Xumishan Museum

Xumishan Museum

Xumishan museum is located in Guyuan City, Ningxia, with a construction area of 5558 square meters and an exhibition area of 4500 square meters. The museum was built to transform Xumishan bridge, Pudu bridge and other ancillary facilities. The main contents of the protective infrastructure construction of Ningxia section of the ancient Silk Road include Guyuan ancient city, Kaicheng ruins and other environmental renovation projects.

Xumishan Grottoes is one of the top ten Grottoes on the Silk Road in China. It was first built in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and continued to be built in the Western Wei Dynasty, the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty. Later, it was repaired in various dynasties, becoming the largest Buddhist Temple site in Guyuan. There are more than 150 Grottoes in Xumishan grottoes, which are distributed on 8 mountain peaks stretching for 2 km. From south to north, they are divided into 8 areas, such as dafuluo, Zizi palace, Yuanguang temple, Xiangguo Temple, Taohua cave, songshuwa, sangeyao and heishigou. Liupan Mountain is an important water conservation forest and National Nature Reserve on the Loess Plateau in Western China, known as "Green Island on the plateau". Ningxia is making great efforts to integrate the tourism resources of the southern mountainous areas, including the Xumishan Museum, which is to build a great Liupanshan tourist area including the Xumishan grottoes, the ancient Silk Road, Liupanshan, Xiaoguan ruins, etc., speed up the infrastructure construction, improve the grade and level of service facilities in the tourist area, and attract tourists from home and abroad.

Development history

In 1982, it was announced by the State Council as a state key cultural relics protection unit.

architectural composition

Xumishan Museum consists of seven parts. Chen Zhanzhong comprehensively displays the Silk Road culture and Buddhist grotto art by means of technological media, artistic creation, cultural symbols and other means, bringing tourists into a panoramic palace to explore the Silk Road and appreciate Buddhist grotto art.

Unit 1 "opening of the Silk Road" starts from Zhang Qian's mission to the western regions in 138 BC. Through scene restoration and cultural relics display, it shows the cultural and economic prosperity brought to Guyuan by the opening of the silk road.

The second unit "Buddhism spreading to the East" uses scene restoration, cultural relics display and multimedia technology to show the historical process of Buddhism's birth from India and spreading to the Central Plains.

Unit 3 "light of Xumi" reproduces the prosperous scene of ancient Yuanzhou on the Silk Road, which is full of merchants and rich in goods and people. It also reflects the artistic charm of Xumi Mountain Grottoes. Xumishan grottoes are the product of Buddhism spreading to the East. The art of grottoes not only has Indian "Zhiti" style, but also has strong central plains cultural atmosphere. It is a typical representative of Indian Buddhism in China. The exhibition reflects the whole process of the development of Xumishan Grottoes from the initial excavation, prosperity, peak period to decline.

Unit 4 "living beings of the Buddha" systematically introduces various images of the Buddha world by means of plates, restoration of grotto statues, display of cultural relics and multimedia demonstration. It is a special Buddhist knowledge unit.

Unit 5 "collection of Buddhist grottoes" systematically introduces 18 famous Grottoes in Ajanta, India, Bamiyan, Afghanistan and China by means of picture display and multimedia technology.

The tail hall echoes with the preface hall. The combination of Xumi mountain topography electronic sand table and world-famous Buddha relief shows the charm of Xumi Mountain Buddhist grottoes art. The audience can follow the multimedia touch screen of Xumishan electronic sand table to visit the grottoes and experience the mysteries of Xumishan world.

Xumishan Grottoes is the largest group of Grottoes in Ningxia. There are more than 500 well preserved statues, murals and inscriptions. The grottoes were first excavated in the late Northern Wei Dynasty. After large-scale construction in the Western Wei Dynasty, the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and repair in the song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, with the help of mysterious Buddhist culture, they have become a famous mountain and ancient temple in the ancient Northwest for more than 1500 years.

Visit information

geographical position

Address: Xumishan grottoes, east foot of Xumishan mountain, Guyuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

Longitude: 105.9940488311

Latitude: 36.274299509