"Looking for the Song Dynasty, the Shanghai Museum is a very important place." Tang Shifen, secretary of the Party Committee of the Shanghai Museum, told reporters that Shangbo once did an audience survey: If you choose to live in ancient China, which dynasty will you choose? Many viewers chose the Song Dynasty.
Photo: Photo by Guo Xinyang, Shanghai Museum
"Jiangnan has been a brilliant person since ancient times, with rich historical precipitation and humanistic feelings, and is unique in many regional cultures with its poetic and free characteristics." The Song Dynasty was the golden age of traditional Chinese society Chinese people. Inheriting the scholar-doctor culture of the Six Dynasties of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, which was led by landscape poetry, absorbed the essence of Tang Dynasty Zen, pursued the beauty of simplicity, and formed a creation art with elegant character. Tang Shifen said.
As an important collection town of ancient Chinese art, the Shanghai Museum has held dozens of special exhibitions related to Jiangnan culture, such as the Yushan School, the Loudong School, Dong Qichang Calligraphy and Painting Art, the Qinglong Town Ruins Archaeology, Gu Embroidery, Bamboo Carving, etc. Last year and this year, the "Spring Breeze - Jiangnan Culture and Art Exhibition" and "Ten Thousand Years of Changchun: Shanghai Calligraphy and Painting Art Special Exhibition" were held respectively, fully excavating Chinese elements and Jiangnan elements, and brewing the foundation of "Jiangnan Culture". In recent years, the Shanghai Museum has also devoted itself to the research on the origin and development of civilization in Jiangnan and Shanghai, and has continued to carry out archaeological excavations at sites such as Songze, Fuquan Mountain, Guangfulin and Qinglong Town, and officially established Shanghai's first archaeological workstation, the Shanghai Museum Qinglong Town Site Archaeological Workstation, in December 2019, and held related exhibitions.
Pictured: Tang Shifen was interviewed
The "Search for the Song Dynasty" action jointly launched by the four major evening newspapers in the Yangtze River Delta has lasted for more than half a month, and its influence is constantly expanding, attracting many museums in the Yangtze River Delta to join, such as the Suzhou Museum leading netizens to excavate the "Treasures of the Song Dynasty" such as the Northern Song Dynasty Pearl Relic, and the Nanjing Deji Art Museum published Feng Ning's version of "Imitation Yang Dazhang Painting". Tang Shifen said that Shangbo is working hard to build the "Shanghai culture" brand and excavate Jiangnan culture and Shanghai culture, so it is very willing to participate in this activity, through the creation of "Jiangnan Cultural Circle", to promote the sharing of resources and linkage development of museums in the Yangtze River Delta region, "readers and audiences are welcome to come to Shangbo to taste Jiangnan". (Xinmin Evening News reporter Shao Ning)