China News Service, Shenyang, January 8 (Reporter Han Hong) The "Six Hundred Years of the Jin State" exhibition jointly organized by the Liaoning Provincial Museum and the Shanxi Museum was launched on the 8th, exhibiting 159 pieces of related cultural relics related to the Jin State of the Zhou Dynasty, including ancient bronze pig statues. Treasures.
The state of Jin was the most important vassal state surnamed Ji during the two-week period. It lasted for more than 600 years and dominated the Central Plains for more than a century. It played a pivotal role in the evolution of Chinese civilization.
The purpose of holding the "Six Hundred Years of Jin State" exhibition this time is to tell people about the rise and fall of Jin State by displaying related cultural relics and treasures of Jin State in Zhou Dynasty.
According to Wang Zhonghua, deputy research librarian of the Academic Research Department of the Liaoning Provincial Museum, the "Six Hundred Years of the Jin Dynasty" exhibition is divided into five units: the elegance of the Marquis of Jin, the relics of the state, the struggle for hegemony in the Spring and Autumn Period, Yu Lie and the Three Jin Dynasties, and the beauty of utensils and Fan Zheng.
Among them, precious burial objects such as bronzes unearthed from the cemetery of the Marquis of Jin were displayed in the exhibition.
According to reports, the "cemetery" of the Jin family is the famous "Jin Hou Cemetery" all over the world. The discovery of the Jin Hou Cemetery ended more than 2,000 years of debate about the first feudal land of the Jin State, and confirmed that this place is recorded in the literature as "the east of Hefen, Fang Baili" in the ancient Tang Dynasty, where the early capital of the Jin Dynasty was located.
Artifacts on display at the exhibition.
Photo courtesy of Liaoning Provincial Museum
It is worth noting that the very famous bronze pig statue was exhibited in this exhibition, which attracted the audience to stop and watch.
According to reports, the pig statue is a bronze wine vessel used for sacrifices in the Western Zhou Dynasty. It was unearthed in Tomb No. 113 of the Jinhou Cemetery in Beizhao Village, Quwo County, Shanxi Province in 2000. The owner of the tomb is the wife of the first generation Jinhou Xiefu.
The overall height is 22.4 cm, and the overall length is 39 cm. The overall shape is wild boar, with a protruding snout, exposed fangs, a strong body, an upturned tail, a round opening on the back, and a cover.
The middle part of both sides of the abdomen is decorated with a swirl pattern, the surrounding is decorated with deformed animal face patterns, and the cover is decorated with oblique eye moiré patterns.
There is an inscription on the inner and outer bottom of the cover, "Marquis of Jin Zha Lu 飤".
It is reported that in order to strengthen the exchange and cooperation of cultural relics exhibitions, Liaoning Provincial Museum borrowed relevant fine cultural relics from the Zhou Dynasty and Jin Kingdom from Shanxi Museum, and redesigned the content to hold the exhibition. The exhibition will last until April 8.
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