The original use of dress is covering skin and keeping warm, when dress possessed essential function, it evolved manifold style from view of ritual and aesthtics. In this part, we choose pottery figurine, pendent jade and gold and silver ornament etc in order to reveal ancient dress culture of central plain of China.

Major exhibits:

Bone needle

Peiligang Culture Period

Unearthed in Jiahu, Wuyang

Jade pendent

Westen Zhou Dynasty

Unearthed in Sanmenxia

Bronze kneeling person-shaped lamp

Warring States Period

Unearthed in Sanmenxia

Tomb brick with noble woman traveling design

Southern Dynasties

Unearthed in DengZhou

Tri-color nonmilitary official figurine

Tang Dynasty

Unearthed in Luoyang

Blue satin dragon robe decorated with raised gold design

Qing Dynasty      collected

2.Food for living   Drinking for entertainment

Diet is human being's essential means for living. From the period of eating birds and animals raw to the period of food served in bronze ding-tripods and music played with bronze bells, people constantly introduced culture into diet In this part, we display cultural relics about drinking, cooking and food in order to reveal fashion of diet of central plain.

Major exhibits:

Pottery Ding-tripod with nipple design

Peiligang Period   Unearthed in Xinzheng

Bronze You-jar

Shang Dynasty   Unearthed in Luoshan

A group of Ding

Spring and Autumn Period   Unearthed in Xinzheng

Pottery cooking stove

Han Dynasty   Unearthed in jiyuan

Green glaze pottery windmill

Han Dynasty   Unearthed in Jiyuan

White porcelain pot with head in shape of elephant's head

Sui Dynasty unearthed in Anyang

Fencai cups

Qing Dynasty        Collection

3. Building house with wood   Living and working in peace and contentment

At least 8000 years ago, forebears lived in central plain went out of caves, they built houses with wood and began to live in settled life. Thatched house and brick building mirror not only advances of architectural technology but also development of architectural culture .In this part, we choose structural members and structural models in order to reveal development of ancient forebears'housing conditions of central plain.

Major exhibits:

Bronze structural member

Shang Dynasty     Unearthed in Zhengzhou

Painted pottery six-storey building

Han Dynasty    

Unearthed in Jiaozuo

Pottery four-storey building

Eastern Han Dynasty    Unearthed in Shanxian

Painted pottery house

Sui Dynasty    Unearthed in Luoyang

Painted pottery courtyard

4. Connvenient Traffic

Without culture exchange, history development is unimagable. The development of transport facilities provided convenient for interchange of information and material and people's contacts in day life. The people lived in the Central Plain began to ride horse and ride in carriage instead of walking. The Silk Road connecting Asia and Europe was set up in the Tang dynasty and its eastern tip was Luoyang

Major exhibits:

Bronze horse mask in shape of  human face

Western Zhou

Unearthed in Pingdingshan

Bronze part for shaft of choriat inlaid with gold

Western Zhou Dynasty  

Unearthed in Pingdingshan

Tomb brick with chariot followed by riders design

Han Dynasty   Unearthed in Mixian

Tri-color camel carried bag and groom

Tang Dynasty   Unearthed in Luoyang

White pottery ox cart

Tang Dynasty    Unearthed in Gongyi

5. Probing Divinity  Comforting Spirit

It is unremitting pursuit of people lived in central plain to probe the true meaning of spiritual world in past thousands years. They professed belief in ghosts and gods, introduced Buddhist and observed nature. They expressed feeling and understanding of spirit in artistic form. Henan is center of origin and fusion of ancient culture and thought of China. In this part, we choose artistic and religious relics to reflect the historical fact.

Major exhibits:

Bone di(instrument)

Peiligan Culture Period   Unearthed in Muyang

Red pottery drum

Yangshao Culture Period     Unearthed in Linru

Oracle bone with inscription

Shang Dynasty   Unearthed in Anyang

Pottery pot with double birds and monster design

Han Dynasty   Unearthed in Xingyan

Statued stele of Tianyanhe

Southern Wei Dynasty    Unearthed in Qixian

Tri-color pagoda