【Xinmin Evening News, Xinmin Network】Today, the "Jiangtian Wanli - Yangtze River Culture Exhibition" was officially launched at the National Museum of China. Jointly sponsored by the National Museum of China and the China Three Gorges Group Co., Ltd., the exhibition is another large-scale historical and cultural exhibition launched by the National Museum.
Source: Courtesy of the National Museum of China (the same below)
The Yangtze River is a representative symbol of the Chinese nation and an iconic symbol of Chinese civilization. For tens of millions of years, the naturally dissolved 10,000-year-old ice and snow rushed down from the Gradangdong Snow Mountain on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, passing through Bashu, passing through Jingchu, traveling Ganwan, passing through Wuyue, the vast nine veins, the vast east flow, and the third largest river in the world formed between thousands of turns. The Yangtze River runs through the east and west, with its tributaries radiating and ports along the two sides of the river. With its rich nourishment and eclectic broad mind of day and night, the mighty river has achieved the continuation and development of Chinese civilization, and has also connected China and the world, and the Chinese nation has thus rushed to the sea.
Pictured: Ten Thousand Miles of the Yangtze River
Today's Yangtze River Economic Belt involves 11 provinces and cities in China, accounts for 45% of the country's total GDP, accounts for nearly 40% of the population, and is one of the most important industrial corridors in China. In December 2020, the Yangtze River Protection Law of the People's Republic of China was officially promulgated. At such an important historical juncture, the National Museum of China and the China Three Gorges Group Co., Ltd. jointly launched the "Jiangtian Wanli - Yangtze River Culture Exhibition", based on the collection of the National Museum, bringing together more than 300 sets of representative materials of the Yangtze River culture, with five units: "Crossing the Flow of Eternity", "Extending the Inheritance of Civilization", "Running ancient and modern times", "Golden Waterway Through Kyushu", and "Dajiang Anlan Monument", five units comprehensively displaying the history of the Yangtze River, the grandeur of humanities, the beauty of ecology and the engineering giants. Continue the historical context of the Chinese nation and strengthen the cultural self-confidence of the whole nation.
Pictured: Tao Huang Qian Shu (Collection of Chongqing Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology)
The exhibition is divided into five parts: "Crossing the Flow of Eternity", "Extending the Inheritance of Civilization", "Ancient and Modern With a Thousand Years of Cultural Context", "Golden Waterway Through Kyushu", and "Monument to the Great River anlan", exhibiting about 300 pieces/sets of exhibits, comprehensively displaying the long history of the Yangtze River, the grandeur of humanities, the beauty of ecology, and the greatness of the project.
The first part is "Crossing the Flow of Eternity". Including the two units of "The Source of the Yangtze River" and "Ten Thousand Miles of the Yangtze River", it mainly tells the understanding and exploration of the source of the Yangtze River for thousands of years, and uses ancient paintings such as "Yangtze River Map", "Yangtze River Ten Thousand Miles Map" and "Yangtze River Atlas" to show the momentum of the East Stream of the Yangtze River.
The second part is "The Inheritance of Civilization Continues". It is divided into "origin of civilization", "brilliant stars", "eclectic", "partial ann jiangnan", "center of gravity moving south", "famous in the world" and "modern pioneer", speaking with cultural relics, which comprehensively shows the historical context of the continuous development of the Yangtze River civilization.
The third part is "The Millennium Context Runs Ancient and Modern". It is divided into two units: "Humanistic Yuanxue" and "Wanli Gallery", which tells the story of the yangtze river's popular characters, culture and art, the academy library, the ancient town residences and the unique natural scenery given by nature to the Yangtze River Basin.
The fourth part is "Golden Waterway Through Kyushu". It is divided into three units: "A Thousand Miles of Important Roads", "Great Rivers and Vicissitudes", and "Opening a New Situation". It tells the far-reaching impact of the Yangtze River on the political, economic and cultural development of the whole of China, especially in the southern region, the vicissitudes of the Yangtze River navigation industry in old China, and especially the great achievements of the Yangtze River shipping after the founding of New China.
The fifth part is the "Monument to the Great River Anlan". It is divided into four units: "The Trouble of the Heart", "The Great River Anlan", "The Century Project" and "Green Development", which tells the flooding and treatment of the Yangtze River, the great achievements of the Three Gorges Project, and the achievements and prospects of the great protection of the Yangtze River at the historical starting point of comprehensively promoting the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
This exhibition is an original exhibition based on the collection of the National Museum, with a long time span, rich content, and diverse exhibits, which comprehensively reflects the content of the Yangtze River culture. Among them, many cultural relics such as "Yangtze River Map", "Yangtze River Wanli Map", "Detailed Map of Qianlong's Sixteen-Year Southern Tour", "Southern Yunnan Salt Well Map" and so on have been exhibited to the public for the first time in recent years. This exhibition is another important attempt by the National Museum of China to refine and display the spiritual identity of China's excellent traditional culture after the Oracle Culture Exhibition, the "Dream of the Red Chamber" Cultural Exhibition, the Confucius Culture Exhibition and the Grand Canal Cultural Exhibition. The content of the exhibition spans a long period of time, with "river" as the theme of the exhibition, and through the change curve of the dominant environment on the river in different periods, an orderly environmental change from "nature-science and technology" is formed. (Xinmin Evening News reporter in Beijing, Du Yuao)