STORY: New museum building opens at China's Shang Dynasty capital archaeological site
SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 26, 2024
DATELINE: Feb. 26, 2024
LENGTH: 00:01:33
LOCATION: ZHENGZHOU, China
CATEGORY: CULTURE

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the Yinxu Museum
2. STANDUP (English): YUAN YUEMING, Xinhua correspondent
3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): HE YULING, Deputy chief of Anyang station under the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
4. various of the Yinxu Museum

STORYLINE:

STANDUP (English): YUAN YUEMING, Xinhua correspondent
"The new building of the Yinxu Museum in central China's Henan Province opened to the public on Monday. It offers a glimpse of the Shang civilization more than 3,000 years ago. As a new landmark of the World Heritage Site Yin Ruins, the museum showcases a diverse range of cultural relics, including bronzeware, pottery, jade objects, and oracle bones." 

Located near the archaeological site of the Yin Ruins, which is the location of the last capital of the Shang Dynasty (1600 B.C.-1046 B.C.), the expanded Yinxu Museum is the first national major archaeological museum to comprehensively present the Shang civilization.

The new building boasts an exhibition area of 22,000 square meters, where nearly 4,000 items or sets of cultural relics, including bronzeware, pottery, jade objects, and oracle bones, are on display.

About three-fourths of these relics are being exhibited for the first time to the public, along with multiple new achievements reached in relevant archaeological endeavors.

The Yin Ruins is the first documented late Shang Dynasty capital site in China, as confirmed by archaeological excavations and oracle bone inscriptions.

SOUNDBITE (Chinese): HE YULING, Deputy chief of Anyang station under the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
"The Yin Ruins is a typical representative of the excellent traditional Chinese culture. The inscriptions, rituals, bronzeware and jade objects discovered from Yin Ruins are the profound embodiment of our excellent traditional Chinese culture. They also provide a good reference for us to build the modern civilization of our Chinese nation."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Zhengzhou, China.
(XHTV)