Treasure of Nanjing Museum City Hall

Nanjing Museum is one of the three major museums in China. Its predecessor was the National Central Museum initiated by Cai Yuanpei in 1933. It is the earliest museum established in China and the first large-scale comprehensive museum invested by the state in China. It is a large comprehensive national museum and a comprehensive national museum of history and art. The treasures of the town hall include: golden beast, red and cold glazed plum vase with three friends, jade ornaments carved with people, birds and beasts, golden cicada and jade leaves, etc.

1, the treasure of the town-Golden Beast

This golden beast of the Western Han Dynasty was on the seventh day of the first month of 1982. After the farmers in Mahudian Village of Xuyi County dug the canal completely, they found that it was10.2cm high,16cm long,17.8cm wide, weighing 9100g and containing 99% gold. It is empty and thick.

2, the treasure of the imperial kiln-glazed red old cold three-friend plum bottle

Ming Hongwu glazed red-cold three-friend plum blossom bottle is Amin porcelain, which was unearthed in Ming Tomb of Xianglongshan, Dongshan Bridge, Jiangning District, Nanjing1March, 957.

As a national treasure, it is the only preserved plum bottle with a red lid in Hongwu glaze. This plum blossom vase is beautiful in shape and well preserved. Three Friends of Old Cold refer to three evergreen plants, pine, bamboo and plum, which symbolize noble aspirations.

3, the treasure of the sky-jade carvings of people, birds and animals

Carved jade articles of people, birds and animals were unearthed at Tomb 77 of Zhaoling Mountain Site in Kunshan City 199 1. Located in the southwest of Zhang Pu Town, Kunshan City, Zhaoling Mountain belongs to the Neolithic site of Taihu Water Town in the Yangtze River Delta.

When this ornament was unearthed, it was placed in the round hole of a stone tablet under the tomb owner's right foot. Judging from the scarlet, the binding marks on the upper part of the graupel and the scarlet pattern marks left on the scene, the graupel was originally a handle. As a ritual instrument evolved from weapons, shotgun shows the military authority possessed by the tomb owner before his death. Carved jade ornaments of people, birds and animals should be additional ornaments on the graupel, which have extremely high historical and technical value. It is the earliest jade ornaments carved by people, birds and animals in China, and it is a mysterious symbol that the ancestors of Liangzhu communicated with the gods and showed their authority.

4, the treasure of your garden-golden cicada and jade leaf

1954, during the excavation ofNo. 14, the family cemetery of Jinshi Zhang Anwan, Doctor Wu of Wufeng Mountain, Suzhou, the archaeologists were surprised to find this golden cicada jade leaf, and it was the head of the tomb owner that was unearthed. At the same time, two silver coins and four gold and silver inlaid with Baoyu flowers were unearthed, which proved that it was a hairpin on the head of a noble woman.

A golden cicada stood on the jade leaf. Its body leans upward, its wings are slightly open, its mouth is slightly open, and cicadas sing around. Jade leaf is a white jade made of sheep fat in Hotan, Xinjiang. The leaves are polished in a thin concave arc and divided into eight petals. It is a rare craft treasure with ingenious conception, exquisite production, interesting and breathtaking.

5. Miraculous treasure-celadon beast statue

On 1976, the celadon animal statue of the Western Jin Dynasty was unearthed in the family tomb of Zhouchu, Yixing. The statue of the god beast is slightly pear-shaped, with three horizontal lines on both sides of the shoulder and abdomen, with the top small and the bottom large. The works are arranged in zigzag, and the flat bottom is slightly concave. This celadon beast has a large body, amazing expression, rich decorative patterns and unique shape, which has the typical characteristics of porcelain in the Western Jin Dynasty. This is one of the earliest porcelain with inscriptions in China.

6, the treasure of protection-silver wisp of jade clothes

Only one silver jade garment was found in China, which was unearthed in the tomb of Gong Liu, a descendant of Wang Pengcheng of the Eastern Han Dynasty in Xuzhou. The length of the jade garment is1.70m, and there are more than 2,600 pieces of jade and about 800g of silver thread, which are similar in shape to the golden wisp jade garment. This is the first jade garment of the Han Dynasty that has been excavated, scientifically restored and well preserved.

7, the treasure of ritual vessels-jade cong combining human face with animal face

Jade cong with human face and animal face is a Neolithic jade, made of tremolite nephrite, milky white with green and ochre red stripes. The shape is a short square cylinder with an outer circle and an inner circle. The hole was drilled from both sides and polished smoothly.

This is also a masterpiece of exquisite jade carving technology in Liangzhu culture in Neolithic age, and it is the most distinctive symbol of Liangzhu people's original religious belief.

8. The treasure of a crack in the crack of crack-gilded Lama Pagoda

In 1950s, a gold-plated Tibetan stupa was unearthed in the underground palace of Hongjue Temple Tower in Niushou Mountain. This is a masterpiece of Buddhist craftsmanship in the Ming Dynasty and the only "mini" gilded Lama Pagoda unearthed in China.

This gilded Lama Pagoda is very beautiful. There are animal horn Buddha statues, porcelain pots, jade bottles and so on around the Lama Pagoda. There are four kettle doors in the tower, including Buddha statues of Sakyamuni and Wei Tuo, with wheels, thirteen days, Bao Gai and Zhu Bao on them. A group of Buddha statues are arranged on the Sumitomo Tower. There are pearls, precious stones, crystals, agates, jade, ashes and other things hidden in Sumitomo. The whole gold-plated pagoda is placed on the pedestal carved by red sandstone in the shape of Xumi Mountain, and there are patterns carved on all sides, such as Hu people offering treasures, double lions playing with balls, double deer playing with dragons crossing the waves and so on. Under the tower, there is an inscription: "Hongjue Temple in Niushou Mountain, Jinling, always full of offerings", and on the back is "Simon Simon Li Fook sean, a disciple of the Buddha, a eunuch in the imperial prison".

9. The Treasure of Ink and Wash-Xu Wei's Miscellaneous Flowers

Miscellaneous Flowers is a painting and calligraphy work created by Xu Wei, an outstanding painter, calligrapher and literary dramatist in Ming Dynasty. It is the masterpiece of China's ancient freehand brushwork of flowers and birds, and it is worthy of the reputation of "the best Xu Qingteng in the world".

This picture is more than ten meters long. Xu Wei vividly displayed peony, pomegranate, lotus, phoenix tree, chrysanthemum, pumpkin, lentil, crape myrtle, wisteria, plantain, plum blossom, orchid, bamboo and other 13 kinds of flowers and fruits with hearty brushwork and magnificent momentum.

10, the treasure of light-silver bronze bull lamp.

Cuoyin bronze bull lantern is a bronze ware of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which was unearthed in the Eastern Han Tomb at No.2 Ganquan, Hanjiang County, Jiangsu Province on 1980. Among the bronze lamps in the Han Dynasty, the top-level works with perfect combination of practicality, science and technology and artistry are ahead of western countries in environmental awareness and design for more than 0/000 years.

The bronze bull lamp consists of a lamp holder, a lamp holder and a smoke pipe. The lamp holder is a cow, standing with its head down and its corners up. The cow's belly is hollow, and it carries a round lamp plate. One side of the lamp panel is provided with a flat handle, which is convenient for turning the lamp panel. The disc is decorated with two lampshades that can rotate flexibly, and one lampshade is hollowed out with rhombic oblique grid pattern, which has the functions of heat dissipation, wind prevention and light adjustment.

The treasures of the town hall are: the treasure of longevity-blue and white Shoushan Fuhai porcelain furnace; The treasure of kindness and navigation-the statue of the Golden Guanyin Bodhisattva; The treasure of the map-Matteo Ricci's Great Geographical Map of the World: the treasure of the study-the gold-plated copper box inkstone inlaid with animal shapes; The treasure of power and trust-Guangling Wang Xi Golden Seal: the treasure of embroidery-Shen Shou embroidered The Statue of Jesus; The treasure of nature-the wrong gold and silver rewound the copper pot; Portrait brick of seven sages in bamboo forest.