Xuchang Museum

Xuchang Museum is a medium-sized local comprehensive museum with more than 12,000 cultural relics, including bronzes, pottery, porcelain, jade, calligraphy and painting, and stone carvings. Most of them are from the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, especially the stone carvings and pottery from the Han Dynasty.

Chang Museum is large in scale, majestic, with novel architecture, simple and elegant. The layout is symmetrical from north to south with Wenfeng Tower as the central axis. The exhibition area adopts a "U"-shaped plane architectural pattern, forming two quadrangles: the sightseeing area is connected by a long corridor with pavilions, platforms, towers and pavilions. The entire building is a single-eaved rolled-roof antique building with white walls, gray tiles, red painted columns, flying eaves and corners, which are scattered and well-arranged, forming a perfect antique building group that integrates Suzhou gardens and northern quadrangles. It has both the exquisiteness, beauty and exquisiteness of southern architecture and the strength, dignity and strictness of northern architecture, which are in harmony with the ancient tower and complement each other.

Han Dynasty portrait art is one of the collection features of Xuchang Museum. Its categories include exquisite stone carvings and molded and fired portrait bricks. The exhibition is divided into indoor portrait brick and stone exquisite display and outdoor portrait stone gallery exhibition area. Xuchang Han Dynasty paintings are relatively late, and most of them are works from the late Eastern Han Dynasty. The portraits are detailed, mostly flat reliefs with negative lines or shallow reliefs with positive lines. The lines are simple, clear, vigorous and powerful; the themes are mostly auspicious birds and beasts, exotic flowers and trees, chariots and horses, hunting, architecture, etc.; the portraits pursue the spirit, and the images are vivid and lifelike, showing the individual characteristics of Xuchang Han Dynasty paintings.

Xuchang Han Dynasty paintings represent a leap forward in the development of Han Dynasty paintings, representing the artistic achievements of paintings in the late Han Dynasty, and have certain historical and artistic values. In addition, there are also collections of coins from various dynasties. The collections are of a long time, wide range, large quantity, and complete categories, showing the evolution and development of Chinese currency from various dynasties, and reflecting the economic development of China in different social periods.