Enter Wuwei Museum and experience the thousand-year Liangzhou culture

Opening hours: 9:00-17:00, free ID card swiping at the door🌟. Free voluntary lectures during the summer: 9:00, 10:00, 11:00, and 14:00, 15:00, and 16:00 every day👏. The basic display is "Hexi Metropolis Tianma's Hometown - Wuwei Historical Relics Exhibition", located in the east and west exhibition halls on the second floor🥰. With the five thousand years of Liangzhou history as the main line and the theme of "Hexi Metropolis Tianma's Hometown", it is divided into Preface Hall, Civilization Huacai, Han Dynasty Yangwei, Wuliang Ancient Capital, Tang Dynasty Tongyi, Daxia Fujun, Meng Yuan Ancient Road, Ming and Qingliang State and other seven units 😎. The cultural relics from various periods unearthed in Wuwei are on display, such as the jades from the Qijia culture, wood carvings from the Han Dynasty, epitaphs from the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Buddhist sutras with movable clay inscriptions from the Western Xia Dynasty, and blue and white porcelain from the Yuan Dynasty. These include Majiayao painted pottery culture, Han Dynasty horse culture, Wuliang culture, Silk Road culture, Xixia culture, minority culture, etc.🤩. The special exhibition "The Charm of Tianti and the Light of Liangzhou Buddha - Thematic Exhibition of Tianti Mountain Grottoes" is located in the west exhibition hall on the third floor✨. Displaying 81 cultural relics from the cleaning, relocation and restoration of Tiantishan Grottoes. A number of precious cultural relics such as the Beiliang Stone Pagoda, murals from past dynasties, and colored sculptures are on display for the first time, allowing you to immerse yourself in the charm of the source of the grotto😍. Must-see cultural relics: ・Ten slips of king’s staff📜. The contents of the brief text are mainly about the king's staff being awarded to him in his senior year and the edict about Runan County Prince An Shi and others beating and humiliating the king's staff and abandoning the market. The above-mentioned edict involves preferential care for elderly widowers and disabled people. The bamboo slips record what Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty said: "From the time of Emperor Gao to the second year of Benshi (72 BC), I felt very sorry for the elderly. In the old age, I gave the king a staff with a bird on it so that the people could see it and compare it to the festival. Those who dare to scold or insult the officials are disobedient." It also stipulates that the old people who are given the king's staff can enter and leave the government, can walk on the emperor's road, and do business in the market without collecting taxes. If they violate the criminal law, they are not the first offender. No prosecution😮. Painted lacquered wooden dove: It was once the head of the royal staff. According to the brief record of the "Wangzhang Edict": the dove stick was held by elderly people over seventy years old in the Han Dynasty🤗. Bronze galloping horse: The original is in the Gansu Provincial Museum, and here is a replica. Bronze 鑑 (fù): Experts infer that this bronze 鑑 is used by the Hun princes and nobles who nomadically lived in the Wuwei area from the end of the Warring States Period to the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty. Judging from the traces of smoke on the utensils and the fat-like dirt on the inner wall, it may be a cooking utensil for cooking beef and sheep😃. The second volume of the Sutra spoken by Vimalakīrti: The sutra has a beginning and no end. The first title is in Tangut “The Second Volume of the Sutra taught by Vimalakirti”. It’s a clay type print. The epitaph of Princess Honghua of the Tang Dynasty: Princess Honghua, also known as Princess Guanghua, also known as Princess Honghua. During the reign of Wu Zetian, she was renamed the Princess of Xiping. Tang Gaozu was born in the family of the Tang Dynasty clan in the fifth year of Wude (622 AD). She received strict royal family education since she was a child. She is both talented and beautiful👏. It was such a distinguished royal daughter who, for the sake of friendly exchanges and national unity between the Tang Dynasty and Tuyuhun, in the 14th year of Zhenguan (640), when she was only 18 years old, she stayed away from Chang'an and married Murong Nuo, the leader of the Tuyuhun minority. Hebo lived a nomadic life of "having a city but not living there, just living in a thatched hut with tents in the water" 😉 . Yes, she became the first princess to marry a neighboring ethnic minority after the founding of the Tang Dynasty. Two years later, Princess Wencheng of the Tang Dynasty married the King of Tibet, Songtsen Gampo.