composition

overview

Dingzhou Museum covers an area of about 55 mu, with a total construction area of about 25600 square meters, exhibition hall area of 7000 square meters and warehouse area of 3000 square meters. There are four floors above the ground and one underground. There are six exhibition halls in Dingzhou Museum, including Han tomb, Buddha of Northern Dynasty, tiantiandabai, chenwaiqiannian, Jinan literature and hometown XingKong, which are open to the public. The six major theme exhibitions, according to the order of the times, present the development and changes of Dingzhou area over thousands of years.

Han Tomb

Han Dynasty is a powerful empire with far-reaching influence in Chinese history. Han, Han people, Chinese characters and Chinese are all closely connected with Han Dynasty. Li Bai, a poet, once wrote a novel "in memory of Qin e", which is unprecedented and never to be seen before: "the sound of the flute swallows, and Qin e dreams of breaking the moon in the Qin tower. Qinlou month, willow color year after year, baling injury farewell. Yueyou was originally on the Qingqiu Festival, and the ancient Xianyang Road is extremely beautiful. The sound of the dust is absolute, the west wind is still shining, and the Han family mausoleum is still in the sky. "

The name of the exhibition hall and the design of the preface hall are taken from the meaning of Li Bai's words. Setting sun, mountains, wilderness, autumn wind, willow color, ancient road, travel, Mausoleum and que are simple and profound, lofty and fascinating.

 

Buddha of Northern Dynasty

Buddhism was introduced into China in the Han Dynasty and became popular in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. During the period of the Sixteen States and the northern and Southern Dynasties, the world was in chaos. Intellectuals, ordinary people and constantly changing rulers all tried to seek relief and consolation from Buddhism. The extraordinary extreme development of Buddhism reached the first peak in the history of Chinese Buddhism. With the development of Buddhism, the demand for Buddhist statues is also expanding rapidly, and has a significant impact on the art of Buddhist statues with its unique artistic style.

Dingzhou, located in the eastern Piedmont of Taihang, has convenient transportation. Quyang is rich in high-quality white marble and has a long tradition of carving, so it has become the center of Buddhist statues in northern China. The white stone Buddhist statues in Dingzhou, which are mainly characterized by white stone, have been produced in large quantities and spread all over the country since the Northern Wei Dynasty. The Buddhist statues of the Northern Dynasties collected in Dingzhou Museum generally use the techniques of relief, openwork and gold painting. The distinctive features of the statues are double statues, dragon trees, double lions carved on the base, Boshan furnace, Huasheng boy, Luxi and donors (the exhibition hall covers an area of 530 square meters, with 180 exhibits).

 

The world is clear

The exhibition hall covers an area of 840 square meters, with 233 cultural relics on display.

Ding kiln is one of the five famous kilns in the Northern Song Dynasty. It was founded in the Sui Dynasty and developed to the peak in the history of ceramics in the Northern Song Dynasty through the Tang and Five Dynasties. It lasted for more than 700 years in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties. Its kiln site is located in Quyang. Because Quyang belonged to Dingzhou in Song Dynasty, it was named Dingyao. Ding products to "white as jade, thin as paper, sound as Qing" as the main characteristics. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Ding kiln was well-known for its exquisite production, lustrous porcelain, simple and elegant style, and gorgeous decoration.

Ding kiln has many innovations on the basis of learning from Xing kiln, showing a different effect of white in blue and yellow in glaze color, and paying attention to absorbing the beneficial elements of silk weaving, embroidery, painting, calligraphy, bronze mirror, gold and silver ware and other art categories, reaching the peak of perfection in decoration content and techniques, finally surpassing Xing kiln and becoming the production center of northern white porcelain, and once became a famous brand Imperial porcelain was made in the palace. The invention of the method of overlapping firing and the innovation of printing technology greatly improved the production efficiency, affected many kilns including Jingdezhen, and formed a Ding kiln system spanning North and south, which established its high position in the history of Chinese ceramics.

The design of preface hall pursues the style of Song Dynasty, clean and elegant. The title plate of pure white on the background of porcelain clay expresses the wonderful sublimation of white porcelain from porcelain clay. The library logo is in the thin gold style of Huizong of Song Dynasty.

 

A thousand years beyond the dust

The exhibition hall displays precious historical relics such as relics, Buddhist statues, incense utensils, offerings and coins of past dynasties unearthed from Jingzhi temple and jingzhongyuan, two national cultural relics protection units.

Documents in the south of the capital

The exhibition hall mainly displays "Jifu series" and other ancient books compiled by Wang Hao and Wang Yanlun, the famous book collectors from Dingzhou during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. The exhibition hall is divided into the exhibition area of "Jifu series", wood engraving exhibition area, library collection exhibition area, audience reading area and small research room for visitors to visit, read and learn.

Hometown starry sky

The exhibition hall adopts a combination of words, pictures, paintings, sculptures and multi-media techniques to display celebrities from ancient times to the present in Dingzhou, including Lianpo, Li Yannian, Cui Hu, Liu Yuxi, Wang Hu, Lu Zhonglin, Jiang Chao and many other heroes, reflecting the brilliant history of Dingzhou.

Venue features

Dingzhou museum is a landmark building in the restoration and reconstruction project of Dingzhou ancient city. Its Dougong, high platform and slope top all adopt the ancient architectural elements of Han Dynasty. The whole building reflects the dignified atmosphere, simple and elegant style of Han Dynasty architecture.

Based on the "Zhongshan Culture", the model applies the platform, sloping roof and Dougong in the design, which makes Dingzhou Museum magnificent.

 

Collection

overview

Dingzhou museum now has more than 50000 cultural relics, including 3 Chinese treasure level cultural relics, 107 first-class cultural relics, 214 second-class cultural relics and 644 third-class cultural relics. In addition to a large collection of exquisite utensils, the Dingzhou museum also has more than 20000 volumes of ancient books and chronicles, including 968 kinds of paper books, more than 6900 volumes of classics, and 4245 kinds of classics and histories. In addition, there is a unique 100 cases of 30000 woodcut edition of "Jifu series", which was produced by Wang Hao and Wang Yanlun, two famous scholars in Dingzhou in the Qing Dynasty. It is of great historical research value.

Major cultural relics

Green jade dragon with Round Valley pattern

The jade is 30.5cm high and the thickest is about 1.1cm. The jade is cyan, with reddish brown color in some parts. The body is flat, with the same patterns on both sides. The upper part is carved with a dragon in the clouds, with a circular hole at the top of the center for hanging. The lower part is a wall, with a convex wide string pattern on the inner and outer edges of the wall. The inner part is decorated with convex and orderly grain patterns. The outer two sides of the wall are carved with a different and asymmetric pattern.

In the jade Bi of Han Dynasty, the so-called outline style Bi, which is engraved with a dragon pattern on the top of the main body, is common, and some of them have inscriptions. However, in addition to the upper part, there is a different shape of dragon pattern on both sides of the Bi, which is rare.

Jade base screen with story of God

Jades of the Eastern Han Dynasty were unearthed from the tomb of Liu Chang, King Mu of Zhongshan, Dingzhou, Hebei Province in 1969. Its height is 16.9 cm and its width is 15.6 cm.

The jade material of this jade base screen is yellow green, and there is gray white erosion in some parts. The shape of the body is flat, and it is made of two brackets and two screens carved with various patterns. The main body of the screen is carved with "East Prince" and "West Queen Mother", together with Phoenix, fox, leopard, bear, tortoise, snake and other animals, as well as characters such as kneeling waiters.

It is the earliest and the only jade seat screen in the Han Dynasty. The ornamentation on it is the most species seen so far, and it is decorated with the statues of the Eastern Prince and the Western Queen Mother. It is of epoch-making significance in the history of jade development.

Ding white glazed Dragon Head Vase

The height of the object is up to 60.9 cm