{"id":5863,"date":"2012-11-20T02:35:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T08:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinatour.net\/?page_id=5863"},"modified":"2015-01-19T21:20:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T03:20:49","slug":"national-museum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chinatour.net\/beijing\/attraction\/national-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"National Museum of China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Museum of China is located on the east of Tian&#8217;anmen Square in Beijing. The museum, covering Chinese history from the Yuanmou Man of 1.7 million years ago to the end of the Qing Dynasty (the last imperial dynasty), has a permanent collection of 1,050,000 items, with many precious and rare artifacts not to be found in museums anywhere else in China or the rest of the world.<br \/>\nAmong the most important items in the National Museum of China are the &#8220;Simuwu Ding&#8221; from the Shang Dynasty (the heaviest piece of ancient bronzeware in the world, at 832.84 kg), the square shaped Shang Dynasty bronze zun decorated with four sheep heads, a large and rare inscribed Western Zhou Dynasty bronze water pan, a gold-inlaid Qin Dynasty bronze tally in the shape of a tiger, Han Dynasty jade burial suits sewn with gold thread, and a comprehensive collection of Tang Dynasty tri-colored glazed sancai and Song Dynasty ceramics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Museum of China is located on the east of Tian&#8217;anmen Square in Beijing. The museum, covering Chinese history from the Yuanmou Man of 1.7 million years ago to the end of the Qing Dynasty (the last imperial dynasty), has a permanent collection of 1,050,000 items, with many precious and rare artifacts not to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"parent":3163,"menu_order":393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinatour.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinatour.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinatour.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinatour.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinatour.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chinatour.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13109,"href":"https:\/\/chinatour.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5863\/revisions\/13109"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinatour.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinatour.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}