Miaodigou Yangshao Culture Museum

📍Address: Northeast 200 meters from the intersection of Zhaogong West Road and Yingbin Avenue, Shanxian District, Sanmenxia City, Henan Province ⏱Opening hours: 9:00-17:00 (Stop admission at 16:30) Closed on Mondays 🎟Tickets: Free🆓 Bring your ID card to register and make an appointment at the entrance 🚎Transportation: Yingbin No.1 15/18/22 Road ⭐️Four treasures of the museum 1⃣Crescent-patterned colored pottery jar, the jar is overall reddish-brown, with a round belly and flat bottom. The surface of the utensil is polished smooth, and a white and black pattern similar to a crescent is drawn on the abdomen, which is a national first-class cultural relic. It is the treasure of the Miaodigou Museum in Sanmenxia, and it is also the only complete colored pottery jar unearthed in the third excavation of the Yangshao Village site. 2⃣Arc-line triangle-patterned colored pottery basin, clay red pottery, both inside and outside the wall are coated with red clothes, a narrow black pattern is drawn around the lip and the outside of the edge, and a black arc-line triangle and dot pattern is drawn on the upper abdomen. It is the only complete utensil unearthed in the second excavation of the Miaodigou site. The combination of arc-line triangles and dot patterns forms an endless pattern, adding a mysterious color to the Miaodigou culture colored pottery. 3⃣Red pottery bowl 4⃣Goose head curved neck bronze pot, when the pot was unearthed, the liquid in the pot was as much as 3000ml, which was later analyzed by experts to be ancient wine from the early Western Han Dynasty, and ash and plant ash were added, which was quite consistent with the medical book 'Fifty-two Disease Prescriptions' unearthed in Changsha Mawangdui. It is a medicinal liquor that can stop bleeding and reduce inflammation. Cultural relic value: From the currently unearthed goose head curved neck bronze pots, we can boldly estimate that there may have been swans in Sanmenxia during the late Qin and early Han periods, which is rare. —— Sanmenxia Miaodigou Museum, started construction in March 2020, covers an area of 94.87 acres, with a construction area of about 19870 square meters, designed by the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, the scheme is based on the design concept of 'integration', the overall architecture is like interlocking hands, integrating the park green landscape and the city square. On October 17, 2021, the Yangshao Culture Discovery and the Centennial Celebration of the Birth of Modern Chinese Archaeology will be held in Sanmenxia. During the 'Double Centennial' event, the much-anticipated Miaodigou Museum will officially open.