The jade group of the Western Zhou Dynasty is now in Shanxi Museum.
In 1993, a Western Zhou jade ornament was unearthed from Tomb No. 63 in Shanxi Jinhou Cemetery. *** It consists of 204 jade ornaments, including jade huangs, jade henges, punch teeth, etc. *** Divided into three columns, there are 45 jade Huangs.
The decorations on it include double dragon patterns, double bird head patterns, human and dragon patterns, etc. The maximum length is 15.8 cm. The double hook technique is often used in the decoration. The carving technology is superb and the decoration is exquisite. One of them has double dragons carved on both sides. The dragon patterns are intertwined with each other. One end of each dragon is a dragon head and the other end is a human head. The decoration is exquisite.
During the Western Zhou Dynasty, the style of wearing jade became popular. "Shuowen" says: "Peer, so it resembles virtue." It also personified jade and began to associate jade with the character of a gentleman. "The Book of Songs? Qin Feng? Xiaorong" says: "The words of a gentleman are as warm as jade."
Shanxi Museum (Shanxi Museum), located at No. 13, North Section of Binhe West Road, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, is one of the first batch of It is a national first-level museum and a national-level museum cultivation object established by the central and local governments. It is the largest cultural relic collection, collection, protection, research and exhibition center in Shanxi.
The Shanxi Museum was formerly the Shanxi Educational Library Museum founded in the eighth year of the Republic of China (1919). Since then, it has been renamed many times, and in 1953 it was renamed the Shanxi Provincial Museum. The new museum was completed in 2004 and named Shanxi Museum. It was opened to the public in 2005, covering an area of ??168 acres and a construction area of ??52,000 square meters. In July 2019, the branch of Shanxi Museum, Shanxi Bronze Museum, was officially opened.