As the Spring Festival is approaching, this year’s Spring Festival, you might as well come to the Forbidden City in Beijing to see exhibitions, enjoy palace lanterns, taste delicious food, and feel the flavor of the New Year! The Palace Museum will display nearly a thousand cultural relics on a record-breaking basis, restoring various ancient customs of the palace festival, presenting the audience with a festive New Year atmosphere for the first time.
In the exhibition hall of the main building of the Meridian Gate and the East and West Yanchi Tower, welcoming the New Year – a special exhibition of New Year in the Forbidden City. A total of 885 pieces of cultural relics were exhibited, and the six major themes of “praying for blessings and welcoming good fortune, worshiping ancestors and filial piety, being diligent in the family, being diligent in business with the virtuous, traveling and enjoying the world”, fully displaying the New Year customs of the Qing Dynasty court in the Qing Dynasty. The “Praying for Blessings and Welcomes Fortune” in the West Yanzi Building shows the festival objects that cannot be missing during the New Year. They not only include the ancient dynasty maps and palace lamps, but also the words “Fu” written by Emperor Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Jiaqing and Daoguang.
Responsible President of the Palace Museum Ren Wanping: At the intersection of New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day (the first day of the New Year), the emperor must make a wish on behalf of the whole world. The so-called auspicious words to write, the emperor’s first writing is not written casually, but to bless the whole world with blessings to the whole world, wishing everyone in the Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw The family has a good harvest, good weather, peaceful world, etc.
In order to show the scene where the emperor and clan relatives and concubines feasted separately, the exhibition referred to the records of the meal base in the 48th year of Qianlong (1783), and restored this scene alone, more than 100 cultural relics were used to present the spectacular scene of the Golden Dragon Banquet Table at the clan banquet. The audience can intuitively feel the atmosphere of the Royal New Year’s Eve dinner. In addition, the entire open area of the Forbidden City is decorated according to the New Year Festival that restored from the old customs of the Qing Palace. The palace gates are covered with New Year pictures and Spring Festival couplets, and the long corridors are hung with palace lanterns. As long as the audience enters the Forbidden City, they can feel the strong Cinema 1950 witchThe New Year atmosphere of cloth draw.
Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw Museum Director Shan Jixiang: We can meet our audience with more collections of cultural relics related to New Year culture. I hope that the audience will not only watch the Spring Festival Gala, but also eat dumplings at home to reunite with them, but also welcome the first destination to the Forbidden City to celebrate the New Year.
Hanging the door god and pasting Spring Festival couplets, court festivals are of particular importance
For thousands of years, the activities of Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw New Year’s activities have been rich and colorful. Whether it is ordinary people or in the Forbidden City, they all use the word “Fu” Babaylan 1990 clothes draw, wearing new clothes, eating reunion dinners and other activities to express their beautiful expectations for the New Year.
As soon as you enter the Forbidden City, the strong New Year atmosphere comes to you. In order to cooperate with the exhibition, the entire Forbidden City was decorated. As a symbol of “Babaylan 1990 cloth draw”, the Spring Festival couplets and door gods hanging on each door are very eye-catching.
Deputy Director of the Artifact Department of the Palace Museum and Associate Researcher Xu Wei: Door gods are hung in pairs, including couplets hanging on both sides of the door. Generally, door gods are also attached to different door gods according to different positions. Generally, the martial gate gods are mainly used in the outer courts, and the literary gate gods, fairy gate gods and boy gate gods are mainly used in the inner courts.
The production of Spring Festival couplets in the palace is generally jointly responsible by the Ministry of Works and the Office of the Internal Affairs. The writing of Spring Festival couplets was mainly done by Hanlins who were good at calligraphy. Unlike today’s customs, the Spring Festival couplets in the palace are not posted on New Year’s Eve, but are hung on the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month every year, starting from Qianqing Gate, Qianqing Palace, etc., and spread out in turn.
Associate Research Librarian Zhan Mengxia: People need to paste the word “Fu” in the people, and the same is true for the palace. From the first day of the twelfth lunar month, the emperor had to write the first word “Fu” on the dragon stairs. The first word “Fu” must be posted on the door of the Qianqing Palace, because that was his home. I’ll write some posts laterIn other palaces, they will be written one after another, and then rewarded with such ministers and foreign vassals.
In addition to the Spring Festival couplet gods, spring notes will also be posted in the palace. Spring strips are auspicious words written on long strips of paper.
Associate Research Librarian, Palace Museum Artifacts Department Zhan Mengxia: Spring strips are different from Spring Couplets. Spring couplets are paired. Spring strips are generally long singles, and they are more casual when posted and can be pasted anywhere. If there is more literary style in our palace, such as the welfare of the country and the peace of the country, the people can stick fat on the pigpen.Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw Pigs are full of pens, golden roosters are full of racks, wells are auspicious, and safe in and out, it will be even more casual.
In addition, there are some special “year objects” that are not available among the people in the palace, such as the Sui Dynasty map, the Sky Lantern, the Wanshou Lantern, and the Palace Lantern.
Family Palace Banquet New Year’s Eve New Year’s Eve New Year’s Eve dinner in the Forbidden City
The New Year is a day for family reunion in Chinese concepts, and the New Year’s Eve dinner is the most happy time for the family, and the Royal Family is no exception.
The Emperors of the Qing Dynasty usually had their meals alone on weekdays, and only had dinner with their concubines during the New Year holidays, which was called the “family family banquet”. Family dinners on the first day of the Lunar New Year are usually breakfast, which is held at 7 o’clock in the morning at Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw, and are located in the Qianqing Palace. Although it is a family banquet, the hierarchical etiquette system must be strictly observed.
Associate Research Librarian, Utilities Department of the Palace Museum, Han Qian: The first day of the first lunar monthBabaylan 1990 clothes draw Although this day’s reunion banquet is called the family reunion banquet, it is not like what we think nowThe instinct says that the emperor’s whole family is together, and it is actually divided into two parts. Generally, he will have New Year’s Eve dinner with his concubines in the morning, and then in the afternoon he will have New Year’s Eve dinner with his relatives, princes and grandchildren, and some princes from the neighborhood branch.
In fact, the tableware for the palace family banquet is also divided into levels. The emperor used the golden dragon bowl and the golden dragon plate. The table has a total of 108 kinds of food. The queen used the inside and outside the yellow dark cloud dragon plate bowl and the golden spoon and chopsticks. The food of each color has been reduced to 64 kinds. The imperial concubine Babaylan 1990 clothes drawThere are no gold tableware below, and 32 kinds of food on each table. This is the scene of the family banquet during the Spring Festival of the 48th year of Qianlong. More than 100 cultural relics were used, which is very spectacular.
Associate Research Librarian, Palace Museum Artifacts Department Han Qian: Setting up the table from the farthest is called Toulu. We saw four tall Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw, called pine fruit cover. The main one is to place fruits in Babaylan 1990 cloth draw. Then there will be snacks and cold meat and candied fruits. There are two roads in the middle that the emperor will not place before he sat down. The hot soup dishes will be served after the emperor sits down. The group closest to the emperor will put some side dishes and sauces.
There is also a small red case in Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw. Don’t look at it as small, on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, when the emperor eats dumplings, he must not put the wrong position.
Palace MuseumCinema 1950 witch cloth drawAssociate Research Librarian Han Qian: This dumpling is also very particular. This small plate should be placed in the red case we see immediately. There is a red case in the middle of the red case.A gourd with the word “Da Ji” written on it. The plate must be placed on it. Because of this pattern, we call it the “Da Ji Bao Case. It is said that on the morning of the 48th year of Qianlong, the emperor ate three of four dumplings. The dumplings are the same as our current customs. They will put steel stews in it. The emperor’s family also put money in Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw coins. He put such money on it, which said peace and auspiciousness. He ate all the two auspicious money that day.