Hunan Museum is rich in cultural relics, and the Mawangdui cultural relics are quite distinctive. The display of Mawangdui is the basic display of Hunan Museum. In the exhibition hall, there are plain gauze single clothes as thin as cicada wings, undamaged printed cotton robes, various fine and beautiful embroidery, glossy painted lacquerware, as well as exquisite and detailed painted silk paintings, rich silk books, and finely crafted wooden figurines, as well as musical instruments and weapons such as qin, se, and sheng.
The Hunan Provincial Museum is definitely worth visiting among the numerous museums in China.There are also female corpses and their internal organs preserved in the basement, restored huge coffins, and tomb pits 3 and 2 preserved at the Mawangdui site. More than 3000 precious cultural relics have been unearthed from the three Han tombs in Mawangdui, with the vast majority well preserved. There is a plain yarn single garment, as thin as cicada wings, 1.28 meters long, and with long sleeves, weighing only 49 grams. The weaving skills are very skilled. More than 100000 words of silk books and lost books outside have been unearthed from Tomb 3. The drawing techniques of the topographic map unearthed from Han Tomb No. 2 are generally similar to modern maps, and the evaluation is extremely high.
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Address: No. 50, Dongfeng Road, Kaifu District, Changsha City
Phone: 0731-844158330731-84475933
Official website: http://www.hnmuseum.com/
Opening Hours: From 09:00 to 17:00 on Tuesdays to Sundays throughout the year; Closed all day on Mondays throughout the year; 09:00-17:00 Chinese statutory holidays
Entrance Fee: CNY0