Witness the trajectory of Chinese civilization and experience the colorful culture of Henan
🌈 Visiting the Henan Museum is a must when touring Zhengzhou. Not coming here means you miss half of what Henan has to offer. Located at the heart of the region with convenient transportation, the Henan Museum covers an area of over 100,000 square meters, with a building area of 78,000 square meters. Following the museum's sequence, you can deeply feel the changes of Chinese civilization over the past five thousand years.
🌟 Nine Treasures of the Museum: You must learn about these, including the Lotus and Crane Square Pot, Jiahu Bone Flute, Ru Kiln Sky-Blue Glazed Carved Goose-Neck Vase, Jade-Handled Iron Sword, Empress Wu Zetian's Gold Exoneration Slip, Lady Hao's Owl-Shaped Wine Vessel, Duling Square Cauldron, Cloud Patterned Bronze Ban Liang Coin, and the Four Spirits and Clouds Chart.
The museum houses many precious cultural relics and art collections, including painted pottery, bronzes, porcelain, calligraphy, paintings, and valuable documents.
The main exhibits in the museum showcase the historical culture and natural heritage of the Henan region, such as Bronze Age artifacts from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, terracotta figures from the Qin and Han periods, jade articles from the Tang dynasty, ceramics from the Song dynasty, and porcelain from the Ming and Qing dynasties. In addition, there are special exhibitions of world cultural heritage items and relics of famous people from Henan.
🌕 The museum displays the unique cultural charm of the Henan region and is an important place to understand the Central Plains culture, ancient history, and art.
🌼 The cultural and creative shop in the museum also has a complete range of items, including the key souvenir cultural and creative ice cream. The cultural and creative ice cream was what I wanted to get the museum passport stamp for when I visited, but they said it was taken for repair, and there were no other stamps available, which was a pity.
The museum has a total of 4 floors and 14 exhibition halls. Here you can rent audio guides for 30 yuan, and there are also fee-based research explanations and small group tour guides.
During peak seasons when it's crowded, it's best to book in advance. When it's crowded, you have to queue, but when it's not, you can just book on-site and enter. There are lockers available nearby.
⏰ Opening Hours: Except for National Day, closed on Mondays. From January 1st to September 28th, open from Tuesday to Sunday from 9:00-17:00, with last entry at 16:00.
During the National Day from September 29th to October 6th, open from 9:00-19:00, with last entry at 18:00.
From October 7th to December 31st, open from Tuesday to Sunday from 9:00-17:00, with last entry at 16:00.
📍 Location: No. 8 Agriculture Road, Jinshui District, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province
They are all said to be half of the history of China in a Henan Museum, and the Henan Province is specially scheduled to be Bojing. Guide Chen explained the rich expertise and the key points of the explanation. He also shared a lot of professional pictures with us. This time I also saw the jade cabbage and jade radishes that have not been displayed for a long time. It is so exquisite!
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.
Henan Museum can be said to be a must-visit place to travel to Zhengzhou, but during the May 1st holiday, too many tourists will affect the experience. But it does not affect the long and splendid history of the Chinese nation in it. Watching cultural relics, there will be a feeling of communication with the ancients, you can imagine the ancients who made these stone tools, pottery, bronze, iron, porcelain and so on at the time, their hearts and movements.
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.
The tour routes were arranged very reasonably, we didn’t waste any money and more importantly we visited all the attractions we wanted to see. The local guides were very professional and gave us a better understanding of the local history and culture. This trip made me harvest a lot, let me feel more beautiful and meaningful travel.
During the Chinese New Year, there were a lot of people. I rushed to see the last bus. Although there were fewer people at four o'clock, there were a lot fewer people. I could see the cultural relics. The narrator lady was official and gentle and lovely! The sound is also very good, the land is big and the museum hopes to come again.
Very good, worth a visit, the number of cultural relics is not too much, but they are all boutiques