Southern Network News (Reporter/Li Ting Correspondent/Li Guanghui) 2022 is the year of the lunar calendar (year of the tiger). In the long river of Chinese history and civilization, tiger culture has a long history and is endless. The pillow is a very common bedding in people's lives, containing rich and unique cultural connotations. The reporter learned that on January 26, the micro-exhibition "Tiger Pillow in the Year of the Tiger" was officially opened in the exhibition area of the King Tomb of the South Vietnamese King Museum, opening a small topic of the New Year Pillow Exhibition.
According to reports, the South VietnamEse King Museum has a collection of more than 30 pillows related to the theme of "tiger", borrowing the occasion of the New Year of the Tiger, selecting its fine products and assembling exhibitions, hoping that more people will understand China's tiger culture, appreciate the tiger art on the pillow, and send sincere New Year wishes to the audience.
The exhibition exhibits a total of 19 pieces (sets) of pillows from the Nanyue King Museum, including 3 first-class cultural relics, 3 second-class cultural relics, 3 third-class cultural relics, and exquisite cultural relics such as the three-colored tiger-shaped carved poetry pillow (Figure 1) and cloth pillow that have been newly collected and exhibited for the first time in recent years. The exhibition is open until March 27, 2022.
It is reported that since 1992, the South VietnamEse King Museum has continuously acquired more than 200 pieces of porcelain pillows donated by the famous Hong Kong collector Yang Yongde and his wife, supplemented by donations, allocations, auctions and other ways to continuously enrich the pillow collection. By 2021, the museum will have a total collection of nearly 800 pillows, of which the largest number of ceramic pillows is 584, in addition to pillows and pillow top embroidery of wood, bamboo rattan, leather, bronze and other textures. The number of pillow collections, the complete categories, and the large number of kilns are rare for museums at home and abroad.
Although there are 152 porcelain pillows displayed in the exhibition hall of the "Special Exhibition of Donated Pillows by Yang Yongde and His Wife" in the exhibition area of the Tomb of the King of Nanyue Museum, most of the pillow collections still have no chance to meet the audience due to the restrictions of the exhibition hall conditions. In 2021, the museum replaced the temperature and humidity monitoring system of the porcelain pillow exhibition hall, and installed, debugged and operated the constant temperature and humidity equipment of the exhibition cabinet, which effectively stabilized the cultural relics preservation environment of the porcelain pillow exhibition hall and provided a strong guarantee for the launch of the exhibition.