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The Guangxi
Baiyue Culture Exhibition is an ongoing exhibition at the National
Museum of China in Beijing,
displaying a total of 135 sets of cultural relics from the provincial museum
of Guangxi . The exhibition, running from March 15 to June
15, aims to give a vivid idea of how ancient peoples interacted with each other
some 2,000 years ago before finally merging into the vast and diversified
Chinese nation.
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Pottery Model House (Burial
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Bronze
Bell with Human Mask |
The term Baiyue, or a hundred Yues, refers to all the tribal branches of the
aboriginal Yue inhabitants of south China from the Spring
and Autumn Period (770-476BC) to the Eastern Han
Dynasty (25-220).
Emperor Qinshihuang, founder of the Qin
Dynasty (221-206BC), eventually defeated these southern tribes and
established three counties, covering today's Guangdong, Guangxi, and the
northern tip of Vietnam. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the former Qin general
Zhao Tuo established the Southern Yue Kingdom, which lasted for about 100 years.
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