Henan Travel | Complete Guide to the Henan Museum
One sentence to describe the status of Henan in the history of China: "Half of Chinese history can be found in the history of Henan." A visit to the museums is a must when traveling in Henan. The Henan Museum, with over 170,000 collections, is an essential gallery to visit!
🛕 Museum Overview
The Henan Museum has four floors, displaying exhibits in chronological order, offering a great viewing experience.
🛕 Treasures of the Museum
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1️⃣st Floor: Central Plains stone carving art, ancient Chinese music hall, Neolithic period, Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties
🏺 Jiahu Bone Flute: An 8,000-year-old flute that has rewritten the history of music in China. With seven sound holes on the flute body, it has been determined to play music close to the seven-note scale, which may also overturn the belief that the "seven-note scale originated from the West." Truly deserving of the title "the first flute of China"!
🏺 Fu Hao Owl Zun: The first season "guest" of "National Treasures," it is the earliest bird-shaped bronze wine vessel found in China.
🏺 Jade-handled Iron Sword: Known as "China's Number One Sword," made of jade, copper, and iron, it is the earliest man-made iron artifact unearthed in China to date.
🏺 Du Ling Square Ding: The vessel is huge and finely cast, with a beast face pattern that has been used in many cultural and creative products, looking a bit fierce yet somewhat cute.
🏺 Lotus Crane Square Pot: Interestingly, standing among the double-layered lotus petals on the lid is a crane ready to take flight, adding a sense of dynamism to the otherwise serious theme.
2️⃣nd Floor: Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui, Tang
🏺 Four Spirits Cloud Qi Mural: Known as "Dunhuang before Dunhuang," it is the earliest, largest, highest-ranking, and best-preserved mural seen in China to date. 👍 The mural, taken from the Shi Yuan Han tomb (the tomb of Liu Wu's son Liu Mai), was moved into the museum in its entirety, creating an impressive sight and is an exhibit that the Henan Museum will not lend out! 🙅♀️
🏺 Empress Wu Zetian's Gold Talisman: This is the only movable item we have seen that is directly related to Empress Wu Zetian! The gold talisman was used for praying to heaven, dated July 7, 700 AD, and is full of value.
3️⃣rd Floor: Song, Jin, Yuan, Ming, Qing
🏺 Ru Kiln Sky Blue Glazed Carved Goose-neck Vase: Everyone knows that "among the famous porcelains of the world, Ru ware is the leader," and the surviving pieces of Ru official ware are less than a hundred. This completely unearthed Ru official ware vase, with its sky blue glaze, is extremely rare. Regarding the color of Ru ware, "sky blue is the most precious, powder blue is esteemed, and sky blue is extremely valuable." This shows how rare this vase is! 😲
4️⃣th Floor: Ming and Qing Treasures Exhibition, Chu State Bronze Art
🏺 Radish and Cabbage: They were just re-exhibited on the 30th of last month. Without seeing them with your own eyes, it's hard to appreciate their lifelike appearance! No wonder so many people come for these two exhibits.
🏺 Cloud Pattern Bronze Jar: The main body features intricate openwork cloud patterns, complex and chaotic, creating a sense of organized disarray, a very impressive design.
【Exhibition Tips】
1. Closed on Mondays except on holidays. 9:00-17:00, entry stops at 16:00.
2. Admission is free but requires advance reservation, though the entry check is not strict. 🤫
3. Use the elevator instead of the stairs when possible, as one floor is equivalent to two regular floors. 🫠
First of all, distinguish between museums and museums: there are obvious differences between museums and museums in terms of function, scale and development history. The museum is usually a large, comprehensive cultural institution designed to collect, preserve, display and study various types of artifacts and specimens, including natural history, human history, art and technology. The museum is usually a relatively small institution focused on a specific area or theme, such as history, art, natural history or technology. Moreover, the origin and development of museums and museums varies. Museums are usually established by governments or public institutions to provide educational and recreational services to the public, while museums are usually established by private or specific organizations to showcase content in a specific area or subject. The distribution in the courtyard is very clear, the exhibition room is closely connected, the viewing is smooth and not winding, and it takes 3 hours to view the exhibition.
If you want to punch in the domestic cultural heritage, Henan Museum is one of the must-sees! It is simply a boutique exhibition. From the summer, Shang, Zhou, Chunqiu and the Warring States to the Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Southern Dynasties, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, 170,000 pieces are all originals. Nine big country treasures! A glance for thousands of years! Wang Dao's sister's explanation is very professional and clear. The ramp comes in nearly three hours and still I like it! highly recommended!
The museum is good. The explanation is okay. It’s not so deep. But there is no way to make an appointment. The tour service is still good. If you can’t make an appointment, you can choose. Of course, it’s expensive.
A history of Henan half of China, so the most worthwhile point of Zhengzhou tourism is necessarily one of the "Henan Museum". Henan Museum, national museum, a total of eight exhibition halls, from the Neolithic era to the Ming and Qing eras, through cultural relics display, tell the history of China's millennium. The museum has a total of 9 major town hall treasures: women and good sage: wine-making, the shape is owl-like, The inner wall is cast with the word "women good" inscription, and the back is the bow of the beast. Its unearthed proves that China's Bronze Age has developed to a new peak. Duling Fangding: No. 2 Ding, and No. 1 bigger than it, has been taken away by the state. The Ding rectangular, flat bottom, with famous animal face tattoos, and milk nails on the side and lower part. Duling Fangding is the earliest large copper square ding in the Chinese Discovery era. There is a video next to Ding, about the casting process, be sure to see. Jiahu Bone Flute: It is called the first flute in China. It is made of the wings of the crane. It has seven holes and some small holes next to it are used for tuning. It is very interesting. Its excavation provides important physical data for studying the history of Chinese music and Chinese musical instruments. The sky blue enamel engraved goose neck bottle: the enamel official porcelain is the imperial porcelain, only burned in the late Northern Song Dynasty for nearly 20 years, after the enamel kiln disappeared technology lost transmission. The recognized porcelain of the ancient eunuchs is only 67 and a half pieces, of which there are only four pieces of astronomical artifacts, and only this one is quite precious in the archaeological excavation of the eunuchs kiln site. Wu Zetian Jinjian: The inscription states that Wu Zetian came to Lushan to pray for blessings before July 7, the first year of Jiushi, and sent the court eunuch Hu Chao to the gods to cast simplicity in order to eliminate sin and eliminate disaster. This is not only the only Jin Jian found in China, but also the only movable cultural relics left by Wu Zetian found so far that are related to her. Four Shenyun gas map murals: known as "Dunhuang before Dunhuang", with dragons, white tigers, Zhuques, monsters, Ganoderma lucidum and cloud gas prints. The most complete tomb murals in China. The clouded copper ban: the body is supported by different copper stalks in thickness and thin layers of hollow cloud, 12 dragon-shaped beasts climb around the ban, and 12 squats under the ban. The unearthed of the clouded copper ban has pushed the history of China's wax-losing process forward for 1100 years. . Lotus Crane square pot: the crown of the pot is double-bloomed lotus petals, and there is a crane that is flying in the middle cover. The dragon-shaped monster with the wall on both sides of the neck of the pot is the ear. This is a rare treasure of the Bronze Age. .Jade handle iron sword: known as "China's first sword", its unearthed to promote the history of China's iron metallurgy for 200 years.TIPS: It is strongly recommended to ask an explanation guide at the entrance of Hall 1, and the two of us will explain 360 yuan per hour. If it is not because we went late, we can also listen to 4 hours. Through the explanation, we can understand the cultural relics knowledge point and the entire history of the development of Chinese civilization in detail. It is very worthwhile.
There are a lot of people on May Day. It takes more than one kilometer to open the door, but it is still fast to enter the door. . The treasures of the nine major towns are the places with the most people. The bad place of the interpreter is not very good to find treasures from the list, and the explanation is not so detailed. . . I walked to see nine museums in the morning, because I will see other museums next time.
There is no ticket to the museum, it can be solved here, and the explanation is also good. Henan is worthy of being the birthplace of Chinese civilization. It is really good and understands a lot of things. Otherwise, visiting this kind of museum is a half-knowing.