Yongchuan Museum opened on October 26th.

CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- On October 26th, Yongchuan Museum opened with high expectations of all parts of society, which spent 9 years from laying a foundation to opening. Three highlights of the museum are as follows.

Six treasures of Yongchuan Museum

The first highlight of the museum is the scenery. Located to the south of Tea Mountain Bamboo Forest, the east of Shennv Lake Park and the west of Changzhou Ancient Town, the Museum is surrounded by mountains and waters with beautiful scenery. 

The museum is an imitation of ancient buildings of Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty, with a landscape river and three arch bridges across the river, making it a pristine beauty. It looks perfect with Mountain Bamboo Forest, Shennv Lake Park and Changzhou Ancient Town, which makes it a new attraction of Yongchuan.

Over 1700 sets of movable cultural relics about 5,000 pieces are collected in the museum. More than 500 pieces of cultural relics and fossils including natural relics and cultural and historical relics have been exhibited this time, covering an exhibition area of 9,000 square meters. It is a comprehensive museum ranked high across Chongqing for its large scale.

Among these relics, Jurassic Baofeng dinosaur fossil, relief in Han Dynasty illustrating Fu His and Nvwa playing outside, golden pagoda with many layers in Ming Dynasty, the statue for the abbot of Ruiyun Temple in Ming Dynasty, carved stone fences opera figures in Qing Dynasty, hats placing tube, tomb bricks and epigraph of Huang Kaiji in Qing Dynasty were exhibited this time, which are certified as six treasures of cultural relics collection in Chongqing by Chongqing Bureau of Cultural Relics. 

Reproducing dinosaur’s living conditions

The second highlight of the museum is the natural relics mainly about dinosaurs. The nature hall on the first floor is divided into five sections to reproduce the evolution history of ancient geological environment and ancient ecological relationships in Yongchuan.

The Yangchuanosaurus magus, Yangchuanosaurus shangyouensis and Baofeng Dinosaur fossils excavated in Yongchuan are the most attractive. The Yangchuanosaurus shangyouensis, named by the UNESCO and WHO, is the first carnivorous dinosaur discovered in the world and also one of the most complete giant carnivorous dinosaurs in Asia.

The fossil of Yangchuanosaurus shangyouensis is collected in Chongqing Natural History Museum. The fossil of Yangchuanosaurus shangyouensis in Yongchuan Museum is a replica, while the Baofeng Dinosaur fossil is original.

Demonstrating the general history of the upper reaches of Yangtze River

The third highlight of the museum is the general history of cultural and historical relics. The history and culture hall on the second floor of the museum is divided into five sections, including ancient traces, simple customs of Han Dynasty, ancient cities in Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty, prosperities of Yongchuan, and revolutionary times. The cultural relics span the Neolithic Age to modern times, which can be called the general history museum.

Many calligraphy art works represented by Chen Zizhuang displayed on the third floor of the museum show the culture of Yongchuan as the home of Chinese calligraphy. (Translated by Mao Qiao, Fathom Language Limited)