The China Lantern Museum borrows "Beijingers" from Zhoukou store with fire

Zhang Fanglai Cover Journalist Chen Zhangcai

On July 19, Xu Juan, deputy director of the China Lantern Museum, arrived at the Beijing Zhoukou Store Site Museum and borrowed from the museum's evidence of "Beijing" from 70,000 to 200,000 years ago -ash.

On August 1, 1992, the State Administration of Cultural Relics approved the approval of "(92) Cultural Relics Species No. 793" and agreed to establish a Chinese color lantern museum in Zigong City, Sichuan Province. It has been 30 years ago. The basic display of the China Lantern Museum is based on the discovery and use of fire, the advent of the lamp, the emergence of windproof lamps, and the formation and development of the lantern festival.

However, due to the interrogation of exhibits, especially the source of lamp culture, the use of ancient humans, there is no persuasion without physical evidence. The China Lantern Museum actively proposes to the relevant departments to introduce important exhibits to receive strong support from the Zhoukou Store Site Museum.

Zhoukou store Beijing people sites are ancient ape people sites. More than 700,000 years ago, the ancestors of Beijing people lived, hid, and preserved fire species in the natural cave on the keel mountain. During the long hundreds of thousands of years, the "Beijingers" left a large number of relics and some remains in the cave. At the beginning of this century, workers found these caves that had long been forgotten when mining of limestone. Since then, archeologists have discovered some stone tools used by Ape -Man and used fire relics on the keel mountain. It proves that Beijing people have been able to use and manufacture rough stone tools about 690,000 years ago, and have learned to use fire to warm and cook food. The discovery of the Beijing people with fire ruins has earlier hundreds of thousands of years earlier.

At the borrowing ceremony of the exhibits of the Zhoukou Store Site Museum, Dong Cuiping, the curator of the Zhoukou Store Site Museum, said that the research results of major projects such as the China Civilization Source Project have empirical the history of human history in my country, the cultural history of 10,000 years, and more than 5,000 years. The history of civilization. How to accurately understand and grasp the empirical significance of this major research results is very important. It is hoped that the Zhoukou Store Site Museum will strengthen cooperation with the China Lantern Museum and deepen cooperation.

Xu Juan expressed his sincere gratitude to the strong support of the Zhoukou Store Site Museum, and said that during the launch of the night cultural activities of the Zhoukou Store Site Museum, the China Lantern Museum will give positive cooperation based on the characteristics of Zigong color lanterns; the two museums in cultural and creative products and development paths There is still a lot of room for cooperation.

It is understood that the China Lantern Museum will rectify the exhibition of the Chinese Lantern Hall of the Museum, and let the "Beijingers" meet the audience with fire as soon as possible.

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