Chinese civilization's Bronze Age tours Spain

On March 18, The Bronze Age Civilizations in Southwest China opened at the Museum of Guadalajara in Spain. This marks the first time that the touring exhibition, originally curated by the Jinsha Site Museum in Sichuan province and the Art Exhibitions China, has toured abroad.

The exhibition, which brings together 58 exquisite artifacts from 14 cultural institutions across Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou provinces and the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, will run until May 15, allowing Spanish audiences an up-close experience of the infinite charm of Chinese civilization.

As an important cradle of Chinese civilization, Southwest China is a region where multiple ethnic groups have lived together, and cultures have intermingled since ancient times. Spanning over two millennia from before the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC) to the Qin and Han (206 BC-AD 220) dynasties, numerous ancient groups thrived here, casting their daily life scenes, spiritual beliefs, and cultural exchanges onto bronze, giving rise to a brilliant Bronze Age civilization.

Spanning multiple historical periods from approximately 1,600 BC to AD 220, this exhibition vividly re-creates the evolutionary pattern of Chinese civilization, characterized by the inclusion of diversity within unity.

In a video address at the opening ceremony, Tan Ping, director of Art Exhibitions China, says that every carefully selected artifact in this exhibition carries the wisdom and beliefs of the ancient peoples of Southwest China, bearing witness to the exchanges and coexistence of various ethnic cultures on this land.

"They serve as vivid footnotes of civilizational dialogue and cultural messengers across time and space," Tan says.