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　　序 Preface
　　郑晓幸 Zheng Xiaoxing
　　四川省文化厅厅长 Director of Agency for Cultural Affairs of Sichuan Province
　　巴蜀大地历史文化悠久，文物古迹众多。世界遗产和文化遗存都位居全国前列。四川博物院是我省重要的文物收藏、展示和研究中心。
　　四川博物院是一座大型历史艺术类综合博物馆，也是新世纪四川标志性的文化工程。四川历史悠久、文化灿烂，在中华文明史上占有极重要的地位。在二十世纪八十年代中期以前，四川博物院的几代考古工作者在全省范围内主持过许多重大的考古发掘及调查，清理了数以千计的古代遗址和墓葬，获得了数十万件各类文物资料，被国外专家誉为“考古博物馆”。现四川博物院院藏文物近二十六万件，其中一级珍贵文物达一千件。此外，他们在文物征集、研究保护、陈列宣传等方面也取得了显著的成就。
　　文物是历史的载体，是文明发展的缩影，是优秀文化传统的显现。源远流长的中华文明为我们留下了众多弥足珍贵的文化遗产，它对于彰显中华民族的伟大智慧和创造力、弘扬民族精神具有重要的意义。作为保护、研究、收藏、展示历史文化遗产和人类环境物证的博物馆，是一个城市的记忆，也是一个民族、一个国家传承文化的标志。所以，博物馆不仅是人类物质遗产的宝库，也是特殊的科学研究机构和教育机构，保护和传承文化是博物馆终极使命。
　　在四川博物院新馆落成又时逢建国六十周年之际，他们将院藏文物精品汇编成册，带你回眸往昔、穿越时空、与古为今、享受人类文明的成果，其中巴蜀青铜器、汉代陶石、佛教造像、古代书画、民族文物等，其历史、艺术、科学价值之高，堪称中华民族历史文化的瑰宝，具有持久的艺术感染力和人文精神的生命力。
　　改革开放三十年来，中国的文博事业取得了飞速发展，作为文博资源大省的四川，文博事业日新月异，文化需求快速增长，顺应时代潮流和人民群众的新期待，我省也提出建设文化强省的奋斗目标，加大了从文化资源大省向文化强省跨越的工作力度，致力于当代文化建设，更需要关注历史。建设先进文化，推动文化大发展、大繁荣就是要在汲取传统文化、民族文化精华的基础上去彰显它、创新它，博物馆应义不容辞地肩负起这一崇高的使命，是为序。
　　Sichuan，with long history of culture resources，is rich of remains & relics.World heritage sites and cultural relics in Sichuan Province is top-ranked nationwide.Sichuan Museum is a center to collect，display and researches those important cultural relics of our province.
　　Sichuan Museum is a large sized multiple museums of history and art and is also a landmark culture project in new century.Sichuan，with long history and splendid culture，has been taking a very important position in the history of Chinese civilization.Since mid-eighties of the twentieth century，generations of archaeological workers of Sichuan museum have presided over many major archaeological excavations and investigations in province-wide，excavated thousands of ancient remains and relics as well as burial sites，achieved information about thousands pieces of and wide range of culture relics.Therefore，Sichuan Museum is also called as Archaeological Museum by foreign experts.Now，Sichuan Museum has a collection of near 260，000 pieces of culture relics，among which，near 1000 pieces are Class A culture relics.In addition，Sichuan Museum has made significant achievements on finding and collecting，researching and protecting as well as displaying culture relics.
　　Culture relics，the carrier of history and the microcosm of the civilization development，can display our fine cultural traditions.Chinese civilization，with long history，has left us with a large number of precious cultural heritages and has the important meaning to demonstrate our Chinese nation's great intelligence and creativity and carry forward our national spirit.Museum，as the place to protect，research，collect and display our historic and cultural relics as well as material evidence about human environment，is a memory of a city and a nation，a symbol of inheriting national cultural.Therefore，the museum is not only a treasure-house of human substantial cultural heritage，but also the special scientific research institution and educational institution.It has the ultimate mission of protecting and inheriting our human culture.
　　At the completion of the new building of Sichuan Museum，it happened to be the 60th anniversary of the founding of new China.All cultural relics in our museum have been compiled，bringing you a review of the past，taking you through time and space，giving you enjoy of fruits of human civilization.Among which，Bashu bronzes，pottery stones of Han Dynasty，Buddhist statues，ancient paintings and calligraphies，ethnic culture relics etc.have very high historic，artistic and scientific values，and are the treasure of our Chinese nation’s history and culture and have a long-lasting artistic appeal and humanistic spirit vitality.
　　In the 30 years of reform and opening-up，our China's relics and museology has achieved rapid development.Sichuan，as the major province rich of the relics and museology resources，has got a rapid development.To meet the rapid growing culture need，to adapt to the trend of the times and people's new expectations，our Sichuan province also puts forward goals of building strong province in culture，strengthening the work of transforming from a province rich in culture resource to a province strong in culture，committing to contemporary cultural construction and paying more attention to history.Building an advanced culture，promoting the cultural development and prosperity means manifesting and innovating culture but on the base of absorbing the essence of our traditional culture and national culture，which is also，the noble mission of our museum shall take in duty bound.

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