China News Service, Yinchuan, May 18th. Title: Visiting China's first large-scale rock art museum: Let the rock paintings of thousands of years "live"
China News Service reporter Yu Jing
On May 18th International Museum Day, reporters walked into Yinchuan World Rock Art Museum to explore ancient stories solidified on the rock wall and feel the magical charm of rock art.
Located at the foot of Helan Mountain in Xixia District, Yinchuan City, Ningxia, Yinchuan World Rock Art Museum is the first large-scale rock art museum in China.
The museum has selected 547 representative rock art catalogs, rubbings, photos, real objects and reproductions from all over the world, and concentratedly displayed the wonderful content of more than 200 rock art sites in 30 countries around the world.
Citizens visited the Yinchuan World Rock Painting Museum.
Photo by Yu Jing
Among them, the rubbings of Ningxia rock paintings are worth mentioning.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Ningxia Rock Art Research Center, Ningxia Rock Art covers almost all the contents of the world rock art, including animals, symbols, hunting, grazing, battle, dance, etc., full of perceptual vitality and the driving force of life, only the Helan Mountain Rock Art Site Park is preserved There are tens of thousands of petroglyphs dating from 10,000 years ago to 3,000 years ago.
Zhang Jianguo, deputy director of the Helan Mountain Rock Art Management Office of Yinchuan City, introduced that the Yinchuan World Rock Art Museum has made on-site rubbings of the rock art in Ningxia, and "please come out" a batch of rock art hidden in the deep mountains, save them with traditional rubbing methods, and make exhibits to the audience Display, and publish publications at the same time, so that immovable cultural relics "live".
“The rubbing rock paintings are easy to carry and have become movable rock paintings. Such cultural and creative products have unique characteristics, allowing more people to take them home while visiting Ningxia rock paintings.” Zhang Jianguo said.
Helan Mountain Rock Painting Cultural and Creative Products.
Photo by Yu Jing
On the same day, the reporter saw primitive figurines and ornaments, sun god backpacks, power banks and other cultural and creative products in the rock art museum. Yinchuan World Rock Art Museum explored the cultural value contained in the collections and integrated Chinese traditional cultural elements with Ningxia characteristics. Implanting contemporary handicrafts and daily consumer products, the perfect combination of excellent traditional culture and fashion elements.
Those ancient cultural relics are being "awakened" by the creative ideas of creative people and transformed into cute and trendy products.
Citizens are visiting the rock paintings of Helan Mountain.
Photo by Yu Jing
"In the next few years, we will increase the development of cultural and creative products, continue to stimulate the vitality of historical cultural relics, and make cultural relics come to life." Demand matching, to meet the consumer demand of the public, and to inherit and promote the excellent traditional Chinese culture.
In recent years, museum cultural creation has attracted much attention. More and more museums use cultural and creative products to express themselves, hoping to let the public better understand museum culture. Insiders said that cultural and creative products represent the tourism image of a country and a city. In addition to bringing endless memories and memorials to tourists, they also convey local history and culture to all corners of the world. In the end, cultural and creative products need to return to the essence of culture, achieve true integration with history and traditional culture, and move from "net celebrities" to "wise men with stories" in order to have lasting market vitality. (Finish)