Han Cultural Museum of Hepu County

On May 6, the results of the selection of Guangxi Special Museums were announced. A total of 10 units won awards in 4 of the selections. The Hepu County Museum, which was submitted by our city, won the Exhibition and Exhibition Feature Award.

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As a window to showcase local history, culture, social development, and construction achievements, the museum is a landmark building of local economic and social development and civilization. In April 2017, General Secretary Xi Jinping went to Guangxi for investigation and research. He visited the Hepu Han Dynasty Cultural Museum at the first stop and gave important instructions to the construction of the Guangxi Museum: Museum construction should not be "one thousand museums", and should not pursue large and comprehensive forms. The content on display must be distinctive.

The former busy Hepu Port was an important port of departure for the "Maritime Silk Road" in the Han Dynasty. In Hepu County, many ancient tombs of the Western Han Dynasty have been excavated, and a large number of cultural relics have been unearthed, including national first-class cultural relics. The more famous ones are bronze phoenix lamps, Persian pottery pots, glass bowls, glass cups, aquamarine, crystal series, and bronze horses. Wait. The cultural relics displayed in the Hepu Han Culture Museum reflect the long history of Hepu as the departure port of the "Maritime Silk Road" in the Han Dynasty. General Secretary Xi Jinping said that it has a profound historical and cultural heritage and is a "living fossil" on the ancient Silk Road.

The Hepu Han Dynasty Culture Museum mainly collects, researches, restores, and displays the cultural relics unearthed from the Hepu Han tomb, and also contains local cultural relics. The collection is rich in variety and has a long history. There are more than 5200 cultural relics in the collection, including 21 first-class cultural relics, 177 second-class cultural relics, and 289 third-class cultural relics. The cultural relics span from the late Neolithic Age to Han, Tang and Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic of China, and important contemporary cultural relics.

The China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative has been widely echoed and accepted by the international community since it was put forward three years ago, President Xi Jinping said on April 19.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks while visiting the Tieshangang Yard in Beihai city of South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

Before inspecting the yard, Xi paid a visit to the Hepu Han Dynasty Museum, where there are collections of relics related to the ancient trade of the maritime route.

Xi held talks with the workers at the yard and told them that both the museum and the yard he had visited had important links with the Belt and Road Initiative.

The Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative, put forward by Xi in 2013, aims to revive the ancient trade routes and boost the interconnection between the regions.

8: Han-cultural Museum of Hepu County

The Han-cultural Museum of Hepu County possesses more than 5,200 cultural relics, most of which reflect the role of coastal Hepu county in trade on the Maritime Silk Road during the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC-220 AD).

Location: No 81 South Dinghai Road, Beihai