How to have fun on your first visit to Urumqi? This museum is worth visiting

🌟When traveling to Urumqi, how can you miss the Xinjiang Museum, a national first-class museum? Although it's not as famous as the Forbidden City or the Shaanxi History Museum, it has a lot of unique cultural relics. 🌟These unique cultural relics were mainly excavated from the Astana tombs in Turpan. According to statistics, there are more than 500 tombs in the Astana tomb complex, spanning a history of more than 500 years from the early Western Jin Dynasty to the mid-Tang Dynasty. 🌟The tomb owners included both officials and commoners, so there are top-level cultural relics among them. Let's see what they have? 1️⃣ First of all, you must see the Fuxi and Nuwa painting, which is a 2.2-meter-long silk painting created by a Tang Dynasty artist. The theme is the scene of Fuxi and Nuwa, from ancient Chinese mythology, embracing and mating. If you look closely, you can see that in the painting, Fuxi and Nuwa's upper bodies are embracing, with Fuxi holding a carpenter's square and Nuwa holding a compass, and the lines above and below outline the sun, moon, and stars. 2️⃣ Next, take a look at the painted wooden figurines in silk garments, which are also national treasures, unearthed from the tomb of the famous general Zhang Xiong and his wife. If you look closely, you can see that the female figurine has yellow on her forehead, painted cheeks, red slanted lines, and colored lips, which is the typical makeup of Tang Dynasty women. Looking at the clothes, they are also the popular silk fabrics of the time, and after a thousand years, the silk texture of the clothes is still rich in color. 3️⃣ Finally, don't miss the food cultural relics unearthed from the ancient tombs, such as the treasure flower mooncake; pastries in the shapes of plum blossoms and leaves; wheat foods like wontons and roasted naan; and dried fruits like raisins and apricots; all of which show us the rich cuisine of Xinjiang at that time. 🌟It can be said that there are not many visitors to the Xinjiang Museum, but it was a pleasant surprise for me, especially these cultural relics unearthed from the ancient tombs.