? One day, a friend suggested to go to Liangzhu Museum on a whim. After a simple search on Baidu, a little spark of curiosity was aroused in my heart, so I decided to bring bread, grapes, water and other food, and hurriedly set off on the road to prepare for the crossing. The dust of time, a concrete understanding of the charm of archeology, and the exploration of the glory of Liangzhu in the millennium of time.

? The fiery and unrestrained heart becomes increasingly anxious and unbearable under the scorching sun. Fortunately, there are large grasslands on both sides of the road, which are full of green and feel comfortable. To my surprise, I discovered that this place also has a very beautiful name: Meilizhou Park.

? An elegant stone bridge spans the artificial lake, connecting the park and Liangzhu Museum. The lotus flowers blooming in the lake are extremely gorgeous under the scorching sun; the lotus leaves dancing in the breeze are charming, fresh and natural. The stunning scenery brings cool greenery to visitors who come to visit the museum.

? The museum, designed by a British designer, is made of yellow travertine and interspersed with three patio-style open-air courtyards. It looks like a jade cone scattered on the ground. It is rough, majestic, heavy and simple, presenting The jade cultural characteristics of the Liangzhu Cultural Site are located on the bank of the wetland lake, reflecting the perfect integration of art and nature, history and modernity.

? It covers an area of ??40,000 square meters, with a construction area of ??10,000 square meters and an exhibition area of ??more than 4,000 square meters. It has three conventions: "Water Country and Zeguo", "Civilized Holy Land" and "Jade Soul and National Soul". The exhibition hall and 1 temporary exhibition hall comprehensively, three-dimensionally and truly display the archaeological results and heritage value of the Liangzhu ruins and Liangzhu culture, reflecting the important position and uniqueness of the Liangzhu civilization in the historical development process of the "diversity and unity" of Chinese civilization. contribute.

? Five thousand years ago, the ancestors of Liangzhu used their wisdom and sweat to build a magnificent capital city, establish an early country, and create a glorious early civilization. Five thousand years later, several generations of archaeologists have reconstructed the history of Liangzhu culture for us. Governments at all levels have made active efforts to protect Liangzhu ruins, and thousands of people have made unique contributions to inheriting Liangzhu heritage. Today's Liangzhu people have created a five-in-one protection model for Liangzhu ruins, using archaeological research, research and protection, protection and promotion, and promotion and inheritance.

? The exhibition hall takes "Liangzhu ruins as evidence of five thousand years of Chinese civilization" as the communication theme, showing the discovery of Liangzhu ruins in 1936, the naming of Liangzhu culture in 1959, and the establishment of Liangzhu civilization in 2007. Over the past eighty years, it has gone through three stages of development, from individual archeology to site group archeology and then to urban archeology. Now a Liangzhu ancient city with a complete structure and diverse functions is gradually revealed in front of us, providing physical testimony to the five thousand years of civilization history.

? Liangzhu Culture, 5300-4300 years ago, this culture has developed rice agriculture, complex social division of labor, obvious class differentiation and unified spiritual beliefs. The core of Liangzhu culture is the ancient city of Liangzhu, which consists of the palace area, the inner city and the outer city, with a large water conservancy system built on the periphery.

? The ancient city of Liangzhu is the largest urban site discovered in China and even in the world that has both a city wall and a water conservancy system dating back 5,000 years. The ancient city of Liangzhu is the center of power and belief of Liangzhu culture, which has entered the stage of mature civilization and early state.

? The Liangzhu ruins testify to the five thousand years of Chinese civilization history. A wall several people high reads: Kingdom of the God King, Unified Faith, Primitive Writing, Early Country, Jade Civilization, Rice Civilization, Urban Civilization... Vocabulary related to the Liangzhu ruins pops up on the wall, waiting for your exploration and discovery.

? The first exhibition hall is divided into four units: the dependence of man and earth, the millennium of time and space, the cornerstone of civilization, and the center of the country. It tells the story of the rise and development of a kingdom built on wetlands.

? In the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China, there is a Taihu Lake called Zhenze in ancient times. The Liangzhu ruins about 5,000 years ago are located in the southwest of Taihu Lake. The climate here is mild, the water network is dense, the resources are rich, and it is suitable for human habitation. It provided the Liangzhu ancestors with a historical stage for creating civilization and early states.

In 1936, Shi Xin discovered the Liangzhu ruins. In 1939, the famous archaeologist Liang Siyong pointed out that the ancient culture represented by the Liangzhu ruins had unique characteristics. In 1959, the famous archaeologist Xia Nai formally proposed the name Liangzhu Culture.

? Liangzhu Culture is the pinnacle of Neolithic cultural development in the Taihu Lake area. Majiabang Culture and Songze Culture, followed by Qianshanyang Culture and Guangfulin Culture, are extremely important historical developments. direction.

During the Liangzhu Culture period, ancestors opened fields, planted rice, and raised livestock. Rice became the most important food, and domestic pigs were the main source of meat. Handicraft production such as pottery, textiles, bone making, stone smelting, painting, and jade carving became more specialized and systematic. In addition, a system of inscribed symbols emerged that was regarded as primitive writing. The highly developed agriculture and handicraft industry laid a solid economic foundation for the formation and development of Liangzhu civilization.

During the Liangzhu Culture period, more than 600 sites have been discovered in the Taihu Lake area, with obvious settlement differentiation. As a city, Liangzhu Ancient City is composed of subordinate regional centers, and the relationship between Liangzhu Ancient City and these regional centers is unidirectional and radiating outward.

This unidirectional political pattern made the ancient city of Liangzhu the only and highest-level political center of Liangzhu culture, showing the management hierarchy and control order of the early state.

? The second exhibition hall is divided into several units: discovery of ancient cities, capital layout, water conservancy civilization, early cities, etc. It displays vivid working scenes of Liangzhu ancestors and on-site interceptions of Liangzhu ancient city walls. Cross-section, large-scale oil painting reflecting the construction of Mojiao Mountain (the oil painting is 6.6 meters high, 35 meters long, and covers an area of ??more than 200 square meters), using modern high-tech means such as sound, light, and electricity to panoramicly restore and reproduce the production, production and production of Liangzhu people. The lifestyle shows the splendor and splendor of the ancient Liangzhu country five thousand years ago.

? The Liangzhu ancient city ruins discovered in 2007 prove the five thousand years of Chinese civilization history and are known as the first city in China. It was selected as one of the top ten new archaeological discoveries in the country in 2007 and a major field archaeological discovery in the first World Archeology Shanghai Forum in 2013. It shows that the planning, construction and structural layout of Liangzhu Ancient City are a model of early East Asian urban civilization.

? Liangzhu Ancient City, as the center of power and belief of Liangzhu culture, has reasonable planning, sophisticated construction, complete structure and huge projects. It integrates with the surrounding mountains, hills, river networks, and wetlands, and together constitutes the overall pattern of mountains, hills, water, and cities. It can be called an outstanding example of early urban civilization in the history of human civilization development.

? The water conservancy system in the northwest area of ??Liangzhu Ancient City consists of a high dam at the mouth of the valley, a low dam on the plain, and a long embankment in the piedmont. It is the earliest scientifically planned water resources management system in China, and is also the first scientifically planned water resources management system in the history of urban construction in my country and the world. masterpiece.

? The ancient city of Liangzhu consists of the palace area, the inner city, and the outer city forming a triple centripetal structure. The central location of the palace area and the complex civil engineering and architectural foundations, the royal tombs, workshop areas, vertical and horizontal waterways in the inner city and the life style of Jiangnan living near the water, the stars in the outer city and the artificially constructed platform enclosed Inhabited by villagers. There are large villages, altar cemeteries, trench settlements, large-scale rice fields, etc. in the outer suburbs.

? Around five thousand years ago, as several important areas where human civilization originated, a series of early cities appeared in the Mesopotamia, Nile River Basin, Indus River Basin, Yellow River Basin and Yangtze River Basin. It is the population center, cultural center, economic center, political center, religious center and military center in the region. It is a sign that human society has entered the civilized era.

? Agricultural production in the Liangzhu period had clear organization, management and planning. The largest Liangzhu culture rice field was discovered at the Maoshan site in Yuhang, Zhejiang. It is divided into long strips of fields by irrigation canals and field ridges, with an area ranging from 1,000 to 2,000 square meters, and a total area of ??55,000 square meters (equivalent to more than 80 acres).

? An important feature of Liangzhu Civilization-jade civilization. Jade was the material carrier of power, rituals, and beliefs during the Liangzhu period, and was used to identify status and distinguish grades. During the Liangzhu period, the divine emblem was used as the god of common belief, and the jade ritual system reflected that Liangzhu society was a country characterized by the integration of politics and religion.

? In a large number of fine jade articles from the Liangzhu period, such as jade congs, jade axes, jade bis, jade plaques, jade tridents, bead strings, jade daggers, etc., they contain the divine power, military power, The highly consistent belief and centralization of royal power are physical witnesses of the mature civilization and early state of Liangzhu Culture, fully demonstrating the important status and influence of Liangzhu Civilization in China and the world at the same time or among similar civilizations.

? The appearance of these collections may not be eye-catching, but they are large in quantity and complete in variety. They can give you a general understanding of Liangzhu culture or the etiquette of jade. In addition to appreciating the delicate and intricate patterns on jade, you can also learn about the meaning and status of different shapes of jade.

Through a large number of unearthed cultural relics, large-scale oil paintings, sand table models, archaeological knowledge illustrations, cinema videos and some interactive games, the museum allows you to fully and intuitively understand this "Liangzhu Ancient Country", and you can learn more about it. Deeply experience the various details of Liangzhu people's agriculture, pottery making, jade making and so on. The advanced material form and manufacturing technology of Liangzhu culture were integrated with the etiquette and ideology of the Central Plains region to create the splendid Chinese civilization.

? There are too many feelings and shocks here.

In order to reduce the impact of G104 national highway transit traffic on the Mojiaoshan Palace ruins, the state invested 240 million yuan in 1997 to re-plan a new national highway, avoiding the ruins area and protecting the integrity of Liangzhu Ancient City. In 2016, the country permanently closed the original National Highway 104.

A large amount of talking rice was found in Chizhong Temple in the south of the palace area of ????Mojiao Mountain, covering an area of ??nearly 1,000 square meters. It is estimated that the rice storage volume is about 360,000 kilograms. This should be the grain storage area in Liangzhu Ancient City.

? Tomb No. 12 of Fanshan King’s Mausoleum, unearthed 647 pieces of jade (excluding jade pieces and jade grains), including the largest Cong King and Yue King in the Liangzhu Culture, with micro-engraved figures of gods and men. The animal-faced statue shows the king's sole status. This tomb should be that of the king of Liangzhu.

? The museum used scientific and technological means to restore a true and complete native skeleton unearthed from Tomb No. 49 of the Bianjiashan site in Yuhang, which was confirmed to be a 25-year-old Liangzhu ancestor who died of disease 5,000 years ago. .

The museum uses wax figures to reproduce the scene when archaeologists discovered Liangzhu, and you can feel the process of Liangzhu culture gradually becoming known...

? In addition to traditional exhibitions, Spectators can also visit the visitor center. There are cultural and creative products with unique Liangzhu characteristics: there are tatami mats imitating the squares and circles of jade congs, small coffee tables, jade chopsticks, clothes with patterns of divine emblems, etc. If tourists like it, they can buy them home together.

? There are three patio-style open-air courtyards in the museum building. They are decorated in the shape of jade, a representative element of Liangzhu culture, and look very poetic in the water. The beauties around them can be used to rest. Walking through this architectural space is already a pleasure. The Meilizhou Park outside the museum is covered with green grass. Tourists often set up tents for picnics. If you have enough time, you can also visit the nearby Liangzhu Cultural Village and have a delicious meal at Liangzhu Food Street.