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Shaan’xi History Museum陕西历史博物馆 前言Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Xi’an. Today we are going to visit Shaan’xi History Museum. As we all know, Xi’an is an historical honored city, this museum must be the best place to learn the history of this ancient city, Shaan’xi History Museum was built in Tang Dynasty’s style. It covers an area of 70,000 square meters, houses the cultural heritage of Shaanxi province and shows the development of Chinese civilization. N 序言大厅The massive picture in front of us shows the surging and roaring Yellow River and the vast loess plateau, which are cradle of shannxi ancient civilization. The Giant Lion in the center has imposing appearance, and it is regarded as the “Number one lion in Orient”. Stone lions and other carving skills were introduced to China from Afghanistan, and this lion represents the local civilization and the culture exchange between China and other countries. 史前Please look at these fossil skulls. This one was discovered in LanTian County in 1964, so the people then gained the name “LanTian Ape-man”, which is the earliest homo-erectus found in Northern Asia. Look these stone implements and tools. They are very rough and crude. This period is Old Stone age. And next, this is Yangshao culture about 5000 to 7000 years ago. The Banpo ruin is a type of this culture in Shaan’xi Province. The women had dominant roles at that time. After the Yangshao culture, there exists the Longshan culture. And the earliest neolithic Louguantai culture appears afterward. 周Well, now let’s have a look at the Zhou Dynasty. The bronze casting technology was in the high period at that time, so we usually call it “Bronze age”. Here we can see a group of bronze wares. Look at this one. We call it “Ding” in Chinese, which is the signal of power. Another two important things are the bronze chime, a special instrument, and the chine shell ,a kind of the principal currency. 秦Next is the Qin period. It is the first centralized autoc