The Hong Kong Palace Museum held an opening ceremony on the 22nd and will be opened to the public on July 2. Some netizens asked questions through the Xinhua News Agency's client "Ask Reporter" platform: What "national treasures" will be exhibited at the Hong Kong Palace Museum? Where did these artifacts come from? How are these artifacts protected? Xinhua News Agency reporters answered questions for netizens in Hong Kong.
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Netizen: What "national treasures" will be exhibited at the Hong Kong Palace Museum?
Reporter: In the third exhibition hall, "Condensed Soil for Utensils: Treasured Ceramics of the Palace Museum", the precious ceramics of the Palace Museum are displayed intensively, of which 66 national first-class cultural relics are extremely precious. For example, during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, various chrysanthemum-style porcelain plates, with a regular and beautiful shape, extremely high tire purity, and a collection of traditional and newly created glaze colors; The white glazed baby pillow during the Northern Song Dynasty was fired by the Ding kiln, one of the "Five Famous Kilns" of the Song Dynasty, and the similar heirlooms are extremely rare; The blue and white dragon wears a patterned flat pot, the shape imitates the utensils of the Middle East, and the image of the dragon is strong and vivid, shuttling between the tangled branches and flowers.
In addition, the eighth exhibition hall "Treasures of the Nation: The Palace Museum's Collection of Jin, Tang and Yuan Calligraphy and Paintings" is also very worth visiting, which brings together 30 classic masterpieces in the history of Chinese calligraphy and painting, all of which are national first-class cultural relics, and some of which are the orphan books handed down by calligraphers and painters.
This is the upcoming White Glazed Baby Pillow of the Northern Song Dynasty Ding Kiln (taken on June 9). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Jin Liangkuai
Netizen: Where did the cultural relics exhibited in the opening exhibition come from?
Reporter: The opening exhibition of the Hong Kong Palace Museum has three parts, mainly the cultural relics borrowed by the Palace Museum, in addition to the local art collection of Hong Kong and 13 pieces of the Collection of the Louvre Museum in France.
The Palace Museum's 914 borrowed exhibits were carefully selected from the Palace Museum's collection of more than 1.86 million items, of which 166 were national first-class cultural relics, which belonged to the "national treasure" level, accounting for 18% of the total number of borrowed exhibits, many of which were exhibited in Hong Kong for the first time.
Photographed by reporters inside the National Palace Museum in Hong Kong (photo taken on June 9). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Jin Liangkuai
Netizen: How to protect these cultural relics in different humidity environments?
Reporter: The cultural relics display cabinet of the Hong Kong Palace Museum is divided into two floors, and the upper floor is a space for cultural relics storage and exhibition. The lower layer is the space for temperature and humidity regulation, that is to say, there will be a humidity adjustment instrument in the display cabinet below, which will automatically adjust the humidity in the cabinet according to the humidity we set, from 30% to 70%, and the humidity can be set according to the different needs of each cultural relic.
For example, the humidity of Chinese painting and calligraphy is required to be 50% to 55%, and in this range, cultural relics protection experts can set a humidity point on a small humidity control device, and it will be automatically adjusted. In addition, the display cabinet has a system that actively regulates humidity.
Photographed by reporters inside the National Palace Museum in Hong Kong (photo taken on June 9). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Jin Liangkuai
Netizen: What are the characteristics of the Hong Kong Palace Museum?
Reporter: The Hong Kong Palace Museum has nine exhibition halls, five of which are dedicated to the collection of the Palace Museum, two of the remaining four exhibition halls exhibit Hong Kong's art collection, and the other two exhibit large-scale exhibitions independently curated by the Hong Kong Palace Museum or in cooperation with other institutions. For example, the ninth exhibition hall, with the theme of "Racing the World: Horse Culture and Art", exhibits horse culture and art masterpieces from the Palace Museum and the Louvre Museum in France, including paintings, sculptures and ceramics.
Regarding the positioning of the Hong Kong Palace Museum, in the words of director Wu Zhihua, it is a "connected museum", which aims to connect ancient and modern times, connect Hong Kong with the mainland, and connect the world.
Hong Kong Palace Museum (drone photo taken on May 29). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Gang
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