Guigang, October 10 (Reporter Zhang Guangquan) On October 25, the media interview group of the "10 Foreign Media Look at Guangxi" activity walked into the Guangxi Guigang City Museum to visit the restoration room of the No. 25 Han Tomb in Luobowan more than 2023,2000 years ago, and explore the story behind this famous Han Dynasty mausoleum.

Jointly sponsored by the Propaganda Department of the Party Committee of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the Guangxi Branch of China News Service, the "Promoting High-quality Development and Composing a Chapter of Chinese-style Modernization in Guangxi" - 2023 Foreign Media Watch Guangxi Interview Activity was launched on the same day. Nearly 30 representatives of mainstream media and overseas Chinese media journalists from Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and other countries walked into Guangxi to tell Chinese stories and Guangxi stories in the new era through the perspective of foreign media.

The picture shows representatives of foreign media visiting the restoration room of the Han tomb in Guangxi. Photo by Chen Guanyan

The No. 1976 Han Tomb of Luobowan discovered and excavated in Guigang City, Guangxi in 100 is a representative large-scale wooden tomb in the early Western Han Dynasty, with more than <> precious cultural relics unearthed. The tomb is by far the largest and highest specification early Western Han tomb in Guangxi.

According to experts, the owner of the tomb was probably the highest official of the local institution or a princely figure at that time. There are many types of cultural relics unearthed from the tomb, including pottery, bronze, gold, lacquerware, wooden simplex, etc.; The number is large, and more than 1000,<> cultural relics have been unearthed; The craftsmanship is exquisite, and many utensils are either engraved or painted or carved with exquisite patterns. The "Xianglu Pattern Copper Drum" is the most exquisite of these cultural relics.

The picture shows representatives of foreign media visiting the restoration room of the Han tomb in Guangxi. Photo by Chen Guanyan

On the same day, under the guidance of the museum's tour guide, the members of the interview group visited the restoration room of the No. 1 Han Tomb in Luobo Bay, and the media representatives were attracted by the magnificent burial chamber, exquisite bronzes and characteristic pottery. They stopped in front of important sites such as burial chambers and coffins, and listened carefully to the guide's detailed explanation of the historical background and artistic value of the relevant cultural relics.

According to the tour guide, the No. 1 Han Tomb in Luobowan provides us with the life scenes and ideological styles of people in the early Western Han Dynasty, and this information is of great value for our research on the history of the Han Dynasty.

The picture shows representatives of overseas media visiting the exhibition of historical relics in Guigang. Photo by Chen Guanyan

Afterwards, the delegation visited the Guigang Historical Relics Exhibition and the Guigang Ethnic Folk Culture Exhibition to feel the charm of the ancient county and appreciate the unique ethnic folk culture of Guigang.

"At the exhibition site, collections such as agate, beads, beads, and glass bear witness to the prosperity of ancient sea silk in the past." Zhang Chong, director of Myanmar's Golden Phoenix Newspaper, who visited Guigang for the third time, said that Guigang is one of the important starting points of the ancient Maritime Silk Road and has a rich maritime silk culture. It was once an important trading center for silk, ceramics and other commodities, and an important channel for cultural exchanges between the East and the West. Guigang's Haisi cultural sites include wharves, warehouses, ceramic kilns, etc., which bear witness to the important history of Guigang as the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road.

Le Thi Thi Cho Ho, a media person from Vietnam, said that this visit gave her an in-depth understanding of Guigang's copper drum culture, sea silk culture, ethnic folk culture, etc., and she will let more Vietnamese people understand the cultural charm of Guigang through her own publicity.

"Guigang is a multi-ethnic place with rich ethnic folk culture." After the visit, Wang Weina, a media person from Thailand, said that the visit deepened her understanding of Guangxi's traditional culture and enhanced her understanding of Guangxi folk customs, and hoped that Guigang would strengthen cultural exchanges and cooperation with other regions through cultural exchange activities such as folk culture festivals, Haisi culture seminars, and Han tomb cultural exhibitions in the future, so as to enhance the popularity and influence of Guigang's culture.

The picture shows representatives of overseas media visiting the exhibition of ethnic folk culture in Guigang. Photo by Chen Guanyan

Located in the southeast of Guangxi and the middle reaches of the Xijiang River on the trunk line of the Pearl River Basin, Guigang is an ancient county new city with a history of more than 3000,60 years, rich in history and culture, and is the starting point of the "Maritime Silk Road". The Xijiang Golden Waterway runs through all counties (cities and districts) in Guigang, and the waterway under its jurisdiction can pass <>,<>-ton ships all year round. Guigang Port is one of the main inland ports in China, with annual cargo handling capacity, annual shipbuilding capacity and annual cargo vessel capacity accounting for more than <>% of Guangxi's annual cargo handling capacity, and is the most convenient passage for southwest China to go to sea in the east. Guigang is an important land starting point city of the ancient "Maritime Silk Road", and in those years, materials from southwest China were collected to Guigang Port through water transportation, and then transferred to Hepu Port in Beibu Gulf, and then to the world through the Maritime Silk Road.

The picture shows representatives of overseas media visiting the Guangxi Guigang Museum. Photo by Chen Guanyan

Guigang Museum was completed and opened on December 2014, 12, covering an area of 27,3847.65 square meters and a construction area of 10000,1910 square meters. Guigang Museum currently has 4672 sets of cultural relics in its collection, and the total number of actual collections is 773 pieces, including 1137 sets of precious cultural relics and <> sets of general collections. The collection is mainly composed of cultural relics unearthed from Han dynasty tombs, with Han dynasty pottery and bronze as the main features. Among the Han Dynasty collection families, pottery houses are the most prominent, such as Eastern Han pottery castles, Eastern Han sanyang three-in-one pottery houses, etc. The bronze collection includes precious collections such as the Eastern Han Rui Beast Seat with a handle copper lamp, the Warring States Face Pattern Bow-shaped Grid Bronze Sword, and the Han Dynasty copper mirror. In addition, exquisite agate, precious green jade lions, and honorable Hu Ren terracotta figurines are all representatives of the collection.

"Cultural relics can only play the role of cultural relics when they enter the people's lives, and efforts should be made to let cultural relics play a greater role in shaping a credible, lovely and respectable image of Guigang." Liao Qijian, deputy director of Guigang Museum, said that in the future, the activation and utilization of cultural relics resources will be accelerated through the combination of digital technology and cultural relics, so as to make cultural relics "live" and attract more people to enter the museum. (End)