The main building of the museum is a colonnade building imitating the Great Hall of the people, which is solemn, simple and magnificent. The building area of the museum is 20028 square meters. There are nine exhibition halls on the first floor and the second floor respectively, with an exhibition area of 11216 square meters. The museum was announced as a provincial cultural relics protection unit in 2001. Hebei Provincial Museum is the national patriotism education demonstration base and provincial patriotism education base. Hebei Provincial Museum has a collection of 150000 cultural relics, including more than 360 first-class cultural relics (including 6 national treasure level cultural relics).
Liu Sheng, the king of Hanzhong mountain in Shanxi Province, and his wife Dou WAN are the most famous relics in the collection. The two sets of gold thread jade suits are the first and most complete preserved jade suits of Han Dynasty found in archaeological excavations in China. Ceramic cultural relics are the characteristic collection of Hebei Museum, especially the three famous kilns in Hebei, Xingyao, Dingyao and Cizhou kiln, which have their own styles and show their own ingenuity. In addition, a batch of Yuan Dynasty kiln porcelain unearthed in Baoding is also the collection of the museum. From Song Dynasty to modern times, more than 1000 paintings and calligraphy works are also classic collections of Hebei Provincial Museum, among which there are many famous and famous works. In addition, there are more than 50000 books in the library, many of which are good books of Ming and Qing Dynasties, and they are one of the main collection units of local chronicles in Hebei Province.
Hebei Provincial Museum has five basic exhibitions, forming a complete exhibition system: Ancient Hebei shows a long history of Hebei from the Paleolithic age to the end of the Qing Dynasty, with exquisite cultural relics and simple and elegant antiquities; modern Hebei shows the struggle of the people of Hebei from the Opium War of 1840 to the founding of the people's Republic of China in 1949, with rich contents and materials《 Contemporary Hebei reflects the new features and achievements of today's economic construction and social development in Hebei, with novel design and modern style; mysterious kingdom: Zhongshan state in the Warring States period shows the magnificent cultural relics, tortuous history, luxurious palace, nomadic life and great King Mausoleum of Zhongshan state in the Warring States period, with solemn style and elegant style; hometown of golden thread and jade clothes: Han tomb in Mancheng shows Mancheng The essence of tens of thousands of unearthed relics in Han tombs is simple and unique. In addition, the Art Museum of calligraphy and painting holds various forms of calligraphy and painting exhibitions from time to time.
In addition to the fixed exhibition, Hebei museum also holds and introduces a large number of temporary exhibitions, such as science and technology exhibition, culture and art exhibition, great talent exhibition, current affairs and politics exhibition, which greatly enriches the cultural life of the masses. Among them, "Hebei ancient science and Technology Exhibition", "Hebei Buddhist art exhibition", "Hebei Xingyao, Dingyao, Cizhou kiln porcelain art special exhibition", "great auspiciousness of the year of the sheep - twelve zodiac Culture Exhibition", "painting and painting five hundred years - collection calligraphy and painting art exhibition" and so on have made a great impact.
Height: 48cm, weight: 15.85kg
The Changxin Palace Lamp was discovered in 1968 in the tomb of Dou Wan, the wife of Liu Sheng, King Jing of Zhongshan, in Mancheng County, Hebei Province. The design of the Changxin Palace Lamp is very ingenious. The maid holds the lamp in one hand, and the sleeve in the other hand seems to be preventing wind. It is actually a siphon, which is used to absorb oil smoke, preventing air pollution, and has aesthetic value.
The overall shape of the palace lamp is a kneeling maid holding the lamp with both hands. The head, body, right arm, lamp holder, lamp panel, and lamp shade are respectively cast and assembled. Changxin Palace Lantern has changed the mysterious and heavy weight of bronze vessels in the past, and its overall shape and decoration style appear to be flexible, lightweight, and magnificent. It is a practical and beautiful lamp treasure. Changxin Palace Lantern has always been regarded as the peak of Chinese arts and crafts and an important representative of national crafts, and is widely praised.
The overall length is 188 centimeters, with 2498 pieces of jade and 1.1 kilograms of gold wire
The total length of Liu Sheng's jade garment is 1.88 meters, sharing 2498 pieces of jade and about 1100 grams of gold wire. The appearance of the jade garment is the same as that of a man, with broad shoulders and broad chest, protruding abdomen, and thick limbs. The head has a high raised nose, with three narrow slits representing the eyes and mouth. The jade garment is divided into six parts: the head, jacket, sleeve, pants, gloves, and shoes. Each part can be separated from each other, just like a garment cut and sewn by a garment worker. The head is composed of a face cover and a hood, the jacket is composed of a front piece and a back piece, and the sleeves, pants, gloves, and shoes are all separated from each other. Most of the jade pieces used are rectangular and square, as well as trapezoidal, triangular, quadrangular, and polygonal shapes. The largest piece of jade is 4.5 centimeters long and 3.5 centimeters wide, and is used on the sole of the foot. The smallest piece of jade is only the size of an adult thumb cap, used to represent the fingers. Accompanied by the golden thread jade clothing are gilded gold inlaid jade bronze pillows, jade nine orifices plugs, jade grips, and 18 jade walls for mortuaries, forming a set of the highest standard funeral jade of the Han Dynasty.
This complete golden thread jade burial suit is the first major discovery at home and abroad, and it is a very precious historical relic. It provides extremely valuable physical data for studying the burial system and jade and gold crafts of the Western Han Dynasty.