These two days the news of the retirement of the single dean brushed the screen, for the changes in the Forbidden City is very vocal, the first few years in addition to the occasional accompanying friends to visit the Forbidden City, and these two years less said to go to a dozen times a year, too many exhibitions and new open areas let people have to frequently patronize the Forbidden City.
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The Treasure Hall of the Forbidden City is located in the courtyard of the Qianlong Taishang Imperial Palace - Ningshou Palace in the east of the Forbidden City, starting at the beginning of this year, the north and south exhibition halls of the Imperial Pole Hall West Hall have just been updated with exhibits, and one of the exhibition halls concentrates on displaying a batch of Fine Bonsai of the Forbidden City.
Bonsai originally referred to the use of plants and mountain stones as the basic materials to express the natural landscape in the pot of artwork, but in the Qing Dynasty in the court derived a kind of imitation of natural landscape artificial production of a variety of precious materials, the Forbidden City Treasure Museum exhibited this one.
These two pots are called copper gilded inlaid enamel pot coral chrysanthemums, and if you look closely, the petals of the chrysanthemums are made of fine corals.
This pot is also a chrysanthemum, but it is much more elegant than the gilded enamel pot, the chrysanthemum is also two-colored, and the white petals should be made of jade pieces.
This piece is called a wooden begonia-style bonsai bamboo bonsai, the bamboo is made of jadeite, and the few mountain stones next to it should be Hetian jade.
This set of bonsai is made of blue-flowered pots, and the flowers look like they are made of beeswax.
This plum blossom bonsai is really delicate, and each flower has several layers of petals.
More materials are used in this pot, the plum petals should be jade pieces, the heavenly bamboo seems to be agate beads, and the begonia flowers seem to be made of tourmaline.
Some bonsai have practical functions in addition to ornamentation, and this bonsai is embedded with clocks.
In addition to gold and silver, jade, agate, jadeite, tourmaline, crystal, ivory and other materials, coral is also a common material for making bonsai like raw bonsai.
This copper gilded begonia-encrusted begonia-style bonsai is the best in this bonsai exhibition, made of whole branches of red coral, the height of the coral tree is more than 60 centimeters, and is said to be the largest coral product in the Collection of the Forbidden City.
There are many pots of raw bonsai displayed in the Treasure Hall of the Forbidden City this time, and interested friends may wish to see for themselves. As a friendly reminder, the Palace Museum is to spend ten yuan to buy tickets alone, but it is definitely worth the money.