First Chinese Character Museum Opened in Anyang City

On November 16th, the first Chinese Character Museum was opened in Anyang City of Henan Province. With the theme of Chinese character, the museum aims to protect China's traditional cultural heritage and make enough room for culture research on ancient Chinese civilization.

The museum shows the evolution of Chinese characters since ancient times, showcasing cultural relics, including rubbed stone inscriptions, bronze vessels of the Shang (1600-1046 BC) and Zhou (1066 BC -256 BC) Dynasties, Chinese seal engraving, ancient coins, writing bamboo and silk, and calligraphy work from different dynasties.

Besides Han characters, which are widely used by China's Han, Hui and Man ethnic groups, the museum also houses items bearing more than 40other types of written languages used by the country's other minority ethnic groups, including the Tibetan, Uygur and Kazak.

In the exhibition hall, which covers 34,500 square meters, school textbooks written in languages of minority ethnic groups, such as Zhuang and Miao, are displayed along with bronze tripods and silk scrolls with square-shaped Han characters.

The model of the Chinese Character Museum have drawn from the character "墉" of hieroglyph, it covers 143 acres, 34500 square meters of construction size and the total investment of 537,510,000 Yuan. The main building use gulosity mark and panchi mark pattern sculpture in the roof of the Yin and Shang periods, it is a post-modernism constructions that have both modern architectural and Yin/Shang palace styles.

Anyang, a famous ancient city in the history of China, is located on the north of Henan Province, and is about 300 kilometers (about 5 hours' bus ride) from Luoyang City, the capital of Henan Province.

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