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Zhejiang has a long history and a large collection of people. The unique marks of civilization and cultural symbols have built an important link in Chinese history and cultural relics. Not only left rich cultural relics in Zhejiang, but also spread the country and even all over the world, printing different shades of signs.
On September 20, the exhibition “Yue Song —— The Legend of Zhejiang in Chinese Cultural Relics” was held in the Wulin Museum area of Zhejiang Provincial Museum and lasted until November 30. The exhibition selects representative Zhejiang elements and cultural relics unearthed from sites and tombs from all over the country for joint exhibition. There are a total of 148 pieces (groups) of cultural relics collected by 40 archaeological and cultural institutions, let the audience have a glimpse of the legend of Zhejiang among Chinese cultural relics.
Jade cong is the most representative entity in the Liangzhu jade ritual instrument system. At the same time as the Liangzhu culture, the jade cong spread to the vast areas of the Yangtze, Pearl and lower Yellow Rivers. After the decline of Liangzhu culture, the spread of jade cong almost spread over half of China, and continued to develop in the jade handicraft system in different forms, showing strong vitality.
The exhibition features a jade cong unearthed from the Shixia site in Qujiang, Shaoguan, Guangdong province. The jade cong is currently the most southern discovery of the Neolithic Age.
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(Late Neolithic jade Cong, unearthed at the Shixia site of Maba, Qujiang, Shaoguan, Guangdong Province. Guangdong Provincial Museum Collection)
In 2021, the newly discovered sacred tree jade cong in Sanxingdui No.3 sacrificial pit in Guanghan, Sichuan province, depicts the most important sacred tree in the world of Sanxingdui people, on the exotic jade cong, indicating the collision and fusion between different cultural beliefs.
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(Jade Cong with tree grain, unearthed from no. 3 sacrificial pit in Sanxingdui, Guanghan, Sichuan province in 2021. Sichuan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology)
After the Han Dynasty, the most representative of the cong bottle is the cong bottle in the Song Dynasty. Exhibition focuses on the Sichuan pengzhou industrial avenue hoard, Suining goldfish village hoard unearthed song dynasty copper, porcelain, stone various materials of cong bottle, all kinds of cong bottle of jade cong outside circle, in the ancient form is still widely accepted, also gradually from political enlightenment function ritual into the sentiment of the play.14.jpg
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(Celadon cong bottle from Longquan Kiln of southern Song Dynasty, unearthed in Goldfish Village, Suining, Sichuan province in 1991. Suining City Museum Collection)
In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Yue people were famous for their cultural character of intensive farming and outstanding sword casting technology. Braough, adversity, the essence of mountains and rivers and the superb skills of the sword maker, cast into the king of the sword. With its outstanding historical and technological value, the Jian of Yue not only witnessed the prosperity and decline of the state of Yue, but also became an immortal representative of the unique wisdom and exquisite craftsmanship of the Yue people.
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(The king of the sword, part. Zhejiang Provincial Museum Collection)
In addition to the exhibition of the treasure of the museum of Yue king in the sword, the exhibition of four swords unearthed in the tomb of Chu, the time of the purpose to not only several generations of Yue king. Among them, the Yue Wang Zhou Yujian unearthed from the Chu tomb of Ziling Gang, Jingmen, Hubei province, and the Yue Wang Jian unearthed from Nanbailou, Wangdian Township, Huaiyang, Zhoukou, Henan Province, were exhibited in Zhejiang province for the first time.
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(Ju Jian, Wangzhou of Yue, Warring States Period, was unearthed in 1987, Jingmen, Hubei Province. Jingmen City Museum Collection)
During the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Wu was founded in the east of the river. As a new handicraft industry, porcelain industry showed vigorous vitality and entered the first peak of celadon production in Yue Kiln. During the Three Kingdoms and Western Jin Dynasty, the yue kiln products were of excellent glaze quality, diverse decorative themes and extremely rich types of utensils. The large celadon sheep unearthed from the tomb of ZhRan family in Maanshan, Anhui province, is a representative work of the heyday of the Yue Kiln in the Western Jin Dynasty.3.jpg
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(Wu celadon sheep, unearthed from the tomb of ZhRan family in Maanshan, Anhui province in 1996. Zhu Ran Family Cemetery Museum)
The lion shape is a representative artifact of yue kiln green porcelain in the Three Kingdoms and Western Jin dynasties. The images of gods and beasts such as the lion appeared on various objects, becoming the witness of the cultural exchanges between China and the West. The exhibition displays all kinds of high and low back lion figures and the terracotta lion figures in Zhejiang, Anhui, Hubei, Shandong and other places.
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(Western Jin Dynasty celadon, unearthed from Tomb no. 322, Wuchang, Wuhan, Hubei province in 1956. Hubei Provincial Museum Collection)
From the mid-ninth century to the mid-tenth century, with the application of the cassette loading and firing technology and the mature control of the device type and glaze color, the secret color porcelain, representing the highest level of firing skills in the Tang and Song Dynasty Yue Kiln, was produced in the Shanglinhu kiln site group in Cixi. Secret-colored porcelain is also an important tribute item in diplomatic activities. The exquisite secret color porcelain unearthed in the Northern Song and Liao reflects the official exchanges and trade relations between Wu, Yue, Song and Liao. The exhibition displays exquisite secret porcelain unearthed from the tomb of YelYu in the fifth year of Liao Huitong (942), the tomb of Xiao Guifei in the 11th year (993), and the tomb of Princess Chen in the seventh year of Liao Kaitai (1018).
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(Yue Kiln celadon Capricorn basin, unearthed from the tomb of Xiao Guifei, Duolun County, Inner Mongolia (993) in 2015. The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Research Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology)
During the Five Dynasties, the local regime of Wuyue, located in the southeast corner of the two provinces, protected the territory, prospered the Buddha, and had the reputation of “Southeast Buddhist State”. Qian Chu, the last king of Wuyue, believed in Buddhism and made 84,000 towers with gold, copper and steel.
Leifeng Pagoda is a relic pagoda built by Qian Chu to worship the Buddha’s bun hair. In the iron letter of the center of the heart chamber of Leifeng Pagoda, the pagoda was unearthed.
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(Ashoka Pagoda, unearthed in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province in 2000. Zhejiang Provincial Museum Collection)
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(The silver pagoda and wooden tires of the Northern Song Dynasty, unearthed from the underground palace of Changgan Temple, Baoding, Qinhuai District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, in the fourth year of Dazhong Xiangfu (1011) in the Northern Song Dynasty. Nanjing City Museum Collection)
In addition, “Commodity · Trade” shows the popularity and circulation of Huzhou mirror, Wenzhou lacquer ware and Longquan kiln porcelain in the Song Dynasty and overseas under the background of the background of the expansion of city scale, the development of commodity economy and the prosperity of overseas trade during the Song and Yuan dynasties.