Gansu Provincial Museum, located on the banks of the Yellow River in Lanzhou, is an important witness to Chinese civilization. The museum houses exquisite Ma Jia Yao Painted Tiles, replicas of the Mogao Caves murals, and bronze artifacts and bamboo slips, telling the legendary 5000-year Silk Road story. The core exhibition focuses on “Silk Road Civilization,” with the Ma Jia Yao Painted Tiles Hall featuring fish and geometric patterns on the tiles seemingly narrating ancient fishing and hunting stories, while the swirling patterns reveal the ancients’ reverence for nature. The Mogao Caves replica area features flying apsaras and flowing ribbons, with lifelike donor figures recreating the faith landscape of a thousand years ago. The bronze artifact hall showcases the "Wuyibi Bamboo Slips," displaying official documents from the Western Han Dynasty, with strong characters recording Zhang Qian’s epic feat of opening the Silk Road. The "Hexi Four Counties" recorded in the bamboo slips allows visitors to touch the starting sequence of the Silk Road. This hall of Yellow River Civilization not only preserves the 5000-year civilization code but also continues the mission of cultural inheritance through the steadfastness of "Mogao Guardians," and each artifact is a whisper of history, inviting you to enjoy a cultural feast across time.
