Linfen Museum

Linfen Museum

synonym

Linfen Museum generally refers to Linfen Museum

Linfen museum was founded in 1993. It was originally located in Tiefo temple, No.40, xihaizibian, Gulou. The new museum is located in Jiuzhou Park, the southern end of Jiuzhou square, Fenhe ecological and cultural scenic spot in Linfen City, near the beautiful Fenhe River. As a provincial and municipal key project, Linfen Museum has been under construction for more than five years since August 2013, with a total investment of 498 million yuan and a total construction area of 32000 square meters.

The overall shape of the new Linfen Museum embraces the sun and the moon, implying that "the sun and the moon shine together". The sun is located in the center of the building, and the moon is around the southwest of the sun. The square in front of the museum is dotted with several circular landscapes, which symbolize the Big Dipper. The overall design concept comes from the Ancient Observatory of Xiangfen Taosi cultural site. The museum has a total land area of about 21 mu, one floor underground and three floors above ground, with a total construction area of 32000 square meters and a height of 23.65 meters.

Development history

Linfen Museum, founded in October 1964, was announced as a provincial key cultural relics protection unit in 1996.

architectural composition

The main building of the museum has three floors above the ground as the exhibition area, and one floor below the ground as the reservoir area. It is the city's cultural relics center. Precious cultural relics representing Linfen's history and culture are protected, stored and displayed in the museum, especially with bronze, ceramics, land and water paintings and woodcut New Year pictures. The exhibition form design boldly uses the advanced exhibition concept at home and abroad and the most cutting-edge scientific and technological means to break the mode of "one side for one thousand museums". Apply new digital technology to museum exhibitions, and implement "smart service", "smart management", "smart protection" and "smart operation". Chen Zhan takes historical inheritance as the vein and special culture as the feature. Its content is divided into four parts: the first is "ancient footprints", which shows "Dingcun culture" and "Shizitan culture", and extends to the Neolithic culture of Linfen represented by "Zaoyuan culture". The second is the "earliest China" special topic, which shows the historical facts of Pingyang, the capital of Yao Dynasty, which is dominated by the "Taosi site". Third, "Jin dominates the spring and Autumn Period" shows the magnificent cultural features of Jin and the three Jin Dynasties. The fourth is "Pingyang for thousands of years", which outlines the great clue of civilization process from Qin and Han Dynasties to Qing Dynasty, shows the origin, prosperity and development of Pingyang iron smelting, deduces the historical inheritance of Pingyang opera Town, highlights the important position of Pingyang Jin Yuan wood carving center and the characteristic culture of Pingyang Wood New Year pictures in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and comprehensively shows the inheritance and prosperity of Buddhism in Pingyang area.

Linfen museum is the most representative cultural symbol of the city, the condensation point of urban history and culture, and the main cultural carrier of Linfen City. The museum has become the landmark of the ecological corridor of the hundred Li Fenhe River in Linfen City. It is the main platform to show the Chinese civilization and promote cultural exchanges. It is also an important window for the construction of spiritual civilization. The patriotism education base will play an important role in the inheritance of historical and cultural heritage and the healthy development of the museum cause. At the same time, the museum is a good place for Linfen people's leisure, which can improve the urban civilization, enhance the cultural quality of the citizens, promote the transformation of Linfen, and drive the development of the ecological corridor economic belt of the hundred Li Fenhe River.

Basic Display

The Linfen Museum, which carries a profound historical culture, has collected 140000 precious cultural relics from the Paleolithic period of Dingcun 100000 years ago to the Republic of China, including bronzes, ceramics, water and land paintings, and woodcut New Year pictures. This time, more than 3000 fine cultural relics selected from the city's 420000 precious cultural relics have made an amazing appearance. Among them, there are the "crack box of earthquake 100000 years ago" which was first published, the "1017 hegemonic box of Dahekou site" which was moved into the museum as a whole, the painted dragon plate unearthed from Taosi, which is known as "the first dragon in China", the earliest prototype of kitchen God, goupu human face, the representative musical instrument of Chinese ritual and music civilization, the earth drum, the Houma alliance, and so on《 Zhaocheng gold collection and other precious cultural relics. "The earliest China" is the biggest feature of Linfen Museum. The culture displayed and displayed is not limited to its regional character, but embodies the essence of the history of Chinese civilization. The theme of the exhibition is "exterior and interior mountains and rivers". Taking historical inheritance as the context and special culture as the feature, the exhibition will be divided into four parts, including four special topics: "ancient footprints", "the earliest China", "Jin Ba spring and Autumn", "thousand autumn Pingyang", to fully display Linfen's heavy historical relics and rich cultural resources. Among them, "ancient footprints" shows the unique natural and geographical features of Linfen, focusing on the "Dingcun culture" and "Shizitan culture", extending to the Neolithic culture of Linfen represented by "Zaoyuan culture"; the "earliest China" shows mainly "Taosi site", reflecting the historical evidence of Pingyang, the capital of China and Yao; and the "Jin Ba spring and Autumn" shows Anti Japanese characteristics The "Pingyang evolution" part of the "Millennium Pingyang" project outlines the great clue of the civilization process from the Qin and Han Dynasties to the Qing Dynasty. The "Qingshi Tiejian" part takes the iron official "Jiang" of the Han Dynasty as the main body to comprehensively display the origin, prosperity and development of Pingyang iron smelting. The "powder and ink" part deduces the historical inheritance of Pingyang opera hometown, and the "Pingyang iron mirror" part takes the iron official "Jiang" of the Han Dynasty as the main body The "flowing rhyme" part highlights the important position of Pingyang Jinyuan wood carving center, and the "light of Prajna" part fully shows the inheritance and prosperity of Buddhism in Pingyang area.

Treasure of town hall

Treasure of town hall: Painted dragon plate unearthed from Taosi temple. Since 1978, archaeologists from the Institute of archaeology, Chinese Academy of social sciences have excavated four large pottery plates in Taosi village, Xiangfen county. The red and white painted dragon plates are painted on the bottom of the plates. The painted dragon plate on display is one of them. The dragon's head is in the outer ring and the dragon's tail is in the plate. The dragon is a snake with a scaly body, a square head with two ears, a huge mouth with sharp teeth, a mouth holding grain grain, and no claws or horns. Such a collection of animals like snake but not snake and crocodile but not crocodile does not exist in reality. It is the image of early Chinese dragon.

According to the research, the age of the dragon plate in Taosi is about 2300 BC, which is the real dragon image in the scientific excavation of China up to now. The dragon is a sacred thing of the Chinese nation. It has always been in a high position for thousands of years. The Chinese still claim to be the descendants of the dragon. The painted dragon on the dragon plate of Taosi temple is a rare cultural relic with a full and outstretched body, steady and strong, dignified and mysterious. It is no accident that the striking pan dragon plate, together with a number of ritual objects, originated from the big tomb. It fully shows that in this early Chinese society, the dragon has been used as a totem of worship. The Chinese people are the descendants of the dragon.

Address: Xingzhi Road, Yaodu District, Linfen City, Shanxi Province

Longitude: 111.50887

Latitude: 36.081743