In 2019, the Forbidden City opened the gates of the Forbidden City to welcome visitors from all over the world. A few vicissitudes of the years, a few winds and snow in the world, looking up to see the snowflakes fluttering, in the fluttering snowflakes, the Forbidden City guards the dazzling Chinese red. A snow in Beijing poetically affected the whole city. As soon as it snows, Beijing becomes Beiping, and the Forbidden City becomes the Forbidden City. Snow fell on the yellow tiles of the red wall of the Forbidden City, and it was like a dream to return to the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Forbidden City "Celebrating the New Year - Celebrating the New Year in the Forbidden City"
Happy New Year, the Forbidden City is too big, the Palace Museum has held a big exhibition "New Year Greeting Xiang - New Year in the Forbidden City" large-scale exhibition, which is really a new exhibition project added to the Forbidden City, and the people who travel to the Forbidden City during the Spring Festival will be the first ordinary people who can celebrate the New Year in the palace. 80,000 people came to the Forbidden City for the New Year, looking at the "Sky Lantern" and "Longevity Lantern" in front of the Qianqing Palace, and the time seemed to really return to the forbidden city in ancient times. In the flow of light and shadow, it seems that brick by brick, pillar by rafter has become a musical note, and the rhythm haunts the painting of the beaded curtain and the jade carved fence, and it is the city that is whispering. Walking through the snow, it is as if you have suddenly returned to the Forbidden City 600 years ago.
80,000 people came to the Forbidden City for the New Year
Walking into the Forbidden City in the snow is like walking into a dream
The emperor is gone, the snow is still there, and the mountains and rivers are the same
Years of vicissitudes, a few winds and snow in the world, looking up to see the snowflakes fluttering, in the fluttering snowflakes, the Forbidden City guards the dazzling Chinese red, the New Year is auspicious, the Forbidden City is too big, a snow in Beijing, poetic the whole city. The emperor is gone, the snow is still there, and the mountains and rivers are the same. Walking into the Forbidden City in the snow is like walking into a dream. Silence, lead washed away, a snow, let the time travel to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, as if walking into the Forbidden City in the old time.
Lead washed away, a snow, let the time travel to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, as if walking into the Forbidden City in the old time
Snow watching
The Forbidden City used 885 pieces (sets) of cultural relics on a large scale, restored a variety of decorations of the former Imperial Palace for the New Year, restored the scene of the Qing Dynasty Imperial Palace for the first time in the form of exhibition innovation, restored a variety of festive decorations of the Old Imperial Palace for the New Year, hung palace lights, pasted couplets, and pasted door gods... For the first time, the Forbidden City is presented to the general public with a full of New Year's flavor, and the palace wall allows the general public to enter the palace for the New Year to experience the atmosphere of the Royal New Year.
Spend the New Year in the palace
Hanging palace lights
Stick to the door god
It's snowing in Beijing, so I went to the Forbidden City for the New Year. The Zhu Wall ascended to the top, the flying white was full of Qiankun, leaning on the wind and snow, wearing the garden as a flying flower, the snow drifting in the sky arrived as scheduled, and the Forbidden City was wrapped in silver and paved with a city. Red walls, dewa, cornices, warped corners, a thin layer of white snow make the Forbidden City more poetic, the Forbidden City is a poem of wind and snow. White snow inlaid with red walls, broken qiongfang, flying snow in the blue tiles, carved beams and paintings, enjoy the thickness and quiet beauty through hundreds of years.
The snow came as scheduled, the Forbidden City was wrapped in silver, and the Forbidden City was a poem of wind and snow
The Forbidden City ushered in Ruixue, Ruixue Mega Year, enjoying the ancient paintings of snowscapes, so beautiful that you can hold your breath. The girls dressed in Hanfu are particularly eye-catching. Qingxiu woman holding a paper umbrella, ancient style and ancient rhyme. Red walls, white snow, glazed tiles, beautiful and quiet. Walking through the deep palace, the snowflakes flying through the sky pass through history. Walking through the palace, it is as if you have traveled through history at once, recalling the legend of the Forbidden City, and history has become vivid at this moment.
It's the New Year, walking around the Forbidden City
Snow in the middle
The special exhibition of the noon gate main hall and the East and West Goose Wing Building "Celebrating the New Year - Celebrating the New Year in the Forbidden City", the exhibition opened on January 6, 2019, the first day of the first lunar month of the lunar calendar, the first day of the first lunar month, and the closing of the third day of the third month of the third month of the lunar calendar on April 7, 2019, from the first exhibition of the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar to the third day of the first month of March, the exhibition lasted for three months. The exhibition has six themes: "Praying for Blessings and Welcoming Good Fortune, Worshiping Ancestors and Performing Filial Piety, Tun Kinmu Clan, Diligence and Kindness, Entertainment and Entertainment, and Rejoicing in Heaven and Earth". Units 1 to 5 are part of the cultural relics exhibition, located in the main hall of the Noon Gate and the exhibition hall of the East and West Wild Goose Wing Building, which comprehensively show the New Year customs of the Qing Dynasty court. The Xiyan Wing Tower "Praying for Blessings and Welcoming Good Luck" displays indispensable festivals for the New Year, including not only utensils with palace characteristics such as the Year Dynasty Chart and Palace Lanterns, but also the fu characters written by the five emperors of Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Jiaqing and Daoguang. The exhibition also features the highest royal orchestra of ancient times, Zhonghe Shao Music.
Blessings and good luck
Watch the lights
Inside the Forbidden City, the lanterns were illuminated, and the restored palace lamps were hung under the corridors around the Qianqing Palace. Entering the Forbidden City, the door gods were posted at the gates of the Daodao Palace, the spring leagues were posted on the doors of the palaces, and tall sky lanterns, longevity lanterns, and so on were erected on the Dan Majesty of the Qianqing Palace, recreating the New Year scene of Kangqian's prosperous life.
In front of the Qianqing Palace, a pair of "Heavenly Lanterns" and "Longevity Lanterns" were erected on and off the Dan Majesty
How did the emperors in the Forbidden City spend this traditional festival? During the Shunzhi period in the early Qing Dynasty, New Year's Day, the first day of the first lunar month, was designated as one of the three major festivals of the Qing Palace. As soon as you enter the Moon Palace, it begins to be lively, and like the folk, various preparations such as offering stoves, inviting door gods to paste couplets, and displaying lights and colors to welcome the arrival of the New Year.
In the old Forbidden City, like the people, various preparations such as offering stoves, inviting door gods to paste couplets, and displaying lights and other preparations greeted the arrival of the New Year
Chinese New Year's Eve night, more than 500 palace lights in the three halls of the Forbidden City were lit at the same time, and for a time the melodious qingle, brilliant lights, palaces were majestic, and the weather was varied, in addition to couplets, they also had to paste door gods, New Year paintings and hang money. On the occasion of the resignation of the Forbidden City and the new, the palace was decorated with new lights. In addition to posting the Door God Spring League, the East and West Six Palaces of the Forbidden City also have to hang up the "Palace Training Map".
The Qianqing Palace dan majesty installed longevity lanterns and sky lanterns on the left and right
The Qing Emperor ruled the world with filial piety, and ancestor worship was the highlight of the New Year's Jubilee. The day before Chinese New Year's Eve, the Qing Emperor held a grand ceremony in the front hall of the Taimiao Temple to worship the ancestors. The emperor offered incense in front of the throne of the patriarchs and performed three kneeling and nine prostrations, and the scene was solemn and solemn.
Many emperors of the Qing Dynasty liked to live in the palace, perhaps not like the restrained and oppressive atmosphere of the Forbidden City. But every time the old and the new turned, the emperor had to return to the Forbidden City, where they would bid farewell to the new year.
The emperor of the Qing Dynasty usually ate alone, and Chinese New Year's Eve this day, he would have a reunion dinner with the empress and other harem ladies. The emperor and his concubines each had a table. The banquet tables of other concubines are arranged in two rows on the left and right according to the ranks of imperial concubines, nobles, constant presence, and promises of these titles.
The palace lamp on the Cining Gate
The ceremony of "opening the pen and blessing" on the first day of the first lunar month gradually became the norm during the Qianlong period. Rewarding the word "blessing" is an important activity of the New Year in the Qing Palace, and on the fifteenth and twenty-sixth days of the Waxing Moon, the emperor will also summon the former imperial ministers, the Inner Court Hanlin and other officials to chonghua Palace and Qianqing Palace to give the word "fu" respectively. At that time, the emperor personally sprinkled Han ink, the word "Fu" was written on the dragon note paper, and the princes and ministers entered the front of the case in turn, prostrating their heads and receiving the gift.
good fortune
Snow drifts outside the Gate of Zhendu
The legend of the twenty-third day of the waxing moon every year is the day when the Emperor of The Stove goes to heaven to see the Jade Emperor. On this day, a solemn ceremony is held in Khun Ninh Palace. The Qing Dynasty also followed the old system of the Ming Dynasty, and began to install lanterns since the 24th of the Waxing Moon. According to the old system of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Palace erected a pair of sky lanterns and longevity lanterns on the Top and Bottom of the Qianqing Palace at the 24th hour of the Lunar Month. In the fifty-fourth year of Qianlong, the Imperial Pole Hall added a pair of longevity lamps. In addition, yuqing palace, Jianfu palace, Yangxin Hall and other places will also erect sky lanterns.
The palace lamp on the Qianqing Gate
Two longevity lanterns were installed on the left and right of the Qianqing Palace Dan Majesty, two heavenly lanterns were installed on the left and right of His Majesty Dan, and more than 100 lamps were hung at the Qianqing Gate, the Rijing Gate, and the Yuehua Gate. The palace is decorated with new lights and the sound of firecrackers from time to time, creating an auspicious and festive festive atmosphere, and full of New Year's flavor. Of course, the climax of the New Year is the Chinese New Year's Eve and the first two days of the first lunar month, the emperor as the son of heaven and the master of the Forbidden City can not idle for these two days, all kinds of sacrifices, all kinds of ceremonies, all kinds of feasts, etc. can not fall.
Longevity lamp
Sky lanterns
Listening to the opera was an important part of the life of the empress's court. During the Spring Festival, watching drama is the most important entertainment of the royal family, because the empress dowager usually likes to watch the play, and the emperor must accompany her; even if there is no empress dowager, the emperor will accompany the empress and concubines and children to watch together, and the more advanced royal orchestra "Zhonghe Shaole" helps, just like watching the Spring Festival Gala now.
A corner of the Forbidden City
In the Qing Dynasty Lang Shining, Shen Yuan, Zhou Kun, Ding Guanpeng Chinese and Western court painters painted the "Hongli Snow Scene And Music Map", it depicts the Qianlong Emperor and many princes enjoying the snow in the palace garden in the New Year: characters, houses, trees, stones, plum blossoms, white snow, etc. A Han dressed Qianlong, sitting on a chair with black paint depicting gold, leisurely enjoying the snow scene. Children frolicked in the snow, set off firecrackers, and piled up a snow lion, which is a beautiful snow scene of the Qing Dynasty court.
Snow view of the Forbidden City
Vermilion tile green, magnificent palace lights, bronze beasts, red walls and white plums, dotted with this great palace, and the sky is full of wind and snow, one after another from the sky, quite a charm of the wind and snow night, the wind and snow can no longer wait for the return, but day after day, greeting thousands of passers-by. Snowflakes flew as if to blow away the dust of history for the Forbidden City; the snow was white, and it seemed to be playing the ancient chapters to people. At this time, the Forbidden City is like frozen music.
Snowflakes flew everywhere, as if to blow away the dust of history for the Forbidden City
The "New Year in the Palace" digital immersion experience exhibition is located in the east of the Qianqing Palace, focusing on the rich New Year culture of the Forbidden City, with digital technology, virtual images, motion capture and other scientific and technological means as a platform, the exhibition is divided into six parts: Ice Fun Paradise, Door God Blessing Blessing, Flower Blossom Dynasty, Drama Curtain Painting Cabinet, Lantern Viewing and Flame Viewing, and Nafu Yingxiang.
Sun Keqin wrote and photographed