After almost half a year of renovations, the Niuheliang Site Museum in Chaoyang City, Northeast China’s Liaoning Province, reopened to tourists on August 3.

The nearly 3,500-square-meter museum comprises of seven thematic units, including “Prologue Hall”, “Hongshan Ancient State”, “Origin of Civilization”, and “Ancestors of Humanity”, displaying stone tools, pottery, and jade artifacts unearthed from the Niuheliang Site. As entering the Prologue Hall, a huge 360-degree projection screen vividly reproduces the production, lives, and sacrificial scenes of the “Hongshan Ancestors” at that time.

At the end of last year, the National Cultural Heritage Administration released the latest achievements of the Project to Trace the Origins of Chinese Civilization. The Niuheliang Site is a typical representative of the first stage of the ancient state era in Chinese civilization around 5800 to 5200 years ago, further manifesting the historical value of the Niuheliang Hongshan Cultural Site.