"Fulu Shouxi Beautiful Life - Special Exhibition of Chinese Auspicious Culture". Courtesy of Shanghai Municipal History Museum
Zhongxin Online Hai, December 21 (Wang Jia) Jointly sponsored by the Shanghai Municipal History Museum (Shanghai Museum of Revolutionary History), zhejiang natural history museum and Hebei Museum, the "Fulu Shouxi Beautiful Life - Special Exhibition of Chinese Auspicious Culture" opened at the Shanghai Municipal Museum of History on the 21st, telling the source of the development of Chinese auspicious culture and its profound impact on traditional Chinese culture.
In the long river of traditional Chinese culture that has lasted for thousands of years, auspicious culture is a very important tributary. The ancestors skillfully used characters, beasts, flowers and birds, words, etc., through metaphors, analogies, puns, harmonics, symbols and other techniques to express their yearning for an auspicious and beautiful life.
Three-star figure of Fu Lu Shou. Courtesy of Shanghai Municipal History Museum
The special exhibition selects nearly 300 exhibits from natural, historical, artistic and other categories, including porcelain, jade, gold and silverware, calligraphy and painting, fabrics, paper-cutting, animal specimens, mineral gemstones, architectural components, etc., showing the development and evolution of auspicious culture for thousands of years, and its multi-level impact on people's lives and Chinese culture. The exhibition begins with "Tigers and Tigers Are Powerful", telling about the nature and culture related to tigers, greeting the Year of the Tiger, and praying that human society will work together and strengthen its wings like a tiger to get out of the haze of the new crown epidemic as soon as possible.
Mei Lanfang and other cooperation rich and noble peace map axis. Courtesy of Shanghai Municipal History Museum
Between the steps and scenes, Cheng Zhang's Heavyweight Exhibits such as Yongkang Tiger Xiao tu fan page, gilded deer pattern three-legged silver plate, Fulu Shou three-star character standing statue, hollow xishang plum silver jar, Yaozhou kiln "Zhao" character tangled branch peony pattern plate and many other heavyweight exhibits have been unveiled, attracting the audience to stop. Among them, "Mei Lanfang and other cooperation rich and noble peace map axis" can be described as a rare sight, by the Famous Peking Opera artists Mei Lanfang, Xun Huisheng, Huang Guiqiu, Jiang Miaoxiang, Cheng Yanqiu and Shang Xiaoyun, etc., the painting of plum, bamboo, peony, camellia, pisces and Bogujia is a typical desk clearing map. Painting is not their specialty, but the painting is also elegant and chic, and it has a golden stone flavor, which is a rare handiwork of many famous people.
"Fulu Shouxi Beautiful Life - Special Exhibition of Chinese Auspicious Culture". Photo by Wang Jia
The organizer said that the exhibition takes Chinese auspicious culture as the core, and chooses to launch it in the New Year's Eve, with the intention of sending an "auspicious feast" to the audience on the occasion of retiring the old and welcoming the new, so that the audience can feel that the auspicious culture is around. (End)