Overview
Archaeology tells the stories of civilization and civilization dialogues with the world. “Zhejiang Archaeology and Chinese Civilization: 10,000-year-old Shangshan Culture · Origin of Civilization” Global Online Exhibition is officially held from December 9th.
A series of exhibitions featuring “Zhejiang Archaeology and Chinese Civilization”, a global cultural outreach activity hosted by Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism and organized by Zhejiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology of Zhejiang Province, is aimed at telling the “new stories” of ancient Chinese civilization and having dialogues with ancient civilizations in different parts of the world for mutual appreciation based on the new discoveries and achievements of Zhejiang archaeology.
The exhibition, showcasing the new research fruits of Zhejiang Shangshan Culture in the last two decades, is expected to share the archaeological discoveries, values and historical status of the Shangshan Culture as well as the contributions it has made to the civilization of China and the rest of the world.
About the Exhibition
The Shangshan Culture is renowned as an important source of world’s rice farming, an origin of Chinese farming village culture, a place for the discovery of the world’s first painted pottery, and a locality for the agricultural culture of the world. Academician Yuan Longping, father of hybrid rice, once inscribed for the Shangshan culture that “10,000-year-old Shanghan Culture, Source of the World’s Rice”, highlighting the remarkable contribution that Shangshan Culture has made to world history and human civilization.
The exhibition delivers the most important and distinctive cultural features as well as deep and unique values of the Shangshan culture in five chapters: “Preface”, “Ears of Rice Waving in the Morning Sun”, “Forging Painted Pottery in Kiln Fire”, “Sunset Smoke from Kitchen Chimneys”, “Fragrance Brewed in the Moon”. Along the time axis of 24 hours, the exhibition showcases the village life of Shangshan ancestors who got up to work at sunrise and retired at sunset in the “First Ancient Chinese Village”. Besides, experts and domestic and foreign scholars on the archaeology of the Shangshan Culture were invited to the exhibition to tell their stories about discoveries in videos; therefore, the Shangshan Culture achievements were illustrated in an in-depth and multi-dimensional way with the integration of new media technology, 3D animation, interactive games, graphics and information.
3D animation
Interactive Games
In the exhibition, we can have an “encounter” with the ancestors, walk past the paddy fields in morning sunshine, sow the earliest cultivated rice, feel the hands of craftsmen ten thousand years ago, craft exquisite pottery wares, appreciate the world’s earliest red-coating painted pottery. We can also walk through the earliest farming villages with ring trenches to experience cozy and picturesque sunset over rooftops, and to toast to the ancestors in the sunset with the remaining drops of wine in the painted pottery wares.
Along the footprints of the Shangshan ancestors in a grain of rice, a splash of red clay, a piece of painted pottery, a bowl of wine and a village, we can trace the development of rice farming, experience the calm and tranquil village life ten thousand years ago, witness the first agricultural “revolution” and first light of human civilization to understand the significance of the Shangshan Culture as the world’s origin of rice farming and its contributions to the early development of Chinese civilization.
Enter the Exhibition
This exhibition is in both English and Chinese with two different versions to enhance audience’s experience. Please follow the instructions below to enter the exhibition.
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