CCTV News: The dragon, as a mysterious and solemn cultural symbol, has always been active in the beliefs, art, architecture and daily life of Chinese. In the Year of the Dragon, many people have more New Year's customs, visit museums, wear horse-faced skirts, and feel the beauty of cultural confidence together.
During the Spring Festival this year, many museums across the country have launched a special exhibition of "dragon theme", this exquisite cultural relic of the Hubei Provincial Museum is the drum base built by Zeng Hou Yitong, the whole drum base looks like a burning flame from a distance, and there is a group of dragons who are startled by the sound of drums.
Yang Lisheng, Director of the Academic Research Center of Hubei Provincial Museum: We gave this cultural relic, we gave it a name, called "the most tangled cultural relics in history". In fact, it is fixed with a drum on it, and it is the head, body, and tail of the eight main dragons, and some small dragons are welded on it.
This artifact amazed the world when it was unearthed, and it is still impossible to replicate it due to the complexity of the production process.
Taiwan tourists: This year is the Year of the Dragon, let's take a look at this ancient architecture and ancient cultural relics related to the Year of the Dragon.
In the Sanxingdui Museum exhibition hall, all kinds of dragon-shaped cultural relics are dazzling. Among them, the bronze sacred tree is even more popular among tourists. This sacred tree consists of three parts: the base, the tree, and the dragon, one of which is a dragon edge tree coiled down, and the dragon body has knife-like wings. In addition, Sanxingdui's new round of archaeological excavations of turtle-back grid-shaped bronzes, bronze altars, bronze statues of tiger-headed dragons, pig-nosed dragons and other cultural relics with dragon elements allow tourists to stop and watch.
Tourist Wang Wenjun: I came to Sanxingdui because I knew that many utensils in Sanxingdui had dragons, and after reading it, I felt two words - shock.
This Year of the Dragon, all kinds of horse-faced skirts have become the "New Year's robes" of many young people. The horse-faced skirt was developed from the rotary skirt of the Song Dynasty, which interprets a unique oriental charm. In the Spring Festival "flower markets" of all sizes on the streets of Guangdong, Fujian and other places, horse skirts and colorful flowers set off each other, becoming a beautiful scenery in the Spring Festival.
Costume designer Lin Qi has a collection of nearly 100 horse-faced skirts from various eras, many of which have exquisite dragon-shaped embroidery. She told reporters that from these traditional horse-faced skirts, you can also see the changes in the shape of dragon-shaped embroidery in different periods.
Costume designer Lin Qi: Especially in the early stage, its dragon head is particularly large, and the dragon's head may account for about two-thirds of the entire dragon pattern, which reflects the sense of majesty. In the later stage, the shaping of the whole body and the proportion of the head are shrinking (small), and the whole figure is a state of high spirit, very vigorous, this positive state.
Source: CCTV