On the morning of February 19, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage held a press conference in Beijing to inform Anyang of the achievements of the inheritance and development of oracle bones in Yinxu, focusing on the construction of the new Yinxu Museum and the relevant arrangements for the opening of the museum, and calling for support for the global digital collection of oracle bones.
The new Yinxu Museum will officially open to the public on February 26.
According to the latest news at the press conference, the new Anyang Yinxu Museum will officially open on February 26, 2024 (the 17th day of the first lunar month). The exhibition hall of the new Yinxu Museum covers an area of about 220,000 square meters, will display nearly 4,000 sets of bronze, pottery, jade, oracle bones and other cultural relics. The number of cultural relics on display and the complete types of cultural relics on display are the largest in the exhibition of cultural relics of the Shang Dynasty. Among them, more than three-quarters of the precious cultural relics belong to the first exhibition, and a series of new archaeological achievements belong to the first exhibition.
The new Yinxu Museum will be open to the public by appointment from 8 a.m. on February 22.
The new Yinxu Museum implements reservation ticket purchase. In accordance with the "Henan Provincial Tourism Regulations" and relevant national laws and regulations, the policy of free and reduced tickets for specific objects is implemented: half price for people's teachers, minors under the age of 18 and full-time college and secondary school students;Active-duty soldiers, people's police, fire and rescue personnel, revolutionary disabled soldiers, height 1Children under 4 meters, seniors over 60 years old, and disabled people can enter the museum free of charge with relevant certificates.
Yinxu Museum has opened an online reservation window service platform, and adopted a time-based staggered peak and limited flow to meet the needs of more tourists. Yinxu Museum ticket reservation provides individual reservation and group reservation, both of which adopt a real-name system. Tickets can be reserved online through "Yinxu Museum" WeChat***Official** and Yinxu Scenic Area***. After the reservation is successful, save the reservation*** as the admission voucher, and enter the museum with your ID card. When making group reservations, you must provide a unified social credit**. Visitors with documents other than passports, household registers, and other ID cards can collect tickets through the manual window. Opening hours: 8:30-17:30 (ticket sales last at 16:30), open all year round (except for temporary announcements).
Many cultural relics were unveiled for the first time in the new Yinxu Museum.
The new Yinxu Museum, which was officially opened to the public on February 26, provides an important platform for the transformation of archaeological research achievements in Yinxu, focusing on nearly 4,000 unearthed cultural relics such as bronzes, jade, oracle bones, and pottery, so that the audience can enter the "Dayi Shang" in the oracle bone inscriptions and documents. Focusing on the theme of Shang civilization, the panoramic display of the Shang Dynasty's great achievements in politics, economy, military, agriculture, handicrafts, writing, etc., combines cultural relics, documents, oracle bone records with artificial intelligence, digital technologies such as multi-**, and allows the audience to feel the charm of Shang civilization more intuitively.
There are quite a few artifacts that are on display for the first time. For example, the bronzes of the middle Shang Dynasty are displayed in a concentrated manner, the burial artifacts such as the Yazhi Tomb and the Mawei Tomb are displayed in groups, and the oracle bones unearthed from the H3 oracle bone cellar pit in Zhuangdongdi of more than 110 gardens are displayed; There are also all the cultural relics unearthed from the tomb of Yachang (zhang), through multidisciplinary research and scientific and technological archaeological means, to restore the life of the general of the Shang Dynasty three thousand years ago; This time, 23 carriages unearthed in Yinxu were also displayed, showing the spectacular scene of chariots and horses at that time.
A large number of exquisite cultural relics show the heyday of the bronze civilization more than 3,000 years ago from different angles, and also allow the audience to experience the ingenious technology and craftsmanship of the Shang Dynasty up close.
The new Yinxu Museum has 3 basic exhibitions, 4 special exhibitions and 1 special immersive digital exhibition.
In terms of exhibition layout, the new museum of Anyang Yinxu focuses on the theme of "Great Shang Civilization", with 3 basic exhibitions, 4 special exhibitions and 1 characteristic immersive digital exhibition, from the history of the Shang Dynasty, oracle bones, archaeological history, the world spread of Shang civilization and other perspectives, comprehensively explain the prosperous urban civilization of the Shang Dynasty, the perfect ritual and music civilization, the developed bronze civilization, the splendid writing civilization and the superb handicraft technology. It vividly presents the important position and role of Shang civilization in the history of the development of Chinese civilization and even human civilization.
The Yinxu Museum exhibits about 4,000 pieces (sets) of cultural relics, of which more than 90% are cultural relics excavated by the Anyang team of the Institute of Archaeology since the spring of 1950. The cultural relics mainly displayed in the exhibition hall of "Great Shang Civilization" include all the categories of cultural relics in Yinxu that are currently known, especially those that reflect the new achievements of archaeological excavations in Yinxu in the past 20 years, most of which are exhibited for the first time; Based on the archaeological characteristics of the Yinxu site, the relics exhibition represented by the carriage and horse pit is the feature and highlight of the Yinxu Museum. The two thematic exhibitions of "Who is the Son" and "Where Does the Elder Come From" with character stories as the main line vividly and meticulously reproduce the characters of more than 3,000 years ago; With the exploration of Shang civilization as the main line, the exhibition hall "Exploring Shang Civilization" reproduces the unremitting efforts made by several generations of archaeologists to explore Shang civilization in the past hundred years.
Elephant News Henan Traffic Radio Reporter: Lei Jing.