Shanghai Songze Site Museum

Shanghai Songze Site Museum

Songze, an ordinary village located in the western hinterland of Shanghai, is known as the "source of Shanghai", where the earliest life footprints of Shanghai's ancestors started; Songze culture is named after it, and Chinese literature and history are enhanced by it.

Shanghai Songze site museum is located in Songze village, Zhaoxiang Town, Qingpu District, Shanghai, with a total land area of 13000 square meters and a total construction area of 3680 square meters. Shanghai Songze site museum is positioned as "site protection and management, unearthed cultural relics collection, academic research, local history education and cultural leisure tourism". It will become a platform for site protection, archaeological research, cultural relics collection, and a place for understanding local history of Shanghai.

The main exhibition hall is composed of three parts: "discovering Songze site", "entering Songze society" and "inheriting Songze heritage".

architectural composition

The theme of the architectural design scheme of Shanghai Songze site museum is "historical silhouette, inhabited village", which fully embodies the characteristics of "modern style, traditional heritage, original symbols". In the design, the buildings with different heights and volumes are overlapped and crisscrossed. The long charm of Songze culture is solidified into a shape full of changes and flexibility, and the perception of ancient culture is integrated into the architectural form. The overall form of the building is simple and solemn, just like the epitome of an ancient village, which conforms to the human landscape of Jiangnan Water Town and the natural landscape of water system. With the combination of small bridge, flowing water, village and courtyard, the modern and history are fixed in the Ruins Museum, giving the museum rich regional characteristics and humanistic atmosphere. Shanghai Songze site museum will be completed and opened in 2013.

Development history

Shanghai Songze site is the birthplace of Shanghai ancient culture. The archaeological excavation of Songze site in 1961 rewrites the history of Shanghai. A large number of rare cultural relics push the ancient prehistory of Shanghai to 6000 years ago. It reproduces the splendid culture created by the ancestors of Shanghai, witnesses the long context and inheritance of the city, and shows that Shanghai 6000 years ago is as brilliant as the modern metropolis Shanghai. Shanghai Songze site is one of the "100 major archaeological discoveries in China in the 20th century", which not only buries the earliest Shanghai 6000 years ago, but also accumulates evidence of the origin of Chinese civilization 5000 years ago. Songze culture has also become the first Archaeological Culture named after the place name of Shanghai.

Shanghai Songze site museum is located in Qingpu, Shanghai, and officially opened on May 18, 2014.

Songze site is the birthplace of Shanghai ancient culture, known as the "source of Shanghai". Found in 1957, the site is located in Songze village, Zhaoxiang Town, Qingpu District. "Songze" means "a highland in the wetland of Wusong River Basin". About 7000 years ago, the land in Shanghai was uplifted. About 6000 years ago, people belonging to Majiabang culture came to Shanghai, and Songze was their original home. Zhang Lan, director of Shanghai History Museum, said that Songze culture is the first Culture named after the place name of Shanghai and the earliest culture of Shanghai aborigines.

There are many "Shanghai No.1" on display in the museum. "Shanghai's first man" was discovered in the tomb of Majiabang culture period when archaeologists excavated the Songze site for the fifth time in the spring of 2004. This is a male aged between 25 and 30. According to archaeologists, this age was already an "old man" at that time.

The museum also displays the remains of carbonized rice, the earliest cultivated rice unearthed in Shanghai, known as "the first rice in Shanghai". This is the first rice remains found in China, which provides direct evidence for the origin of rice farming in China.

Different from other museums, the Songze site museum is built on the site of the site excavation.

Address: No. 3993, Huqingping Road, Songze village, Zhaoxiang town (near Zhongze Road)

Longitude: 121.163945

Latitude: 31.146754

Tel: 021-59755777