Hometown of Colored Pottery (Linxia)

Linxia is known as the "Hometown of Colored Pottery". Among all the colored pottery cultures discovered in China, the proportion of Majiayao culture colored pottery is the highest. Linxia is one of the most concentrated areas of China's Neolithic culture and one of the most excavated areas. It is a treasure trove of Majiayao culture. The National Museum has a piece known as the "King of Colored Pottery", a vortex-patterned colored pottery pot, which was unearthed in Sanping Site, Jishishan County, Linxia Prefecture Linxia Prefecture Museum and Linxia Prefecture Colored Pottery Museum are in the same place. The former name here is China Majiayao Colored Pottery Museum, which is a national museum. The museum is very new, with advanced exhibition level and hardware facilities. The types of exhibits are not very rich, with colored pottery and goldware as the main attractions. The exhibition hall has two floors, the first floor is all colored pottery, through the Majiayao type, Bianjialin type, Banshan type, Machang type (on the second floor) four sequences, fully and systematically shows the deep historical background and brilliant artistic charm of China's Majiayao culture colored pottery. It's hard to believe that the ancestors had such high aesthetics and creativity four or five thousand years ago, those smooth lines exude a unique beauty The types of exhibits are quite rich, many of which are really hard to understand what they are used for, and there are many ancestral vessels In addition to the Machang type colored pottery exhibition on the second floor, there are also Qijia culture and some other goldware, porcelain, calligraphy and painting, etc. Among them, the goldware exhibits are surprisingly many, many exhibits are very exquisitely shaped, worth a look It is a very good thematic museum. Due to geographical reasons, there are not many tourists visiting, but if you come to Linxia, you must come and see