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By Newman Huo
MORE than 200 pieces of ancient porcelain from the Jiujiang Municipal Museum, Jiujiang Folk Customs Museum and Dejiang County Museum in Jiangxi Province are on display at the Shenzhen Museum through Sept. 16.
The exhibit includes green porcelain from the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th century B.C.) and Six Dynasties (222-589), tri-color glazed porcelain and dwarf burial figures from the Tang Dynasty (618-907), green and white porcelain from the Song Dynasty (960-1279), official porcelain from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), and glazed Buddhist statues from the Republic of China (1911-1949).
“Items on display are classified as national first-class cultural antiquities and cover a history of more than 3,000 years,” Wu Yongcun, curator of the Jiujiang Municipal Museum, said at the exhibition opening July 19.
A noted city in ancient China, Jiujiang functioned as a major trading center along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River for centuries.
Among the exhibits, the oldest is a green jar with cloud and thunder patterns from the Shang Dynasty, unearthed in Jiujiang in 1975. The find indicates that human beings began to live in the area more than 3,000 years ago.
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