The Shanxi Museum's New Year Zodiac Cultural Relics (Photo) Group Exhibition opened

This article is transferred from: Shanxi Evening News

Shanxi Evening News (reporter Nanlijiang) In order to welcome the New Year of the Tiger, on January 25, the "Tiger and Tiger Shengfu - New Year Zodiac Cultural Relics (Photo) Joint Exhibition" was launched on the first floor of the main hall of the Shanxi Museum. The exhibition is jointly organized by China Cultural Relics Newspaper, Shanxi Museum and nearly 50 cultural institutions across the country, which together form the "Zodiac Cultural Dissemination Alliance", which brings together hundreds of cultural relics, specimens and artworks related to tigers and collects them into a joint exhibition of zodiac cultural relics. Among them, the Shanxi Museum has a total of more than 30 cultural relics to participate in the exhibition, and precious cultural relics such as the Sancai Tiger Pillow and the Tiger Head Za will also be displayed in physical form to meet the audience's viewing needs. The exhibition is divided into three units. The first unit is "Tiger Howling Mountain Forest - Tiger in the Natural World", which comprehensively interprets the living conditions of the "King of hundreds of beasts" in nature from three aspects: "10,000 years of evolution", "vertical and horizontal directions" and "endangered and waiting to be protected"; the second unit, "Tiger Leaping Ten Thousand Years - Tiger in History and Culture", shows dozens of cultural relics related to tigers, from jade to bronze, from copper tiger charms to tiger-shaped pillows, in the cultural relics of the past dynasties, the image of the tiger is colorful and lifelike. As one of the largest and most ferocious predators in the land of China, the Chinese ancestors, in the symbiotic environment with it, both awe and yearning for its mighty divine strength, indomitable spirit, and strong and fierce physique, regarded as a god, worshipped, and formed a unique tiger culture; in the third unit "Tigers Walking in the World - Tigers in Folk Life", the more distinctive features are the tiger head hats and tiger shoes worn by children. Chinese tiger culture has a long history, and in myths, folklore and various religions, tigers are worshipped objects. After the image of the tiger entered the folk, it became a "mascot" passed down from generation to generation. It can be said that in the whole of Chinese folk art and folk culture, the tiger occupies a pivotal position. The exhibition will run until February 28.