China News Service, Beijing, February 22 (Xinhua) Recently, Taiwan's "Economic Daily" published a report on Beihai City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, introducing the Hepu Han Dynasty Cultural Museum.
According to reports, the Hepu Han Dynasty Culture Museum, which mainly displays the history and culture of the Maritime Silk Road in the Han Dynasty, has a collection of more than 5,000 cultural relics, and is famous for its Eastern Han Dynasty Persian pottery pots, glasses, golden flower ball bracelets, brown sardonyx and other cultural relics.
Hepu Ancient Port was one of the starting ports of the Maritime Silk Road in the Han Dynasty. It was once a prosperous place with numerous business travelers and thousands of miles of sailing boats.
The buildings in the museum include imitation Han stone gates, Han tomb protection exhibition hall, central cultural relics exhibition hall, etc.
The basic display is "Pearlful Sail Shadows - Hepu Maritime Silk Road Cultural Relics Exhibition", which displays the history and culture of Hepu as the starting port of the Maritime Silk Road in the Han Dynasty.
Hepu Han Dynasty Culture Museum.
Image source: Taiwan's "Economic Daily"
A total of more than 1,200 tombs have been excavated in Hepu County, and nearly 20,000 cultural relics have been unearthed.
At present, it is the earliest and only Persian pottery pot from the Eastern Han Dynasty unearthed in China. It is the treasure of the Han Dynasty Culture Museum in Hepu and bears witness to the prosperous exchanges between the Han Dynasty and Persia.
It is very different from the pottery pots unearthed in China, which were made in what is now southern Iraq or southwestern Iran.
Many of the Hu merchant figurines unearthed in the Tang Dynasty were holding Persian-shaped pots.
Persian clay pot.
Image source: Taiwan's "Economic Daily"
The copper phoenix lantern embodies the exquisite craftsmanship of Chinese craftsmen two thousand years ago. It is exquisitely made, lifelike in shape, and has high cultural and artistic appreciation. It is a rare fine product among the ancient bronzes of the Western Han Dynasty.
It looks like a phoenix standing with its feet side by side, looking back with its head raised.
When the lamp is lit, the soot from the wax torch enters the neck through the mouth of the phoenix, reaches the abdominal cavity and dissolves into the water. It is an early product with environmental protection functions.
The bronze horse is standing, with a detailed and vivid head, wide eyes, nostrils, and a neighing look.
Bronze horses are Mongolian horses that are small in size but have strong muscles.
Mongolian horses far in the north actually appear as bronze horses in Lingnan tombs. This is because Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty first established Hepu County, which became the political, economic and cultural center of the Lingnan region. A large number of Han people from the Central Plains moved south, and the custom of rich burials in the Han Dynasty also spread. By Lingnan, bronze vessels were widely used by the upper class, and bronze horses appeared in tombs in the south.
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