Zhengzhou Museum

The Zhengzhou Museum's current special exhibition of celadon porcelain vases and the Gongyi Grottoes photography exhibition are both worth a visit! There's also a lot of pink muhly grass growing on the hill in front of the museum! It's a dreamy pink! Perfect for photo ops! The museum has VR, and you can even customize your refrigerator magnets with AI! (Metal magnets, 30 yuan, come with a photo—super worth it!) There are both real-life and cartoon versions, and you can choose to use artifacts as backgrounds. But when I went, I don't know if it was a camera issue, but every photo I took turned out to be a cartoon effect... The museum's treasure, the celadon porcelain vases, are enormous! It's incredible they're from the early Shang Dynasty... It has intricate patterns on it, and it looks like it was molded. There's also information on pottery and porcelain, including models of clay and kaolin, a pottery kiln, and a bellows that works! There are also two realistic models (but one is lighter and the other heavier, for some reason... maybe the heavier one is realistic in weight, and the lighter one is so children can't lift it?). The exhibition hall offers guided tours, which I think are held at 3 p.m. on weekends. You should be able to learn a lot if you attend! The Gongyi Grottoes photography exhibition is truly stunning! The photographer's shots are truly beautiful! The details are crystal clear, and the lighting and shadows are beautiful! If you didn't see it clearly in person, you'll see it even more clearly and breathtakingly here! Come and see it before it's over! (Of course, if you have the chance, you should definitely visit the Grottoes Temple in person; after all, they're from the Northern Wei Dynasty! And access to the grottoes is becoming increasingly rare these days...) Du Fu's hometown is also fantastic!

The main Buddha statues on display in the "Miaoxiang Art Environment" exhibition hall of Zhengzhou Museum are mostly unearthed at temple sites such as Xiangyang Dahai Temple, reflecting the style of Shengtang Fengxu's bodybuilding. There are many Buddha heads that are very beautiful, but the photos are not fully reflected... There are a small number of Beiqi statues, At first glance, the style is different from the Sui and Tang Dynasty, and it is more elegant. The Tang Dynasty is more magnificent and the Tang Dynasty Kaiyuan Temple Pagoda site unearthed the statue of the emperor, sarcophagus, Jingzhuang, etc. (Sheli Tower! It's a pity!) The statue of the emperor is vivid and the headscarf is fluttering, it is worth seeing!

The joint exhibition of revolutionary relics from the Anti-Japanese Base Areas in Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan Provinces There are many touching artifacts. Eighth Route Army uniforms (the belt is made from the girth of General Zhu's warhorse) Bags used for heroic killing Banner dedicated to combat heroes Mortars, Mauser pistols, and Type 38 rifles Machetes used to chop down enemy troops Various textbooks from the Anti-Japanese Base Areas (elementary school students also learn advanced mathematics, though this advanced mathematics is different from the traditional advanced mathematics), and there are also various military textbooks. A blanket used by General Pi Dingjun A record book carried by a martyr, seemingly stained with blood. There are also photos of the Japanese surrender (the surrender pavilion in Luohe is said to still be preserved, but the original surrender site in Zhengzhou is probably long gone...it really should be preserved!) And many more... I hope there will be explanations so that the children who visit can better remember history. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. May we remember the martyrs and never forget the national humiliation. May our country be forever peaceful and our mountains and rivers forever strong!

The current Silk Road VR is very suitable for taking children to experience! There is also a machine at the door that can AI face-changing and take costume photos! Although there are not as many templates as in Luoyang, it is cheap! No need to queue! High cost performance! And now there are more restaurants and cultural and creative stores! The exhibition hall of stele rubbings in Zhengzhou Museum is so shocking! Although it is just a rubbing (rubbings are also rare! Many precious cultural relics are no longer made of rubbings), there are rubbings of Taishique, Shaoshique, and Qimuque! Rubbings of the giant stele of the Northern Wei, Eastern Wei, and Datang in Songyang Academy! After all, the stele itself has been severely weathered and damaged and can't be seen clearly. It will be more touching to see the rubbings after seeing the actual cultural relics! (Xu Hao's calligraphy is really beautiful!) For example, from a distance, you can only see many small Buddha statues on the Zhongyue Songyang Temple stele, but you can see the name of each Buddha on the rubbings, and find the Sandalwood Merit Buddha and Fighting Buddha (However, Xuanzang was not born at that time in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and Monkey King was still under the Five Elements Mountain. Maybe the master's previous life was on the way to the west...) Calligraphy lovers should like it very much! Cai Jing (...The calligraphy is still good. If it wasn't written by Cai Jing, it would be very suitable for cultural creation...) Huang Tingjian (Songyang Academy has a stone inscription of Huang Tingjian's poems. In fact, I think Zhengzhou Museum is so big that it can display more rubbings) (Su Shi's "Drunken Pavilion" and "The Inscription on the Buried Crane" are in the next-door Hanmo Shuangbi Exhibition Hall)

The "Central Plains Elephant Trail" exhibition hall of the Zhengzhou Museum, which displays the huge Nama ivory and Nama fossils, as well as turtle shells, antlers, rhino bones, ostrich eggs and other fossils, shows the animals living on this land in ancient times. The Yellow River elephant (feels a little smaller than the Nama elephant), rhinos, ostriches, deer, and even giraffes! (Henan Natural Museum has fossils) There is a ceramic building in the porcelain exhibition hall. The little people below seem to be "going you"... There is also a corner of the kitchen, a stove, and a cute little cloud shoulder exhibition hall not to be missed!

We came out of Daguanyin Temple and saw time before we could go to the Zhengzhou Museum by subway. It was founded in 1957 and is one of the comprehensive museums in Henan Province. It is now a national-level museum. The museum is divided into Wenhan Street New Hall and Laoshan Road Old Hall. The new hall is one of the largest single museums in the country. The museum has more than 60,000 cultural relics, covering bronze, ceramics, stone carvings, calligraphy and painting categories, including bronze, Han Dynasty Tao Yu, Tang and Song stone carvings. Basic display of the "Zhengzhou Ancient Civilization Exhibition" system displays Zhengzhou's 8,000-year history, highlighting the cultural characteristics of the commercial capital. The museum receives more than a million visitors annually, and has functions such as cultural relics collection, research, education, etc., which is an important window to display Zhengzhou's history and culture. Free appointment visit, good service 😄

Zhengzhou Museum (Wenhan Street Museum) can be reached by bus or subway, and is a little far from the city center. The museum is sparsely populated, but the content is rich, and you can increase your knowledge and learn a lot about the history of Zhengzhou. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough time, so I only visited the history part. I will visit other exhibitions next time.

There are two attractions that you must visit when traveling to Zhengzhou, namely Henan and Henan Museum. In fact, if you add more, Shaolin Temple is an old attraction in the past, and there is a new attraction, which is Zhengzhou Museum. The new building of Zhengzhou Museum is currently located in. The location is in a relatively remote place, so there are fewer people coming, but now the subway transportation here is still very convenient. I suggest that you have the opportunity to come here to take a look. Many cultural relics in Zhengzhou are hidden here.