Introduction of Guangzhou Famous Museum:
Guangzhou Museum is a comprehensive local history museum located in zhenhai tower, Yuexiu Mountain, Guangzhou. Zhenhai tower, a museum site, was built in the 13th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1380), with a history of more than 600 years. The building is 28m high, 3 1 m wide and 61m deep, with red walls and green tiles. It is a famous ancient building in Guangzhou. The building is divided into five floors, which decrease step by step, like a tower and a building, commonly known as five floors. There is a pair of 2-meter-high Ming Dynasty red sandstone stone lions carved in front of the building. The building was destroyed by five and built by five. Originally it was a brick-wood structure. When 1928 was rebuilt, the interior was changed to reinforced concrete structure. Climbing the stairs, you can see the beautiful scenery of Yangcheng, which is called "the first floor of Wuling South". "zhenhai tower" and "Yuexiu Tower" are one of the eight scenic spots in Yangcheng in Qing Dynasty and modern times respectively.
Guangzhou Museum was built in 1929, and was called "Guangzhou Museum" at that time. At the beginning, the display and cultural relics were relatively simple, because the war soon closed. 1950, the Guangzhou Municipal People's Government decided to establish the Guangzhou People's Museum, and then organized a professional archaeological team to carry out archaeological excavation and cultural relics collection. At present, there are 50,000 pieces of various cultural relics in the collection, which provides extremely valuable historical materials for studying Guangzhou's politics, economy, culture, foreign transportation and trade, and urban construction and development.
There are stone tablets and gun racks built by 1964 on the west side of zhenhai tower. There are 23 ancient stone tablets in the stele gallery, among which four Shi Guwen stone tablets, originally carved in 770 BC (more than 2,760 years ago), are the oldest existing stone tablets in China. The gun base is equipped with the city defense guns cast in Guangzhou during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty to the Opium War period, and the steel casting guns purchased from Krupp Arsenal in Germany. On the east side, there is a special exhibition room built by 1986, which often holds various temporary or commemorative special exhibitions. ?
There are more than 60,000 pieces (sets) in Guangzhou Museum, including bronzes, ceramics, paintings and calligraphy, jade and stone tools, bamboo and wood lacquerware, silk printing and dyeing, national crafts, foreign crafts, etc. 10. , mainly archaeological excavations of cultural relics and their own characteristics. Among them, a bronze ge belonging to a national staff in the 14th year of Qin Dynasty, a pottery boat unearthed in the Eastern Han Dynasty, a dripping copper pot in the Yuan Dynasty, a horse memorial tablet during the Opium War, a membership card of China League, a commemorative teapot for the recovery of the motherland and a banner inscribed by Sun Yat-sen are the most precious.
The five-storey exhibition area is distributed as follows: the first floor, Guangzhou geographical model, Guangzhou ancient city schematic diagram; The second floor is the historical relics unearthed in the Neolithic Age, Qin and Han Dynasties, Three Kingdoms, Jin and Southern Dynasties (4000 BC-589 AD); The third floor displays historical relics of Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. The fourth floor displays the historical relics of Ming and Qing dynasties, especially the Qing dynasty; The historical materials of China's modern cultural relics after the Opium War are displayed on the fifth floor, which shows that Guangzhou is the cradle of bourgeois democratic revolution.