The dragon is the symbol of the Chinese nation. It means auspiciousness and beauty, and contains a mighty atmosphere. 2024 is the Year of the Dragon, and museums and science and technology museums in Shanxi Province have launched a series of exhibitions full of "dragon elements", bringing a festival feast of "dragon" culture to tourists and citizens.
Shanxi Museum: Dragon Travels China and Swims Dragons "Play" Things.
On February 2, Shanxi Museum's "Dragon Walking China - Jiachen Year of the Dragon Zodiac Cultural Relics Exhibition" was launched, which used the combination of dragon-related physical cultural relics and plates to display dragon-shaped artifacts from all over the world. Among them is the painted dragon plate found by archaeologists at the site of Tao Temple in Xiangfen County, Shanxi Province at the end of the 70s of the 20th century. The painted dragon plate is gray-brown pottery tire, the whole body is polished, the bottom of the plate is painted with red color into a round surface, the red and gray dragon in the body of the plate hovers around the red round surface, the body is full and outward, calm and strong, majestic and mysterious, it is a rare art treasure.
The picture shows a painted dragon plate.
In addition, the Shanxi Museum has also launched 21 "Dragon Element" cultural and innovative products, covering cultural and creative ice cream, stationery, daily necessities, hand-made trendy toys and other types, along with the new 2024 Year of the Dragon theme stamp, presenting the body of the cultural relics in the museum's collection of painted dragon plates in a different form, and the audience can take these Year of the Dragon gifts home while visiting the exhibition.
The picture shows the "Dragon Element" cultural and creative cup of Shanxi Museum.
Shanxi Archaeological Museum: See the dragon in the field The "dragon" vein is passed down.
On February 2, the first exhibition of the Shanxi Archaeological Museum was launched, "Seeing the Dragon in the Field - Shanxi Unearthed Dragon Cultural Relics Exhibition", which exhibited more than 130 dragon-related cultural relics from prehistory to the Qing Dynasty more than 4,000 years ago, covering bronze, jade, gold, ceramics, stone carvings, murals, etc., systematically introducing the image changes of the dragon in history.
* For the Shang Dynasty jade dragon plug. **Light**.
The exhibition includes three units: "The Dragon Becomes a Method", "Holding the Dragon as a Gift" and "Xingxiao Divine Beast", showing the dragon form patterns in the prehistoric period and the change process of dragon patterns in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. During the Qin and Han dynasties, the dragon shape was basically finalized, and it became a model for the change of dragon patterns in later generations. The exhibition displays a large number of jade and bronze ritual vessels decorated with dragon patterns during the two weeks, highlighting the sacred nature of the "rites" of the objects. Since the Han Dynasty, the connotation of the dragon has been continuously enriched, on the one hand, the dragon has become a member of the immortal system, on the other hand, the dragon has gradually been placed on the socialized personality, and gradually become the symbol of the emperor and the royal logo.
The picture shows the jade dragon looking back at the Western Zhou Dynasty. **Light**.
Shanxi Provincial Science and Technology Museum: "Dragon" focuses on popular science and interesting Year of the Dragon.
The picture shows the poster of the "Fulong New Year" activity of the Shanxi Provincial Science and Technology Museum.
From February 13th to February 18th and from February 24th to February 25th, a series of themed science popularization activities "Dragon" of Shanxi Science and Technology Museum will reappear! In the "Lunar New Year" event, the audience can write their New Year's wishes and blessings on the dragon scales, and piece together an auspicious and happy picture of the Year of the Dragon. In the "Dragon" Science and Technology Garden Fair, the audience can not only watch the popular science drama "Strange Things in the Dragon Palace" about China's deep-sea manned submersibles "Jiaolong" and "Struggler", but also follow the "Dragon King" in the play to visit the science and technology museum, and listen to the "Dragon King" tell the story of dragon-related science and technology.
The Shanxi Provincial Science and Technology Museum also launched interactive activities with a great sense of experience. Tourists can use paper cups and ice cream sticks used at home to DIY a colorful paper cup dragon; Use the machine tool as a brush to carve a soaring dragon by hand; Parents and children work together to make a cute and ceremonial national tide dragon hat ......Wonderful popular science activities allow tourists to spend a very meaningful Spring Festival in the Year of the Dragon.