Tianshan is not only beautiful, but also has a story in the Yili Prefecture Museum

To understand a city, start with its museum. So when we arrived in Yili, Yili Museum was the first stop for Shasha's city walk. Frankly speaking, the museum's collection is not that large. According to the introduction, there are 379 precious cultural relics, and only 23 first-class cultural relics. However, Yili Prefecture spans the north and south of Tianshan Mountain, and different ethnic groups compete on the historical stage, such as Sai people, Dayuezhi, Wusun, etc., so the museum's cultural relics really contain various types of cultural relics, which is also a good opportunity to learn. Speaking of the treasures of the town, there are two most famous treasures here: 1. It is the gold artifacts unearthed from the Boma Tomb - gold masks, gold kettles, gold arm guards, all of which are inlaid with red agate and other gems. They all look beautiful. Because they are precious, they are all set up in a separate exhibition hall on the first floor. This batch of cultural relics was unearthed in Zhaosu in 1997. They are roughly things from the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. Such large gold artifacts that are very different from the Central Plains culture are really rare in China. However, it is said that it was looted when it was unearthed, so a scepter that may prove the identity of the tomb owner, which was "like a short cane with gems inlaid on the handle", was lost, and the owner of this batch of gold artifacts has not been deciphered yet. The most attractive of these is the horse inlaid ruby ​​gold mask, which weighs 245.5 grams and is customized according to the face of the tomb owner. However, because it is so popular, the mask often travels on business trips. The one in the museum now is a replica, and the original is currently on display in Urumqi. 2. It is a Yuan blue and white phoenix head flat pot. This shape is the favorite of the Mongolians in the Yuan Dynasty, and it is very similar to the same Yuan blue and white porcelain in the National Museum. Although it is not as well preserved as the National Museum, the pattern and color are visibly better than the one in the National Museum. It is obviously the "Suma Liqing" of Iranian blue material, so it is natural to treat it as a treasure. 3. In addition, there are actually many cultural relics that are not common in other places in the Ili Museum-the bronze warriors of the Sai people. The Sai people were nomads in the Ili grasslands in the pre-Qin period. They were expelled by the Great Yuezhi and moved south in the Han Dynasty, so this bronze man is basically from the Qin and Han Dynasties. In addition, for example, the "grassland stone man" standing on the grassland, such as the grassland rock paintings that are very similar to the Helan Mountain rock paintings, and the special bronze pots on the grassland are unique to the nomadic peoples of the Eurasian grasslands. 4. The museum has many cultural relics and scenes of the "Xibe westward migration". As a record of ethnic integration, there are also stories and cultural relics about the Xibe people's westward migration to guard the border in the Qing Dynasty. This is also the first time I have learned about this history in detail. On April 18th of the lunar calendar in the 29th year of Qianlong, the Qing government recruited 1,018 Xibe officers and soldiers from Shengjing (now Shenyang) and other places, together with 3,275 family members, which took one year and three months. From today's Outer Mongolia grassland route, they finally arrived in the Ili area to settle and guard the border, multiplying and reproducing along the way, accepting scattered people, and finally arriving in Ili. More than 4,000 people made important contributions to national unity in three hundred years. I also met a few local middle school students at the scene. They were holding textbooks and studying in the museum. I was very touched. At this moment, the significance of the establishment of the museum was visualized! TIPS: In addition to the history exhibition, the Yili Museum also has a natural resources exhibition and an exhibition of Jiangsu's aid to Yining projects. Interested friends can take a look. The museum has no parking spaces. If you drive, you can park your car in the parking lot opposite the museum, which is very convenient. My personal opinion is that the museum does not have its own surroundings. I actually found refrigerator magnets from Kashgar. This is a bit exaggerated. If you have the conditions, you should make your own surroundings. With the current cultural and museum craze, you should be able to recover the cost.