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Gansu Provincial Museum
China, an East Asian country is one of the world’s oldest civilizations. It has a vast cultural history of more than five thousand years and an outstanding natural beauty. On the other hand, this country has remained a comparatively isolated and secluded one, and being a land of mystery, this country is not known to the western half of the world. However, China is rapidly developing and has grown in the phase of modernization, with an immense speed and is also welcoming the outer world to interact and do business with them.
The Gansu Provincial Museum is a well regarded museum which has an excellent selection of exhibits relating to Gansu and the Silk Road. Located in Lanzhou City, the Gansu Provincial Museum is the biggest comprehensive museum in the province. Built in 1956, Designed by the soviet experts the museum covers a total area of 18,000 square meters, about 4 acres.
It houses collections of various color-painted potteries of Neolithic Age and treasures of ancient grottoes. The museum is home to precious linen and silk fabrics, books, wooden and bronze vessels, a great many bamboo slips for writing from the Han Dynasty, who ruled china from 206 BC to 220 AD, Anno Domini, frescos, etcetera. A 4-meter-tall Mammoth fossil replica is stored in the museum whose remains were excavated from the Yellow River basin in 1973. Aside from the prehistoric presentations, there are also rare animal exhibits, such as pandas, golden monkeys and red -crowned cranes.
The world-famous bronze Galloping Horse's Hoof stepped on a Flying Swallow, also named as Galloping Horse, is a treasure of ancient Chinese sculpture art of Gansu Provincial Museum. Excavated in 1969 in Wuwei County, Gansu Province, the piece depicts a vigorous horse with long tail waving and head perking. Its three hooves are in the air, galloping like lightening. What makes this sculpture amazing is the right back hoof of this galloping horse lands on the back of a small flying bird. The bird turns in surprise to look at the big creature on its back. At the same moment, the horse's head also turns slightly in attempt to know what has happened.
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