China News Service, Taiyuan, April 28 (Gao Yuqing and Hu Jian) ​​Located in Quwo, Shanxi Province in northern China, a number of precious cultural relics that caused a sensation at home and abroad were unearthed in the last century.

The reporter learned from the Shanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau on the 28th that in 2021, the local area will promote the archaeological exploration of the capital city of Jin to accelerate the research and protection of Jin culture.

  Quwo is one of the birthplaces of the Chinese nation with rich cultural heritage.

The "Qucun-Tianma Site" discovered in Quwo in 1980, also known as "Jin Hou Cemetery Site", is one of the most important discoveries of Chinese Western Zhou archaeology in the 20th century. It provides important information for studying the history of Jin and the origin of Jin culture. Physical information.

Among them, the national first-class cultural relics unearthed here-the bird statue of the Marquis of Jin in the Western Zhou Dynasty, has now become the treasure of the Shanxi Museum.

  In recent years, the local area has made great efforts to "speak" the buried history and "live" the cultural relics displayed in the museum by digging deep into Qucun-Tianma Site, Jin Kingdom Capital Site and other Jin cultural resource advantages.

  Taking the Jin State Museum as an example, the museum relies on the national key cultural relics protection unit "Qucun-Tianma Site" to build the first thematic site museum in Shanxi Province and the first Jin culture thematic museum in China.

Featured exhibitions such as "Spring and Autumn Powerful Lions", "Five Thousand Years Between the Lines", and "Decoration of Jin Kingdom" have been launched to showcase the Jin culture through online and offline methods.

  Dong Zhaohui, director of the Jin State Museum, said that in terms of cultural relics protection, the museum will carry out preventive protection of cultural relics in the collection and research on the protection of chariot and horse pit painting, lacquer leather, and bronze. Exhibition" original exhibition.

  It is understood that since its opening in 2014, the Jin State Museum has received more than 300,000 tourists, including more than 5,000 domestic and foreign experts and scholars, foreign friends, and overseas Chinese.

In 2016, the museum was designated as the "Chinese Overseas Chinese International Cultural Exchange Base" by the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese.

  In 2020, the "Quwo Archaeological Base" jointly constructed by the School of Archaeology, Culture and Museum of Peking University and the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology was established to provide practical conditions for local archaeological research, scientific research practices, site protection, cultural relics sorting, and restoration.

In 2021, Shanxi Quwo will speed up the construction of a global tourism demonstration zone and promote the construction of the "Qucun-Tianma" National Archaeological Site Park.

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