西安博物院英文简介

Xi’an used to be the capital of 13 different dynasties for thousands of years, including Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang Dynasties. And hence, it becomes an ancient capital city with the longest years of history and biggest times of being a capital city i n Chinese history.Xi’an, as the earliest international metropolis in China, also was the starting point of the famous “Silk Route”. Nowadays in Xi’an, there are 2 944 registered culture remains, of which 41 are national key culture protection units, 65 provincial key culture protection units. The various culture remains and relics take the vivid record of Xi’an’s splendid history, and make Xi’an a famous historic city around the world.Xi’an Museum, covering an area of 245 hectares, was officially opened to the p ublic in May 2007. This museum collectively reflects the long history of Xi’an city, integrating with the small Wild Goose Pagoda, the national key protection culture unit, the ancient building groups of Janfu Temple, and the modern culture relic exhibition hall. The harmony combination demonstrates the special features of this garden museum, the strong historic atmosphere in the modernity.In the Tang Dynasty, Jianfu Temple was a very famous royal temple, but destroyed in the war at the end of the Tang Dynasty. The existed Jianfu Temple was rebuilt in Ming and Qing dynasties. Except the small Wild Goose Pagoda, the culture remains of the Tang Dynasty, t he ancient building groups took after the layout of the region of Zhengtong of the Ming Dynasty (1436-1448 A.D.) The hall buildings are distributed along the middle axis from the main entrance gate to Small Wild Goose Pagoda, includin g Bell Drum Tower, Cishi Cabinet, the Grate Hall of the Buddha, mandapa, and Baiyi Cabinet. The small Wild Goose Pagoda was built in the region of Jinglong of the Tang Dynasty (707—710 A. D). It was originally called “Jianfu Pagoda”. The body of the pagoda was originally square shaped multi-eaved brick tower with 15 stories. After some times of earthquakes in the Ming Dynasty, the top of the pagoda, the 14th and 15th stories were destroyed, and the body experienced cracking and “healing”. People called that “the Magical Healing”. The existe d small Wild Goose Pagoda is 13-storeyed, with 43.4 meters in height and 11.38 meters in length of the bottom line, still retaining the appearance of that in the Tang Dynasty. In 1961, it was listed as the national key culture protection unit. The harmony co-existence between the small Wild Goose Pagoda, the ancient building groups of Jianfu Temp le, and the folk relics, like Chang’an anci ent music, horse racks, artistic exhibition made it possible for the tourists enjoy the culture relics and folk art in an extremely beautiful environment, where there are green trees, fragrant flowers and singing birds. It also opens a window for people’s better knowledge of Chinese traditional culture.The culture exhibition hall, as the main building of Xi’an Museum, was designed under the charge of Mrs. Zhang Jinqiu, the famous designer, academician of the Chinese Academy of Science, designer of Shaanxi History Museum. In the activity advocated by the news media of 2004, this building was selected as one of the ten symbol architecture of Xi’an in future. The museum covers the floor space of over 16 000 square meters, exhibition area of over 5 000 square meters. Out of the 130 000 pieces or sets of collected culture relics, 14 400 pieces or sets are cherished culture relics, exceeding national standard of third class. Almost 2 000 pieces or sets of relics are exhibited to the public for the first time. The extraordinarily splendid, various culture relics mark the different aspect of Chinese ancient history. The exhibition of Xi’an Museum consists of the basic exhibition, specific theme exhibition and temporary exhibition.Basic Exhibition is subject to the theme of “ancient capital Xi’an”, demonstrating the capital development history with various city models of Zhou, Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties for over one thousand years. The different culture relics groups reflects people’s lives in the old times, Bronze Jar with Inscription “Yong”of Western Han Dynasty, white porcelain plate of Tang Dynasty, the gold mirror, Female Pottery Figures, Th r-colored riding horse, and silk routes related stone coffin, camel groups all are very rare and valued.Buddhist Statures of Chang’an City is mainly about stone Buddhism status, plus some gold or copper ones from Northern Wei Period to Yuan and Ming dynasties (4-17th A.D.). The status formed the special system and the w ell-selected gatherings collectively reflect the extremely prosperous of the Buddhism in Chang’an city. The gold glided copper status made by Dong Qin of the Song Dynasty, the stone gold bodhisattva, and the iron Buddhism of the Tang dynasty are very valued.Ancient Calligraphy Artistic Exhibition has the theme of “various styles of calligraphy, the great history”. There are around 100 pieces of calligraphy works out of almost 10 000 collected ones. “To visit a friend at the mountain in spr ing” by Sheng Mao of Yuan Dynasty, “Double eagles “ by Lin Liang of Ming Dynasty are the best ones.Jade Wares Exhibition’s theme is “the treasure of the cosmos”. Over 120 pieces or sets of jade wares are classified according to its different functionand usage. Highly crafted jade glass of Qin Dynasty, vivid jade pig of Han Dynasty, powerful jade head of Tang Dynasty all are very valued in appreciation.Seals Exhibition is themed with “little square, great world”. The differenttimes of seals are divided into different groups, including official seals, personal seals. There are 200 seals exhibited here. The clay seal of Qin Dynasty, over 200 official seals of Jin period unearthed at Drum Bell Tower site in one exploration both have evoked great national attention.The Temporary Exhibition Hall has ove r160 pieces or sets of wellchosen culture relics from the administered districts and counties u pon the opening of the exhibition. For the first time, these culture relics are exhibited to the public in the unit of each individual district or county, with the theme of “rare relics of ancient city”.The advanced technology adds the interest of exhibition and opens a time and space channel of history for tourists. Automatic Speech Guided Navigation System makes it possible for tourists to have an easy and enjoyable visit in Xi’an Museum. The beautiful garden scenes and well-designed night lighting system are very impressive and attractive.Walking in Xi’an museum, tourists can not only get better knowledge of Xi’an’s long history, as well as its significant development and youthful vigor!The night view of Xi’an MuseumThe garden of Xi’an MuseumBuddhism status Exhibition HallBasic Exhibition HallThe Iron Bell of Jin Period—“Morning Bell Chimes”, one of the E ight Famous Scenic Attractions in the central Shaanxi PlainSmall Wild Goose Pagoda—Multi-eaved brick tower of the Tang DynastyH orse racks。