Shaoxing Museum is nestled in Shaoxing, a city with a history spanning over a thousand years. Centered on the theme of "Ancient Yue Culture," the museum gathers precious artifacts such as celadon from Yue kilns, yellow wine vessels, and calligraphic rubbings, unfolding before visitors like a slowly unrolled scroll of Jiangnan culture. Among its treasures are the secret-color celadons from Yue kilns—lustrous and jade-like, their crackled glaze reflecting artisans’ reverence for nature and bearing witness to the ancient glory of Yue as a “land of porcelain.”
In the Yellow Wine Culture exhibition area, wine jars and utensils narrate the millennia-old brewing heritage of “Shaoxing Yellow Wine,” while poetic names like “Daughter Red” and “Zhuangyuan Red” evoke the romantic sentiments of literati and poets through the ages.
Stepping into the “Echoes of Ancient Yue” hall, bronze ware, jade artifacts, and pottery figurines together paint a vivid picture of daily life among the ancient Yue people, while the “Orchid Pavilion Elegance”...
