[Explanation] Liaoning, located in northeastern China, systematically brought the "Red Mountain Culture" to Shanxi for the first time. A prehistoric cultural "collision" between the Liaohe River Basin and the Yellow River Basin is being staged.
"Returning from Hongshan-Hongshan Cultural Boutique Cultural Relics Exhibition" was held in Shanxi Museum on May 18. The 152 precious cultural relics exhibited concentrated on the major archaeological discoveries and archaeological achievements of the Hongshan Cultural Site.
[Concurrent] Liu Ning, Deputy Director of Liaoning Provincial Museum
This exhibition should be said to be a collection of fine cultural relics of Hongshan culture, such as our unique jade man and jade phoenix, as well as our Hongshan culture’s jade dragon, oblique barrel-shaped jade, and hook jade-shaped jade, etc. The jade of mountain culture.
I hope that through the display of Hongshan culture, you can understand our Hongshan culture and understand the important position and role of Hongshan culture in the origin of Chinese civilization.
[Explanation] Hongshan culture appeared about 6,500 to 5,000 years ago. The ancestors of Hongshan created "altars, temples, tombs" sacrificial buildings with rudiments of ritual system and exquisite and developed jade, out of its unique characteristics The civilization road rich in fusion spirit is the most developed Neolithic culture in Northeast China and even the entire Northeast Asia.
This exhibition is divided into three units: "The Sacrifice of Red Mountain", "The Jade of Red Mountain" and "The Road to Red Mountain", which systematically blends the sacrificial etiquette of Hongshan Culture, the culture of jade ritual vessels and the diverse civilizations of the Liao River Basin. Combing.
[Concurrent] Liu Ning, Deputy Director of Liaoning Provincial Museum
Originally speaking, Hongshan jade is relatively famous. For example, we have exhibited Hongshan jade exquisite exhibition in Liangzhu Museum of Zhejiang and Beijing, but it is not a systematic display of Hongshan culture.
For the first time, the exhibition "Return to Hongshan" systematically displays the Neolithic Hongshan culture, and it displays a civilization of the Neolithic Age in the Liaohe River Basin in the Yellow River Basin.
[Explanation] Talking about the prehistoric civilization of the Yellow River basin, which also pays attention to etiquette-Taosi civilization, Zhang Huiguo, deputy dean of Shanxi Museum, introduced the difference between Hongshan culture and Taosi culture.
[Concurrent] Zhang Huiguo, Vice President of Shanxi Museum
The religious rituals of Hongshan Culture are very strong, so the current prehistoric sites in Shanxi are more famous. Taosi sites that are of great significance to the formation of the country and the origin of civilization. Relatively speaking, it may pay more attention to this kind of ancestor worship. In other words, it is such a tendency in political pragmatism.
Judging from the research of experts, scholars and archaeological excavators, these are actually two Chinese prehistoric periods, with a different style and cultural style, reflecting a different model of social development.
Zhang Licheng reports from Taiyuan, Shanxi
Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]