Many visitors may feel that the prehistoric part shows mostly stone tools and fossils, which is not impressive. However, this does not mean that you really can't see exquisite cultural relics here. For example, the fossils of ivory and ostrich eggs in the Paleolithic are among the treasures; Neolithic painted pottery, black pottery, bone needles, bone knives, pottery pots, pottery stoves, etc. All these can show that in ancient times hundreds of thousands of years ago, Luoyang's land had been "slash and burn" and "smoke everywhere". Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, show you the glory of three generations of bronze culture. These bronzes with metallic light tell you the glory of the origin of Chinese civilization.
The Han and Wei part of the second exhibition hall mainly shows the historical position of Luoyang as an important political, economic and cultural center in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties from the aspects of the evolution of architecture, funeral system, the rise of immortal worship, culture, religion, population migration and national integration.
Luoyang City has a history of 5,000 years, and the most prosperous period is the Sui and Tang Dynasties. In the Heluo Civilization Exhibition, the most "prosperous" exhibition area you will see is the Sui and Tang Dynasties exhibition area.
Entering here, more than 800 exquisite cultural relics will "gather" in the simulated Luoyang City of Sui and Tang Dynasties, giving you a feeling of dreaming back to the Millennium. The exhibition area in Sui and Tang Dynasties focuses on Luoyang City, Yang Di and the Grand Canal, Wu Zetian and Shen Du, Silk Road and Sino-foreign exchanges, tri-colors in Tang Dynasty, handicrafts and scientific and cultural thoughts in Sui and Tang Dynasties. Sui and Tang Dynasties were the heyday of feudal society in China. At this stage, Luoyang City is characterized by brilliance, solemnity, magnanimity and symmetry. Therefore, in the exhibition area of Sui and Tang Dynasties, the symmetry of the central axis of the rules makes it look very atmospheric, and red will be the main color of the exhibition area, highlighting the visual effect of oriental culture. Here, the designer will also use the concept of inner city and outer city with distinctive regional characteristics for layout, supplemented by slightly inclined column modeling, giving people a feeling like a city wall; The huge solid wood beam frame creates a grand atmosphere of the tower.
Basically, Chen Zhan tells history through cultural relics, so as to fully understand the development of social politics, economy, culture and science and technology at that time. Maybe when you walk in here, you will feel that the cultural relics are not exquisite enough, but even a small brick and a small building component are all evidence of the existence of the capital ruins. There are many kinds of cultural relics in Luoyang, but large-scale palace cultural relics are rare. In this exhibition of the new museum, more than 2,000 pieces of palace cultural relics of the Forbidden City in Qing Dynasty are presented as a special exhibition hall.
Entering this exhibition hall, the first thing we saw was the large floor plan of Cining Palace and the related text introduction, so that we could clearly understand the structural layout of Cining Palace and "store" the background knowledge for the whole visit.
The Qing Dynasty palace cultural relics collected in Luoyang Museum were distributed to Luoyang by Beijing Palace Museum on 1973 under the instruction of Premier Zhou Enlai. These treasures were originally hidden in the Great Buddha Hall of Cining Palace in the Forbidden City. Most of them are tributes from all over the country in the Qing Dynasty. From Kangxi to the Republic of China, everything is precious.
The second stop of the tour is the Buddha Hall, where we can see the scenes of Empress Dowager Cixi and Empress Dowager Cixi "simulating" the Buddha through exhibits. In this part, the most noteworthy thing should be a dry-painted three Buddha statues in the Qing Dynasty in the central exhibition area.
Next, I saw many statues and pagodas of Tibetan Buddhism. According to reports, the Buddha statues in Qing Palace are made of various materials, including gold, silver, copper, jade, wood and porcelain. Among them, the Tibetan Buddha statue is a model of the integration of Chinese and Tibetan arts.
Palace furniture and home decoration are also a highlight of the exhibition area. The combination of woodworking technology and carving, chiseling and embedding of court furniture in Qing Dynasty formed the innovative style and main characteristics of court furniture in Qing Dynasty.
In this part, the scene we saw is: centering on the dragon bed, equipped with mother-of-pearl carved dragon chairs, Huang Huali cabinets, mother-of-pearl carved dragon chairs, marble round tables, more than 20 carved dragon chairs, various flowers, square figures, round figures, antelope carved wooden hanging screens, and Cixi imperial pen "Great Round Treasure Mirror" plaque. To form a huge but loose ceremony for the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager.
The large number and high specifications of this part of the Qing Palace cultural relics on display will definitely give you a complete and clear understanding of the Buddhist activities and daily life of the emperors and queens of the Qing Dynasty. If you have visited the Old Luoyang Museum, you must be deeply impressed by the stone statue of the Eastern Han Dynasty to ward off evil spirits at the main entrance of the exhibition hall. There are many exquisite "behemoths" similar to the evil spirits of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the new stone carving hall of Luoyang Museum. These are about 70 pieces (sets) of fine stone carving art selected by the cultural relics department from other cultural institutions in the city, such as the Municipal Folk Museum, the Municipal Cultural Relics Team 1 and the Municipal Cultural Relics Team 2.
The stone to ward off evil spirits in the Eastern Han Dynasty placed in a prominent position in the exhibition hall is known as the "treasure of the town hall" of the museum. It can be said that the fine stone carvings of the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties are rare in China. It is about 190 cm high, 297 cm long, 90 cm wide and weighs more than 8 tons. Carved with a whole piece of lapis lazuli, the carving process is exquisite, integrating round carving, flat carving and line carving. The appearance is stalwart and masculine.
The whole exhibition hall is divided into "religious stone carvings" and "epitaph".
"Religious stone carvings" refer to religious statues and decorative symbols provided by cave temples, temples and the people, mostly Buddhist statues. There are a large number of Buddhist stone carvings in Luoyang, with a long time span, and the style of integration of Indian Gandhara art and China art. Here you will also see a large number of representative works, such as Shi Hu in the Northern Wei Dynasty, Shiyang in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Guanyin statue in the Tang Dynasty, and stone toad in the Tang Dynasty. Among them, the stone toad in Tang Dynasty is of great ornamental value. Since ancient times, toad has been regarded as a sacred object to avoid the five soldiers, suppress evil spirits, promote longevity, and be rich and auspicious. At the same time, it can also be used as a drainage device for palace buildings or gardens in Shang Yang Palace in Tang Dynasty.
In the "epitaph", there are epitaphs, stone classics and epitaphs on display. The exhibits include the remains of Xiping Stone Scripture, the epitaph of Yuan Ying, the daughter of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the epitaph of Queen Zhao Wen of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Among these exhibits, a palm-sized Xiping Shijing proves that the earliest stone carving textbook in China was published in Luoyang and established in Luoyang Imperial College.
According to reports, Luoyang, as a famous cultural relic city, has a large number of stone carvings in the past dynasties, spanning from the Han and Tang Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Here, you can not only see the single stone carving with huge volume and familiar techniques, but also appreciate the calligraphy styles of seal, official seal, grass, line, model and Weibei, from which you can appreciate the demeanor of Cai Yong, Ouyang Xiu, Sima Guang and others, and feel the magical charm of stone carving art.