Taizhou Museum

Taizhou Museum

汉鎏金神兽铜镜


Bronze mirror of Han Dynasty

3 cm in diameter and 0. 5 cm in thickness. It was unearthed in Jiangdu County in 1958. The front is slightly convex, the back is high relief gold-plated, oblate button, the upper line is engraved with patterns, and the bead shaped button seat is made of relief statues. The next group is composed of three deities. In the middle is the queen mother of the west, tiger teeth and leopard tail. The deities on both sides are the servants of the queen mother of the West. In the upper group, two gods and men sat opposite each other. They were Bo Ya and Zhong Ziqi. On the left and right sides, there is a God with two arms turned into wings, which is about the immortal Prince Qiao in the myth. There is a mythical beast between each group of statues. It is generally believed that they are green dragon, white tiger, rosefinch and Xuanwu. There is a circle of inscriptions around the statues and beasts, with 12 rectangular and 12 semicircles arranged alternately. There are inscriptions on the rectangular pieces, the inscription is: "Jin Yujing (mirror), the clothes are princes, the division's life is long", 12 semicircular pieces are decorated with human, lion, dragon, bird, etc. The periphery of the inscription belt is a frieze, with patterns of dragons, phoenixes, animals and other patterns and several circles of geometric patterns. All of them are in the shape of deep or shallow relief. They are relics of the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

主办单位:泰州博物馆

The Taizhou Museum was established in 1958, and the first renovation and expansion was carried out in 1980. The new hall was completed in 2013, located at No. 297, Gulou South Road, Taizhou City, with a construction area of ​​more than 22,000 square meters, including an exhibition hall area of ​​nearly 6,000 square meters. There are more than 30 staff in total. There are display group engineering department, archaeological collection department, storage department, office and security department, financial department and other departments.

Taizhou Museum is a comprehensive museum focusing on the collection of historical relics. It has nearly 10,000 pieces of various collections, including more than 800 pieces of national first, second, and third-class precious cultural relics that have been appraised. In the collection of cultural relics, ancient paintings and calligraphy, Ming Dynasty costumes, and Six Dynasties celadon are more outstanding, which have a greater influence in the domestic museum circle. The collection of ancient paintings and calligraphy includes the Ming court painter Lu Ji, the founder of the Ming Dynasty martial arts school Lan Ying, the Ming Dynasty Dong Qichang, Wen Zhengming, Zhang Chong, Tang Zhiqi, Xie Shichen, Wu Bin, Cheng Sheng, Zhang Feng and other famous painters Works: Others such as Zhu Da (Bada Shanren), Shi Tao, Yuan Jiang, Chen Zhuo, Pan Simu, Liang Shanzhou, Zhang Cining, Wu Rangzhi, Yun Nantian, Fei Danxu, Lianxi, Zheng Banqiao of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou in the Qing Dynasty , Huang Shen, Li Jie, Wang Shishen, etc., Cai Ze of the Jinling School, and other Qing celebrities such as Liu Yong, Lin Zexu, Tie Bao, Li Hongzhang, modern Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian, Chen Shizeng, Yu Youren and other famous calligraphers and painters. Good collection. The collection of Ming Dynasty costumes is the most concentrated and well-preserved Ming Dynasty civil (relative to the royal) textiles in China, especially silk fabrics. They represent the most outstanding civil clothing in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. Among the ceramic collections, there are many fine pieces of celadon from the Six Dynasties, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing porcelains. There are also many unique collections of other cultural relics, such as the only complete male Kanglu fossil in the world, a bronze mirror with a sacred animal pattern in the Han Dynasty, hundreds of archives of the Forbidden City, Qing Yun archives, Qing Dynasty crafts and so on. These cultural relics are very valuable physical examples to reflect our country's long and splendid historical civilization. The collection of revolutionary cultural relics is also rich in Taizhou Museum, which can accurately and vividly reflect the history of revolutionary activities in Taizhou.

巴厘岛宗教仪式短剑

Balinese ritual Dagger

Malay dagger, translated as Grice sword, is a unique short sword used by various ethnic groups in Malay Archipelago and Malay Peninsula. In Bali, Indonesia, male members of every family wear a Malay dagger. Nowadays, the Malay dagger is commonly used in religious rituals as amulets and heirlooms, or as decorations for celebrations. There are many myths and legends about Malay dagger in Southeast Asia. Malay dagger is also a world intangible cultural heritage recognized by UNESCO. Malay short sword is mainly divided into two different forms of sword. The straight and long Malay short sword symbolizes "static" and is mainly used for defense; the curved Malay short sword symbolizes "movement" and is mainly used for attack. Generally, the bending number of the curved Malay short sword is odd. A Malay dagger usually needs to be forged 500 times repeatedly. The forging process is very laborious.

主办单位:泰州博物馆