Exhibition scene Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Huang Zhouhui photographed
"Wine Song - Chinese Wine Culture Exhibition" was held at the Guangdong Provincial Museum
Text/Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Huang Zhuhui Correspondent Huang Suzhe
Photo/ Courtesy of Guangdong Provincial Museum (except by signature)
The Spring Festival is approaching, "wine is less than a thousand cups for confidants", a unique "wine banquet": "wine song - Chinese wine culture exhibition" is opening at the Guangdong Provincial Museum (hereinafter referred to as "Yue Bo"). With "wine" as the core, the exhibition integrates natural customs and cultural relics in the collection, and interprets Chinese wine culture from the perspectives of etiquette, health care, customs, export and other perspectives through natural specimens and bronzes, ceramics, calligraphy and paintings and other collections of 254 pieces/sets (185 pieces/sets of Chinese objects).
"Raise a glass to invite Mingyue, and make three people to the shadow." "Grape wine luminous glass, want to drink pipa immediately urge." "Li Baidou wine hundred poems, Chang'an City on the restaurant sleep." "No wine, no banquet", "no wine, no courtesy", "no wine, no customs"... Wine has long been integrated into the daily life of Chinese. China's wine-making technology has a long history, and its winemaking technology is unique. With the cultural exchanges of the Silk Road, the raw materials for winemaking in China have become increasingly abundant, and the koji-making technology has continued to progress and develop, and has gradually become a typical representative of the oriental brewing industry.
The exhibition is divided into four parts, the first and second parts of "Green Ant New Wine", "Talking About Wine Mulberry", cut from the perspective of natural science, with the collection of plant specimens and interactive installations, to show the audience the raw materials of wine, the aroma of wine, the types of wine and brewing technology; the third part, "Can Drink a Cup of Nothing", through bronze ceremonial vessels, ancient books and paintings, etc., leading the audience to review the wine ceremony and wine customs of Qu Shui Liu to Tu Su Drinking Fun; The fourth part "Xia Shadow into Yao Yao", The selection of traditional Chinese wine utensils and export wine utensils that are exquisite in form and style of the times shows the fusion and ingenuity of Chinese and Western cultures carried in various wine utensils.
For the first time, the exhibition exhibits a number of cultural relics and natural specimens from the collection, including: bronze jue, squirrel grape pattern rhinoceros horn cup, silver dragon pattern flower and bird character story picture three dragon foot ice wine barrel, ivory carving wine chip, silver coat of arms left white Three Kingdoms Character Story picture goblet, Qing Chen Yunlong night feast picture axis, tin carved flower small jug, wine making tools, wine cheng, etc., which opened the audience's eyes. In addition, a box of Guizhou Moutai wine from 1974 was also exhibited at the scene. At sotheby's auction in London in June 2021, the case of Guizhou Moutai wine sold for 1 million pounds (equivalent to about 9 million yuan), setting a record for the highest price ever for a single batch of Moutai wine outside China.
This exhibition is another cultural exhibition launched by Yuebo after holding a series of exhibitions on jade culture, Chinese tea culture and incense culture, and will continue to be exhibited until April 10.
Fine artifacts
Western Zhou beast face pattern bronze cup
Excavated in Xinyi, Guangdong Province in 1974, the cultural relics have a height of 26.2 centimeters and a caliber of 14.2 centimeters, with a peculiar shape and strong artistry, and are representative wine vessels.
The shape of the cup is novel and the carving is fine. The body resembles a mane, the mouth is extravagant, the flow is long, and the crotch is divided into three legs; the middle of the neck is decorated with a circle of ribs, and there is a diagonal thunder pattern on the shoulder; the abdomen is bounded by the crotch, each foot is composed of a set of gluttonous patterns, and between the two groups of gluttonous patterns, the pattern is solemn, solemn and mysterious, the structure is rigorous, the production is exquisite, the realm is mysterious, and it is one of the most outstanding works in the bronze decorative pattern.
Merchant Cloud Pattern Copper Lord
Yin Shangli, Zhou Shangjiu. "Liquor" was deeply valued by the kings at that time and was an important sacrificial wine. Serve wine to the gods. Mane, a fragrant liquor used for major festivals and celebrations, likes to add plant spices to the wine to add flavor, such as black black rice boiled with tulip herbs. The Zhou people used it to worship the gods, which was the earliest preparation of wine in China and the ancestor of medicinal wine. After the week, liquor and wine are parallel.
Qing Jiang Lian's "Han Xizai Night Feast Map" volume
"Han Xizai's Night Feast" is a representative work of the Southern Tang painter Gu Hongzhong during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, and the existing Song facsimiles are collected in the Palace Museum, and many people have copied this work in the past. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, Many painters such as Du Yan, Zhou Chen, Qiu Ying, Tang Yin, and Jiang Lian had the experience of copying this work, represented by Tang Yin's (1470-1524) Han Xizai's "Han Xizai's Night Banquet Map" of the Ming Dynasty and Jiang Lian's "Han Xizai's Night Banquet Map" of the Qing Dynasty.
The Southern Tang (937-978 CE) minister Han Xizai was jealous of Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and paralyzed himself with sound and color, and Emperor Li Yu sent the painter Gu Hongzhong to his home to depict the night feast scene for his testimony. The "Han Xizai Night Feast" can be divided into five sections, and the first painting is exhibited here Han Xizai and the guests quietly listening to the sister of Li Jiaming, the deputy envoy of the church, playing the pipa.
Qingdehua kiln white glazed fair cup
Dehua kiln white glaze Gongdao cup mouth is petal-shaped, deep arc abdomen, circle foot. White glaze is applied throughout the body and inside the hoop foot, and there is no glaze on the foot end. In the cup of a standing person, there is a hollow porcelain pipe in the human body through the small hole at the bottom of the cup, the end of the porcelain pipe is equal to the height of the cup rim, and there is a dark hole at the junction between the foot of the standing person and the cup. If the injection of wine is the same as the hollow in the human body, the wine cannot flow into the tube, but when the wine is too full, when the wine is higher than the mouth of the tube in the cup, the wine will leak out with the small hole at the bottom of the cup, and the wine in the cup will disappear.
The Gongdao Cup, also known as the "Pingxin Cup", is a cup shape, which is made of the siphon principle in physics, which advocates the meaning of "full loss and modesty". Produced in the Song Dynasty, it is also found in Yuan Qinghua utensils and popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
In 1974, it produced the original box of sunflower brand Guizhou Moutai wine
After the founding of New China, Moutai Wine shouldered the heavy responsibility of diplomacy and export earning foreign exchange. In 1957, Guizhou Moutai liquor began to be exported, the earliest use of the "Golden Wheel" brand trademark, and later the use of the "Feitian" brand trademark. From 1968 to 1975, the "Sunflower" brand trademark temporarily replaced the "Feitian" brand trademark for the export sales of Guizhou Moutai wine, of which the output of "Sunflower" brand Guizhou Moutai wine in 1974 was the smallest. It was not until 1975 that the export of Moutai liquor resumed the use of the "Feitian" brand trademark.
The box of Guizhou Moutai wine on display in this exhibition is the only known surviving box of Sunflower brand Moutai wine produced in 1974. The box and bottle of this box of wine are well preserved and in good condition, which is of great historical value.
realgar
This specimen has a rich deep red color and a relatively complete crystal form. The crystals are diamondous, translucent, short columnar, with obvious parallel longitudinal stripes on the cylinder surface. The chemical composition of male yellow is As4S4, that is, tetraarsenic tetrasulfide, with a density of 3.56g/cm^3, a hardness of 1.5~2, and a color of dark red to orange-red. The crystal mask of the male yellow crystal is diamond lustrous, while the fracture is shell-shaped and greasy. Xionghuang is an important mineral for the refining of arsenic, which is generally formed in low-temperature hydrothermal deposits or sediments of volcanoes and hot springs. Male yellow crystals are uncommon and are often produced as granular, earthy, or dense aggregates.
In the natural environment, especially long-term exposure to light or high temperature environment, male yellow is easy to oxidize into yellow female yellow, and then continue to oxidize is easy to form arsenic powder.