Cover news reporter Zeng Jie
How did the Sichuanese in the Eastern Han Dynasty make salt? The Eastern Han Dynasty salt-making portrait bricks now in the Sichuan Museum depict a vivid salt-making scene. Today, this cultural relic, which once landed on CCTV's "National Treasure", will meet the audience at the special exhibition of cultural relics of the Forbidden City's "National Treasure".
Eastern Han Dynasty salt portrait bricks from the Chuanbo Museum
More than two months ago, the "National Treasure Exhibition Season" came because of the exhibition, which began a journey of national treasure creation and performance in which talent and creativity flew together, and tradition and modernity danced together. All the creative works have entered the exhibition hall of the Palace Museum's Wenhua Hall, and they will soon present innovative special exhibitions with many cultural relics in multiple dimensions.
On December 25, 2021 (this Saturday) at 19:00, the "National Treasures Exhibition season" will come to an end on the CCTV Variety Channel of China Central Radio and Television Corporation. Curators from 30 participating museums across the country will gather to unveil the special exhibition of "National Treasures". At the same time, they will also bring the "Thick Earth Cube" collected from important local archaeological sites, and work together to build the "Why China" installation on the spot to launch the special exhibition.
These artifacts were unveiled in a special exhibition
In the past 100 years, several generations of archaeologists have made unremitting efforts to make a series of major archaeological discoveries, showing the origin, development context, brilliant achievements and major contributions to world civilization of Chinese civilization.
"National Treasures", which has been broadcast for three seasons, uses the program to make national treasures come alive and lead everyone to explore the answer to the era of "why China". This special exhibition of cultural relics with a three-season purpose will take "Why China" as the theme and invite the audience to enjoy the painstaking efforts of a century-old archaeology.
In this cultural relics feast of "three seasons grinding a sword", what national treasures will meet with you? What kind of refreshing format will this special exhibition take?
It is reported that this special exhibition compares Chinese civilization to water, showing the audience the vast atmosphere of pluralism, continuous and inclusiveness, and the units of the exhibition are also determined by water: the first unit is "source", stopping to gaze at the little stars at the origin of civilization; the second unit is "flow", showing the exchange and integration between nationalities in history, between local and external, and between human beings and nature; the third unit is "hui", trying to answer the ideas and tempered skills of the ancestors. How the collected texts have brought us together as a whole, and what China has contributed to the development of the world.
Major museums come with precious collections, and the variety of national treasures is all-encompassing, showing the brilliance of Chinese civilization. In addition to the Eastern Han Dynasty salt portrait bricks of the Sichuan Museum, there are also highly popular cultural relics since the three seasons of the program, such as The Dish Fangxuan, Du Hu Fu, Yunmeng Sleeping Tiger Qin Jian, Yu Chun, Shang Martin Fangsheng, He Zun, Changxin Palace Lamp, Yan Family Temple Stele, Deer King Bunsheng Tu (replica), Jin Ou Yonggu Cup, Shang Zhou Shi Wei and other highly popular cultural relics since the three seasons of the program, such as the Seven Huang Group Jade Pendant, the Ejun Qijin Festival, the Tang Persian Peacock Blue Glazed Pottery Vase, and the Tang Monk Sutra Taking Picture Pillow, which were first listed on the "National Treasures".
Cultural relics and intangible cultural heritage touched a spark
As a supporting derivative program of the "National Treasure" cultural relics special exhibition, "National Treasure Exhibition season" is a tour of traditional Chinese culture and a climb towards the peak of literature and art. Since the ninth period, all the creators and performers of national treasures have done their best to open up the life of the times; through modern technology, they have displayed the talents of their ancestors and brought unique knowledge sharing and literary and artistic works to audiences across the country.
While inviting the vast number of literary and art workers and enthusiasts to create and perform "literary and art exhibits", the "National Treasures Exhibition and Performance Season" also sent another team to various places to re-visit the museums since the three seasons of "National Treasures" and assist the curators in making different national treasure IDENTITies for the special exhibition.
What is a "different national treasure identity card"? The treasure liaisons will display them one by one on the stage: Nigmati will bring dolls shaped like cats in the Forbidden City Palace; Uncle Cake's Shanxi face sculpture, which restores the appearance of the Houma JinDai Dong tomb figurines; Veneta presents the Lion Head of Foshan, which is inspired by the golden lacquer wood carving shrine and integrates the lion dance culture of lingnan; Miao Lin and a handicraft man in Henan who is nearly eighty years old, combined with the woman Hao Owl Zun, to make a Henan Yu opera helmet; Haiyang's Baozheng Yueqin corresponds to the national treasure four bull gilt knight bronze shell vessel, Also involved in the production are local bands in Yunnan and traditional artists in yi villages; Zhang Lei brought a pigeon whistle as a treasure certificate, because from this small pigeon whistle, she saw the ultimate and dedication of the non-hereditary heir Teacher Zhang Baotong.
These treasure certificates are the product of the collision of cultural relics with intangible cultural heritage elements and folk customs in various places. "National Treasure Exhibition Season" specially created a national treasure IDENTITY card, which once again activated the vitality and imagination of cultural relics with a new form of expression, and also represented the tribute and inheritance of excellent traditional culture.