[2025 Mianchi Attraction] Travel Guide for Yangshao Culture Museum (Updated Jan)

Half of Henan's history is China's history! "Traveling in Henan, understanding China" This time I came to Sanmenxia, touched the relics of Yangshao culture, and felt the civilization and heritage! ✅In Xianmen Mountain Scenic Area, feel the thrilling glass plank road, dry slide, water slide...! ✅At the Sanmenxia Dam, the "first dam of the Yellow River", feel the spirit of "the water of the Yellow River comes from the sky"! ✅"See trees but not villages, enter villages but not houses, enter houses but not doors, hear voices but not people" This is a spectacle of Shanzhou Dikengyuan. ✅Go to Hangu Pass, feel the majestic momentum of the millennium and the profound heritage of Laozi's "Tao Te Ching"! "Yu" see Henan, "Yu" see yourself...

The Yangshao culture is part of the Neolithic era, which we've encountered in our history textbooks. The small-mouthed, pointed-bottomed pots🏺 and the human-faced fish-patterned basins are all from the Yangshao culture. The museum boasts a rich collection of artifacts, and there's also a heritage park nearby. The venue's exterior is designed as a red clay pottery meditation space, which I believe will be particularly photogenic for the ladies who love taking pictures in museums. If you ask me what is the best calling card for a city, I would definitely say it's the museums here.

📍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.