1,298 treasures were unveiled at the Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum

The "Ancient Relics" section exhibits the late Tang Dynasty "Dead Wood Dragon Yin" piano

Following the opening of the Winter Olympics, the Art Museum of China and the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum, located in the central area of the Olympic Park, have ushered in a boom in reservation visits since the opening of the museum on February 5, and all 3,000 reservation places per day have been sold out, and the tickets have been reserved until a week later.

Yesterday, as an important project of the series of cultural activities of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, the first blockbuster exhibition of the new museum, "Treasures of China - Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage and Arts and Crafts Exhibition", welcomed more than 160 Chinese and foreign journalists from the Beijing News Center in 2022, who approached 1298 treasures with the audience.

After nearly three years of construction, the new China Arts and Crafts Museum and the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum reopened the door the day after the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games. The museum is located on the north extension of the central axis of Beijing, the west side is close to the Olympic Forest Park, the project construction area of 91,126 square meters, a total of six floors above ground. The completion of the new museum fills the gap of the national museum of arts and crafts and intangible cultural heritage in the mainland, and also marks another important cultural landmark on the mainland that represents the cultural image of the country and the capital and highlights the prosperity and development of culture in the new era.

"Almost at the same pace as the completion and acceptance of the project construction, we are non-stop, relying on the strong academic strength and rich collection resources of the China Academy of Arts, and simultaneously promoting the exhibition demonstration, design and installation of the 'Treasures of China - Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage and Arts and Crafts Exhibition'." Han Ziyong, director of the China Arts and Crafts Museum (China Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum), introduced that the opening work "Chinese Treasures" exhibition and the venue complement each other perfectly, which is an important cultural activity during the Beijing Winter Olympics. The museum specially designed the Winter Olympics-themed installation landscape "From Altay to Beijing" to applaud the Beijing Winter Olympics.

"Treasures of China" opened the exhibition, divided into eight sections, covering arts and crafts, guqin, traditional musical instruments, traditional art, opera, gold stone seal carving and rubbing, traditional New Year paintings, opera performances and academic reports of eight parts, a total of 1298 treasures were exhibited, 80% of which were exhibited for the first time to the public, most of the exhibits were treasured by the China Academy of Arts for 70 years.

Entering the exhibition hall of "Masterpieces of Great Powers", the joint appearance of jadeite "four national treasures" is the most eye-catching, they are the jade mountain "Dai Yue Wonders", jade flower lavender "Fragrant Jurui", jade tiliang flower basket "Qunfang Range Rover" and jade interstitial screen "Four Seas Tenghuan". According to Lian Chunhai, director of the Academic Research Department of the Art Museum of China, the four jade national treasures lasted eight years from the selection of the theme, the design of the form to the completion, and were jointly created by more than 40 famous jade altars and skilled masters. Among them, "Qunfang Range Rover" is the largest floral work in the history of Chinese jade art. The four national treasures will also be placed in the permanent collection of the new museum.

Lin Chen, associate researcher of the Music Research Institute of the China Academy of Arts and representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage, introduced the "Ancient Relics" section in detail the "Dead Wood Dragon Yin" qin of the late Tang Dynasty, the "Ming Feng" qin of the Song Dynasty and other treasures, leading the audience to appreciate the guqin art that has spanned more than 3,000 years. It is reported that the 31 guqins are the first collective appearance, of which the Tangqin "Dead Wood Dragon Yin" is the work of the late Tang Dynasty pianists, and the guqinist Wang Mengshu was sent to the Music Research Institute of the China Academy of Arts for preservation in the autumn of 1966, and it is also the "treasure of the town courtyard" of the institute. Photo / Reporter Cui Jun