Exploring Liangzhu Ancient Country through Time and Space

? One day, a friend proposed to go to Liangzhu Museum on a whim. After a simple search, Baidu was attracted by a small flame. So I decided to take bread, grapes, water and other food, and hurried on the road, ready to travel through the dust of time, experience the charm of archaeology and explore the glory of Liangzhu for thousands of years.

? The fiery heart, provoked by the scorching sun, is getting more and more anxious. Fortunately, there are large tracts of green grass on both sides of the road, which makes people feel very comfortable. Surprisingly, there is also a beautiful name here: Beautiful Island Park.

? An elegant stone bridge spans the artificial lake, connecting the park and Liangzhu Museum. The lotus flowers in full bloom in the lake are dazzling in the hot sun; Lotus leaves dancing in the breeze are charming, fresh and natural. The intoxicating beauty brings coolness and greenness to visitors to the museum.

? Designed by British designers, the museum is made of yellow cave stones, interspersed with three patio-style open-air courtyards, like jade cones scattered on the ground. Rough, atmospheric, heavy and concise, it shows the jade cultural characteristics of Liangzhu cultural site, and falls on the wetland lake, reflecting the perfect harmony between art and nature, history and modernity.

? It covers an area of 40,000 square meters, with a building area of 1000 square meters and an exhibition area of more than 4,000 square meters. There are 3 regular exhibition halls and 0 temporary exhibition hall 1 hall, which comprehensively, stereoscopically and truly display the archaeological achievements and heritage value of Liangzhu site and Liangzhu culture, and reflect the "multi-integration" of Liangzhu civilization in Chinese civilization.

? Five thousand years ago, the ancestors of Liangzhu built a magnificent capital with their own wisdom and sweat, established an early country and created a brilliant early civilization. Five thousand years later, several generations of archaeologists have reconstructed the history of Liangzhu culture for us. Governments at all levels have made active efforts to protect Liangzhu sites, and thousands of people have made unique contributions to inheriting Liangzhu heritage. Today's Liangzhu people have created a five-in-one Liangzhu site protection model by studying the archaeological belt, the protection research belt, the publicity protection belt and the promotion of the inheritance belt.

? With the theme of "Liangzhu Site is the Exhibition of Chinese Civilization for 5,000 years", the exhibition hall shows the discovery of Liangzhu Site in 1936, the naming of Liangzhu Culture in 1959 and the establishment of Liangzhu Civilization in 2007. Over the past 80 years, it has gone through three stages of development: single archaeology, site group archaeology and Du Yi archaeology. Now, an ancient city of Liangzhu with complete structure and diverse functions is gradually unfolding in front of us, providing a physical witness for the history of 5,000 years of civilization.

? Liangzhu culture, 5300-4300 years ago, has developed rice farming, complicated social division of labor, obvious class differentiation and unified spiritual beliefs. The core of Liangzhu culture is Liangzhu ancient city, which consists of palace area, inner city and outer city, surrounded by a large water conservancy system.

? Liangzhu Ancient City is the largest Du Yi site in China and even in the world, with both the city wall and the water conservancy system 5,000 years ago. Liangzhu ancient city is the power and belief center of Liangzhu culture, which has entered the mature civilization and early national stage.

? Liangzhu Site shows the 5,000-year history of civilization in China. A wall with a height of dozens of people reads: Kingdom of God and King, unified belief, original characters, early country, jade civilization, rice civilization, urban civilization ... characters related to Liangzhu site leap onto the city wall, waiting for your exploration and discovery.

? The first exhibition hall, * * * is divided into four units, namely, human-land interdependence, Millennium time and space, the cornerstone of civilization and the national center, which tells the story of the rise and development of a kingdom built on wetlands.

? In the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China, there was a Taihu Lake called Zhenze in ancient times. Liangzhu site, about 5000 years ago, is located in Taihu Lake area in the southwest. The climate here is warm and humid, with dense water networks and rich resources, which is suitable for human settlement and provides a historical stage for Liangzhu ancestors to create civilization and early countries.

? 1936, Shi Xin discovered Liangzhu site. 1939, the famous archaeologist Liang Siyong pointed out that the ancient culture represented by Liangzhu site has a unique personality. 1959, the famous archaeologist Xia Nai was officially named Liangzhu Culture.

? Liangzhu culture is the peak of Neolithic culture development around Taihu Lake. Majiabang culture and Songze culture in shopping malls, followed by Qianshangyang culture and Guangfulin culture, are extremely important historical development directions.

? During the Liangzhu culture period, the ancestors cultivated land, planted rice and raised livestock. Rice becomes the most important food, and domestic pigs are the main source of meat. Pottery, textile, bone making, stone smelting, lacquer painting, jade carving and other handicraft production are more professional and systematic. In addition, there is a system of depicting symbols, which is regarded as the original characters. Highly developed agriculture and handicrafts have laid a solid economic foundation for the formation and development of Liangzhu civilization.

? During the Liangzhu culture period, more than 600 sites have been found around Taihu Lake, and the settlement differentiation is obvious. As the capital city, Liangzhu ancient city is subordinate to regional centers, and the relationship between Liangzhu ancient city and these regional centers is one-way and outward. This one-way political pattern makes Liangzhu ancient city the only and highest-level political center of Liangzhu culture, which shows the management level and control order of the early countries.

? The second exhibition hall is divided into several units: ancient city discovery, capital pattern, water conservancy civilization, early cities and so on. , showing the vivid scenes of the ancestors of Liangzhu. The section of the ancient city wall of Liangzhu obtained on the spot reflects the large-scale oil painting (6.6 meters high, 35 meters long and covering an area of more than 200 square meters) built by Jiaomo Mountain. The modern high-tech means such as sound, light and electricity are used to restore and reproduce the Liangzhu people in a panoramic view.

? The site of Liangzhu Ancient City discovered in 2007 proves the 5,000-year history of civilization in China and is known as the first city in China. It was selected as one of the top ten new archaeological discoveries in China in 2007 and a major field archaeological discovery in the first World Archaeological Shanghai Forum on 20 13, indicating that the planning, architecture and structural layout of Liangzhu ancient city are a model of early urban civilization in East Asia.

? As the center of the rights and beliefs of Liangzhu culture, Liangzhu Ancient City has reasonable planning, exquisite architecture, complete structure and huge projects. He is integrated with the surrounding mountains, solitary hills, river networks and wetlands, and * * * constitutes the overall pattern of mountains, hills, water and cities, which is an outstanding example of early urban civilization in the history of human civilization development.

? The water conservancy system in the northwest of Liangzhu ancient city consists of Gukou high dam, plain low dam and piedmont long dike. It is the earliest scientifically planned water resources management system in China and a masterpiece in the history of urban construction in China and even the world.

? Liangzhu ancient city is composed of palace area, inner city and outer city, which constitutes a triple centripetal structure. The central geographical location of the palace area and the complex civil building base site, the inner city's mausoleum, workshop area, vertical and horizontal waterways and the Jiangnan lifestyle living near the water, the outer city's stars and the moon, and the enclosed artificial building platform are all inhabited by villagers. There are large-scale villages, altars and cemeteries, moat settlements and large-scale paddy fields in the outer suburbs.

? About 5,000 years ago, as several important areas where human civilization originated, a series of early cities appeared in the Nile Valley, the Indus Valley, the Yellow River Valley and the Yangtze River Valley. They are the population center, cultural center, economic center, political center, religious center and military center in this region, and they are the signs that human society has entered the civilized era.

? The agricultural production in Liangzhu period has been clearly organized, managed and planned. The largest Liangzhu culture paddy field was discovered at Maoshan site in Yuhang, Zhejiang Province. Divided into strips by irrigation canals and ridges, with an area of1000-2,000m2 and a total area of 55,000m2 (equivalent to more than 80 mu).

? An Important Feature of Liangzhu Civilization-Jade Civilization. Jade is the material carrier of power, etiquette and belief in Liangzhu period, which is used to identify identity and distinguish grades. In Liangzhu period, the emblem of God was regarded as a god with the same belief, and it was a national form with the characteristics of the unity of politics and religion to embody Liangzhu society with the jade ceremony system.

? Among a large number of fine jade articles in Liangzhu period, such as jade cong, jade Yue, jade bi, jade brand ornaments, jade trident, bead string, jade dagger, etc., there is a highly consistent belief and centralization of divine power, military power and royal power, which is the physical witness of Liangzhu culture's mature civilization and early country, and fully demonstrates the important position and influence of Liangzhu civilization in China and the world at the same time or in similar civilizations.

? The appearance of these collections may be unremarkable, but they are numerous and complete, which can give you a general understanding of Liangzhu culture or jade etiquette. Besides appreciating the exquisite and complicated patterns on jade articles, we can also know the significance and status of jade articles with different shapes.

Through a large number of unearthed cultural relics, large oil paintings, sand table models, illustrations of archaeological knowledge, cinema videos and some interactive games, the museum gives you an all-round and intuitive understanding of this "ancient Liangzhu country", and you can feel the details of Liangzhu people's agriculture, pottery making and jade making more deeply. The advanced material form and manufacturing technology of Liangzhu culture are integrated with the etiquette and ideology of the Central Plains, creating a splendid Chinese civilization.

? Here, there are too many feelings and shocks.

? In order to reduce the impact of transit traffic on the site of Jiaomoshan Palace on G 104 national highway, the state invested 240 million yuan to re-plan the new national highway 1997, avoiding the site area and protecting the integrity of Liangzhu ancient city. 20 106, the state permanently closed the original 104 national highway.

? A large amount of talking rice was found in Chizhong Temple in the south of Jiaomoshan Palace, covering an area of nearly 1 000 square meters. It is estimated that the storage capacity of rice is about 360,000 kilograms. This should be the grain storage area of Liangzhu ancient city.

? A total of 647 jade articles (excluding jade pieces and jade grains) were unearthed from the tomb of Fanshanling 12, among which the largest Cong Wang and Tuo Wang in Liangzhu culture have micro-carved figures of man and beast, which shows the exclusive status of the king. This tomb should be the king of Liangzhu.

? Through scientific and technological means, the museum restored a true and complete primitive bone unearthed from Tomb 49 of Bianjiashan Site in Yuhang, which proved to be a 25-year-old ancestor of Liangzhu who died of illness 5000 years ago.

The museum reproduces the scene of the discovery of Liangzhu by archaeologists with wax figures, and can perceive the process of Liangzhu culture being gradually understood. ...

? In addition to traditional exhibitions, visitors can also go to the visitor center. Liangzhu has unique cultural and creative products, such as tatami, small coffee table, jade chopsticks, clothes with images of gods and emblems, which tourists can buy together if they like.

? There are three open-air courtyards in the museum building. The decoration with jade as the representative element of Liangzhu culture is very poetic in the water, and the surrounding beautiful scenery can be rested. Shuttling through this architectural space is already a kind of enjoyment. The beautiful mainland park outside the museum is covered with green grass, and tourists often set up tents for picnics. If you have enough time, you can also visit the nearby Liangzhu Cultural Village and have a delicious meal in Liangzhu Food Street.