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In order to welcome the Year of the Tiger and the 50th anniversary of the normalization of Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations, the Shanghai Museum and the National Museum of Kyushu in Japan jointly held the "Year of the Tiger - Spring Festival Exhibition of the Year of the Tiger in China and Japan".
A total of 10 cultural relics (including online exhibits) are exhibited in this exhibition, including 6 fine cultural relics selected by the museum and 4 exchange artifacts from the Kyushu National Museum in Japan. The exhibition is free to the public from 18 January and runs until 27 February 2022.
Five artifacts are on display in the hall on the first floor, including the Golden Age Yellow Ground Black Colored Goose Reed Tiger Pillow from the Shanghai Museum, the Western Han Dynasty Gilded Tiger Town and the Jin Dynasty Qiushan Jade Ornament, and the 19th-century Blue and White Tiger Bamboo Figure Twelve-Shaped Plate and the Blue and White Tiger Bamboo Pattern Plate from the Kyushu National Museum in Japan.
Yellow-ground black colored goose reed pattern tiger pillow
The Reed Tiger Pillow of the Golden Age Yellow Ground Black Colored Goose Is Crouching Tiger Shaped, with a pillow surface on the back, and the front is low and the back is high. The tiger body is first applied with white makeup soil, and then covered with yellow color, the yellow color depicts the tiger spot in black color, the pillow surface is not applied yellow color, and the white ground is painted with black color on the goose reed pattern, and the brushwork is vivid and lively. Tiger pillow has the meaning of auspiciousness and ward off evil spirits, ceramic tiger pillow is a very distinctive living tool prevalent in the Jin Dynasty, roughly white land and yellow land, the main production area is in Shanxi, Henan area. Judging from archaeological excavations, its use range is concentrated in the Yellow River Basin.
Gilded Tiger Town
The Western Han Dynasty Gilded Tiger Town is overall curly and recumbent, with a tiger stripe pattern carved into the body, a collar on the neck of the tiger, decorated with shells, and a semi-circle near the back of the head. The tiger is filled with lead to make it more stable, and the whole apparatus weighs 3600 grams. Before the Qin and Han dynasties, the main way of living was to "sit on the ground". In order to avoid folding the corners of the seat or worrying about the clothes when getting up and sitting down, thus affecting the manners, there is a seat town, that is, the weight of the four corners of the seat.
Akiyama jade ornament
The front of the Jade Ornament of the Autumn Mountain of the Jin Dynasty uses a transparent carving technique to express the mountain forest scenes such as tulip trees, mountain stones, and ganoderma lucidum, during which a tiger crouches down and looks back, and the head and hair are carefully carved, full of simple mountain forest and wild interest. The jade body is nearly white, and the local use of jade skin color to express tiger fur and ganoderma lucidum is a "pretty color" process. The Liao Dynasty had a spring and autumn "bowl" system, that is, the custom of rulers traveling outside the spring and autumn to camp and fish and hunt, and the Jin Dynasty inherited and renamed it "Spring Water" and "Qiushan". "Chunshui" and "Qiushan" jade became a very distinctive jade category in the Jinyuan period.
Blue and white tiger bamboo figure twelve-shaped plate
The blue and white tiger bamboo figure is fired in the Arita kiln in Japan (present-day Arita Town, Saga Prefecture), and the inner wall is painted with tiger, bamboo, Taihu stone, Xiangyun and other patterns, and the outer mural peony and camellia pattern, and the inner and outer circles are painted with a string pattern. At the end of the 16th century, samurai families used large plates to set up dishes at banquets. At first they used Chinese porcelain plates produced in Jingdezhen and other places. Until the beginning of the 17th century, after the rise of arita kilns, locally produced large plates gradually became a luxury on the tables of Japanese high society, and such tiger bamboo chart plates were widely favored and passed down the most.
Blue and white tiger bamboo pattern plate
Due to the increasing demand for Arita porcelain, Shida, located in the Arita Ōwaisan area, became a kiln for mass porcelain production in the early 18th century. At the beginning of the 19th century, Shida kiln entered its heyday. At that time, banquets began to become popular among the wealthy merchants in Japan's cities, high-end restaurants came into being, and the demand for large porcelain plates increased greatly. This large blue-and-white tiger bamboo plate was fired in the Shida kiln and was made between about 1810 and 1840. Most arita kiln porcelain is transported to various places through the nearby port of Imari, so it is also called "Imari porcelain".
Anon. "White Drawing Group Immortal Picture Scroll" (partial)
The Chinese Painting Museum on the third floor of the Shanghai Museum will also exhibit the collection of Yuan Dynasty Anon. "White Painting Qunxian Scroll". In addition, the electronic screen on the first floor will display four cultural relics online, including the "Album of Flowers, Birds and Animals" of Shen Quan of the Qing Dynasty in the Shanghai Museum, the "Painting of Zhao Cai Na Fu and The Evil Year" of Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) edition of the "Painting of the Year of Recruiting Wealth and Blessings to Ward Off Evil Spirits", and the "Tiger Map" of Xiong Fei in the 12th Year of the Japanese Treasure Calendar in the National Museum of Kyushu, Japan, and the "Tiger Map" of the Three-Year Earth Fang Daoling in Japan.
Shen Quan's "Album of Flowers, Birds and Animals" (online exhibit)
Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, "Painting of Recruiting Wealth and Blessings to Ward Off Evil Spirits" (online exhibit)
Tufang Daoling "Tiger Map" (online exhibit)
Xiong Fei's "Tiger Map" (online exhibit)
With the Spring Festival approaching, the Shanghai Museum has specially designed and produced two three-dimensional brochures of limited edition cultural relics for the two exhibits in the exhibition, and will distribute them to the audience and netizens free of charge in conjunction with the New Year series of activities.
At the same time, the Cultural and Creative Center of the Shanghai Museum drew inspiration from cultural relics and developed a series of cultural and creative products such as the Year of the Tiger Traffic Card, the Zodiac Multi-functional Deformation Pillow, the Tiger Transport Qingsong Home Blanket, and the "Sleep And Sleep Safely" canvas bag, allowing the audience to take the Chinese tiger culture home and spend the Chinese New Year festival together.
This year, the Shanghai Museum will also participate in Alipay's "Collection of Five Blessings" activity, and one of the exhibits in the exhibition will be made into a Wufu Easter egg card to send New Year blessings to the public during the Spring Festival.
Wufu "Cute Tiger Sends Blessings", come and unlock the gameplay strategy
At the same time, the Shanghai Museum will also cooperate with AntChain for the first time to launch two digital collections, using technology to link the digital world and convey the historical and cultural information behind the cultural relics in a youthful experience.
Shanghai Museum digital collection of yellow ground black color goose reed pattern tiger pillow