中国国家博物馆位于天安门广场东侧
中国国家博物馆位于天安门广场东侧,与人民大会堂东西相映。总建筑面积近20万平方米,展厅数量48个,藏品数量为100余万件(截止至2013年末)。在全国“禁止出国(境)展览的珍贵文物”中,在国博的藏品就有18件。
The National Museum of China is located in the east of Tiananmen Square,
which is opposite to the East and West of the Great Hall of the People.
The total building area is nearly 200,000 square meters, with 48
exhibition halls and more than 1 million collections (up to the end of
2013). Among the precious cultural relics banned from exhibitions
abroad, there are 18 collections in Guobo.
那么,能从这么多珍贵文物中被挑选出来,独当一面作为众多文物的代表、历史的代表的这位器物,究竟有什么“显赫”的背景?
So, what is the background of "prominence" that can be selected from so
many precious cultural relics and act solely as the representative of
many cultural relics and history?
它,于抗日战争时期(1939年春)在河南省安阳市武官村被一位农民从田地里发现;
It was discovered by a peasant in Wuguan Village, Anyang City, Henan Province during the Anti-Japanese War (spring 1939).
它,一经发现便引来日本人的觊觎,最终以失去一只耳朵的代价保全了自己;
It, once discovered, attracted the covet of the Japanese, and finally saved itself at the cost of losing an ear.
它,重832.84公斤,高133厘米,是是迄今为止所有出土青铜器中最最大重的,举世罕见;
It weighs 832.84 kilograms and is 133 centimeters high. It is by far the
heaviest of all unearthed bronzes and is rare in the world.
它,从河南到南京,再从“国民政府中央博物院”到“中国国家博物馆”,见证了近代中国的历史变迁;
From Henan to Nanjing, and from the Central Museum of the National
Government to the National Museum of China, it witnessed the historical
changes of modern China.