"Gaoshan Mountain Tour- Exhibition of Cultural Relics Donated by Shanghai Museum". Photo by Kang Yuzhan
Zhongxin Online Hai, September 27 (Wang Jia, Kang Yuzhan) "Gaoshan Mountain Tour - Shanghai Museum Donated Cultural Relics Exhibition" opened at the Shanghai Museum on the 27th. The exhibition selects 145 pieces/groups of treasures from the museum's collection to pay tribute to all donors and cultural relics museum workers who care about and support the development of the Shanghai Museum.
By the end of 2020, the Shanghai Museum has more than 140,000 precious cultural relics, of which more than 33,000 have been donated by people from all walks of life, accounting for about 23.6% of the total collection of precious cultural relics.
The 145 pieces/groups of cultural relics on display cover bronze, ceramics, calligraphy and painting, bamboo carving, coins, sculptures, seals and other categories. These include Ma Hezhi's "Ten Picture Scrolls of Zhou Song" donated by Hu Weiwen and Hu Shuchang in 1965, the Jingdezhen kiln apple green glaze printing box donated by the descendants of the building in 2021 (a pair), Chen Chunju donated by Tan Jing in 1951, the "Silk Bergamot Flower and Bird Diagram" donated by Pang Weijin, Pang Zenghe and Pang Zengxiang in 1952, the Xiang Shengmu "Looking at the Plum Scroll" donated by Sun Yufeng in 1965, the Jingdezhen kiln blue gold and silver color peach and fruit pattern bottle donated by Ledu Zhou in 1980, and the Naran Chengde "Codex Scroll" donated by Xia Yan in 1989. wait.
Looking back at the history of the donated cultural relics in the Shanghai Museum, it can be traced back to the pre-establishment of Shangbo. On September 7, 1949, the Shanghai Municipal Military Control Commission approved the establishment of the Shanghai Ancient Cultural Relics Management Committee; on January 20, 1950, the Shanghai Municipal People's Government approved the renaming of the Shanghai Municipal Ancient Cultural Relics Management Committee to the Shanghai Municipal Cultural Relics Management Committee, and prepared to build a "museum with scale to represent China's excellent cultural traditions" in Shanghai. To this end, cultural relics collectors actively participated in the way of donation, and a large number of collectors represented by Hu Huichun, Pan Dayu, Tan Jing, etc. enthusiastically donated cultural relics to the Shanghai Municipal Cultural Administration and the Shanghai Museum, forming the first climax of cultural relics donation in the 1950s and 1960s.
Yang Zhigang, director of the Shanghai Museum, said that the protection of cultural relics and the inheritance of cultural relics, from the appreciation of one person and one family, to the donation of public collection institutions, when cultural relics enter the public vision from the private collection space, it is sublimated from the function of appreciation, with the meaning of refining memory, condensing character and inheriting civilization. I hope that in the future, together with more donors, we can make greater contributions to inheriting China's excellent traditional culture and promoting the development and construction of cultural relics museums.
The "Gaoshan Mountain Tour – Exhibition of Donated Cultural Relics of shanghai museum" will continue until December 26. (End)
Source: China News Network