"Tiggo You'an - 2022 Chinese New Year Exhibition" scene. Xinhua News Agency reporter Jin Liangkui photographed
Brilliant fireworks bloom on the screen, the sound of festive firecrackers is incessant, fluttering snowflakes reflect red lanterns and blessing characters, and cute cloth tigers are placed on the windowsill... Walking into the scene of the National Museum of China's "Tiggo You'an - 2022 New Year Exhibition", the strong new year flavor comes to the face.
On the occasion of the upcoming Year of the Tiger, Guobo launched a special exhibition of the New Year, systematically displaying the history and culture related to the tiger, festivals and customs, etc., creating a peaceful atmosphere for celebrating the New Year of the Tiger, allowing the audience to immerse themselves in the charm of China's excellent traditional culture.
Since ancient times, in the process of getting along with nature, the ancestors have known the tiger, a large, gorgeous fur, majestic and powerful animal, and have awe and worship it. 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 to pray for a better life.
The exhibits in this exhibition start from the Shang Dynasty to the beginning of the 21st century, with a rich range of products, including precious utensils with brilliant gold and jade and fine craftsmanship, as well as stoneware gray tiles, simple and cute city objects, showing the long-standing tiger culture of the Chinese nation from many aspects, of which more than 70% of the exhibits are exhibited for the first time.
Stepping into the first exhibition hall, a variety of porcelain comes into view. In the symmetrical display cabinet, two jin dynasty tiger-shaped porcelain pillows, one left and one right, one inscription poem and one painting, seem to welcome the arrival of the audience.
In the bronze exhibition area, the national treasure tiger lock was grandly unveiled. Tiger lock is a bronze heavy tool of the Western Zhou Dynasty, once a collection of the Imperial Garden of the Qing Dynasty, the shape is dignified and elegant, the decoration is exquisite, because its flow pipe is Crouching Tiger shape, the top cover is cast with the inscription of "self-made offering", so it is called tiger lock. This cultural relic has been wandering overseas for more than 100 years, and after many efforts, it returned to the embrace of the motherland in 2018 and was admitted to the National Museum of Tibet. In order to celebrate the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, tiger locks returned to China and "went out of the mountains" again, allowing the audience to see the style of national treasures.
The Western Han Dynasty was wrong with gold and silver tiger shaped hooks. Photo by Du Jianpo
The Western Han Dynasty mistake gold and silver tiger shaped hook design is ingenious, the hook body is a tiger striding high, the atmosphere is vivid, the tiger body is inlaid with gold and silver pieces of different shapes, using different lusters of metal to express the gorgeous and colorful fur of the tiger. The curled tail of the tiger is hook-shaped and used to hook the belt, which is both aesthetic and practical.
In the jade exhibition area, the exquisitely carved jade tiger, tiger stripe, tiger pattern ornaments, etc. show the superb craftsmanship of ancient craftsmen, which attracted the admiration of the audience.
The exhibition hall also exhibits a number of works of calligraphy and painting created by the artists of the National Museum of Calligraphy and Painting to welcome the New Year of the Tiger, showing vigor and good wishes.
The exhibition design of this exhibition can be described as ingenious. "The exhibition adopts the form of traditional Chinese multi-entry courtyard to express the concept of traditional 'home', with red as the main color to render the atmosphere of the New Year. There are five different shaped doors in the exhibition hall to divide the space, dividing the porcelain, bronze, jade, calligraphy and painting and other different exhibit areas, conveying the auspicious meaning of 'Wufu Linmen'. Sun Xiang, curatorial work department of the National Museum of China, said.
The exhibition also set up a multimedia interactive experience area, the application of motion capture technology, to provide the audience with the opportunity to experience the art of paper-cutting. In the experience space full of folk charm, the audience can simulate paper-cutting actions with their hands, create exquisite zodiac paper-cutting, and feel the fun brought by the combination of scientific and technological power and traditional art. (Reporter Zou Yating Huang Jingwei)
People's Daily Overseas Edition (07th edition, January 25, 2022)
Source: People's Daily Overseas Edition