Reporter Zhang Tiyi.
On the morning of February 8, the twenty-ninth day of the lunar calendar, the reporter came to the Zhengzhou Elephant Ceramics Museum in the southeast corner of Bauhinia Mountain Park in Zhengzhou City.
Entering the exhibition hall on the second floor, a little girl wearing a yellow vest took the initiative to explain: this group of porcelain figurines reflects the scene of ancient labor. Dig wells and drink, plough fields and eat". The group in the middle is a cow pulling a grinding plate, and the female figurines in front are ...... with a dustpan to gather grain
The little girl's explanation was lively and lively. She told reporters that her name is Wu Junjie, a fifth-grade student, who has seen scenes of labor in her rural hometown before, and has also seen individual terracotta figurines in museums, but it is the first time she has seen groups of labor figurines.
Fireworks in the World - Clothing, Food, Housing and Transportation in Ancient Ceramics" exhibition is a New Year's Eve exhibition specially planned and launched by Zhengzhou Elephant Ceramics Museum during the Spring Festival, exhibiting more than 100 pieces of ceramics from the Neolithic Age to the Ming and Qing dynasties, from eight aspects: clothing, food, housing, transportation, labor, wine, tea and entertainment, bringing the audience to feel the daily life of the ancients and taste the excellent traditional culture contained in it.
Food, clothing, housing, transportation, labor, wine, tea and entertainment, "fireworks in the world" soothe people's hearts.
Nowadays, it is popular to "Hanfu out of the street", what kind of clothing does Hanfu refer to in history? How many stove eyes did the ancients use for cooking? How "oxen" was it to own an oxcart during the Northern and Southern Dynasties? ...Take a look at the exhibition "Fireworks in the World - Clothing, Food, Housing and Transportation in Ancient Ceramics" to find answers to these questions.
In front of a green glazed pottery, the child Xing Haoxuan introduced that this pottery is a wine container, and the lid is made into the shape of a Boshan furnace, which is beautiful and practical. Xing Haoxuan is also wearing a yellow vest with the words "Little Discoverer of Zhengzhou Elephant Ceramics Museum" printed on the back.
Li Hongxin, deputy director of the Zhengzhou Elephant Ceramics Museum, told reporters: "60 children came today, of which 10 'little discoverers' served as docents. During the Spring Festival holiday, they will take turns to serve the audience. ”
The little discoverer was explaining, and the children who came with him also asked questions from time to time while listening to the explanation. A little boy asks in front of a dancing figurine, "Why were people in ancient times so sloppy, and their skirts dragged on the ground, wasn't they dirty?" The "little discoverer" scratched his head, not knowing how to answer. The staff of the museum came up to relieve the siege of the "little discoverer": "This dancing figurine is wearing a performance costume on the stage, not a daily costume. The child nodded in realization.
He Fei, director of the Zhengzhou Elephant Ceramics Museum, said that for thousands of years, ceramics are the most closely related to people's daily life, and ceramic cultural relics can reflect all aspects of people's lives. For example, clothing, from the ceramic figurines of the past dynasties, we can see the phased changes of clothing. The pottery stove of the Han Dynasty has from 1 to 5 stove eyes, and several stove eyes are used at the same time, steaming buns, cooking soup, and stir-frying vegetables can be carried out at the same time, which not only improves efficiency but also saves fuel. From the ceramic relics, we can see the life scenes of the ancients.
Zhengzhou Elephant Ceramics Museum is a non-state-owned museum, and it is also one of the few national second-level museums among the non-state-owned museums in the country. He Fei said that in recent years, non-state-owned museums have developed rapidly and have become an important part of the museum system. The total number of museums in Zhengzhou has reached 112, and it has been promoted to the "City of 100 Museums", of which non-state-owned museums account for a large proportion.
In the public service area on the first floor of the museum, many visitors were busy collecting cards and stamping. The museum also cooperated with the postal unit to jointly launch the exhibition postcards, and the audience was stamped with the postal commemorative postmark of the exhibition "Fireworks in the World - Clothing, Food, Housing and Transportation in Ancient Ceramics", and put into a special mailbox, these postcards will fly to all directions with the seeds of Chinese ceramic culture.