Shaanxi History Museum is a comprehensive museum,
which has 375,600 cultural relics, large quantities, full categories, high grade,
in excellent order. These all provide precious materials for scientific research
systematically and completely. All these relics are mainly excavations, secondly
works handed from ancient times, and can be divided into stoneware, bone ware,
bronze ware, pottery warrior, pottery ware, Tang tri-colored pottery, jade article,
copper mirror, brick tile, other building material, gold & silver ware, mural
painting, royal seal, calligraphy & painting, paper money and others. Among them,
first class are 762 articles, second class are2,242 articles, third class are
4,205 articles. Time span of historical relics is over 1,000,000 years, from Lantian
Apeman of 1,000,000 years ago to the Opium War of 1840. There are also large quantities
of modern relics, folk relics. These all reflected lives of different ages and
people of different classes from the degrees of culture, art, science and so on,
and are the significant base for research of ancient history, art development,
scientific development of China.
The relics of Shaanxi History Museum
are best characterized and representative in Shang & Zhou bronze wares, pottery
warriors of past dynasties, Tang gold & silver wares, mural paintings in Tang
tombs, which reflected the prosperity and development of Zhou, Qin, Han, Tang
dynasties and are well-known all over the world. | |
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