Mayi Museum

Mayi Museum

Mayi museum is a national three-level local comprehensive museum, located in the west of Chongfu square in Shuozhou City. Mayi museum displays 745 precious cultural relics from the ancient Cretaceous period to the 1940s, including 20 national first-class cultural relics such as caotindou thousand Buddha pagoda and Tasha in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and 189 national second and third-class cultural relics.

architectural composition

It adopts all wood structure and imitates the ancient architecture, which is in the style of Liao and Jin Dynasties. Its modeling is simple and majestic. Together with the grand stage of Chongfu square and the weichi Temple of Eguo, it forms three ancient architectural communities in Shuocheng district.

Collection

The treasure of the museum, the thousand Buddha stone pagoda of Cao Tiandu in the Northern Wei Dynasty, is placed in the statue Hall of the museum, and the body of the pagoda is now preserved in the Taipei Museum of history. At that time, the stone pagoda was composed of three parts: the base, the body and the brake. The height of the pagoda was about 3 meters. The height of the pagoda was 2.5 meters, with a total of 9 floors. More than 1400 Buddha statues were embossed on the body of the pagoda. In particular, the statue of Shili Bodhisattva is 1.81 meters high, which is similar to that of a real person. Unfortunately, after the Japanese occupied Shuo county in 1937, the stone pagoda was looted. Today, although the Tasha is seriously eroded, the fine carving lines are still vivid.

Exhibition hall

Mayi museum is divided into seven exhibition halls: preface hall, statue hall, calligraphy and painting hall, ceramics hall, bronze hall, stone carving hall and miscellaneous hall

The calligraphy and painting hall is the third exhibition hall of the museum, focusing on the calligraphy of Lu Runxiang, Wang renkan, Cao Hongxun and Huang Siyong. Among them, Lu Runxiang's calligraphy works are a pair of ink and paper running seven character couplets. The ink is square and smooth, which is close to Ouyang Xun's charm. The most amazing thing is that Cao Hongxun's twelve screen strips are golden yellow silk, with five color brocade edges. The mounting is meticulous, the brushwork is round and beautiful, dignified and concise, which is the best of regular script. The calligraphy works of the four top scholars are complemented by the calligraphy and painting works of the Qing Dynasty.

In the ceramic Hall of the fourth exhibition hall, there is a porcelain sculpture made by Ding kiln of Ming Dynasty. It has a flat bottom white glaze printing plate with a slightly curved belly. The body is delicate and firm. The peony flower pattern is printed on the heart of the plate. It is a national first-class cultural relic.

The fifth exhibition hall is the bronze hall, in which there is a copy of the painted bronze goose and fish lamp of the Western Han Dynasty (the real one is in the Palace Museum). The painted bronze Yanyu lamp is 53 cm high. It was unearthed in 1985 in zhaoshibazhuang, Shuo county. The copper lamp is decorated with black, white, red and green patterns. The lamp plate and lampshade can be opened and closed to protect the wind and adjust the illumination and direction. In addition, the fish body, the neck of the goose and the body of the goose are hollow and connected, and the smoke and dust can be sucked into the belly of the goose to dissolve the water and purify the air. Each part of the lamp can be disassembled for easy cleaning.

The stone carving hall is the sixth exhibition hall. Two Sutra buildings more than one meter high record the development of Buddhism Tantrism in Shuozhou area of Liao Dynasty. A stone tablet of hangfangyuan, 180cm high, 93cm wide and 18cm thick, records in detail the grand scale of Wu Xiangshi's residence and the later change to Qiling Temple. The inscriptions on the stone tablet are in regular script style. The calligraphy is rich in appearance, strong in strength and deep in spirit, with more than 1100 words. The stone tablet was originally built in Qiling temple in the southeast of Xiying village, Shuozhou City. It was moved to the north gate of Shuozhou in the third year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty. In the summer of 1972, the stone forehead of the north gate of Shuo county fell and broke in two, and people transported it back to Chongfu temple.

In the last exhibition hall, a bamboo shaped iron cannon was dug up at the foot of the Ming Great Wall in the 1980s. The caliber of the big iron gun is larger than that of the bottom. The inscription of "lucky day in the 22nd year of Wanli" is cast at the bottom of the mouth, and the inscription of "shenchibao middle road" is cast on one side of the gun. The hall also displays a large iron knife with a height of more than two meters. Both the knife and its handle are made of iron. According to research, it was used for martial arts practice and imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty. It is also rumored that the knife was used by Yuchi Jingde when he was young.

Honors

The National Museum Evaluation Committee organized experts to put on record for review, and the State Administration of cultural relics identified Mayi Museum as a national third level museum.

Mayi Museum has also been named the provincial patriotic education base by the Propaganda Department of the provincial Party committee.

Visit information

Opening hours: 8:00-12:00 a.m., 2:30-18:00 p.m. in summer, 8:00-12:00, 2:00-17:30 in winter

Address: zuojie, Shuocheng County, Shuozhou City, Shanxi Province, China

Longitude: 112.43208978693

Latitude: 39.313621495291