With the aim of "carrying forward the inherent culture, advocating academic research, increasing people's knowledge and promoting social civilization" and the goal of building a "domestic leading and world-class" museum, Henan Museum has continuously improved the level of public cultural services and carefully created a brand of public cultural services, which is an important window to appreciate the cultural charm of the Central Plains and an important bridge to enhance cultural exchanges and cooperation.
Upside down, the human path is vicissitudes; Looking back suddenly, we have gone through a tortuous course, and our footprints are deeply engraved in the deep layer of history-Henan Museum has gone through decades of ups and downs since the establishment of 1927, and has devoted several generations of hard work and sweat. Nowadays, with the rejuvenation of the nation and the prosperity of the motherland, she is gradually moving towards glory and playing an increasingly important role in the construction of socialist spiritual civilization. The development of Henan Museum is proud and encouraging. As a microcosm of the development history of China Museum, it will be remembered by history forever.
Henan Museum is one of the earliest museums in the history of China. As early as June 1927, General Feng Yuxiang, then Commander-in-Chief of the National Revolutionary Army and Chairman of the Henan Provincial Government, put forward the idea that "education is the foundation of building a country" in the Platform for Governing Henan Province, and tried his best to support cultural and educational undertakings. In July of the same year, under the cordial care of General Feng Yuxiang, He was appointed as the preparatory committee member of Henan Museum by the provincial government, which was subordinate to the Provincial Department of Education, and the original school building of Court West Street in Kaifeng was designated as the museum site (now Sanshengmiao Street in Kaifeng City), which was the beginning of the development of Henan Museum.
However, the only museum in Henan before liberation, since its birth, has embarked on a bumpy road with the turmoil of the current situation. 1928 in may, the former Henan provincial government renamed Henan museum as "national museum" to show the history and present situation of all ethnic groups, publicize the ideal of national harmony and world harmony, and changed it to the direct leadership of the provincial government. At the same time, part of the confiscated legacy of Liushi Ancient Hall will be allocated as special funds to be opened within a time limit. The purpose of the National Museum is to "inspire people's knowledge and civilization, surge their lives, and promote social civilization", and extensively collect physical materials on history, natural science, agriculture, art and health. In June of the same year, 10 and 10, the first exhibition was successfully held by using a large number of models and other means without collections.
The murals of the Four Gods and Clouds depict a fantastic picture, in which dragons, tigers, suzaku, monsters, sacred mountains, Ganoderma lucidum, exotic flowers and herbs, and clouds and clouds constitute the afterlife world imagined by Han people. This mural is huge in scale, rich in cultural connotation and superb in painting art, which is rare for murals in the Han Dynasty. It is also the earliest existing tomb mural with the highest specification and the most complete preservation in China.
1 930 65438+February1day, the Henan provincial government restored the "National Museum" to "Henan Museum" and determined it as a social education institution directly under the Provincial Department of Education. 65438+On February 23rd, the Education Department appointed Guan Baiyi as the curator and reclaimed the people's normal school's house as an antique showroom. 1 9311On October 20th, the Henan Provincial Department of Education promulgated the Regulations on the Establishment of Museums in Henan Province, which defined the purpose of museums as: "1. Carry forward the inherent culture; Second, promote academic research; Third, increase people's knowledge; Fourth, promote social civilization. " At the same time, two departments, namely, the Preservation Department and the Collection Research Department, were established, and a seven-member Council composed of the Director of the Civil Affairs Department, the Director of the Education Department, the President of Henan University and the curator of the museum was established. The original 19 exhibition hall of the National Museum was adjusted to seven, and a large number of national costumes and models were demolished, enriching historical relics. During the eight years from 1930 to 1937, Henan Museum experienced unprecedented development. The collection of historical relics is the most abundant and exquisite, with the local characteristics of Henan, and a group of high-level researchers represented by Guan Baiyi have emerged. Since then, Henan Museum has gained fame and won wide acclaim at home and abroad. The July 7th Incident broke out in 1937, when Japanese imperialism invaded. In order to avoid the destruction of cultural relics, 68 boxes of main cultural relics in the collection were forced to move to Chongqing, and the work came to a standstill. 1940 During the Puppet-Manchu War, the Henan Provincial Museum was renamed as "Henan Provincial Museum", which consisted of the Ministry of Affairs, the Museum Preservation Department and the Research Department. After the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang Henan Provincial Government sent Xie Menggang as the receiver and took over the Henan Provincial Museum under the control of the Japanese and Puppet authorities. However, due to the outbreak of the war of liberation, the Kuomintang government was busy with the civil war, the economy was seriously lacking, the funds were tight, and the museum was struggling.
Wu Zetian's Golden Bamboo Slip This is not only the only golden bamboo slip found in China at present, but also the only movable cultural relic related to Wu Zetian. It is of great value to the study of the history of Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian's political thought, Wu Zetian's calligraphy, the ancient system of sending slips and the ancient system of collecting Zen.
1948, the China People's Liberation Army was in full swing and liberated the ancient capital Kaifeng. The party and government attached great importance to cultural education and cultural undertakings, and immediately set up a three-person management team, mainly Zhao Ganting, to enter the museum and sort it out. 1949165438+10, the Henan provincial government appointed Qu Naisheng, director of the provincial education department, as the curator, and began to organize personnel, organize cultural relics and exhibition rooms, repair houses and facilities, and carry out business activities. Once again, the museum is full of vitality and prosperity.
1953 According to the opinions of the Central Ministry of Culture on the policy, task, nature and development direction of local museums, Henan Provincial Museum was identified as a local museum. 196 1 year, the Henan Provincial Museum moved from Kaifeng to Zhengzhou, the provincial capital, with a good exhibition venue. However, just as the museum carried out various business activities in a planned and orderly manner, an unprecedented cultural revolution began.
Before it was discovered, Zhengzhou Mall was just an ordinary city site in the early Shang Dynasty. 1974 was found in Zhengzhou Mall. Its regular shape and simple decorative patterns show the ability and identity that only a generation of Shang kings have. That's Ling Du Fontaine! Its discovery provides strong evidence for determining that Zhengzhou Mall was the capital of the early Shang Dynasty.
During the Cultural Revolution 10, the museum was paralyzed and its business was abandoned. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Henan Provincial Museum gradually improved and entered a new historical development period. Especially in the 1980s, the strength of museums has been growing, and the institutional setup tends to be reasonable. Departments such as Exhibition Department, Custody Department, Social Education Department, Library, Research Department, Central Plains Cultural Relics Department, Office, Administration Department and Security Department have been established, and post responsibility system and various rules and regulations have been established. The museum has taken on a new look of prosperity.
The sun and the moon alternate, and the vicissitudes of life change greatly. The wheel of history entered the 1990s. With the deepening of reform and opening up, the increasingly frequent international cultural exchanges and the rapid development of tourism have further promoted the development of national museums. Because the building of Henan Museum was built in Zhengzhou during the Great Leap Forward from 65438 to 0958, it is difficult to meet the growing needs of today's museums in terms of architectural form, architectural scale and internal facilities. Therefore, the leaders of the Henan Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government were far-sighted and decided to build a modern museum in Zhengzhou, the provincial capital, during the Eighth Five-Year Plan period. 199 1 autumn, according to comrade-related instructions, with the active efforts of former provincial party secretary Hou Zongbin and former governor-and other leading comrades, the State Council decided to build a new building jointly by the state and Henan Province.
"Fu Hao _ Zun Fu Hao _ Zun" belongs to the second phase of Yin Ruins bronzes and is the earliest bird-shaped bronze statue found in China. Its overall shape is an A-shape with its head held high. The vivid modeling of _ Zun, combined with the complex patterns such as cicada pattern, double-headed tattoo, gluttonous pattern and snake pattern, makes the whole utensil look more dignified and gloomy, and contains the unique religious feelings and aesthetic concepts of Yin and Shang ancestors. This is a rare work of art. ..
The new museum is located in the middle section of Nongye Road in Zhengzhou City, covering an area of 654.38+10,000 square meters, with a construction area of 78,000 square meters, with an accumulated investment of nearly 300 million yuan, which took five years to complete. The main exhibition hall is located in the center of the campus, in the shape of a pyramid, followed by the cultural relics warehouse, with audio-visual education building, comprehensive service building, office building, training building and so on at the four corners. The overall architectural structure is rigorous, magnificent, simple and elegant, with a unique artistic style, and also reflects the characteristics of the Central Plains culture.
According to the requirements of the National Modern Museum, the new museum has perfect internal facilities and complete functions. There are automatic fire control system, safety monitoring system, office automation management system, cultural relics protection system, audio-visual education system, building automation system and other facilities. 1In July 1997, the Henan Provincial Government decided to merge the Central Plains Stone Carving Art Museum with the Henan Provincial Museum to form the Henan Museum. The establishment of Henan Museum is a milestone in the development history of Henan Museum and an important event in the history of China Museum.
Henan is located in the Central Plains with a long history and rich cultural relics. It is one of the important cradles of Chinese civilization. Since ancient times, our ancestors have thrived on vast land, created rich and colorful ancient culture, and laid a solid material foundation for the development of Henan Museum.
Jade handle iron sword Jade handle iron sword, scientific name jade handle copper core iron sword, was unearthed in the tomb of Guo Guojun in Sanmenxia, Henan Province. It consists of an iron sword body, a copper handle core and a jade sword handle, and the copper handle core connects the jade sword handle and the iron sword body. It is a typical dagger, so-called "the first sword of China", but in fact, it should be called "the first iron sword of China".
At the beginning of its establishment, Henan Museum attached great importance to the collection of cultural relics. However, due to the lack of rich experience at that time, the work of the museum was very blind and random, and the collection of collections was often a simple "treasure", which was quite complicated and mixed.
Lotus Crane Square Pot is a bronze wine vessel and an important bronze ritual vessel, which was used by the ancients to offer sacrifices to gods and ancestors and to entertain guests. As a kind of bronze ware with great vitality in the Bronze Age, the shape of the copper pot is constantly changing and developing, and the lotus crane square pot is an unparalleled treasure in the Bronze Age and one of the earliest collections of the predecessor of Henan Museum.
From 1930 to 1936, the preservation of the old Henan Museum is booming, and a lot of fruitful work has been done in the collection, arrangement and research of the collections. In particular, under the leadership of Mr. Guan Baiyi, he successively received all the cultural relics preserved by the Antiquities Preservation Committee, including 1923 unearthed bronzes in the Spring and Autumn Period in Xinzheng, 1925+065438+ 10 unearthed porcelain in the Song Dynasty in Chengguan, Yanling, and stone carvings in Luoyang and other places. In 1934 and 1935, a large number of ancient famous paintings and modern artworks have been collected successively, which greatly enriched and improved the quantity and quality of the museum collections. It is particularly worth mentioning that the museum has also actively carried out many field excavations and obtained a large number of unearthed cultural relics. The collections in this period are not only numerous, but also of high quality and precious. For example, lotus crane square pot, large tripod, Wang Ziying secondary furnace, chime, etc. Xinzheng unearthed; Jiuyu handle in Dengfeng county; Stone carvings include the sarcophagus of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the statue tablet of Liu Gen, eight statues, four statues of the Sui Dynasty, inscriptions on stupas, epitaphs of the boy in the Tang Dynasty, two-body stone scriptures in the Song Dynasty, and inscriptions on Jinshi in the Jin Dynasty. Because it has a large number of cultural relics, it has greatly improved its position in the national museum industry and has been well received abroad. At that time, there was such a comment: "In addition to the Palace Museum, the Henan Museum ranked second in the collection of China Museum."
During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, in order to ensure the safety of cultural relics, the staff of Henan Museum carefully selected 5,678 cultural relics, 65,438 rubbings +0 162 books and 1472 sets (volumes), which were packed in 68 boxes and transported to Hankou and stored in the French Concession. 1September, 938, with the increasingly critical domestic situation, the cultural relics stored in Hankou were transported to Chongqing, thus avoiding looting and destruction by the Japanese aggressors. As for the cultural relics left in Kaifeng, after the fall of Kaifeng, the whereabouts of most bronzes and ironware were unknown. 68 boxes of cultural relics stored in Chongqing were selected by the Kuomintang government in June1949165438+10, of which 519 pieces of cultural relics and 0/450 sets (volumes) of books were shipped to Taiwan Province. At this point, the Henan Museum has been greatly weakened, and the cultural relics museum, which has been painstakingly operated for more than 20 years, has no fine products, and the museum exists in name only.
After the founding of New China, with the care and support of the Party and the government, the Henan Museum got the upper hand, rallied, vigorously carried out the collection of cultural relics, and quickly recovered its vitality through investigation, acquisition, donation, excavation, selection and allocation. Moreover, the quantity and quality of cultural relics in the collection are not comparable to those in the past. Up to now, the collection of cultural relics has reached10,000 pieces, especially prehistoric cultural relics, Shang and Zhou bronzes and ancient ceramics, which are world-renowned and have high historical, scientific and artistic value. Such as Neolithic painted pottery unearthed from Dahecun site in Zhengzhou, stork and stone axe painted pottery unearthed from Linru, Zhengzhou kiln-bronze ware, Chu bronze ware unearthed from Xichuan, bronze ware unearthed from Yingguo cemetery in Pingdingshan, bronze ware unearthed from Guo cemetery in Sanmenxia, Chu gold and silver coins unearthed from Fugou, Luoyang Tang tricolor and Jun porcelain. In addition, since 1954, the museum has sent collectors to the old revolutionary areas for investigation and visit many times, and has collected a large number of precious revolutionary cultural relics. At the same time, it also received some revolutionary cultural relics and related materials handed over by provincial military regions, provincial civil affairs departments and other units, among which there are many treasures, such as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Proclamation, the Boxer Banner, the bloody clothes of Ji Hongchang martyrs when they died, the relics of Peng Xuefeng martyrs, Lingdao Weekly, New Youth Magazine, Red Flag, Zhongzhou Review, Dawn and so on.
In recent ten years, with the deepening of cultural relics work, long-buried underground cultural relics have finally come to light and reappeared. In order to cooperate with the construction of Henan Museum, give full play to Henan's advantages as a major cultural relic province, and reproduce Henan's splendid ancient culture from different aspects, with the strong support and care of the provincial party committee, the provincial government, the Department of Culture and the Cultural Relics Bureau, a large number of fine cultural relics have been collected from cultural relics units at the central, provincial and municipal levels. These fine cultural relics, like pearls embedded in the land of the Central Plains, radiate brilliant brilliance and will surely attract countless tourists at home and abroad with infinite charm.
Exhibition is the central link of all business work. Since its establishment, Henan Museum has been working around this center. During the period of "National Museum", "National Model Exhibition" was the first exhibition held in the history of Henan Museum. The exhibition is dominated by statues, accompanied by photos, showing models of all ethnic groups at home and abroad. After the exhibition, it caused a sensation among all walks of life and citizens in Kaifeng at that time, "tourists blocked the road."
During the period from "Henan Museum" 1930 to 1937, on the basis of extensive collection of historical relics, folk relics and various natural specimens, the 13 exhibition hall was opened successively. For example, the exhibition room of unearthed artifacts in Anyang Yin Ruins, Xinzheng Ancient Artifacts Exhibition Room, Luoyang Antiquities Exhibition Room, Rock Exhibition Room, National Model Exhibition Room, Kaifeng Suoguo Temple Old Collection Cultural Relics Exhibition Room, Stone Carving Exhibition Room, Tibetan Classics Exhibition Room, Plant and Mineral Specimen Exhibition Room, Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition Room, etc. Due to the limited exhibition level at that time, under the guidance of materialism, the exhibition quality was poor, but it can still be seen that the "Henan Museum" at that time had begun to take shape and was a brilliant museum in China.
Jia Hu Bone Flute This is a kind of flute from ancient times. Unearthed in the Neolithic site of Jiahu, Wuyang, in the upper reaches of Huaihe River in central Henan. It is made of the hollow ulna of cranes and birds and can play music of about seven syllables. Its excavation rewrites the time and history of the origin of China music, which is a miracle in the history of ancient music civilization in China.
From 65438 to 0937, after the collection of cultural relics arrived in Chongqing, the collection of Kaifeng Museum continued to be displayed and opened, but the quantity and quality were greatly inferior. 1938, the Japanese invaders occupied Kaifeng, and the museum was forced to stop its activities. It was not until 1940 that the museum was renamed as "Henan Provincial Museum" under the rule of the Puppet Army that the original exhibition was opened.
After liberation, Henan Museum was reborn. During the period of 1949- 196 1, in addition to the three basic exhibitions of Henan natural environment and resources, Henan history and Henan revolutionary cultural relics, dozens of exhibitions were held, most of which were related to the central tasks and political movements in various periods. Such as the exhibition from ape to man (1950), repression-exhibition (195 1), great motherland exhibition (1952), bronze ware exhibition (1952), bronze ware exhibition, etc.
When commenting on the glaze color of Ru kiln, predecessors said that "sky blue is the most precious, pink is the most precious, and sky blue is the most precious". This kind of azure glaze carved goose neck bottle has a small mouth and a large bottom, and the outline of the bottle is a smooth "S" curve. The glazed surface is bright, and the lotus pattern is hidden under the glazed layer, which has never been seen in the handed down products of Ru kiln.
The period from 196 1 to 1966 is a period of steady development and more exhibitions of Henan Museum. At the beginning of moving to Zheng, he held an exhibition of historical relics in Henan Province jointly with the provincial cultural relics team, exhibiting more than 2,000 cultural relics. Every day, the audience poured in and won the praise of the broad masses. 1963 Henan Revolutionary Cultural Relics Exhibition reproduces the history of Henan revolutionary struggle with objects, pictures, paintings and writing systems. 1964, based on the original exhibition of historical relics, after in-depth research, design and production, the first basic exhibition after moving to Zheng, Henan History Exhibition, was held, which reflected the general situation of ancient Henan history.
During the "Cultural Revolution", the exhibition was greatly impacted, and the exhibition was polluted as a "black exhibition" and was sealed up. In this harsh environment, museum staff held several educational exhibitions with a high sense of responsibility. Such as the history exhibition of Kangda University, Jiao Deeds Exhibition, Hongqi Canal Exhibition and Luo Yang Coal Mine History Exhibition.
The 20 years from 1977 to 1997 can be said to be the 20 years of great development of Henan Museum. The exhibition work has been done brilliantly, and the status of the National Museum of Cultural Relics has been gradually established. First, 1980, Henan History Exhibition resumed. On the basis of the exhibition before the Cultural Revolution, the exhibition has added new contents and adopted new display equipment and means, making it more scientific and popular, and truly becoming a cultural garden loved by the people. Since 198 1, dozens of exhibitions have been held, including Henan Revolutionary Cultural Relics Exhibition, Ancient Sculpture Art Exhibition, Ancient Architecture Art Exhibition, Ming and Qing Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition, Collection Fine Cultural Relics Exhibition and Chu Bronze Exhibition. The number of visitors has increased year by year, with an average annual audience of more than 300,000.
What is particularly striking is that through more than six years of brewing and in-depth research, with the collective wisdom of Henan Museum and the support of leaders at all levels of the central government, provinces and cities and brother units, Henan Museum grandly launched the Light of Ancient Culture in Henan, Centennial Storm in the Central Plains, Ancient Stone Carving Art in Henan, Ancient Jade in Henan, Ancient Architecture in Henan, Bronze in Chu and Bronze in Ming and Qing Dynasties on the day of its completion. In particular, The Light of Ancient Culture in Henan is the largest, most advanced and more substantial exhibition in Henan Museum in recent 70 years. The exhibition hall covers an area of more than 3,200 square meters and exhibits 1000 pieces (sets), all of which belong to cultural relics collections, showing the brilliant achievements of ancient Henan culture. In terms of content, change the traditional mode and increase the audience's participation in the project as much as possible; Formally, modern scientific and technological means such as sound, light and electricity are widely used to make the audience really pleasing to the eye; In terms of explanation means, it is equipped with advanced equipment such as computer-controlled automatic amplification recording explanation, video amplification, voice-controlled slide show, induction recording explanation, etc., which increases some projects that the audience participates in, and can meet the audience's demand for knowledge, appreciation and entertainment of cultural relics to the greatest extent.
In addition, since its establishment, Henan Museum has been making active efforts and attempts for the cultural relics of the Central Plains to go out of Henan and go to the world. For example, at the China Art International Exhibition held in London in 1935- 1936, eight unearthed bronzes from Xinzheng, selected by Henan Museum, caused a sensation in London and were highly praised by overseas audiences. Over the past 70 years, he has also held and participated in exhibitions abroad: 1980 Danish and Swiss China Rare Exhibition, 1985 China Clay Fighter Art Exhibition, 1986 Yellow River Civilization Exhibition, and 1987 China Clay Fighter Art Exhibition. 1990 China Han Civilization Exhibition, 199 1 French Prehistoric Cultural Relics Exhibition, 1992 Australian Emperor China Exhibition, 1993 Danish Emperor Exhibition, 1993 Danish Emperor Exhibition. Through the exhibition, we have strengthened our friendship with people all over the world, and let more overseas audiences know more about the profound culture of Henan and the long-standing Central Plains.
4. From Journal of Henan Museum to Cultural Relics of Central Plains
With a history of 70 years, Henan Museum is not only a place where cultural relics gather, but also a place of cultural education and an important position for scientific research. Especially in the forty years after liberation, Henan Museum has trained a large number of talents in the field of scientific research and achieved fruitful results.
1929, after the cultural relics of Yin Ruins entered the museum, the then Henan Museum hired an archaeologist Guan Baiyi as a member to study and revise Oracle Bone Inscriptions and various artifacts, and published them in a book. At the end of 1930, Mr. Guan Baiyi took over the post of curator and established the research department at the same time, and the scientific research work entered a formal stage. According to rough statistics, during the period of 193 1- 1938, Henan Museum published more than 100 books of various cultural relics and research works. The more important ones are Yi Que Stone Carving Map (Guan Baiyi), Stone Painting (Guan Baiyi), Yin Ruins Preserving Truth in Objects (Guan Baiyi), Yin Ruins Preserving Truth in Figures (Guan Baiyi), Xinzheng Antique Textual Research (Guan Baiyi), Nanyang Han Painting Portrait (Guan Baiyi) and Henan Jinshi Textual Research. In terms of research content, it has strong local characteristics of Henan and gives full play to the advantages of local museums. In terms of research methods, they attach importance to practice, and researchers often go out of the study to personally participate in the collection and arrangement of cultural relics and specimens. For example, in August of 1935, Guan Baiyi excavated the tomb of the Warring States in Shanbiao Town, Jixian County; /kloc-in the spring of 0/936, Sun participated in the 13th excavation of Yin Ruins; From September 1936 to1October 165438+, Xu and Guo Yucai excavated in Huixian.
1July, 936, after Wang Youqiao became the curator, he founded the Journal of Henan Museum for the purpose of "displaying culture and studying academics", but it was closed in March, 938 due to the Japanese invasion. In just two years, * * * published 15, which was rich in content and fascinating. It is really worthy of the name "Lang Lang, Linlin, gathered together and became a grand view of ancient culture in Zhongzhou", which can not only understand the development history of Henan Museum in detail, but also have a number of important archaeological theories, archaeological investigation reports and archaeological research papers, which are still important academic reference materials until today.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, with the rapid development of museums, scientific research has gradually deepened. In the past 40 years, despite the influence of many political movements, it has achieved unprecedented results. There are thousands of archaeological excavation reports and academic papers, and dozens of monographs and popular books have been published. The more important ones are Sketch of China Ceramics (edited by Henan Provincial Museum), Inscription of Longmen Statue (edited by Henan Provincial Museum), Henan Provincial Museum (No.7 China Museum), Slave Society in China (Xu Shunzhan), Stacked Castings in Han Dynasty (Tang Wenxing), Ancient Culture in Central Plains (Xu Shunzhan) and Essays on Xia Culture Research. Dawn of the Yellow River Civilization (Xu Shunzhan), Records of Archaeological Documents in Wenbo, Henan Province (edited by Sun Chuanxian), Han Painting-A Study of Portraits of Han Dynasty in Henan Province (Zhou Zhou,), essays on the completion of Henan Museum, etc.
From 65438 to 0977, Henan Wenbo Newsletter, the first provincial cultural periodical sponsored by Henan Provincial Museum, was founded. The late archaeologist and historian Mr. Guo Moruo wrote it personally. After the publication came out, it quickly attracted the attention of readers at home and abroad. 1980, in order to further expand its influence, it was changed to public offering at home and abroad, and 198 1 was renamed as the Central Plains Cultural Relics. Over the past 20 years, Cultural Relics of the Central Plains has always shouldered the multiple missions of publicizing cultural relics protection policies to the society, promoting national excellent culture, strengthening patriotic education and promoting academic prosperity, and gradually formed an academic journal with local characteristics and unique style, which has attracted more and more attention from the cultural and art circles. It has become an important garden for studying prehistoric culture, Xia and Shang culture, Han painting, Chu culture and scientific and technological archaeology, and has been rated as a first-class periodical in Henan Province and a national social science core periodical. Up to now, the Central Plains Cultural Relics has been published for nearly 100 issues, with more than 2,000 academic papers and archaeological reports, as well as special issues such as the Journal of the Archaeological Society of Henan Province, the Journal of the Buddhist Society of Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and On Yangshao Culture, which reflect the work of the Central Plains Land Cultural Relics Museum from different angles and sides.
From Journal of Henan Museum to Cultural Relics of the Central Plains, we not only see the glorious course of Henan Museum for decades, but also deeply realize that behind the fruitful achievements, there are unremitting efforts of generations of Henan Museum. They worked silently and made outstanding contributions to the development and scientific research of Henan Museum. Mr. Guan Baiyi was a famous scholar, paleontologist and founder of Henan Museum in 1930s. He has profound knowledge and rich writings, and has profound attainments and outstanding creations in history, epigraphy, archaeology, Oracle Bone Inscriptions and local chronicles. As early as 1930s, Mr. Sun opened up a new world for the study of Han painting and laid the foundation for the study of Han painting. After liberation, Henan Museum was full of talents. Comrades such as Zhan, Han, Yang Huancheng, Sun Chuanxian, Ren, Wang Yingsan, Tang Wenxing, etc. Rich in writings, enjoying high popularity at home and abroad. Nowadays, some of them are over 70 years old and some are close to retirement age, but they are silently dedicated to the front of culture and art, not knowing that old age is coming. What is more gratifying is that under the guidance and encouragement of the older generation of experts and scholars, a large number of rising stars have emerged. They not only have solid knowledge of cultural relics, but also are good at accepting new ideas and methods, which is the fundamental guarantee for the success and prosperity of our cause. From them, we can see the bright future of Henan Museum.
The glory of Henan Museum today is the result of the concern and support of governments at all levels and people from all walks of life. It is the result of the struggle of generations in Henan Museum. With the unique geographical conditions, rich cultural relics resources and the unremitting pursuit of all staff, Henan Museum will lead the trend of the times with a brand-new attitude, modern management, multi-functional services and beautiful and elegant environment, and add new glory to the Central Plains.
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