Original title: Liangzhu Museum held a lacquerware art exhibition to gather many cultural relics
Lacquerware has a history of more than 8,000 years in China, 5,000 years ago the ancestors of Liangzhu can make exquisite lacquerware, the word "lacquer" is the earliest without three points of water...... "Immortal - 5,000 years of lacquer art" exhibition opened on the morning of December 27 in Hangzhou Yuhang Liangzhu Museum, showing the Chinese lacquer art that has continued from ancient times to the present.
On the morning of the 27th, at the exhibition "Immortal - 5,000 Years of Lacquer Art", the audience was watching ancient lacquerware. The right one is in the collection of the Hubei Provincial Museum, unearthed from the No. 9 tomb of Yunmeng Sleeping Tiger in Hubei Province. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Feng Yuan
The exhibition is organized by the Liangzhu Museum, and exhibits about 100 pieces of fine lacquerware and modern lacquer art works from 11 cultural and museum units, including Shanghai Museum, Shanxi Museum, Hubei Provincial Museum, Hunan Museum, Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Jingzhou Museum, Ma'anshan Three Kingdoms Zhuran Family Cemetery Museum, Wenzhou Museum, and Fujian Tang and Ming Lacquer Art Research Institute. Xu Tianjin, director of the Liangzhu Museum and professor at Peking University, said that each exhibit is a fine product.
The exhibition "Immortality: 5,000 Years of Lacquer Art" exhibits a piece of lacquerware from the collection of the Hunan Museum, unearthed from the Mawangdui Han Tomb. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Feng Yuan
In this exhibition, six pieces of lacquerware from the Liangzhu culture period are quite eye-catching. Liangzhu lacquerware is extremely rich in terms of shape, process, pattern and color, and has a certain correlation with the ritual system, and also has an important influence on the lacquer art of later generations. Xu Tianjin said that Liangzhu jade is world-famous, and Liangzhu lacquerware is also a peak.
On the morning of the 27th, the audience watched the "Northern Wei Dynasty Painted Character Story Lacquer Screen" collected by the Shanxi Museum in the Liangzhu Museum. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Feng Yuan
In addition, the lacquer plate of the life map of the Wu nobles of the Three Kingdoms unearthed from the tomb of Zhu Ran of the Three Kingdoms and the lacquer screen of the painted character story unearthed from the joint burial tomb of Sima Jinlong and his wife in the Northern Wei Dynasty are among the first batch of cultural relics that are permanently prohibited from leaving the country for exhibition. The lacquerware unearthed from important sites such as the Yunmeng Sleeping Tiger Cemetery in Hubei Province and the Mawangdui in Changsha, Hunan Province represent the style of different eras.
On the morning of the 27th, at the exhibition "Immortal - 5,000 Years of Lacquer Art", the audience was watching modern lacquerware and ancient lacquerware. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Feng Yuan
This exhibition has changed the way of arranging the exhibition according to the historical era, but is divided into "why immortal" which introduces the materials, craftsmanship and origin of lacquer art, "why immortal" which shows the comparison between ancient lacquer cultural relics and contemporary lacquer artworks, and "what is immortal" that introduces the daily objects of lacquer and the continuation of schemas, and introduces the inheritance and rheology, artistic texture and spiritual connotation of "lacquer", a material material with unique oriental charm, to the audience. The exhibition is scheduled to end in early May 2024.
Xu Tianjin said that the ancients created immortal lacquerware, and contemporary artists have also turned lacquer art into a unique Chinese artistic language. Therefore, the curatorial work of this exhibition pays special attention to the contrast between the ancient and the modern, emphasizing the "thick ancient but not thin the present", emphasizing the contemporary tribute to the tradition, aiming to show the audience the long, continuous and uninterrupted history of Chinese lacquerware. (Reporter Feng Yuan)
Source: Xinhua News Agency