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On May 15th, the exhibition “Xu Wei Li Document-Encyclopedia of Southern Song Dynasty Official System” hosted by Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism and Zhejiang Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau, and jointly hosted by Wuyi County People’s Government and Zhejiang Provincial Museum opened in Zhejiang Bo Wulin Museum. For the first time, the exhibition comprehensively displays a full set of Xu Wei-li documents in the Southern Song Dynasty, showing the audience the resume of the owner of the documents for more than 30 years, explaining the value and significance of the documents in detail, and seeing through the official and official system in the Southern Song Dynasty behind the documents.
Xu Wei’s ritual documents are a group of systematic, authentic and credible paper documents of the Song Dynasty, which were stolen from the tomb of the Southern Song Dynasty in Wuyi County, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province. Because the owner of the tomb was Xu Wei-li from the Southern Song Dynasty, it was named “Xu Wei-li Document”. Documents are divided into three types: confession, yellow printing and paper printing. Confession and Huang Dou are the appointment documents issued to officials by the imperial court in Song Dynasty. The difference is that there is something for confession and nothing for Huang. The printed paper records all kinds of archival materials of Xu Weili since he took office, including arrival, assessment, dismissal, guarantee, recommendation, etc., which reflects the process of a civil servant in the Southern Song Dynasty from junior to intermediate.
As the protagonist of this exhibition, Xu Wei’s ritual documents strung together three units of the exhibition. The first unit, “The national treasure that shocked the world-the discovery and confirmation of Xu Weili’s documents”, tells the legendary experience of the discovery of Xu Weili’s documents and Xu Weili’s typical life as a middle-and lower-level bureaucrat in the Southern Song Dynasty. The second unit, “the treasure house of official system-the interpretation of Xu Wei’s ritual documents”, explains in detail the contents and functions of confession, pornography and printing paper in the documents; The third unit, “Wen Zhi Era-Official and Official System in Southern Song Dynasty”, entered the Southern Song Dynasty from the aspects of local official school, official uniform system, imperial examination system and government operation system, showing the official system culture of that period.
In addition to Xu Wei’s ritual documents, the exhibition also exhibited some related cultural relics reflecting the East Zhejiang School, Confucianism and the civil service politics in the Southern Song Dynasty. For example, a number of bronze ritual vessels unearthed from the former site of Wuyi County School and Confucian Temple in Wuyi County Museum were exhibited outside the museum for the first time, which was rare. In order to cooperate with this exhibition, the Zhejiang Provincial Museum also exhibited the first-class Southern Song Dynasty Loyalty Hall Post for the first time. Yan Zhenqing’s confession included in this post, as a typical confession in the Tang Dynasty, is in contrast with the confession in the middle and late Southern Song Dynasty represented by Xu Weili’s confession, reflecting the changes in the document system of confession in the Tang and Song Dynasties. In addition, Yan Zhenqing’s self-confessed calligraphy itself has a very high artistic value, and it is well-known in the history of calligraphy in China. I believe it is also a rare opportunity for calligraphy lovers to appreciate it.
It is understood that during the epidemic prevention and control period, the Zhebo Wulin Museum area receives 1200 visitors (including children) every day, and the audience can make an appointment to visit in advance through the official micro-signal of Zhejiang Museum. Xu said that the book fair will be held until June 30, and the audience is welcome to enter the exhibition hall to have a look at this official encyclopedia from the Southern Song Dynasty. (Zhejiang Provincial Museum)