Jinling Nanjing Museum, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties

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.

Nanjing Museum covers an area of10.3 million square meters, and has a pattern of "one hospital and six museums", namely, history museum, special exhibition hall, digital museum, art museum, non-legacy museum and Republic of China museum. It is said that Nanjing Museum has more than 420,000 pieces (sets) of various kinds of collections, and the number of collections ranks among the top three in China, from Paleolithic to contemporary; There are both national and regional; There are not only court handed down from ancient times, but also archaeological excavations, and some of them come from social collections and donations, all of which are masterpieces of past dynasties and treasures that have attracted the attention of academic circles at home and abroad. Bronze, jade, ceramics, gold and silver vessels, bamboo horns, lacquerware, silk embroidery, calligraphy and painting, seals, inscriptions and statues are all available, and each variety has its own historical series. If you like history and archaeology, you must come to Nanjing Museum.

Here, let's introduce the treasures of several important towns in the museum.

1 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.

No.2 yinlv yuyi

Note that this is a silver jade garment, not a well-known gold-plated jade garment, but its value is not worse than that of gold-plated jade garment. 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 is 1.7 meters, with more than 2,600 pieces of jade and about 800 grams of silver thread. In fact, it is similar to the shape of the golden wisp jade garment. This is the first jade garment of the Han Dynasty that has been excavated, scientifically restored and well preserved.

NO.3 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.

The picture seems to be careless, but in fact it is full of pen power, flowing like a shower, pen like a dotted line, like a magnificent symphony, with colorful ink and good charm.

No.4 Tongniu lamp with rubbing sound

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 board is provided with a flat handle, which is convenient for turning the lamp board. The lamp board is decorated with two lampshades that can rotate flexibly, and one lampshade is hollowed out with rhombic diagonal pattern for a while, which plays the roles of heat dissipation, wind prevention and light adjustment.

No.5 Guangling Wang Xi Jinyin

198 1 year, the only piece of Wang Jinyin, surnamed Liu of the Han Dynasty, was unearthed at No.2 Ganquanshan, Hanjiang, Jiangsu. It is a sister seal with the seal of King Dian and slave Wang Yin, which has extremely high historical and artistic value.

The seal is made of high-purity gold, shiny and weighs 122.87 grams. The printing surface is 2.375 cm long and 2.372 cm wide. Turtle buttons, button height 2. 12 1 cm, table height 0.945 cm. Its turtle buttons are exquisite and beautifully decorated, and the seal script of "Guangling Wang Xi" is engraved. The layout is dense, straight and curved, smooth and harmonious, firm and full. All India is beautifully designed and neatly made, and it is a fine product of China and India. The main reason is that thieves are relatively small. If it weren't for a magnifying glass, it would be difficult to see the pattern on it clearly.