Highlight: The new hall of the Xiangyang Museum is now officially open, don't miss out

📍Xiangyang, with its profound cultural heritage, attracts the gaze of countless literati, poets, and history enthusiasts👀. The Xiangyang Museum is the guardian and narrator of the city's historical memory💬, telling the long-standing stories of Xiangyang and the entire Han River basin through numerous cultural relics and historical scrolls. The Xiangyang City Museum (new hall) has officially opened🔛, and the basic exhibition 'The Landscape Bears the Marks of History - The Ancient Historical and Cultural Exhibition of Xiangyang' is also underway. The museum houses a large number of precious cultural relics,❤️ covering various historical periods from the Neolithic Age to the modern era, with a wide variety of categories, including ceramics, bronzes, jades, paintings and calligraphy, steles, bamboo and wooden slips, etc. After many years of preparation, the new hall, with its complete functions and facilities, stands on the west side of the Han River in Xiangcheng, at the surge of Fenghuang Mountain, surrounded by mountains and rivers. It echoes with the surrounding historical sites and natural landscapes such as Xianshou Mountain, Xijia Pond, Guyin Temple, and Fenglin Pass, as well as the antique cultural tourism areas like Tang City Film and TV Base, together forming the Xianshan Cultural Tourism Area. 📜What are the treasures of the Xiangyang City Museum (new hall)? 🌟An early Three Kingdoms period bronze horse, unearthed in October 2008 from Tomb No. 1 of the Three Kingdoms period in Fancheng's Caiyue, is unpretentious in structure and design, but in terms of size, it is unmatched by any other find to date. 🌟A Southern Song Dynasty polychrome mural of a kitchen preparing a banquet, a painted mural tomb with a faux-wood structure, rich in content and smooth in painting lines, with lifelike figures. 🌟An early Three Kingdoms period jade pig-shaped grip, unearthed in October 2008 from Tomb No. 1 of the Three Kingdoms period in Fancheng's Caiyue, carved from a whole piece of Hetian white jade, small and exquisite but simple and elegant. 🌟A late Western Zhou period 'Zeng Baiqi' bronze yue axe, unearthed in 2002, the slightly rusty yue axe bears an inscription of great importance, providing important evidence for the study of China's early legal system. 🌟A Tang Dynasty Changsha kiln green-glazed yellow porcelain bowl with a foreigner figure, unearthed in 1977 at Chengguan in Zao Yang, with a comical expression and skilled craftsmanship. 🌟A Western Han Dynasty bronze bucket with symmetrical dragon-shaped lifting beams on top, connected to the body of the vessel by rings and ears on the shoulders. 🙋🏻‍♀️The most 'eye-catching' 'showy bags' in the museum 🌟Caiyue bronze horse 🌟Ceramic leopard 🌟Wangjiaxiang glazed pottery dog 🌟Hougang pottery beast 🌟Tomb-guarding beast Next time you stroll through the ancient city of Xiangyang,🚶🏻 consider stepping into this palace of knowledge~ ‼️Xiangyang Museum 🕰️Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday 9:00-17:00 (entry reservation stops at 16:00), closed on Mondays (except national statutory holidays) 🎫Tickets: Free, reservation required, can be made through the 'Xiangyang City Museum' 🗺️Address: No. 268 Shengli Street, Xiangcheng District 🚗Transportation: In the city, you can take bus routes 1, 5, 13, 505, 534, 546 and get off at Xianshan Station