From national treasure-level collections such as Song Yang Wuchai's "Ink Mei Tu Page" and Yuan Qianxuan's "Flower and Bird Scroll", to the fine works of painters since the Ming and Qing dynasties such as Tang Yin, Zheng Banqiao, and Qi Baishi... The surging news learned that the "Flowers Like Brocade - Special Exhibition of Flower Relics in the Collection" was recently exhibited in the Tianjin Museum, and the exhibition relied on the rich cultural relics resources of the Tianjin Museum, with plants and flowers as the theme, and 15 kinds of plants and flowers, with 116 pieces of fine cultural relics in the collection, connecting a world of "flowers like flowers".
At the same time, two major exhibitions were launched: "SuXiang Light Shadow - Collection of Qing Dynasty Ladies Painting Exhibition" and "Coin Collection Spring and Autumn - Collection of Coins from Past Dynasties".
In order to meet the needs of epidemic prevention work, Tianjin Museum recently issued a temporary closure announcement, in order to facilitate the audience to visit the exhibition online, the surging news hereby sorts out the relevant content for readers.
Calligraphy and paintings exhibited in "Flowers Like Brocade - Special Exhibition of Flower Relics in the Collection"
With plants and flowers as the theme, the four seasons as the main line
According to the organizers, the exhibition relies on the rich cultural relics resources of the Tianjin Museum, with plants and flowers as the theme, 15 kinds of plants and flowers, with 116 pieces of fine cultural relics in the collection, with spring, summer, autumn and winter as the main line, connecting a "blossoming" world for the audience. From the natural form of flowers and plants, to the poetry of Chinese sending love with flowers, to the presentation of flowers in various cultural relics themes, and the auspicious meaning embodied in flower cultural relics, all-round interpretation of Chinese the beautiful taste of sending love with flowers and decorating life with flowers.
In the selection of cultural relics, we innovate the combination form and strive to present the most appreciative, era and story-oriented collection of fine cultural relics to the audience. Among the calligraphy and painting exhibits, there are not only masterpieces by modern and contemporary painters such as Zhang Daqian, Qi Baishi, and Guan Shanyue, but also fine works by Ming and Qing painters such as Zheng Banqiao and Tang Bohu, as well as national treasure-level collections such as "Song Shu Hand Flower Atlas", "Song Yang Wu Blame Ink Mei Chart Page", "Yuan Qian Selected Flower and Bird Scroll" and so on. Among the exhibits, from court porcelain to fine jade, from Qianlong silk to Ming Dynasty lacquerware, 31 of which are cultural relics that have never been exhibited in recent years.
Artifacts on display
Exhibition site
In order to enhance the ornamentality of the exhibition, the museum for the first time combined the art of Chinese flower arrangement with the theme of the exhibition, and invited Liu Dongmei, director of the Five Avenues History Museum and Celebrity Garden, and his team to use the latest bionic flower technology to carefully create six groups of traditional Chinese flower arrangement works. The overall flower arrangement work can not only set off the theme, but also allow the audience to experience the natural and elegant charm of Chinese flower arrangement at close range.
While ensuring ornamentality, the exhibition also cooperates with experts from the Botany Department of Tianjin Natural History Museum to distinguish the flowers in nearly 60 kinds of traditional Chinese paintings in the collection of works such as "Qing Yun Shou Ping Ou Xiang Guan Sketch Map" and "QingZhang Sound Folding Branch Flower Picture Scroll", which are distinguished from a botanical point of view and presented in an interactive form, so that the audience can feel the ancient people's observation of nature from the perspective of botany, as well as the beauty of the portraits of traditional Chinese flower paintings. In order to give full play to the advantages of the digital museum, the exhibition will use digital restoration technology to decolor the pictures caused by the long age of some calligraphy and painting works, and use digital restoration technology to display them in the form of animation, so that the audience can feel the original state of the works in an intuitive way, and strive to make the cultural relics shine again.
Calligraphy and painting works on display
In order to increase the interactivity of the exhibition, the exhibition carefully designed three interactive experience spaces, the audience can make their own Chinese flower arrangement, in the elaborate ancient exquisite and elegant boudoir, dressed in Hanfu punch card souvenir, you can also through the tianjin museum official Weibo, their own photo of the flower in the exhibition hall display. During the exhibition, the Education Department of Tianjin Museum will also plan and launch more than ten theme activities, including: weekend special children's activities, Chinese flower arrangement experience, small literary and artistic performances, online lectures, etc.
It is reported that together with the "Flowers Like Brocade - Special Exhibition of Flower Relics in the Collection" launched together with the "Plain Fragrance Light Shadow - Collection of Qing Dynasty Ladies Painting Exhibition" and "Coin Collection Spring and Autumn - Collection of Historical Numismatics Exhibition", the former shows the development and evolution of female paintings in the Qing Dynasty; the latter selects two thousand treasures from the collection of Chinese historical coins, supplemented by other cultural relics, presenting the development history of Chinese coins.
Qing Dynasty Female Painting: From Beautiful and Colorful Reading to Sea Fanghua
Female painting is a painting depicting women, which belongs to the category of figure painting in traditional Chinese painting. It was indiscriminately coveted in the Warring States and matured in the Sui and Tang dynasties through the development of the Han and Wei dynasties, and the painting techniques and themes were further expanded in the five dynasties and two Song Dynasties, forming a painting tradition of depicting women's external appearance and inner temperament with diversified styles, and "inheriting education" and "pleasing the heart". In the Yuan Dynasty, the creation of female paintings entered a period of silence, and gradually became active in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and in the Qing Dynasty, especially in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, it ushered in another climax.
In the early Qing Dynasty, shinu paintings inherited the traditions of the previous generation, and the styles were more diverse, and there were famous painters in the court, painters in Zhejiang and Yangzhou schools, but compared with other painting departments, there were not many painters engaged in the creation of female paintings. The resurgence of this painting type appeared in the Jiaqing and Daoguang periods. A group of painters represented by Jie Qi and Fei Danxu who are keen on the theme of female painting have carried out a large number of painting creations, and they have created a large number of paintings with gentle and smooth brush and ink to shape the slim and graceful and chuchu moving female images and give them sentimental and emotional characteristics of sentimentality and resentment, and the painting style is elegant and elegant and full of sadness, which has distinct characteristics of the times. In the late Qing Dynasty, painters such as Ren Xiong, Ren Fu, and Ren Yi, who were active in Shanghai, portrayed women with a lively and bright painting style, with a fresh style, which to a certain extent corrected the gentle style of female painting, which was quite influential.
Paintings of ladies on display
"Suxiang Light Shadow - Collection of Qing Dynasty Women's Paintings" organizes exhibits in three units: "Beautiful and Colorful - Ladies Paintings from the Early Qing Dynasty to the Qianlong Period", "Wind Dew qingmei - Jiaqing and Daoguang Period Female Paintings", and "Maritime Fanghua - Late Qing Dynasty Paintings of Ladies", showing the development and evolution of Female Paintings in the Qing Dynasty, and sharing with the audience the unique artistic charm of traditional Chinese painting.
2,000 pieces of treasure, presenting the history of the development of Chinese coins
Coins are an important part of human material culture and one of the important witnesses of Chinese civilization with a long history and profundity. Chinese coins have a long history, a complete system and a wide variety of varieties. As one of China's outstanding traditional cultures, numismatic culture reflects the politics, economy, society and culture of China in various periods, and has had a profound impact on neighboring countries and regions.
Chinese coins are one of the characteristic collections of Tianjin Museum, ranking in the forefront of the museum that collects coins in the country, from natural sea shells to modern mechanism coins and paper money, not only a large number, a full range of varieties, and a collection of fine products, which is a precious material for the study of the production and development of Chinese coins.
"Spring and Autumn of the Currency Collection - Collection of Ancient Coins Exhibition" selects 2,000 treasures from the collection of Chinese coins, supplemented by various other cultural relics, presenting the history of the development of Chinese coins. The exhibition is divided into seven parts: the birth period of metal coinage, the period of "two" and "baht" money, the period of "treasure" money, silver ingots, mechanism coins, paper money, folk money and numismatic culture. From the natural sea shells in the "barter" period, to the birth of metal coinage in the middle and late Shang Dynasty, the formation of regionalized currencies in the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, the unification of the rear hole round money by Qin Shi Huang became the main circulating coins in China, and then to the minting of Kaiyuan Tongbao in the fourth year of Tang Gaozu Wude (621 AD), the name and unit of coins changed from the "two" and "baht" system to the "Tongbao" and "Yuanbao" prefixed with the era name or national name, and the baowen coin system with "Wen" as the unit. In modern times, during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, machine coinage was pioneered, which realized a new revolution in the history of Chinese numismatics. At the same time, China was the first country in the world to issue and use paper money, and modern paper money has also developed new developments. These are covered in the exhibition. The exhibition also includes folk money and various cultural relics related to numismatic culture, such as oracle bones, jade, porcelain, and ink.
The exhibition brings together a large number of exhibits, which is the first in the number of exhibits exhibited in the past exhibitions of Tianjin Museum, and at the same time, the number of precious cultural relics including first- and second-class products is as high as more than 160 pieces, which is the highest number of precious cultural relics exhibited in the previous exhibitions of Tianjin Museum, and many precious cultural relics are exhibited for the first time. In addition, in order to show the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei in terms of regional integration and cultural lineage, the exhibition also specially introduces gold cakes excavated from the Han tombs in Mancheng in the Hebei Museum (4 tombs of Liu Sheng and 4 tombs of Dou Xuan), as well as 1 piece of filigree appliqué inlaid with glazed horseshoe gold and 1 piece of filigree appliqué inlaid white jade lin toe gold excavated from the Hebei Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology of Hebei Province (the tomb of Liu Xiu, king of Huaiwang of the Western Han Dynasty) excavated from the Hebei Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, which are extremely precious, and the loan cultural relics will be exhibited until the end of March 2022.
(This article is a comprehensive compilation of relevant materials from the Tianjin Museum.) ）