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 in a record-breaking manner, restore a variety of ancient palace customs, and present the audience with a festive New Year atmosphere for the first time.
Babaylan 1990 cloth draw In the exhibition hall of the main building of the Meridian Gate and the East and West Yanchi Building, welcoming the New Year – a special exhibition of New Year in the Forbidden City. A total of 885 cultural relics were exhibited, and the six major themes of “Praying for blessings and welcoming good fortune, worshiping ancestors and filial piety, and honoring relatives. Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawMusic tribe, diligence in the family, traveling and enjoying the virtuous, and having fun in the world”, fully demonstrated the New Year customs of the Qing Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty. The “Praying for Blessings and Welcomes Fortune” in Xiyanchi Tower shows the indispensable festival objects during the New Year. It not only includes objects with court characteristics such as the ritual maps and palace lanterns, but also the characters “Fu” written by the emperors of Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Jiaqing and Daoguang.
Responsible President of the Palace Museum Ren Wanping: At the junction of New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day (the first day of the Chinese New Year), the emperor must make a wish on behalf of all the people in the world. The so-called auspicious words for writing in the open writing are not written casually. He should bless everyone with the best fortune, good weather, peace in the world, etc.
In order to show the scene where the emperor and the clan relatives and concubines feasted separately, the exhibition refers to the records of the 1960 witch cloth draw in the 1960 witch cloth draw in the 1983 year of Qianlong (1783). To restore 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 restored by the Qing Palace customs. The palace gates are covered with New Year pictures Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw and Spring Festival couplets. The long corridors are hung with palace lanterns. As long as the audience enters the Forbidden City,You can feel the strong New Year atmosphere.
Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw Dean Shan JiCinema 1950 witch cloth draw Xiang: Let more collections of cultural relics related to New Year culture be able to meet our audience. 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, and the court festivals are of particular importance. For thousands of years, the activities of the New Year have been rich and colorful. Whether it is ordinary people or the Forbidden City, they all use activities such as sending blessings, wearing new clothes, and eating reunion dinner 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 “year”, 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 spreading them 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 Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw is his home. After that, I will write a few more Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw in other palacesThe palace 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 Institute of the Artifact Department of the Palace MuseumKomiks 1960 witch cloth drawLibrarian Zhan Mengxia: Spring strips are different from Spring Couplets. Spring couplets are paired. Spring strips are generally a long single sheet, which is more casual and can be pasted anywhere. If there are more literary things like the welfare of our palace and the peace of the country, the people can stick fat pigs, golden roosters, and well springs on pigpens. Babaylan 1990 clothes draw to enter and exit safely, 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.
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The New Year is a day for family reunion in China’s concept, and the New Year’s Eve dinner is the most fun time for the family to have fun, and the royal family is no exception.
The Emperors of the Qing Dynasty usually had their meals alone and only ate with their concubines during the New Year Festival, which was called the “family family banquet of clans.” Family dinners on the first day of the Lunar New Year are usually breakfast, held at 7 a.m., and are located in the Qianqing Palace. Although it is a family banquet, the hierarchical etiquette system must be strictly observed. Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw
Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw Associate Research Librarian of the Artifact Department of the Palace Museum Han Qian: Although the reunion banquet on the first day of the first lunar month is called the family reunion banquet, it is not as we imagined now that the emperor’s whole family is together. It is actually divided into two parts. Generally, he will have the New Year’s Eve dinner with his concubines in the morning, and then he will have the New Year’s Eve dinner with his relatives, princes and grandchildren, and some princes from the near branch.
In fact, the tableware for the palace banquet is also divided into levels. The emperor uses the Golden Dragon Bowl and the Golden DragonThere are 108 kinds of foods on the table. The queen uses all-yellow dark cloud dragon plates and gold Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw, and the foods on each color are reduced to 64 kinds. There are no gold tableware below the imperial concubine. There are 32 kinds of foods on each table. This is the scene of the clan banquet during the Spring Festival of the 48th year of Qianlong. The Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw is used in more than 100 items, which is very spectacular.
Associate Research Librarian, Utility Department of the Palace Museum Han Qian: Setting up the table starts from the farthest is called Toulu. We saw four tall ones called pine shed fruit covers. They mainly place fruits, and then there will be snacks in the future, cold meat and candied fruits. There are two ways in the middle that the emperor did not place before he sat down, hot soup and vegetables, etc. Babaylan 1990 clothes drawEmperorBabaylan 1990 clothes drawEmperorBabaylan 1990 clothes drawSit down, and the group closest to the emperor will put some side dishes and sauces.
There is also a small red case here. 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.
SoBabaylan 1990 cloth drawPalace Museum Artifact DepartmentCinema 1950 witch cloth draw Associate Research Librarian Han Qian: This dumpling is also very particular. This small plate should be placed in the red case we saw immediately. There is a gourd in the middle of the red case, with the word “Da Ji” written on it, and the plate is 1Babaylan 1990 clothes draw must be placed on the word “媺”. Because of this pattern, we call it the Dajibao 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 custom. Steel steaks are placed inside. The emperor’s family also put coins and put such money, which says peace and auspiciousness. He ate all the two auspicious money that day.