The Baoji Bronze Ware Museum in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, the first museum in the country to highlight the bronze culture, offers a glimpse into the splendid culture in ancient China.
Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the museum in the city of Baoji on Tuesday afternoon, to learn about the local efforts to enhance the protection and use of cultural relics.
He stressed developing a sense of reverence and affection for Chinese civilization and called for passing on fine traditional Chinese culture from generation to generation.
Home to more than 480,000 cultural relics, the museum is especially famous for the bronzes of the Shang (1600-1046 B.C.) and Zhou (1046-771 B.C.) dynasties which marked the peak of China's bronze culture.
He Zun, a bronze ritual wine vessel made in the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046-771 BC) is housed at the museum. It is one of China's 64 national treasures that are never allowed to be exhibited abroad.
It stands 38 centimeters high, and is 28 centimeters in diameter, weighing in at more than 14 kilograms. The bronze ware bears the first written form of the name Zhongguo, or China, which indicates that the concept of "Zhongguo" has emerged more than 3,000 years ago.
Baoji Bronze Ware Museum offers glimpse into splendid ancient Chinese culture
A dozen people have been arrested following a devastating fire at a nightclub in North Macedonia that claimed 59 lives, with investigations at the site still ongoing, local officials said on Monday.
The fire broke out at the nightclub in Kocani Municipality in the early hours of Sunday morning, killing 59 people and injuring 163, including 45 in critical condition.
North Macedonia's Interior Minister Panche Toshkovski said on Monday that those arrested include managers, security personnel and ticketing staff at the nightclub.
The Mayor of Kocani Municipality, Ljupco Papazov, announced his resignation following the tragedy and expressed his willingness to be investigated.
Preliminary investigations showed that the blaze was triggered by a pyrotechnics display used by a live band who were performing on stage at the club. The fireworks used onstage were brought by the band, and the person responsible for operating them had died in the accident.
Hundreds gathered in Kocani's town center on Sunday evening to silently pay their respects, lighting candles to honor those who perished in the fire.
The small town of 30,000 people is struggling to come to terms with the scale of the tragedy, while North Macedonia has declared seven days of national mourning.
Dozen arrested after nightclub fire kills 59 in North Macedonia
