Author 丨 Youth Daily Youth Shanghai reporter Liu Jingjing, Wu Kai
The "familiar face" of the Chinese New Year festival - the Ancient Divine Beast
What exactly does it look like?
Are there any archetypes of animals in ancient paintings?
Does it look like the animals in nature?
From 13 January
Jointly built by the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum and the Palace Museum
"Qing Palace Animal Genealogy" exhibition
Realized a "dream linkage" with the Forbidden City
Take you from the perspective of the natural sciences
Learn about the beauty of animal paintings of the ancient Chinese
Let modern zoology and traditional Chinese culture and art
Here comes a "crossover" demo
Follow the group
Let's find out!
Using Modern Natural Science to Understand the "Divine Beast"
Walk into the "Qing Palace" built by the palace wall of the imitation "Forbidden City" building
Basic shades of red, yellow, brown and brown
It makes people think they have walked into the Forbidden City
The three major display sections take everyone from ancient times to the present
Specimens are combined with ancient paintings of cultural relics
It is also the feeling of stepping into the forest from the study in an instant
The first plate
Open the door to imagination and curiosity
In the 107 "Legendary Beasts" in the "Beast Spectrum"
We have selected those who have a mass base and are in line with the atmosphere of the New Year of the Tiger
Seven representative divine beasts, such as Bai Ze and the Nine-Tailed Fox, are interpreted
Traditional ancient painting combined with modern mammalology
High-definition graphics plus large interactive multimedia
"Shirasawa Awakening", "Mountain Realm"
Let the audience know each other one by one
Divine beasts account for nearly 70% of the "Beast Spectrum"
The second plate
The Beast of Reality
"Evil Naxijo" is actually the giraffe of today
But there is no "genetic" reality of the giraffe's superior body length ratio
The dragon gave birth to nine sons, the fifth of whom was "Fox"
In fact, it is the current Asiatic lion...
There are 24 kinds of animal ancient paintings with biological "species" significance in the "Animal Genealogy"
"In the same frame" with the corresponding 7 orders and 27 animal specimens
The contrast between ancient and modern is refreshing
Culture and popular science complement each other
"Interpretation of Illustrations from the Perspective of Natural Science"
Comparison of "Interpreting Drawing from the Perspective of Scientific Painting"
Available from these paintings
Explore the development of Chinese mammal science painting
Third plate
Dance with the beast
The historical status and value of the Qing Palace's "Beast Genealogy"
Review and affirm
Through interactive multimedia "Pen and Ink Life"
Elucidate the long history of the development of zoology in the Chinese nation
Spectators can also have fun here
The Mythical Beast in My Heart jigsaw puzzle game
100% engagement!
Cross-border cooperation integrates culture and technology
"This is a cross-border collaboration between different museums
It is also the integration of culture and technology. ”
At the opening ceremony of the exhibition
Zhu Hongwen, vice president of the Palace Museum, said in a video speech
Qing Palace "Beast Genealogy"
It was a huge literary and historical project in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty
A total of 180 paintings of animals are painted in the whole book
It is the condensation of many people's efforts
It took 11 years to complete
Illustrated illustrations of mammals
It can be said that it is a masterpiece of the predecessors
Integrate the traditional Chinese realistic style
And Western painting light and shadow techniques drawn
Explore for us the people of that era
Understanding of mammals and the development of mammals
Valuable first-hand information was provided
The "cross-border" exhibition cooperated by the two major museums, through the comparison of specimens and paintings, the two clues of the development of Chinese mammal science painting will display the 31 most representative high-definition paintings of sacred beasts and real beasts in the "Animal Genealogy" of the Qing Palace and the specimen objects closest to the Qing Dynasty specimen production process, and the specimens and cultural relics and ancient paintings will be combined to re-examine and scientifically interpret the "Animal Genealogy" to achieve cross-border integration of science and art.
The exhibition uses multimedia images of mythical beasts modeled in 3D
and interactive exhibits and other means
Vividly display the image of the divine beast in a multimedia way
Realize the "visualization" of mythological stories
It creates a static and dynamic display atmosphere
From a modern mammalian perspective
Reinterpretation of the Qing Palace's "Beast Spectrum"
Wang Xiaoming, director of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, said that this exploration hopes to show the characteristics of "science and technology empower culture and make culture come alive; culture feeds back science and technology and makes science and technology bright".
Integration: Zhang Xindi
Editor-in-charge: Zhou Ping