A 500-word essay on reflections after visiting Xianning Museum

Xianning City Museum

The Xianning City Museum is located outside the South Gate Bridge of Yong'an, Xianning City. The new museum is planned to be built on Jingui Avenue in Wenquan (first group of Qigu Village, Fushan Office), covering an area of ??30.53 acres, with a construction area of ??10,000 square meters, and a total investment of 80 million yuan. Construction will start in June 2009 and will be ready by the end of 2010. Completed and put into use.

Basic information

Chinese name: Xianning Municipal Museum

Establishment date: Construction started on 2009-12-29 and will be completed in the first half of 2011

Location: Xianning City, Hubei Province, Republic of China

Address: No. 23, Wenquan Qianshan Road, Xianning City, Hubei Province

Design Concept

The museum design plan continues the original design concept of "Chuquan Yunyu" and optimizes the shape and function of the original plan. A more concise and concentrated approach is adopted in the shape. The entire building volume is mainly composed of a square base in the lower part and a circular main body in the upper part. The square platform-shaped base in the lower part inherits the shape of the high platform buildings in the ancient Chu region of China, reflecting the historical and cultural characteristics and traditional commemorative style; the light white circular volume in the upper part has the image of "Jade Jue" in "Chuquan Yunyu" The implication is an expression of the regional cultural characteristics of Xianning Museum.

Meaning

"Chuquan Runyu" compares Xianning with its ancient history to a simple ancient jade, and gives it a dynamic water curtain landscape, implying that China's first The charm of a spring. On March 4, 2009, the design plan for the Xianning City Museum was finalized, and the museum is ready to be launched.

Xianning has a profound historical and cultural heritage, including the Shang and Zhou bronze culture represented by bronze drums, the Three Kingdoms culture represented by the Battle of Chibi, the revolutionary culture represented by the Battle of Tingsi Bridge in the Northern Expedition, and Xiangyang Celebrity culture represented by the Lake Culture Celebrity Village has a wide influence in Hubei Province and even China; folk literature and art such as folk songs and dances, music, paper-cutting, cloth stickers, woo-doo, and high-barrel fiddle are distinctive.

Building Function

The entire building function of the Municipal Museum will be mainly divided into two parts: the square base surrounds the circular main body, which mainly arranges auxiliary functional rooms and cultural relic collection technology rooms. The front half is for external service, and the back half is for internal use; the central circular volume is mainly an exhibition and public space; the main exhibition halls in the circular body are arranged around the atrium, which uses a circular glass lighting roof, and the museum public* **The hall is well-lit, and a virtual connection is used at the intersection of the circular main body and the square base, leaving a triangular courtyard, which is conducive to lighting and ventilation, and introduces green landscape into the room, forming a pleasant internal environment. < /p>

Cultural relic level: National First Class

Collections: Chibi City Museum, Xianning City Museum

The crossbow machine is currently on display in the Chibi City Museum. The crossbow is mechanical and is the earliest and most advanced "mechanical gun" used by our ancestors to hunt food and attack and defend enemies.

In 1960, when Chibi was building the Yangtze River flood control embankment, soil was collected around the site of the ancient battlefield of the Three Kingdoms, and three bronze crossbows were unearthed in an ancient tomb (see the picture above). The crossbow is 16.5 cm long, 3.5 cm thick, 9.2 cm high, and has a 7 cm handle. It is shaped like a dragonfly and consists of a main beam, a mountain, a handle, an arrow tip, etc. This crossbow is equipped with an archery bow. Wangshan mainly controls the direction of arrows and the accuracy of shooting at the opponent. Fire one arrow at a time. The shooting distance is about 260 meters. According to the identification of archaeological experts, it was cast between 770 BC and 256 BC in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

In 1973, while building a house in Tongxin Village, Chibi Town, villagers discovered two crossbows in a Han tomb, also made of copper. But it is more scientific and mechanized than the crossbow machine cast in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. Some people think that in 208 AD, the thirteenth year of Jian'an, during the Battle of Chibi, Sun Quan and Liu Bei jointly defeated Cao Cao, and Zhuge Liang researched and invented a new crossbow machine. The new crossbow machine has the same appearance as the Eastern Zhou crossbow machine, with a total length of 13.5 cm, a thickness of 3.3 cm, a height of 7.6 cm, and a handle of 6 cm, which is slightly smaller than the Eastern Zhou crossbow machine. Its main beam is hollow, and a movable leaf card wheel is installed in the hollow, which can rotate and be used to control the speed. It can fire ten arrows in succession at a time, and the shooting range is increased to about 500 meters (see the picture on the right). Another crossbow machine unearthed at the same time was engraved with "used by General Chen Wenhe, subordinate of Lü Meng, the governor of Eastern Wu" and is now stored in the Xianning Municipal Museum. In 1991, one piece was transferred to the China Military Museum for collection. These two types of crossbows have been identified as national first-class cultural relics by archaeological experts.

Crossbow machine

"The iron is still broken by the sinking sand, but it will be washed away to recognize the past." Human beings moved from primitive society to slave society, and productivity continued to increase. As humans mastered the technology of copper smelting, production tools also evolved day by day. In order to reduce casualties and attack the opponent accurately and effectively during the war, the army applied copper-making technology to the war. In addition to casting swords, halberds, daggers, spears and daily necessities, the army invented copper-made bows and arrows on the original bows and arrows. Mechanical equipment, the crossbow, enabled bows and arrows to strike enemies from long distances in ancient wars.

These crossbows symbolize the wisdom and talent of our ancestors. They are thousands of years older than long-range shooting weapons in other countries in the world. At the same time, it also fully proves that Chibi is an important war location in history.