National Treasure Tiger Lock to help revitalize the National Expo New Year Exhibition to celebrate the Year of the Tiger

"Tiggo You'an - 2022 New Year Exhibition" National Expo launched (Photo by Chen Yujuan)

International Online Report (Reporter Chen Yujuan): On January 19, the National Museum of China held the "Tiggo You'an - 2022 Chinese New Year Exhibition". In 2018, it returned to the embrace of the motherland, and the bronze heavy instruments cast in the Western Zhou Dynasty at the National Museum of Tibet also came out of the mountain again to celebrate the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger.

The exhibits in the collection of the National Museum exhibited in this exhibition from the Shang Dynasty to the beginning of the 21st century include noble utensils with brilliant gold and jade and fine craftsmanship, as well as the remains of stoneware gray tiles and simple and lovely cities, with rich categories, reflecting the long-standing and endless tiger culture of the Chinese nation from all aspects of culture. More than 70% of the exhibits are exhibited for the first time, showing the charm of cultural relics and art, while presenting the latest preservation and research results of the museum, realizing the desire to make historical relics come alive and enrich the cultural life of the masses.

Since ancient times, in the relationship with nature, the ancestors have known the tiger, a large, flamboyant, majestic and powerful king of nature, and have awe and worship it. Early ancestors used legends and artifacts as a carrier, leaving a large number of memories about tigers for future generations. Tigers are given romantic imagination and mythology. The tiger is the mount and spirit beast of the immortals, "the tiger drums and the birds return to the car, and the immortals are lined up like hemp." "The tiger is the patron saint who can avoid evil in the town house," the tiger, the yang, the chief of the hundred beasts, the one who can strike the dove and eat the charm." The image of the tiger appears on the living utensils such as jade pendants and pillows, as well as in children's clothing and on the walls of doors, expressing people's desire to use the tiger to drive away evil spirits and bless peace, as well as prayers for a prosperous life in the future.

The exhibition design adopts the form of traditional Chinese multi-entry courtyard to express the traditional concept of "home", and uses red as the main color to render the atmosphere of the New Year. The concept of five "doors" is used in the exhibition hall to divide the space, implying the five blessings of the Linmen, hoping that the audience can slowly appreciate the cultural connotation of the exquisite cultural relics collected by the National Museum in a peaceful and joyful relaxed atmosphere, appreciate the Spring Festival and the meaning of the calligraphy and painting works carefully created by the calligraphers and painters of the National Expo.

The exhibition specially set up a multimedia interactive experience area, the application of dynamic capture technology, to provide the audience with the opportunity to experience the art of paper-cutting. Here, the audience can simulate paper-cutting movements with their hands to create, and feel the endless fun brought by the combination of technology and traditional art.