The quantity as well as types of burial goods in Đông Sơn burials show their owners’ role and position in the society.
Confering Diplomas could appear in fifteenth century, Le dynasty, confirmed by King’s seal, bearing state’s confirmation and showing court power to villages. Together with the other historical records, such as : royal proclamations, royal decrees, inscriptions, family annals…confering diploma is considered as one type of legal offical documents of feudal states.
Thanh Hoa museum is keeping and promoting the value of Meo pagoda’s bell, Le dynasty. This bronze bell is originally from Meo pagoda (so called Chu pagoda), Chieng Ban village, Quang Hien commune, Lang Chanh district, Thanh Hoa province. Meo pagoda has real name as “Dinh Mieu Tu”
In July 2014, Thanh Hoa museum did collect more than 30 unique, valuable and rare artifacts in which three ceramics (including two lamp-stands and one incense burner) date back to Le So period, fifteenth-sixteenth centuries.
In order to carry out the project Collecting and conserving objects and adjusting exhibition content and design at the Thanh Hóa Museum phase 2010-2020 and the plan of object collecting in 2014 as well as to commemorate the 90th year since the discovery of Đông Sơn Culture, the Thanh Hóa Museum has collected eight bronze drums, five of which are of Heger I type, two of Heger II type, and one of Heger III type. They all were found in the area of Thanh Hóa Province.
The Thanh Area is not only the land of Đông Anh folk songs, Vietnamese classical drama (tuồng), or traditional operetta (chèo) but also the cradle of the famous Mã River chanty that is famous all over the country.
Bronze drums were creative, unique works. They were symbol of Vietnamese civilization in the ancient time. In 1902, in the book “Alte metalltramels aus Sudost Asien”, Austrian scholar F. Heger classified four type of bronze drums from his research about 165 bronze drums of many famous museums in the world. These are: Heger I, Heger II, Heger III, Heger IV types. In addition, there are three intermediary types: Heger I-II, Heger I-IV, Heger II-IV. Until now, most of Vietnamese and foreign scholars accepted this classification of bronze drums.
In 2001, running the project “Collecting, conserving, correcting and editing the form and content of the exhibition in Thanh Hoa museum, 2010-2020 phase”, the museum did collect a lot of unique, valuable and rare artifacts, adding up to the exhibition and store, with different materials and types, such as, bronze drums, basket-shaped bronze containers, production tools, stone ornaments… This paper is about the big peach-shaped ink stone being kept in stone sub-store.
Thanh Hóa is an ancient land; it has a storage of precious legacy, which is bronze drums of all types. One of the most typical features of these drums was expressed through the forming and motif creating art.
Bronze jars are a type of artifacts that was discovered with a quite large amount. They are quite typical objects of Đông Sơn Culture. As containers, they were used in burial rituals of people of Đông Sơn Culture.
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