Xinzheng Museum

Xinzheng Museum the Henan Provincial Museum or the Zhengzhou City Museum in nearby Zhengzhou, but for a small city museum it is pretty decent. Xinzheng has a rich history: Neolithic Peiligang & Yangshao Cultures, reputed birthplace of Huangdi ("Yellow Emperor"), capital of States of Zheng and Han (770-230 BC), and the site of a Northern Song and Ming Dynasty Buddhist temple and pagoda. The museum has lots of Peiligang and Yangshao pottery, stone tools and weapons, and Eastern Zhou bronze ritual vessels, all excavated in or near Xinzheng. A 1923 excavation in Xinzheng of a tomb of a king of Zheng (c. 575 BC) helped created modern Chinese archaeology.