Traveling to an unfamiliar place and wanting to quickly understand the local history and culture, the most effective way is to go to the local museum, because there is already a local team of experts who have carefully provided all the information you want to know, not only with pictures and texts, And it is very detailed, and there are even many more vivid sculptures and real objects for viewing, so Yu Fan has always had the habit of visiting museums, because this is a very process of raising posture, and raising posture is not the most important part of travel One of the meanings?
Emin County is not a well-known place. Before coming here, Yufan had only heard of a name. Other than that, it was almost blank, so apart from listening to the introduction of local friends, the museum It is also a place that must be visited. In just one hour, I have a different understanding of this small border town. It turns out that its history is so long, and its culture was so bright. Next, please Let’s take a look with Yu Fan’s lens.
Emin is located in the northwest of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on the northwest edge of the Jungar Basin, and in the center of the Ta'e Basin. It borders Kazakhstan to the north, Karamay to the south, and Tacheng and Yumin County to the west. square kilometers, but the population is only 220,000, and the typical land is sparsely populated. It is located at the intersection of the Central Plains civilization and the Central Asian civilization. There are 25 ethnic groups living in China, including Han, Kazakhstan, Uighur, and Mongolia. Therefore, Chinese and Western cultures collide here, and ethnic groups The culture is diverse.
Emin has a very long history, as early as more than 4,000 years ago, people were active here. In the Qin Dynasty, it was a nomadic place for the Cypriot people. In the Western Han Dynasty, it was the Protectorate of the Western Regions. In the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, it was Yuepan, Rouran, Gaoche In the Tang Dynasty, it was under the jurisdiction of Anxi Duhufu. In the Song Dynasty, Yelu Dashi built a city here. The third son of Genghis Han, Wo Kuotai, established the Ulus regime here. In the Ming Dynasty, it was the territory of the Zhungeer Khanate. In the Qing Dynasty, it belonged to the Ili General's Mansion (in fact, it also belongs to Ili now), and Emin County was only established in the Ming Dynasty.
The treasures in the museum are very rich, ranging from the Neolithic Age to modern times. It is impossible to show them one by one in the article. We can only select some representative cultural relics to introduce to you. The cultural relic in the picture above is called [Bronze Coffin], which is from the early Iron Age and belongs to the third-level national cultural relic. The copper coffin is about 80 cm high and the coffin mouth is 70 cm wide. It was built in Shanghu Town, Emin County in 2009. Unearthed from the three villages of Erbulak.
This is a pottery urn, which is a cultural relic of the Song and Yuan Dynasties. It is now a national third-level cultural relic. It was unearthed in the ruins of the ancient city of Yemili in 2012. The pottery urn is 0.95 meters high, 0.35 meters wide at the mouth, and 0.6 meters wide at the top. There is a small hole at the bottom of the picture, which is very well preserved.
This is a [chain mail] unearthed in Emin County. It is relatively well preserved and has been rated as a national third-class cultural relic. Chain mail is a kind of metal armor used in ancient warfare. Its history can be traced back to the fifth century BC. It was invented by the Scythians in the northern part of the Black Sea. However, this piece of chain mail is not marked with the year, let alone Don't know who has worn it, but one thing is for certain, it must have been a general.
According to relevant historical records, chain mail was also called "ring lock armor" in ancient China. Generally, it is made of iron wire or iron rings, and each ring is buckled with the other four rings. It is shaped like a net lock, and the materials are different in different civilizations. Introduced to China from the Western Regions, the earliest record can be found in "Armor Biao Bestowed by the First Emperor". After the improvement of the Chinese armor masters at that time, there is a "Book of Jin Lu Guangzai Ji" describing the highest grade of this type of armor, "the armor is like a ring lock, and it cannot be shot." Ordinary bows and arrows cannot be shot. The techniques were all the best Chinese chain mail at that time.
These are several ancient coin coins, which are said to have been unearthed in the ruins of the ancient city of Yemili in 2012. The patterns on the edges of these hard coins are not uniform, indicating that they may not have been used at the same time.
This is a bronze statue of a Bodhisattva from the Qing Dynasty. Judging from the headdress and clothing pattern, it is very delicately made. According to the introduction above, it is also a national third-level cultural relic.
Bayimuza Stone Man, Bayimuza is the name of a grassland in Emin County. This grassland has scenic spots such as Shilihuapo, Wild Rose Valley, Bottomless Lake, Jiuqu Shibawan, Map Mountain and so on. It is very famous in Xinjiang. A tourist attraction in China, that is, on this grassland, there are some stone figures standing, like contemplation, like guards... people can't help but be curious and want to explore its world. The stone figures are mainly female, carved out of granite, 1.3 meters tall, 0.3 meters wide and 0.3 meters thick. It is said that it is the statue of Fan Lihua, a female general of the Tang Dynasty, and it was also said to be the horse stake of Fan Lihua, but is it specific? It is indeed difficult to verify.
There are five exhibition halls in the Emin County Museum. In addition to the historical relics above, there are also some graphic displays of local customs and folk culture, as well as classic photography works of some local photographers. Sensitive excellent way.
Friends, do you have the habit of visiting museums?
