On February 1 (the first day of the Lunar New Year), the Shanghai Museum welcomed the first audience of the New Year. Photo by Zhang Hengwei
(New Year grassroots) Shencheng"cultural worship" has a lot of fun Yin Hu welcomes the blessing of the New Year
Zhongxin Online Hai, February 1 Title: Shencheng's "Cultural New Year" is a lot of fun Yin Hu welcomes the Blessing Of the New Year
Author Wang Ji Zhang Hengwei Kang Yuzhan
On the morning of the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year (February 1), Yang Zhigang, director of the Shanghai Museum, waited at the entrance of the museum to present the first batch of visitors to the museum's carefully prepared "cultural and creative red envelopes". This "tradition" of "cultural new year worship" has a long history and has become a "tacit understanding without saying" among Shencheng wenbo enthusiasts.
This year, the Shanghai Museum, with the theme of "Tiger", jointly held the "Year of the Tiger Laughing Yin - Spring Festival Exhibition of the Year of the Tiger in China and Japan", and 10 cultural relics (including online exhibits) such as the Reed Tiger Pillow of the Golden Dynasty and Yellow Land were jointly welcomed by Shanghainese. According to the curators of Shangbo, the image of the tiger is cute, and in folk customs, it also carries beautiful meanings such as eliminating disasters and warding off evil spirits, "The ancients believed that such a tiger-shaped pillow can treat some sleep-related diseases, such as insomnia, or improve sleep quality, so there are these tiger pillows." ”
China is the habitat and cultural homeland of tigers, leaving behind a wealth of archaeological remains, documentary records, myths and legends related to tigers. "Yin Hu" is pronounced "Yingfu" in Shanghai, which makes the Spring Festival of the Year of the Nong Yin Tiger in Shanghai add a joy. In the case of strictly abiding by the guidelines for epidemic prevention and control, cultural venues scattered throughout the city have launched rich cultural exhibitions and annual customs activities, so that Shanghainese can live a cultural year of "self-cultivation" in the way of "turning the whole into zero".
"YinHu Talk Zodiac" - Maritime Customs Exhibition. Courtesy of Shanghai Mass Art Museum
Cloisonné Zodiac Zodiac Grand Master, Zodiac Tiger Porcelain Medal, Zhenzhai God Tiger Year Painting, Folk Collection of Tiger Head Shoes, Tiger Head Hat... The "Maritime New Year Customs Exhibition" of the Shanghai Municipal People's Art Museum is titled "Yinhu Dialect Zodiac", digging deep into the cultural significance behind the zodiac, attracting many young people to visit the exhibition and inherit the traditional Chinese traditional Chinese culture. In the view of Wu Shaohua, founding president of the Shanghai Collection Association, from the children's tiger head hats and tiger head shoes to the elderly's dragon head crutches, the zodiac culture penetrates into all aspects of Chinese life, and many auspicious words such as "dragon and tiger leap" are also expressed through the zodiac. Zodiac culture reflects the hope and good wishes of Chinese for the future.
On the other hand, the Shanghai Library's "Tiger and Tiger New Year - 2022 Tiger Year Theme Illustration Exhibition" selected more than 10 fine New Year paintings from the above collection, and invited several comic and illustration artists to "help", a hundred years ago, the careful creation of the annual painters and the sincere masterpieces of contemporary young illustrators conducted a "competition on the same stage"; the Shanghai Municipal History Museum "Fulu Shouxi" - Chinese auspicious culture special exhibition is exhibiting nearly 300 works (sets), including magpies, peonies, cranes and other animal and plant specimens. As well as cultural relics such as gilded deer pattern three-legged silver plates, interpreting the origin, inheritance and influence of auspicious culture...
In the view of folklorists, the Spring Festival is both the end of the year and the beginning of the year, and the cycle begins again and again, and everything in Vientiane is renewed. From a macroscopic perspective, the traditional customs that have been identified and accumulated in the long-term historical process are also the concentrated embodiment of a nation's vitality, creativity and cohesion. (End)