China News Service, Shanghai, March 16 (Reporter Wang Ji) The Ancient Chinese Sculpture Hall (hereinafter referred to as the "Sculpture Hall"), one of the permanent exhibition halls in the East Building of the Shanghai Museum, will be open to the public on a trial basis from the 16th, presenting a "textbook" to the audience. A comprehensive display of the general history of ancient Chinese sculpture art.

One-third of the cultural relics are on public display for the first time, including cultural relics that were lost overseas and returned to China.

On March 15, the reporter visited the Ancient Chinese Sculpture Hall in the East Building of the Shanghai Museum in advance.

Photo by China News Service reporter Wang Ji

　　The "Sculpture Hall" of the East Pavilion of Shanghai Bodhisattva takes time as the vertical axis and displays 289 pieces/sets of three-dimensional cultural relics such as bone carvings, jade carvings, bronzes, pottery figurines, gold and bronze statues, stone statues, and porcelain sculptures. Through the "Shang, Zhou, Qin, and Han Dynasties" The five major sections of "Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties", "Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties", "Song, Liao, Jin and Dali Kingdom" and "Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties" show a tangible general history of ancient Chinese sculpture art.

　　There are many representative treasures and orphan cultural relics in the exhibits.

For example, the Dali gilt-bronze Buddha statue in the exhibition hall is the largest known gold-bronze Buddha statue of its kind and is extremely precious.

The inner cavity of the Buddha statue contains the inscription that in the second year of the Ming Dynasty of Dali Kingdom (1163 AD), Zhang Xingming and others vowed to build a gold and bronze statue, and the sun would shine all over the body.

Zhang Xingming's official title is Yanbi, which is similar to a prime minister and has a distinguished status.

　　This Buddha statue was lost to the United States in the 1940s, and then to France; in the late 1990s, Kong Xiangmian, then chairman of Zhejiang First Bank in Hong Kong, funded the acquisition of this cultural relic and passed it on to his father Kong Shouheng. Donate to Shanghai Bo in the name of.

On March 15, the reporter visited the Ancient Chinese Sculpture Hall in the East Building of the Shanghai Museum in advance, where a group of fragments of statues from the Yungang Grottoes were on display.

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　　A group of statue fragments from Yungang Grottoes is also on public display for the first time.

This batch of cultural relics was collected by Japanese scholars Mizuno Seiichi, Nagahiro Toshio and others from 1939 to 1940 when they were cleaning up the "Tanyao Five Caves", and were transported to Japan before the end of the Anti-Japanese War.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, through the efforts of Chinese archaeologist Li Ji, literary historian Zhang Fengju and others, these cultural relics were traced back to China in 1948, and were collected in the Shanghai Museum in 1955.

　　"Around 2000, we discovered these fragments of Yungang Grottoes statues while doing daily sorting and inventory in the (Shanghai Museum) warehouse. After in-depth digging, we clarified the history of the return of cultural relics." Deputy Research Center of the Bronze Research Department of the Shanghai Museum Yuan Shi Ruoyu told a China News Service reporter that the cultural relics on display have both historical and academic value.

The Yungang Grottoes are a large-scale art masterpiece built by highly skilled artists and craftsmen during the Northern Wei Dynasty. The Tanyao Five Grottoes are the earliest cave group to be excavated in the Yungang Grottoes.

On March 15, the reporter visited the Ancient Chinese Sculpture Hall in the East Building of the Shanghai Museum in advance, where a tiger-shaped gilt copper town from the Western Han Dynasty was on display.

Photo by China News Service reporter Wang Ji

　　The cute and naive tiger-shaped gilt copper town of the Western Han Dynasty "occupies" the permanent exhibition hall for the first time.

This piece of Huzhen was crafted with exquisite craftsmanship. It is in the shape of a tiger curled up and lying down, with its head held high, and a collar decorated with shell patterns around its neck. The whole body is gilded. It is a precious masterpiece of Han Dynasty craft sculpture.

According to Shi Ruoyu, in the Qin and Han dynasties and earlier, people sat on the floor. In order to prevent the corners of the mat from being rolled up and clothes tied up when standing up and sitting down, which would affect their posture, mats were used to hold down the four corners of the mat.

"Through this Tiger Town, the audience can understand that the life of ancient Chinese people was very elegant." (End)