2023 is the 70th anniversary of archaeology in Guangzhou and the 40th anniversary of the discovery and excavation of the tomb of King Wen of Nanyue, in order to commemorate this important moment, on December 25, the Museum of King Wen of Nanyue specially planned and held a special exhibition of "Exploration and Practice - The 40th Anniversary of the Discovery of the Tomb of King Wen of Nanyue".
The exhibition mainly shows the development process of the discovery, protection and utilization of the relics of the South Vietnamese Kingdom, and shows the advanced protection concepts and valuable experience. The exhibition is on display in the exhibition area of the tomb of the king of Nanyue King Museum and will be on view until February 25, 2024.
With the four themes of "Amazing Discovery", "Ten Thousand Years of Eternal Protection", "Pushing Through the Old and Bringing forth the New" and "Passing on the Torch", the exhibition displays the unearthed cultural relics, materials** and a variety of tools and supplies, showing the 40 years since the discovery of the tomb of King Wen of Nanyue in an all-round and multi-angle way.
Panoramic aerial view of the exhibition area of the tomb of the king of Nanyue King Museum Courtesy of the correspondent.
Shi Mingli, the curator of the exhibition and deputy director of the exhibition department of the Nanyue King Museum, introduced that the special exhibition is divided into two exhibition halls, one is the excavation and protection exhibition hall, and the other is the use of the heritage exhibition hall, which is different from the exhibition with cultural relics as the main presentation object. The atmosphere of contrast wants to convey the story behind the cultural relics to the audience more through the cultural relics. ”
Shi Minh Lap said that 40 years have passed since the initial discovery of the tomb of King Wen of South Vietnam, and he is not yet 40 years old, and this 40th anniversary special exhibition is very challenging for the planning team. ”
Excavation and conservation.
Learn the story of the Kingdom of Nanyue from the artifacts.
In the first part of the exhibition hall, "Amazing Discoveries" tells the process of the discovery and excavation of the three major Nanyue ruins, using the huge grayscale photos of the ruins of the Nanyue National Palace Administration and the excavation of the tomb of King Wen of Nanyue as the background of the walls on both sides of the entrance of the exhibition hall, using montage techniques to create a sense of contrast between the modern and the past.
Exhibition view. 
The tomb of King Wen of Nanyue was unearthed in the front room of the stone door copper auxiliary head.
Stone furnace and charcoal unearthed from the tomb of King Wen of Nanyue.
Pearls excavated from the tomb of King Wen of South Vietnam.
The pottery unearthed from the tomb of King Wen of Nanyue.
The exhibition wall presents the orange-red texture of red sandstone, among which the tomb of King Wen of Nanyue introduces the unearthed cultural relics and functional characteristics of different spaces in the tomb with the layout of the tomb as a clue, which shows the spatial layout of the tomb of King Wen of Nanyue in an overall way, allowing the audience to experience the process of "opening a blind box" when archaeologists excavate the tomb of King Wen of Nanyue. First-hand archaeological data, expert manuscripts, approval documents, etc. complement each other with archaeological relics, and the excavation process of the ruins of the Nanyue National Palace Administration and the wooden sluice sites of the Nanyue State is also narrated.
"Ten Thousand Years and Forever Protection" tells the story of the protection of the site, the protection of cultural relics and the construction and display of the museum on the original site.
In terms of site protection, since the excavation of the relics of the Nanyue Kingdom, the site itself has been protected by building protection sheds and constructing drainage facilities.
Archaeological instruments used by archaeologists back then.
In terms of the protection of cultural relics, the museum monitors and controls the preservation environment of cultural relics, delays the damage caused by natural transformation of cultural relics, and establishes an environmental monitoring system, so that the protection of cultural relics in the collection of the museum has changed from the traditional "rescue" protection to the modern "preventive" protection.
Shi Mingli said that for the first time, some precious cultural relics were displayed in the exhibition, such as a bronze mirror that has not been treated with rust, a copper kettle and jujube core for jujubes, an owl-foot copper oven with fan soil inside, and a precious lacquer pot, etc., which maintain the original unearthed state and reflect the meticulous restoration of different cultural relics, reflecting the meticulous restoration of cultural relics.
In the corner of the exhibition hall, there are copper kettles and jujube cores from thousands of years ago, copper kettles are precious utensils in ancient times, jujubes are plants produced in the north, and it is not easy to survive in the south, why should you put a copper kettle full of jujubes when you are buried?Shi Mingli explained that some scholars have suggested that Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue, is from Hebei, or he misses the taste of his hometown, "In addition to this, there are several records about dates in our museum, and we want to connect these materials to tell the audience a story - why does the king of Nanyue like to eat dates?"Let the audience understand the historical story behind the artifact. ”
The copper kettle and the jujube core in the pot unearthed from the tomb of King Wen of Nanyue.
Lacquer. This part also tells the history of the construction of the site, after the excavation of the tomb of King Wen of Nanyue in 1983, the people of Guangzhou decided to permanently protect the tomb, and build a museum on the original site, after the change of the name of the museum, the main display of several deepening and renovation and the merger of the two museums, relying on the tomb of King Wen of Nanyue, the site of the National Palace Department of Nanyue established the Nanyue King Museum is a well-known large-scale archaeological site museum in China, which is not only the original site of the protection, research, display of the relics of the Nanyue State of the special museum, but also the cultural landscape, natural environment, A site space where archaeological relics and museums are organically combined.
Activation, utilization, inheritance and innovation.
Promote the high-quality development of Guangzhou's cultural and museum undertakings.
"Bringing forth the new" presents the achievements of the museum's business activation and utilization since its establishment, which can be subdivided into public services, publicity, cultural creativity, and exhibitions. In terms of public services, the museum has always adhered to the public-oriented and service-oriented, and has made continuous efforts to benefit the people with tickets and interpretation services, and has realized service measures such as informatization and humanized ticket purchase and guided tours in combination with digital development, such as the "Nanyue Play Country" children's activity area, the "Nanyue Workshop" and "Tanyue School" education brands, as well as the "Great Ruins and Primary School" and "Museum Wonderful Night" launched in recent years In addition, volunteer work and the publication of educational books also demonstrate the social and educational function of the museum.
Cultural and creative products of the Nanyue King Museum.
In terms of propaganda and cultural creativity, over the years, the authority has paid great attention to the relics and unearthed cultural relics of Nanyue, and the museum has also conformed to the new development trend, forming a new matrix of "two micro and one network, multi-platform parallel", and taking the lead in carrying out a new concept of propaganda-oriented cultural and creative work in domestic museums, and constantly strengthening the development and design of key cultural relics and exhibition-related cultural and creative products.
Exhibition view. In terms of exhibitions, in the practice of many years, the Nanyue King Museum has explored a fixed exhibition system with complementary advantages, a temporary exhibition system with accurate positioning, and an outreach system with multiple influences, among which, the site display adopts digital display to create an immersive exhibition experience, relying on the basic display of ruins and cultural relics to present the characteristics and advantages of the archaeological site museum, and the temporary exhibition combines its own characteristics, focusing on archaeological discoveries, cultural heritage and other theme exhibitions, and strives to create "Nanyue culture" The brand has been extended to broaden the audience of South Vietnamese cultural communication.
Don't forget to dig wells. The fourth part, "Passing on the Torch", tells the stories of archaeologists, cultural and museum people, people from all walks of life and museums, and shows their important contributions to the protection, utilization, and research of South Vietnamese relics in the past 40 years.
To showcase the real-life work of archaeologists, the exhibition has created an immersive experience space that showcases the desks of Mak Ying-ho and Wong Chin Ngok, as well as office supplies, books and tools, as well as a special counter for donated porcelain pillows, showcasing the contribution of Mr. and Mrs. Yang Yongde to Guangzhou's cultural and museum cause.
Exhibition view. Immersive & Digital.
A variety of technologies show the details of the museum's operation.
This exhibition is the 70th anniversary of archaeology in Guangzhou, the 40th anniversary of the discovery and excavation of the tomb of King Wen of Nanyue, special planning, different from the exhibition with cultural relics as the main object of presentation, this exhibition style is distinctive, the exhibits are diverse, but also make full use of information technology to strengthen interaction, is the museum to show the 40th anniversary of the course of the sincere innovation.
Exhibition view. In terms of space creation, the exhibition strives to create an immersive viewing experience: the preface hall is relevantly themed with the "40" sculpture, and the sculpture is surrounded by a circle of old ** presenting important moments in the past 40 years, and around a circle, showing the old ** from 1983 to 2023, walking into the exhibition hall, the aisle presents important time nodes and events in luminous fonts, making people seem to revisit the 40-year history. In the first part of the site introduction, the functional area of the burial chamber is displayed in an irregular quadrilateral, which makes people feel like they are immersed in archaeological excavationsThe second part of "Ten Thousand Years of Eternal Treasure" incarnates the "Science and Technology Archaeology Laboratory", full of science and technology, and in the face of the problem of site protection and cultural relics protection, modern science and technology provide diversified answers and attemptsIn "Pushing the Boundaries of the Old and Bringing Out the New", light strips and holographic screens create a space of "Nanyue Elegance", and the audience enters this area as if they are in a cultural and creative storeAt the end of the exhibition, the desks of the two archaeologists make people empathize with the fighting spirit of archaeologists.
In terms of interactive experience, the exhibition uses information technology to create a number of interactive installations: at the beginning of the exhibition, there is a multi-interactive excavation story, and the audience can enter the archaeological sites of the three Nanyue ruins by touching the screen and feel the surprises brought by different archaeological discoveries;On the back of the independent display case of the copper oven, a transparent screen is telling the story of South Vietnam told by the person in charge of site protection and collection managementThe holographic projection screens on both sides of the "Nanyue Yaji" show a number of three-dimensional patterns of Nanyue treasures and the dancing scene of the virtual narrator "Xiao Yu";After the exhibition, the audience can stand in front of the "Magic Mirror" and take a group photo with the cultural relics, and the group photo is projected onto the "Luminous Tree" on the side, indicating the continuous ...... of South Vietnamese cultureThrough a number of interactive installations, it creates a casual and digital viewing space for the audience.
Exhibits at the exhibition. This exhibition is written and recorded by all archaeologists and cultural museums, showing the work results and business details of the museum in an all-round and multi-angle way. The curatorial team of this exhibition is composed of personnel from different business departments, who work together and express their opinions, and contribute wisdom and strength to the exhibition with their own business experience and achievements. In addition, since some of the exhibits are cultural and creative products, books and informational documents, in order to strengthen the exchange of business work, the curatorial team and the volunteer team have dispatched personnel to assist in the installation of the exhibition, and the high-quality completion of the exhibition is also relevant to the exploration and practice process that the exhibition aims to embody.