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Shaan’xi History Museum陕西历史博物馆
前言Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Xi’an. Today we are going to visit Shaan’xi History Museum. As we all know, Xi’an is an historical honored city, this museum must be the best place to learn the history of this ancient city, Xi’an.
Shaan’xi History Museum was built in Tang Dynasty’s style. It covers an area of 70,000 square meters, houses the cultural heritage of Shaanxi province and shows the development of Chinese civilization. Now let’s go into the preface Hall.
序言大厅The massive picture in front of us shows the surging and roaring Yellow River and the vast loess plateau, which are cradle of shannxi ancient civilization. The Giant Lion in the center has imposing appearance, and it is regarded as the “Number one lion in Orient”. Stone lions and other carving skills were introduced to China from Afghanistan, and this lion represents the local civilization and the culture exchange between China and other countries.
史前Please look at these fossil skulls. This one was discovered in LanTian County in 1964, so the people then gained the name “LanTian Ape-man”, which is the earliest homo-erectus found in Northern Asia. Look these stone implements and tools. They are very rough and crude. This period is Old Stone age. And next, this is Yangshao culture about 5000 to 7000 years ago. The Banpo ruin is a type of this culture in Shaan’xi Province. The women had dominant roles at that time. After the Yangshao culture, there exists the Longshan culture. And the earliest neolithic Louguantai culture appears afterward.
周Well, now let’s have a look at the Zhou Dynasty. The bronze casting technology was in the high period at that time, so we usually call it “Bronze age”. Here we can see a group of bronze wares. Look at this one. We call it “Ding” in Chinese, which is the signal of power. Another two important things are the bronze chime, a special instrument, and the chine shell ,a kind of the principal currency.
秦Next is the Qin period. It is the first centralized autocratic feudal empire in the long history of China. This is the Tiger Symbol, which is originally a whole piece and then divided into two parts. One part was hold by emperor and the other by the general .The force can be moved only when the wo parts meet together.
汉朝Ok, now let’s go to the second gallery of the Han Dynasty. At that time, China was one of the most powerful empires in the world. The famous Silk Road was started in the Han Dynasty，during the period of Wudi. It is an ancient trade route that linked China with Europe and had great influnce in the history of china. Now, let me introduce a national treasure-the Jade Seal(皇后玉玺). This seal was regarded the first seal for the empress in Chinese history.
Now, we can see the Wei, the Jin, the South and North Dynasties. That’s the time China experienced a long period of social chaos.
隋唐now, we come to the golden time of china’s feudal society--the Sui and Tang Dynasties. This map shows us the capital Chang’an city during the Tang Dynasty. It was the biggest walled city in our country in Tang dynasty.
This is the famous “three-color glazed pottery”. It was made mainly of three colors—yellow, brown and green. Every pottery was different, so it is quite beautiful and very precious.
Here is a group of mural paintings; they vividly show us the social and royal life in Tang dynasty.
宋元明清After tang dynasty, Xi’an lost its position of being the capital and an international city. However, Xi’an still played an important role in china. We can find a lot of precious historical treasures from those dynasties. This is one of them. It is Yaozhouyao-chowware, you can’t find the hole, which is on the bottom. It is also magical that if you put water in from the bottom, but the water wouldn’t come out when you put it in this way.
结尾Ok, these are the main information of the Shaan’xi History museum. I will give you 1 hour to look around. 1 hour later, I’ll meet you guys at the main gate. Thanks for listening. I do hope you can enjoy yourselves.