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This morning (26th), the new Yinxu Museum in Anyang, Henan Province will be officially opened to the public. As an important display platform for the research results of Yinxu archaeology and Shang civilization, the new museum of Yinxu has 3 basic exhibitions, 4 special exhibitions and 1 special immersive digital exhibition of "Exploring Shang Civilization", "Great Shang Civilization" and "World Shang Civilization", focusing on nearly 4,000 sets of archaeological unearthed cultural relics such as bronzes, jade, oracle bones and pottery. The Shang Dynasty ruled the Central Plains as the core area, and actively expanded to the four directions through Pangeng Qianyin and Wuding Zhongxing, and developed into a powerful kingdom covering an area of thousands of miles.
The four seas come to fake, come to fake Qi Qi", the poem "Xuanniao" records the grand occasion of the small countries of the four directions to worship the Shang Dynasty in writing. The bronze horse head knife and hard pottery mustache exhibited in the new hall of Yinxu Museum tell the historical story of the cultural exchange between the Shang civilization and the Quartet tribes with the regional characteristics of their own shapes.
The bronze knife is a more common utensil in the archaeological excavation of Yin Ruins, and it is also a production tool, living utensils and ** used by people in the Yin Shang era. Among them, there are few knives with the shape of a beast's head on the handle, which witness the interaction between the culture of the northern grassland and the culture of the Shang Dynasty.
Yue Zhanwei, researcher at the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: The horse's head knife is a very typical cultural relic unearthed on the grassland.
In addition to the bronze horse's head knife, some artifacts with northern characteristics, such as bow-shaped vessels used for horse riding, were also found in Yinxu, and they entered the capital of the Shang Dynasty along with the exchange between ethnic groups.
In the new hall of Yinxu Museum, there are also exhibited pottery mustaches with the characteristics of the four directions, the pottery mustaches from the west are plump and round, the oriental pottery mustaches are more symmetrical, and the southern pottery mustaches are extremely slender. These pottery mustaches of different foot shapes unearthed in Yinxu reflect the extensive exchanges between the Shang Dynasty and the civilizations of the four directions.
Yue Zhanwei, researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: The feet of the pottery are very thin, and they are also skimmed outward, which is a site in Hubei, called the Maojiazui site, which is a typical artifact of their place.
CCTV reporter Tian Yunhua: The pottery from all over the world can gather in Yinxu, which is inseparable from the function of the pottery itself. The Shang Dynasty traveled a long way, and the pottery mustache used as cooking utensils was often carried by people from their distant hometowns to the capital of the Shang Dynasty.
The Shang civilization formed a brilliant bronze civilization, which was the pole of the Quartet and profoundly influenced the process of the Quartet culture. At the same time, the Shang Dynasty also continued to absorb the colorful culture of the four directions, the pottery of the east, and the north.