The bird statue of Jin Hou in the Western Zhou Dynasty was unearthed in the tomb of Jin Hou in Tianmaqu Village at the junction of Quwo County and Yicheng County in Linfen City, Shanxi Province in the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty. The bird image is now collected in Shanxi Provincial Museum, which is known as the treasure of Shanxi Museum.

Bird statues in the Jin Dynasty were mainly phoenix-shaped, with slightly tilted heads and erect crowns. The bird is plump and its wings are rolled up. On the back of the phoenix bird, a bird quietly depends on each other and becomes the watcher on the cover of the bird image. There is an elephant head under the phoenix tail, and its trunk is rolled in, forming a stable three-point support with its legs, and the whole body is covered with patterns. The modeling is vivid and vivid, and the conception is strange and ingenious. The word "Jin Hou" is cast on the cover and belly bottom of the bird statue, which can prove to be a ritual vessel of the ancestral hall.

Brief introduction of Shanxi Provincial Museum

Shanxi Museum, located atNo. 13, the northern section of Binhe West Road, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, is the first batch of national first-class museums and the state-level museums under key construction by the central government. It is also the largest cultural relic collection, collection, protection, research and exhibition center in Shanxi. Shanxi Museum, formerly known as Shanxi Education Book Museum, was founded in eight years of the Republic of China. Since then, it has been renamed many times, and 1953 has been renamed Shanxi Provincial Museum. The new museum was completed in 2004 and named Shanxi Museum. Opened to the outside world in 2005, it covers an area of 168 mu with a building area of 52,000 square meters.

In July, 2020, official website of Shanxi Provincial Museum showed that * * * has a collection of more than 500,000 pieces, featuring bronzes, porcelain, stone carvings, Buddha statues, murals, paintings and calligraphy. Among them, there are 40,282 precious cultural relics, including 2 first-class cultural relics129, and ancient books 1 10000. The theme of the basic exhibition is the golden soul.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Shanxi Museum