New exhibition at the Forbidden City celebrates the New Year and welcomes auspicious events in the Forbidden City

How do you plan to celebrate the Spring Festival this year?

Do you want to go to the Forbidden City to celebrate the Spring Festival?

Experience how ancient people celebrated the Spring Festival in the Qing Dynasty.

There is an event in the Forbidden City this year, and it can be said that this event is very popular.

Let's go see what's going on.

Basic information Location: Palace Museum, Beijing Time: Opening on January 6, 2008, closing on April 7.

This exhibition lasts for three months, which coincides with the first day of the twelfth lunar month in 1898 (January 6), which is also the beginning of a series of traditional activities to celebrate the New Year.

The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar (April 7) is the "Shangsi Festival" for spring outings.

Activity content Shan Jixiang, director of the Palace Museum, said, "Whether in ancient times or today, whether in the palace or among the people, bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new is the eternal theme of the Chinese New Year. The ancient emperor was a symbol of the country, and celebrating the New Year in the palace had the dual meaning of home and country.

" 1. Spring Festival scenes in the Forbidden City So during this year's Spring Festival, the Palace Museum will have a series of exhibitions. This is the first time that the Palace Museum has fulfilled the Spring Festival scenes of the Qing Dynasty to the maximum extent.

This may also be the first time in history that ordinary people can spend the Spring Festival in the palace.

Thinking about it, I'm still a little excited.

This time, the Forbidden City restored my sister's 200-year-old sky lanterns and longevity lanterns for the first time.

This was one of the biggest Chinese New Year events in the early and mid-Qing Dynasty.

It took more than 8,000 people from start to finish.

After Daoguang was abolished by the emperor in 1840, this prosperous scene was lost in the long river of history. Some related cultural relics were scattered everywhere and gradually became unknown to everyone.

Fortunately, researchers from the Forbidden City erased the usage of sky lanterns and longevity lanterns and the detailed dimensions of each part from the literature. They also found models of lamp bodies, samples of lamp couplets, and original lamp posts in various warehouses.

was successful.

2. In addition to the stalls in the Forbidden City, you will find that the Forbidden City, which does not have stalls, will also set up stalls during this period.

From January 28 (Lunar New Year) to February 12 (the eighth day of the first lunar month), 145 companies from 10 provinces (cities) including Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Henan, Anhui, Jilin, and Shanxi

Chinese time-honored enterprises will showcase their respective specialties here.

In other words, you can buy many local handicrafts in the Forbidden City.

Isn't it great?

If buying at buybuy is no longer enough to satisfy you, come back and buy something that will satisfy you.

Nearly a hundred kinds of cultural and creative products related to the "New Year's Eve Dinner" have been developed, including the Fu Lu Shou series, the Door God series, the Sui Dynasty series, the Baby Play Series, the Ice Play Series, the Plum Appreciation and Spring Festival Series, the Fu Continuous Series, the Jin Ou Series, etc.

Categories include New Year gift boxes, paper bookmarks, hats and scarves, tea sets and water accessories, cushion accessories, fragrance wax, mobile phone accessories, etc.

3. Since the New Year Cultural Relics Exhibition in the Forbidden City is still a Spring Festival exhibition, it is to display cultural relics with a New Year flavor.

This exhibition is divided into six major themes: "Praying for blessings, paying homage to ancestors, filial piety, caring for family, being diligent and thrifty, caring for ancestors, having fun, and having fun."

There is a custom of posting blessings during the Spring Festival, and the royal family is no exception.

So in the Qing Palace, on the first day of the twelfth lunar month, the emperor used the pen of "Fu Min" to write the first word "Fu" on the dragon pen, posted it in the Qianqing Palace, and then wrote more than ten pieces in other palaces.

This exhibition shows the blessings of the five emperors Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Jiaqing and Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty.

A unit from the Dunmu clan shows the scene of the emperor holding banquets with his clansmen and concubines respectively on New Year's Day.

Therefore, the exhibition presents the golden dragon banquet table and the clan banquet table at the clan banquet.

The banquet table is well arranged. The New Year's concert will not only include Western symphonies, but also the highest-level royal orchestra in ancient times, the "Zhonghe Shaoyue", will be displayed in the Forbidden City.

During the Chinese New Year, princes and ministers would salute the emperor in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and family members in the Qianqing Palace would salute the emperor. They all need to be played.

This exhibition selected 6 musical instruments with the most distinctive characteristics of Zhonghe Shaoyue for restoration and display, including chimes, chimes, drums, Bang (yin wish), Bang (yin language), Hui (yin Hui), etc., which are magnificent.