Sanxingdui "Great Sacrifice" restart, Su Dongpo's authentic works appeared, the combination of ancient Shu civilization and intangible cultural heritage lanterns... In order to welcome the Year of the Rabbit, major museums in Sichuan have prepared cultural "feasts" rich in the taste of the New Year.
The restarted "Sanxingdui New Year Ceremony" will be re-introduced at Sanxingdui Museum from the first to the sixth day of the first lunar month and the 15th day of the first lunar month. On the morning of January 21, in the Sanxingdui Museum in Guanghan, Sichuan, the actors were conducting their final rehearsals.
Rehearsal site of "Sanxingdui New Year Ceremony"
"Pray for Sanxingdui, bless thousands of families." As a boutique cultural activity during the Spring Festival of Sanxingdui Museum, the "Sanxingdui New Year Ceremony" will "reproduce" the ancient Shu ritual music with chapters such as the beginning of the enlightenment of the gods, the chapter of worship of the gods, and the music of dancing the gods, allowing the audience to immerse themselves in the solemn and magnificent Sanxingdui blessing parade.
In addition to the "Sanxingdui New Year Ceremony", during the Spring Festival, Sanxingdui Museum will successively open the cleanup, protection and restoration of a total of 3,155 newly unearthed cultural relics (sets) from No. 3 to 8 "sacrificial pits", and many previously unseen newly unearthed cultural relics will meet visitors at the Cultural Relics Protection and Restoration Museum.
Jia Suzhu, deputy director of the Sanxingdui Scenic Area Management Committee, introduced that this year's Sanxingdui Museum perfectly integrates the "New Year's Ceremony" ceremony, intangible cultural heritage display and cultural and creative New Year Goods Festival, allowing guests from all over the world to feel the strong taste of Bashu New Year brought by culture, cultural relics and cultural creativity.
During the Spring Festival, the Sichuan Museum not only exhibited three authentic works of Su Dongpo, "Xiaoxiang Bamboo Stone Map", "Dongting Spring Color Fu Zhongshan Song Mash Fu Scroll" and "Yang Envy Post", but also exhibited 43 pieces / sets of rabbit culture theme cultural relics in the collection of Sichuan Museum, including 16 first-class cultural relics, including the jade rabbit medicine painting brick of the Queen Mother of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the bronze mirror of the jade rabbit double finch in the Tangyue Palace, and the rabbit head dragon body treasure unearthed from the tomb of the former Shu king.
Su Shi's "Yang Envy Post" handscroll
In order to enrich the cultural activities during the Spring Festival, the Sichuan Museum, the Sansu Temple Museum and the Chengdu Scenic Area Direct Train also jointly launched two study tours, "Looking Back at Dongpo Cultural Museum" and "Being a Song Dynasty Person in Sansu Temple for a Day", so that more children can understand Dongpo culture.
In the Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum, the ancient Shu civilization lantern set made of intangible cultural heritage lanterns is one of the brightest protagonists of the 2023 Chengdu Jinsha Sun Festival. This year's Jinsha Sun Festival Lighting Group is divided into three sections: "Ancient Shu Civilization", "Sun Worship" and "Folk New Year", with a total of 18 sets of large-scale themed lanterns, tens of thousands of various decorative lights and atmosphere creation, decorating the entire Jinsha Site Museum into a lively and brilliant world of light and shadow.
The ancient Shu civilization lamp group of the Jinsha Site Museum
Many tourists come to the museum early on the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve to admire the precious cultural relics unearthed from the Jinsha site, such as the golden ornaments, golden masks, bronze standing people, ten jade knots, and golden crown belts of the sun god bird, and look forward to the colorful lights "lighting up" the ancient Shu civilization at night.
Appreciate cultural relics, experience intangible cultural heritage, feel folklore, select cultural and creative products... All museums have prepared "New Year Cultural Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner" with different themes, Chengdu Du Fu Thatched Cottage Museum has prepared a special cultural feast of "Ren Day Tour Caotang", Chengdu Wuhou Temple Museum opens the "2023 Wuhou Temple Chengdu Great Temple Fair", antique festivals, national tide opera, intangible cultural heritage and creativity and other activities will accompany everyone to spend a lively Chinese New Year.
Reporter: Tong Fang
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