[2025 Quwo Attraction] Travel Guide for Jinguo Museum (Updated Apr)

🕰️【Business Hours】: The opening hours of Jin State Museum are 9:00-17:00, ticket sales stop at 16:00, and it is closed all day on Mondays. 🎫【Tickets】: The ticket price is 50 yuan/person, free for seniors over 60 years old. ⏳【Visit time】: The recommended visit time is 2-3 hours to fully experience the depth of Jin State’s history and culture. 🗺️【Tourist Route】: The Jin State Museum takes Jin culture as the main line and has created three basic exhibitions: the Jin State History and Culture Exhibition, the "Qucun-Tianma Ruins" excavation history exhibition, and the Jinhou Tomb Ruins Exhibition. 📜【Historical Introduction】: Jin State, one of the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, experienced 38 monarchs and lasted for more than 660 years. It had a profound influence on the development and evolution of Chinese civilization. 💎【Treasures of the Museum】: The treasures of the Jin State Museum include the Bird Zun, the Rabbit Zun and the Chariot and Horse Pit of Jin Xianhou Su. The Bird Zun and the Rabbit Zun are both precious cultural relics from the Western Zhou Dynasty. The Chariot and Horse Pit of Jin Xianhou Su is the largest chariot and horse pit with the most sacrificial vehicles discovered in my country during the Western Zhou Dynasty.

As the saying goes: Shanxi is the place to see the cultural relics on the ground In addition to the popular cities of Taiyuan, Xinzhou, Daixian, Datong, etc., some other unpopular cities in Shanxi are also full of national treasures. Linfen is a historical city that is seriously underestimated. It is not only the well-known birthplace of the Chinese nation, but also the capital of many dynasties. Every attraction here is stunning. Not only the famous Feihong Tower of Guangsheng Temple There are also exquisite Yuan Dynasty murals in the Water God Temple. There is not only the Little Western Paradise, which is known as the masterpiece of hanging sculptures There is also the stunning Jin State Museum Follow my footsteps and take a journey across thousands of years Linfen Travel Tips: DAY1: Drum Tower ﹣﹣Dongyang Houtu Temple ﹣﹣Wangqu Dongyue Temple-﹣Weicun Niuwang Temple ﹣﹣Guangsheng Temple DAY2: Xiaoxitian-Puxian Dongyue Temple-Huozhou Drum Tower-Wahuang Temple-Dayun Temple DAY3: Linfen City Museum ﹣﹣Fencheng Ancient Buildings Group ﹣﹣Jin State Museum ﹣﹣Dabei Temple

I wish to quietly seek a piece of history, to visit Quwo·Jin State Museum. 'Cutting the tung tree and dividing the thatch to establish the society' can be said to be a portrayal of this history. 🗺Preface Yang's water, white stones are sparkling. I have heard the command, but I dare not tell others. ✨The journey begins Continuing south along the Tongpu Railway is the small city of Houma in southern Jin, which used to be a small commodity city in the north is now somewhat desolate, but it still fills the lack of a center between the two cities of Linfen and Yuncheng. At the same time, Houma, together with the surrounding Quwo and Yicheng, hides the secrets of the ancient Jin State since the sealing of the tung leaves. 💡Past and Present Yicheng, Quwo and Xintian in Houma are the three capitals of the ancient Jin State in different periods. The Tang style in the fifteen national styles is the poetry of this era. The large-scale chariot and horse pit and the intact early Jin State king's tomb at the Qu Village site bear witness to the history of the early Jin State from the sealing of the tung leaves to the replacement of Quwo by Yicheng, which is the most worth seeing relic in Quwo. However, the not very convenient transportation nearby has become the biggest challenge of this trip. 🏛 Main attractions The second-level museum located in the field is really rare. The Jin State Museum does not focus on exhibiting movable cultural relics, but mainly displays the Qu Village site and the tombs and chariot pits of the kings of all ages. Visitors can even walk into the bottom of the tomb to explore, traveling back to that time thousands of years ago. This large-scale relic is visually shocking, not to mention the important position of many undisturbed tombs in the study of the early history of the Jin State. Among them, the archaeological significance of the tomb of Xie Fu, the first king of the Jin State, is the most significant, but the shocking number of tomb-robbing holes also shows the relentless race against time between the archaeological team and the tomb robbers. The museum has specially opened a cultural corridor to commemorate this archaeology. 🚩 Cultural relics summary The museum's cultural relics exhibition hall is quite aesthetic in its curation, but the number of cultural relics is indeed a bit small as rumored. However, appreciating the unearthed cultural relics and the brief report of the tomb excavation together can also imagine the admiration and surprise that the excavation of the Jinhou tomb brought to people. The famous Bird Zun was unearthed from the Jinhou tomb in Qu Village and is now the treasure of the Shanxi Museum. 🏔Ta'er Mountain and Tang Jin Wind and Cloud If you don't make an effort to come here on a trip to Shanxi, you won't understand the mystery of the source of the three Jin. Qu Village and Tao Temple look at each other across Ta'er Mountain. This high mountain, which is unknown today, was the location of the Tao Tang Kingdom and has the name of Chongshan. Tang and Jin, these two country names that almost run through the history of ancient China, sprouted and grew at the north and south ends of this mountain range that looks like the character 'Chong'. 🚗 Museum's transportation route Note: You can take the 304 bus to Quwo and Wanhu from Houma Bus West Station. The bus interval is long and the bus also serves the function of carrying goods, so be prepared for the time consumption. The place to get off in Qu Village is at the archway of 'Jindu Ancient Land'. It is still two kilometers away from the museum. There is currently no public transportation to go there. You can only walk or find a local tricycle. When returning, wait for the bus near 'Jindu Ancient Land' again. There are few buses returning to Houma. You can take the bus to Quwo County. The terminal Quwo Bus Passenger Station has a convenient direct bus to Houma High-speed Railway Station. The road conditions are not very good. It is not recommended to drive there.

🔶Museum Introduction: 1⃣️The Jin State Museum in Quwo County, Linfen, Shanxi, divides the history of the Jin State over more than 600 years into five units, namely: Tongye Fengtang, Quwo Daiyi, Duke Wen's Hegemony, Moving to Xintian, and the Three Families Dividing Jin, which are major events that have influenced the course of Chinese history. 2⃣️It has created three basic exhibitions: the Jin State Historical Culture Exhibition, the "Qu Village-Tianma Site" Excavation History Exhibition, and the Jinhou Tomb Site Exhibition. 3⃣️The museum has a collection of 3120 pieces/sets of cultural relics, of which 109 pieces/sets are precious. 🔶Main Highlights: 🔆Jinhou Su's Chariot and Horse Pit It is currently the largest chariot and horse pit discovered in China during the Western Zhou Dynasty. The chariots and horses in the site are clearly separated, and they are buried on the left and right sides of the partition beam, with 105 horses and 48 ancient chariots! Compared with the chariot and horse pit of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor in Shaanxi, it is not only 600 years earlier, but also all are accompanied by real chariots and horses. In the chariot and horse pit, there are also war chariots, ceremonial chariots, and other chariots and horses for daily use. 🔆Jinhou Su's Ding The Jinhou Su's Ding is composed of five pieces. The belly of the Ding is hemispherical, with ears on both sides. The outer wall is decorated with convex chord patterns and heavy ring patterns. Dings with completely identical shapes and decorations, and sizes decreasing in order, are called column Dings! There are three lines of 13 characters cast on the back wall of the vessel, "Jinhou Su made a treasure Ding, its ten thousand years of eternal treasure use" 🔆Dragon Stream Human Foot Plate The dragon head flows, three three-dimensional corner dragons climb on the outer wall, the foot of the vessel is four half-squatting human figures, a round carved frog is cast in the center of the plate, the outer side is decorated with embossed fish patterns, and two bells are cast on the bottom of the foot of the vessel. The shape is unique and quite ingenious! 📍Address: Jin State Museum, Qu Village Town, Quwo County, Linfen City 📌Opening hours: Open from 09:00-17:00 (stop entering the park at 16:00), closed on Mondays 📌Ticket price: 48 RMB, free for those over 60 years old 🚌Transportation: Take bus No. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and get off at Jin State Museum Station.