Jinsha Site Museum

Introduction to the 24th Summer Activities of Jinsha Site Museum:

Are the wind of Altay, the beauty of Duku Highway, and the magnificence of Kizil Grottoes already on your summer travel plan? This summer, come to the Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum to visit the exhibition and check in, and you will have a chance to win a Round-trip to Xinjiang!

Visitors to the exhibition and checking in will have a chance to win Round-trip to Xinjiang

At present, the "Splendid Western Regions, the Same Wind Across Thousands of Miles - Xinjiang Silk Road Culture Special Exhibition" is being exhibited at the Jinsha Site Museum. 134 exhibits (sets) tell the romantic legend of the Western Regions and the past of the Chinese civilization's diversity and unity. Whether it is the "Five Stars Rising from the East, Prospering China" brocade armguard unearthed from the Niya Site, or the "Tang Dynasty Female Workers" figurines full of life in the Astana Tombs, people can "travel through" the Silk Road in a second and experience the cultural customs of the Western Regions. On June 28, it coincided with the second anniversary of the launch of the museum-themed aircraft "Jinsha" jointly created by the Jinsha Site Museum and Chengdu Airlines, and the eighth anniversary of the maiden flight of the domestic regional aircraft ARJ21. The Jinsha Site Museum and Chengdu Airlines have specially joined forces to Complimentary summer benefits to visitors to the exhibition - "Watch the Jinsha Exhibition, enjoy the scenery of the Silk Road; take Chengdu Airlines, and travel the beautiful Xinjiang" event!

According to relevant staff of the Jinsha Ruins Museum, the lottery will start in June and last until October, with three rounds of draws during this period, during which the first, second and third prizes will be drawn.The first prize includes round-trip air tickets from Chengdu to Turpan, Xinjiang, a model of the "Jinsha" airplane, and a Jinsha cultural and creative gift package.(For more information, please follow the official WeChat and Weibo of Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum). Turpan City is rich in tourism resources. In addition to the well-known Huoyan Mountain Attraction, there is also the "Anxi Protectorate"-Jiaohe Ancient City, which is known as the "World's Perfect Ruins", the Gaochang Ancient City, a national key cultural relic protection unit, and the Astana Tombs, known as the "Turpan Underground Museum". Many precious cultural relics in the "Silk Road Culture Special Exhibition" of the Jinsha Site Museum come from there. I believe that after watching the exhibition, the audience will have a different cultural experience if they visit the site.

In order to cooperate with this event, the Jinsha Site Museum set up a theme check-in device in the "meditation space" on the first floor of the exhibition hall. There are not only cute "Jinsha" aircraft models, but also limited edition boarding pass-style exhibition brochures. As the Chengdu Airlines Xinjiang route map slowly unfolds, the "Splendid Western Regions, Thousands of Miles of Winds - Xinjiang Silk Road Culture Special Exhibition" exhibition information and representative sites and cultural relics along the waypoints are also presented one by one. This exhibition brochure is like a "treasure map" for exploring Xinjiang Silk Road culture, taking you to easily appreciate the profound historical and cultural charm of Xinjiang.

After two years of operation, the "Jinsha" has helped spread Chengdu's city culture

The "Jinsha" is a theme aircraft jointly built by the Jinsha Site Museum and Chengdu Airlines, and it is also the first museum theme aircraft. The fuselage is full of ancient Shu cultural elements: the roots of the tree that have been dormant for thousands of years have regained vitality and are lush and leafy; the golden ornaments of the Sun Bird have turned into a golden wheel, shining on the land of abundance; the cirrus pattern on the golden trumpet-shaped vessel falls on the back of the Jinsha deer, which is smart and cute; the golden mask has a gaze that penetrates three thousand years, watching the development and changes of Chengdu for thousands of years.

According to reports, the "Jinsha" uses the domestically produced regional airliner ARJ21. Since it began flying on June 28, 2022, it has transported nearly 120,000 passengers and more than 1,500 flights, mainly serving branch cities. It not only helps domestically produced airliners to operate on a large scale in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Northeast China and other regions, and serve local social and economic development, but also serves as a "dissemination machine" for Chengdu's urban culture and ancient Shu culture.

Staff at the Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum told reporters that the "Jinsha" themed aircraft holds "Museum in the Air" activities from time to time every year. The theme of this year's event is "Cloud Classroom" - on the eve of China's Cultural and Natural Heritage Day, the museum's gold medal Guide boarded the passenger plane, bringing 3D prints of precious cultural relics unearthed from the Jinsha Site, and introduced the discovery and excavation of the Jinsha Site to the passengers, and told the social life and historical culture reflected behind the cultural relics, thereby extending the story of Chengdu's urban culture.

With the help of "Splendid Western Regions, Winds of a Thousand Miles - Xinjiang Silk Road Culture Special Exhibition", the Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum and Chengdu Airlines held activities throughout the "summer season", once again creating an excellent example of cultural and tourism integration and cross-border co-creation. While providing tourists from all over the world with a new experience of Jinsha culture, the event also provided new ideas for the dissemination of historical culture, enriched Chengdu's "summer travel" resources, and made contributions to the cultural and museum community in promoting the high-quality development of Chengdu's cultural and tourism market.

【Exhibition Introduction】

"Splendid Western Regions, Same Wind Across the World - Xinjiang Silk Road Cultural Exhibition"

The exhibition was jointly organized by the Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum. It presented 134 pieces (sets) of exquisite exhibits from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum, the Chengdu Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute and the Chengdu Shu Brocade and Embroidery Museum, including 78 pieces (sets) of precious cultural relics. In order to present the prosperous scene of the ancient Silk Road, the exhibition consists of three units: "Silk Road Prototype", "Silk Road Splendor" and "Silk Road Sanskrit Sound". As the finishing touch of this exhibition, the Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum specially added the "Chengdu Limited Edition" content to the exhibition to creatively show the long history of cultural exchanges between Xinjiang and Sichuan with Shu brocade as the medium. Previously, the exhibition has been selected for the 2024 "Reading China in the Museum-Promoting the Excellent Traditional Chinese Culture and Cultivating the Core Values ​​of Socialism" themed exhibition sponsored by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and the Central Cyberspace Affairs Office. The exhibition will continue until October 27.

Introduction to Attraction:

The Jinsha Site Museum is located in the northwest of Chengdu city. It was built on the original site of the Jinsha Site, an important archaeological discovery of the ancient Shu civilization. It is an archaeological museum dedicated to protecting, researching and displaying the Jinsha Site and the ancient Shu civilization.

In April 2007, the Jinsha Site Museum was officially opened to the public. The museum covers an area of ​​300,000 square meters, with a total building area of ​​about 40,000 square meters. It is divided into the Relics Hall, Exhibition Hall, Cultural Relics Protection and Restoration Center, Cultural Exchange Center, Garden Area and other parts. The collection of cultural relics is rich in variety and complete in system, and all have high historical, scientific, cultural and artistic value. The exhibition comprehensively displays the glory of the ancient Shu Jinsha Kingdom from multiple angles such as archaeological sites, ecological environment, production and life, religious sacrifices, and cultural background.

The Jinsha Site was rated as one of the "Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries in China in 2001", a national key cultural relic protection unit and one of the first national archaeological site parks, and was selected together with the Sanxingdui Site into the "China World Cultural Heritage Tentative List". The "Sun Bird" gold ornament pattern unearthed from the Jinsha Site was identified as the symbol of China's cultural heritage and the core pattern of Chengdu's city image logo.

The Jinsha Site Museum is now a national AAAA-level tourist Attraction, a national first-class museum, a national research and practice education base for primary and secondary school students, and a Sichuan Province postdoctoral innovation and practice base.