In order to share the blessings and add joy, the Henan Museum will bring the cultural relics "Qingyu Tiger Shaped Pendant" collected by the courtyard to participate in the Alipay Five Blessings activity for the first time. It is reported that this is the third in-depth cooperation with Alipay after the Henan Museum launched the "Archaeology Bar Together" mini program on Alipay and sold the cultural and creative digital collection "Women's Good Owl".
Tiger in ancient times has been known as the "king of the hundred beasts", according to the existing archaeological data, as early as the Neolithic Age, tigers began to be worshipped, in the Yangshao culture cemetery found with mussels of tiger shapes. Since ancient times, China has been the habitat and cultural homeland of tigers, and has also left behind a wealth of archaeological remains, documentary records, myths and legends related to tigers.
Tiger culture is also one of the earliest totem cultures, which originated from ancient nature worship and totem worship, and is an important part of traditional Chinese culture. In China, the tiger symbolizes majesty, bravery, justice, status, respect, and blessing. Tiger is one of the "four beasts", "Li Ji Qu Li Shang" has "former Suzaku, hou Xuanwu, left green dragon, right white tiger" said, so many people also like to hang tiger pictures in their homes, put tiger pieces.
On the occasion of the New Year of the Tiger, in order to share blessings and add joy, the Henan Museum will bring the cultural relics "Qingyu Tiger Shaped Pendant" collected by the hospital to participate in the Alipay Five Blessings Activity for the first time. The Year of the Tiger collects five blessings, the jade tiger sends "tiger blessing" The year of the tiger is happy to be "Yu", and the jade tiger meets the five blessings. Since ancient times, the jade has been a symbol of auspiciousness and wealth, and the "pei" jade in the Year of the Tiger carries the good wishes of the Henan Museum to everyone. The cultural relic "Qingyu Tiger Shaped Pendant" that was mounted on the Wufu Easter Egg Card this time is a jade artifact of the Spring and Autumn Period excavated from the Huaichuanxia Temple in Henan in 1978, with a length of 14.6 cm and a width of 4.4 cm. The jade tiger-shaped pei jade is bluish gray, the tiger has a low head and arched back, and the curved limbs and tail are curled. One side of the tiger's body is full of tiger stripes, the abdomen and limbs are carved with a little geometric pattern, and the other side is smooth and unstried. There is a round wear at the mouth and tail, which can be worn on the wear system.
As one of the most distinctive jade objects in the Spring and Autumn Period, the green jade tiger-shaped pendant pattern is evenly distributed, and the image is vivid and delicate, revealing the superb artistic standard of ancient jade production in the mainland. At the same time, as the main component of the group jade pendant, it is not only a representation of the identity and rank of the noble symbol, but also gives the wearer the gentlemanly style of "the son of the other, beautiful as jade".
It is understood that after the first cultural and creative digital collection of the Henan Museum, "Women's Good Owl Zun", the "Qingyu Tiger Shaped Pei" cultural and creative digital collection will also join the Alipay Wufu "Fuqi Store" on January 28, and users can use the Wufu Fu Card to redeem it in the "Fuqi Store", ushering in a full blessing in the Year of the Tiger and permanently cherishing it.
According to the staff of Henan Museum, in response to the call of Henan Province to implement the strategy of cultural and creative integration of culture and tourism and shape the cultural brand of "walking Henan and understanding China", Henan Museum has carried out a variety of digital attempts with the digitization of cultural IP as the focus, and strives to use the mode of "science and technology + creativity" from offline to online to make traditional culture and cultural relics show a different charm, and interpret the activation and cultural inheritance of cultural relics with a new concept. (Zhengguan News Reporter Cheng Yan)