Zhengzhou Museum

The Henan Opera exhibition hall at the Zhengzhou Museum displays many Henan Opera-related costumes, musical instruments, props, etc. It allows you to learn about the history of Henan Opera and its famous performers. The adjacent cloud-shoulder exhibition hall is not to be missed! It's truly beautiful! There's currently an exhibition of anti-corruption artifacts on the fourth floor mainly showcasing anecdotes about historical figures and related artifacts. It's surprising that Guanhutun, now such a bustling place (Zoo, Guomao 360, Henan Museum), was once visited by Premier Zhou Enlai…

A photography exhibition, the photos are all beautiful! The photographers captured the unique beauty of the city through their lenses! Some of the places I've visited before, but didn't have the perfect timing or opportunity, will evoke a different feeling seeing the photos. These are places I haven't visited yet, perfect as goals for the new year! If you're with kids, finding the buildings together would be fun! There's a set of the 26 letters of the alphabet; maybe one of your kids will be their school! (I only recognized the Henan Science and Technology Museum…) Another exhibition is a folk handicrafts and intangible cultural heritage exhibition. That clay dog ​​is absolutely Cthulhu-esque! [Facepalm][Facepalm][Facepalm] Is it the original folk version, or the artist's creation…? The clay figurines are also a bit…unique… I think the regular versions sold at tourist attractions are better. There are also shadow puppets, five-poison bibs, tiger-head shoes, cloth tigers, stone carvings, hand-woven baskets and winnowing trays, etc… Worth checking out! According to the Henan Museum's announcement, there will be an exhibition of gold artifacts from northern regimes in the future? Something to look forward to!

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 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.