International Museum Day | If cultural relics can speak, please let“key highlights of the collection
May 18 is International Museum Day. It is said that the “key highlights of the collections” of museums in Zhengzhou would “duke it out” and represent the story of thousands of years of time to everyone.
Believe it or not?
Come and have a try!
Henan Museum
A bronze wine container with a beast’s face
Unearthed: Shang Dynasty Cellar Pit of Xiangyang Hui Food Factory in Zhengzhou
Manifesto: “From what I can see in your eyes I know you are the one who understands me the most. You must have never forgotten the pattern on my body at first sight, being complex and orderly, dense but not messy. My existence opened the precedent for the overelaborate bronze decoration in the late Shang Dynasty”
Zhengzhou Museum
Blue-glazed porcelain statue
Manifesto: “despite my ordinary appearance, I am gentle in reality. I am the earliest ‘China’ and also the ‘OG’ of ‘daily necessities’.
Zhengzhou Dahe Village Site Museum
Dahe Village White Painted Pottery Pot
Unearthed: Dahe Village Site in Zhengzhou
Manifesto: “I am a fashion icon in our museum, and I am a little proud to say that my pattern, even if put into the 21st century, is considered to be at the forefront of fashion.”
Xinmi Museum
The Tang Dynasty Porcelain Pillow with a Goat Crouching on Pearl Ground
Unearthed: Xiguan Porcelain Kiln Site in Xinmi City
Manifesto: “Just look at me and you will know how romantic people were in the Tang Dynasty. On the pillow lies a goat with a bundle of grass in mouth, surrounded by a pearl ground decorated with continuous flower and plant patterns. I was a fine representative of daily porcelain ware at that time。”
Zhengzhou Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
A Boar Tusk Carving of A Silkworm in Shuanghuaishu Site
Unearthed: Gongyi Shuanghuaishu Site
Manifesto: “I am disappointed as a Silkworm. All that you are speaking of are about porcelain, but I (silk) is also an image symbol representing Chinese culture and I am even somewhat connected with the founder of humanity, Huangdi or the Yellow Emperor.”
