The second exhibition hall is located on the east side of the second floor of the main building of the museum. Six groups of display cases are used to display some exquisite cultural relics of Liangzhu culture, including beautifully carved jade, finely ground stone tools and well-made pottery. There is a set of light box paintings connected between each two groups of display cabinets, and some exquisite jade and pottery photos that are not collected in our library are selected. In the center of the exhibition hall, there are four groups of glass screens with the same height as the exhibition hall to symbolically block the line of sight. Each group of glass screens is composed of two pieces of glass, with a picture of exquisite objects on each side, which has a strong three-dimensional effect. On the one hand, these light boxes and screens create a good atmosphere for the whole exhibition, on the other hand, they expand the exhibition capacity and enrich the information of the exhibition. Jade * * * is divided into two parts, one part is a heavy-duty ritual vessel, including jade cong, jade bi and jade yue; The other part is mainly decorative jade, including trident, crown, yellow, cone, hook, bracelet, spoon, dagger, pendant and animal ornaments such as birds, turtles, fish and cicadas. In the pottery part, in addition to displaying various types of pottery, there are also pottery engraved with original characters, such as single cups, oval beans, cans and so on. At the end of the exhibition hall, the life story of Shi, the earliest archaeologist at Liangzhu site, and He Tianxing, the pioneer of Liangzhu culture research, as well as some materials of experts and scholars studying Liangzhu cultural achievements over the years are also introduced.
The third exhibition hall is located on the west side of the second floor of the main building of the museum. It shows a tomb of "Yu Lian's burial" in Liangzhu culture period, which has a strong visual shock. At the same time, photos of tombs of different grades are also displayed on the surrounding walls. Through the comparative display of rich tomb materials, it reveals the social class differentiation and class formation of Liangzhu culture, and the interpretation of Liangzhu culture has risen to the height of civilization, and the whole exhibition has reached a climax.
The contents of the three exhibition halls reflect each other, each with its own emphasis, fully demonstrating the high material civilization and spiritual civilization created by the ancestors of Liangzhu, indicating that the origin of Chinese civilization can be traced back to the Liangzhu period four or five thousand years ago.
In 2006, in order to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the discovery of Liangzhu culture, a special exhibition of anti-Yaoshan jadeware was held in Hall 23, with more than 600 pieces (groups) on display. This is the first time that the museum has exhibited a large number of exquisite jade articles in the 20 years since the archaeological excavation of the anti-mountain and Yaoshan sites. The exhibition is divided into four parts, showing the unique connotation and function of Liangzhu jade from different angles.
In the second exhibition hall, under the mapping of lights, the jade articles of Liangzhu culture exude the unique colors of "chicken bone white" and "pumpkin yellow", which are eye-catching and spectacular. The first part introduces the ritual system of jade storage in Liangzhu society. In Liangzhu period, jade was endowed with sacred character. The three instruments of Liangzhu period: Jade Cong, Jade Bi and Jade Yue, are noble and sacred. They are spiritual objects that communicate with heaven, earth, man and god, sacred instruments, important ritual objects that maintain social hierarchy and order, and symbols of secular power. The second part shows the exquisite jade carvings of Liangzhu people. The ancestors of Liangzhu were good at cutting jade, and formed a whole set of processes from raw material selection, design and sample setting, blank cutting, decorative carving to polishing. More than 60 jade articles with different expressions and exquisite carvings were unearthed at Fanshan and Yaoshan sites/kloc-0. They are reasonable in layout, unique in shape and exquisite in decoration, which all reflect the exquisite jade carving technology and unique ingenuity in Liangzhu period. In the face of precious cultural relics, people stop to see the mystery. That uncanny workmanship is not as good as the master of modern arts and crafts. The third part is the types of jade. The extensiveness and gradation of jade used in Liangzhu society complicate the function of jade. At present, there are more than 40 known species. In order to make it easy to distinguish, in the exhibition, according to the different unearthed conditions and the shapes of utensils, we divide Liangzhu jade into two categories: single piece and composite piece, and composite pieces are further divided into four categories: assembly, assembly, wearing and inlay. The whole exhibition board and cultural relics correspond to each other, which will give you a feeling of the exquisite life of our ancestors.
The fourth part, located in the third exhibition hall, reproduces the No.23 tomb of the anti-mountain site of Liangzhu culture by means of restoration and exhibition. The cultural relics unearthed from this dignitary's tomb include jade, jade-inlaid lacquerware and pottery, with a total of 467 pieces. Among them, 54 pieces of jade were unearthed, which is the most abundant burial jade in Liangzhu cultural site. The exhibition also vividly reveals the polarization between the rich and the poor and social stratification during the Liangzhu culture period through the huge differences in the scale of tombs, the number and categories of funerary objects.