Beijing Daily Client | Reporter Xu Yingbo
On the last day of the Spring Festival holiday, the popularity of the China Millennium Monument continued unabated. Many citizens choose to come here to quietly watch the exhibition, collect special seals, experience intangible cultural heritage skills, and enjoy the last "cultural feast" of the holiday.
During the Spring Festival holiday, a total of six major exhibitions in the China Millennium Monument were exhibited for free, namely "Five Stars Out of the East - Hotan Historical Relics Exhibition", "Ten Years of Grinding a Sword - "Great Country Ingenuity" Character Image Exhibition", "Creation Tiangong 2023 New Year Special Exhibition", "Shoushan Family Style - 2022 Chinese Family Style Culture Theme Exhibition", "Yuanming Impression Royal "Tour" Gift Cultural and Creative Design Exhibition", and "Warm "Medical" Moments - Medical Staff Style Exhibition". Citizens shuttled between exhibitions with different themes, stopping to admire and gain a lot.
At about 11:30 a.m., in the "Five Stars Out of the East - Hotan Historical Relics Exhibition" located in the Century Hall on the second floor, everyone followed the volunteer docents to learn about the history and culture of the Hotan area, which is connected by more than 220 cultural relics. "The 'Five Stars Out of the East Benefit China' brocade guard is a craft restoration, first copied from the Han Dynasty loom, and then made using the Han Dynasty process. The craftsmanship restoration is not easy to get, it is only 3 pieces in total, and it is also a national second-class cultural relic in itself..." Everyone gathered in front of the heavy exhibits, listening to the explanation while carefully examining the patterns and colors on the exhibits.
In order to increase the fun of citizens visiting the exhibition, the museum has set up 15 viewing tasks in the interactive area of the whole exhibition, and you can get a specially designed "Red Rabbit Badge" after completing the tasks, attracting citizens to participate enthusiastically. Once inside, pick up an exhibition map and follow the instructions to start completing the tasks one by one. Among them, children are particularly interested in collecting special seals in various venues, such as the "Happy New Year" seal limited to the Year of the Rabbit, the seal of the little rabbit and the beautiful family in the family style exhibition, and the seal of the four sacred beasts on the "brocade arm" in the Hetian exhibition... 12-year-old Pan Siyun ran up and down the museum, not only stamping the exhibition map, but also preparing a book with him specifically for collecting seals, "Stamped, every exhibition seen will leave a mark, this way is both fun and meaningful." Pan Siyun said.
After watching the exhibition and collecting the special seals, everyone sneaked to the Chinese New Year Cultural Market in the museum, where they could not only personally experience intangible cultural heritage skills such as painted Peking Opera faces and rabbits, but also buy traditional handmade gadgets such as windmills, face people, and shadow puppets, while adults could find their childhood memories of the New Year in old objects such as pushing iron rings, "eighteen turns" and "poofs".