The Changsha City Museum is a large comprehensive topology museum, built in 1986 and covering an area of 42, 000 square meters. Its structure area is 12,000 square meters. Amid the verdant woods and in a pleasant environment, a group of structures in the modern and traditional style of architecture are well distributed along the pond, on the vegetable field, green court and around the hills. The environment is ideal and very pleasant.
the Exhibition of the Bamboo Sheets of documents of the Three Kingdoms
The exhibition of the bamboo Sheets of Documents of the Three Kingdoms and Other Unearthed Relics of Various Ages is open to the public in the first hall in the city museum. This exhibition is arranged in such a way so as to show the site of the excavation once more of the Wu state's bamboo sheets of documents of the period of the Three Kingdoms. More than 3,000 items of various bronze, iron, bamboo, wood and pottery articles of relics are on display. It is amazing to even find some relics of Sun Quan, the king of Wu State 1700 years ago.
Bronze Cymbals
The bronze Cymbals (a kind of percussion instrument) produced in the Shang Dy nasty is stored in the city museum. It was unearthed in 1983 in Yueshanpu in Ningxiang County. It is 103.5 cm high and weighs 221.5kg it is the largest and heaviest bronze musical instrument ever found. It has been recognized as a treasure of the country. Together with a range of 10 pieces of bronze cymbals unearthed in Laoliangcang of the same county in 1993, it has an important value in the study of china's ancient social life and the history of music. The circles of history, relics and musical studies have expressed their great concerns about it. The Cymbal was an important musical instrument in the Shang Dynasty. It was used for musical performances by the army, and for sacrificial ceremonies and grand feasts in the Shang Dynasty and the early years of the Zhou Dynasty. These items of Cymbals can still give out simple and sonorous sound, even after they have gone through the vicissitudes over the past 3000 years.
The Ancient Musical Instruments in South China
To inherit and develop fine traditional Chinese history and culture, the Changsha City Museum, in cooperation with other relative organizations, reproduced a complete set of 76 pieces of ancient musical instruments from 1994 to 1998 after having made a breakthrough in many special studies. The instruments include the big Cymbals, a range of low and high sounding Cymbals, a range of bells, a range oflow and high sounded chime stone, pottery Xun (shaped like an egg with holes), various kinds of Xiao (a vertical bamboo flute), Sheng (a reed pipe), dizi (a horizontal bamboo flute), Se (a 25-stringed pluck instrument like a zither), Zheng (a 21 or 25-stringed pluck instrument) and drums. At the same time, an ancient musical band was set up, consisting of 12 players. After being trained in the institutes of music in Changsha and Wuhan, the band can play Chinese and foreign musical compositions.