Xinmin Evening News (Reporter Jiang Yan) The Year of the Rabbit is approaching, and museums in many places have also launched special exhibitions full of traditional Chinese New Year flavor, so that cultural and museum lovers can also fully feel the atmosphere of the New Year in the museum.
Caption: Shanxi Museum "Da Zhanhong 'Rabbit' - Picture Group Exhibition of Chinese Zodiac Cultural Relics". Image source: Shanxi Museum
On January 14, coinciding with the Lunar New Year, the Shanxi Museum's annual joint exhibition of pictures of zodiac cultural relics, this time launched "Da Zhanhong 'Rabbit' - Zodiac Cultural Relics Pictures Joint Exhibition". The exhibits not only include 22 pictures of cultural relics related to the zodiac from major museums in China, showing the vivid images of the twelve rui beasts, but also the rabbit knowledge of nature displayed from the pictures of animal specimens on display, and more than 180 cultural relics pictures such as the history and culture of jade, porcelain, bronze, paintings, etc., as well as the rabbit image in folk culture, fully demonstrating the splendid cultural meaning formed by the generation creation and accumulation of Chinese rabbit around the "rabbit".
The Shanxi Museum also selected 13 rabbit-related cultural relics to meet the public, of which 10 cultural relics were unveiled for the first time. The exhibition runs until February 19.
Caption: "Qinqi Calligraphy and Painting" Yangliu youth painting at the end of the Qing Dynasty and early Min, collection of Tianjin Yangliu Qingmu Prints Museum. Image source: Guangdong Provincial Museum
The Guangdong Provincial Museum launched "China in New Year Paintings", with more than 300 special New Year painting collections from Wuqiang in Hebei, Yangliuqing in Tianjin, Yangjiabu in Weifang, Zhuxian Town in Henan, Peachblossom Wood in Suzhou, Mianzhu in Sichuan, Foshan in Guangdong and other places going out of local museums and art galleries to gather the exhibition "China in New Year Paintings". Festivals and customs, farming and phenology were important parts of the life of the ancients, and the paintings contain the wisdom of the ancients to understand nature and gain insight into heaven and earth. These paintings have taken traditional Chinese festivals, daily work of the people, and natural landscapes as the themes, and integrated festival beliefs, agricultural harvests, folk activities, current affairs news, etc., to record changes in social customs, depict China's magnificent rivers and mountains, and show the variety of folk markets.
When the young year is resigned, the people will offer the newly invited god of the stove to the stove and pray for a good and prosperous new year; Chinese New Year's Eve approached, and the door god also stood on the door, ready to guard the safety of the family house; In the New Year, the most popular Fulu Suki God of Wealth, along with various auspicious statues and ancestral axes that pray for blessings and auspiciousness, are welcomed home by the people and hung on the wall, sharing the moment of family gathering. The exhibition runs from January 10 to March 29.