Kirin, Shirasawa, Nine-tailed Fox... What are these legendary ancient mythical beasts? Have they ever really existed? Yesterday, the "Qing Palace Animal Genealogy" exhibition jointly created by the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum and the Palace Museum opened at the Shanghai Museum of Natural History, which will continue until May 13. Through the comparison of specimens and paintings and the development of Chinese mammal science painting, the exhibition displays the 31 most representative high-definition paintings of sacred beasts and real animals in the Qing Palace "Animal Genealogy" with the specimen objects closest to the Qing Dynasty specimen making process, and reinterprets the Qing Palace "Animal Genealogy" from the perspective of modern mammalology with the help of 3D modeling of the mythical beast multimedia and interactive exhibits, so that modern zoology can be combined with traditional Chinese culture and art, and the beauty of these animal paintings can be understood from the perspective of natural science, and further excavated." The connotation and extension of the Qing Palace Beast Genealogy culture.
Reporter Sun Zhongqin photographic report