Brief Introduction of Shaanxi History Museum
Xi'an is located the crossroads in East of Xiaozhai and West side of Tsui Wah Road, covering about 7 million square meters, is the National Museum of History, and also is the largest and most modern history museum in China.
Shaanxi History Museum is a large, modern national museum. It covers an area of about 7 million square meters, construction area of 55,663 square meters. It is opened completely on June 20, 1991. Tang Dynasty architecture museum building draws vigorous and broad, free and easy Xilian characteristics, adapting axial symmetry of traditional Chinese palace, the structural characteristics of large-scale, elegant and dignified, simple and generous, reflecting the national style, local characteristics and spirit of the time.
Museum use of modern science and technology, implementation and management, using computer management of heritage information, the Museum District, the rooms, with flexible control of the air-conditioning systems, a variety of large modern national museum. Covering an area of about 7 million square meters, construction area of 55,663 square meters, there are 6 countries language simultaneous interpretation system.
A computer-controlled library and nearly ten thousand square meters of advanced equipment heritage warehouse facilities in fully functional. More than 3,000 pieces of cultural relics on display were unearthed from Shaanxi hundreds of thousands of cultural relics were chosen.
Grape fine silver hollow birds Sachet (Tang)
It is unearthed in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province.
Diameter of 4.7 centimeters, 7.4 centimeters long chains, and weight 36 grams.
Fragrance of sachet is the health appliance of improving the air environment. Engraved pattern outside the hollow sphere, the upper and lower hemispheres linked hinge, picture-mouth snap the ball inside the machine by two concentric rings and a gold-Xiang Meng constitute the mechanical structure. Whether indoors or a portable hanging wear, using gravity and live the balance shaft principle, so Sachet shift from whatever perspective, the withdrawal will not be overturning Xiang Hui, Tang dynasty, the nobility of women will place it in sachet of streamers in the Buddhist scriptures , in order to ward off evil refuge, and bring good luck.
There is a story of this sachet. After the death of Concubine Yang, Xuanzong missed her very much, and specifically ordered Gao Lishi must find and bring Concubine Yang's body. Gao Lishi found the body in Maweipo, he said Xuanzong that just left Sachet.
Modern people do not understand why the bodies have been decaying but the sachet is still, in our mind, sachet is like something as silk cloth, until the Famen Temple Underground Palace unearthed such a sachet of metal hollow concurrent object, is cleared in account. People already know it is produced by precious metal in the Tang Dynasty.