Zhengzhou Shangdu Ruins Museum opened for trial on the 19th. The collection of nearly 1,000 pieces (sets) of cultural relics tells the world about the splendor and ups and downs of the mighty merchants more than 3,600 years ago.
Zhengzhou Shangdu Site Museum is located in the archaeological park of Shangdu Site in Guancheng District, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province. Among the “Top 100 Archaeological Discoveries in One Hundred Years” in 2021, Shangdu Site was among them.
Zhengzhou, 3600 years ago, was the capital of Chengtang, the founding king of Shang Dynasty, where the Shang civilization centered on the Yellow River basin was formed and developed. Zhengzhou, the capital of Shang Dynasty, is recognized as the capital of early Shang Dynasty. It represents the Shang civilization, which integrates four elements of civilization: country, city, bronze ware and writing, and occupies an important position in the history of Chinese civilization and world civilization.
The Zhengzhou Shangdu Ruins Museum, which was opened on trial that day, is a special site museum about the early Shang culture. The exhibition hall covers an area of more than 5,500 square meters, and the precious cultural relics on display fully display the archaeological research results of Zhengzhou Shangdu Ruins in the past 70 years.
The reporter saw in the sand table hall that the large-scale restoration sand table combined with the digital projection display form intuitively presented the overall urban layout and functional zoning of Zhengzhou Shang Dynasty capital. In the theme exhibition hall, nearly a thousand pieces (sets) of unearthed cultural relics show the social life of the royal family and urban civilians in Shang Dynasty. Among them, the primitive porcelain statue of Shang Dynasty, bronze cymbals with animal face patterns of Shang Dynasty, and the word Wen Tao in the Warring States period advanced the time for China to start firing porcelain by more than 1,000 years. (Reporter Han Zhangyun)