On August 5 this year, the exhibition "Treasures of the Country: Calligraphy and Paintings of the Jin, Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties Collection of Calligraphy and Paintings of the Palace Museum" was exhibited in Hong Kong Palace Museum , with a total of 15 famous national treasure-level ancient calligraphy and paintings. The picture shows Hong Kong citizens entering the venue. ( China News Service )
Wang Xudong, a representative of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and president of the Palace Museum, said in an interview at the News Center of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on October 20 that in the process of building a Sino-foreign cultural and artistic exchange center, the role of the Hong Kong Palace Museum as a platform and window is irreplaceable. As of the end of September, nearly 400,000 visitors to the Hong Kong Palace Museum (hereinafter referred to as the Hong Kong Palace Museum), which reflects the love of Hong Kong people for the excellent traditional Chinese culture carried by the cultural relics of the motherland. The Palace Museum will work with colleagues in Hong Kong to plan and display more cultural relics, presentation methods more diversified, and strengthen the application of digital technology to tell live cultural relics stories.
Wang Xudong said that in the future, the Palace Museum will plan more exhibitions with colleagues in Hong Kong, and the presentation methods will be more diversified. It is not only a cultural relic exhibition, but also through digital display and other means, so that cultural relics can appear in front of the audience in a lively manner and attract more young people's attention.
Online live broadcast has become an important communication method
Speaking of the future mission of the Forbidden City Cultural Museum in Hong Kong, Wang Xudong said that not only should we enhance the cultural awareness and cultural confidence of Hong Kong compatriots through the Chinese civilization carried by the Forbidden City cultural relics, we should also communicate with the world and promote exchanges and mutual learning between different civilizations. He also gave an example that there was a horse culture exhibition at the Forbidden City Museum in Hong Kong this time, in which the cultural relics of the Forbidden City were placed together with the cultural relics of a French museum, which showed the understanding of horses by different countries and ethnic groups. Many topics like this can show the collision and communication of culture.
On October 16, Wang Xudong was interviewed at the " Party Representative Channel " of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. (China News Service)
When asked about the impact of the epidemic on the museum, Wang Xudong said that in the past, he had to go to the museum more and experience the cultural heritage left by his ancestors through on-site observation of the exhibition. Due to the impact of the epidemic, visits and tourism activities have been greatly restricted. Under this circumstance, how to bring more cultural services to the people? Digital technology has given great help. For example, live broadcast online has become a very important way of dissemination in museums and world cultural heritage sites.
In addition, the museum cloud exhibition allows more people to see exhibitions, listen to lectures, participate in various cultural and museum activities without leaving home, through mobile phones, computers and other devices, learn about the museum, obtain more cultural relics stories, and feel the cultural connotation behind it.
According to reports, in 2001, the Palace Museum website was opened, becoming the starting point for the construction of the Digital Palace Museum. Since 2005, the Palace Museum has fully adopted digital photography technology. By 2008, it has completed the image collection of most first-class cultural relics and started the basic image collection of second-class cultural relics. So far, the basic digitalization of more than 600,000 cultural relics has been completed. In 2020, the "Digital Forbidden City" mini program was released, "moving" the Forbidden City online. In 2021, at the China International Service Trade Fair, the Forbidden City debuted on the exhibition platform in a digital form for the first time, going to the world.
There are still more than one million cultural relics to be digitalized
Wang Xudong said that the Digital Forbidden City has accumulated a lot of experience, but at present, only more than 600,000 cultural relics have been completed, and more than 1 million cultural relics have been collected digital images. On the basis of digitalization, it is provided to scholars for research, and at the same time, the research results are creatively transformed and uploaded to the Internet through communication methods that the public can understand and like. In the future, we also hope to use multilingual methods to allow people from more countries to understand the Forbidden City, its cultural relics and the Chinese culture it carries.
Recommend Qianlong lacquerware hundred-science pictures to Hong Kong children
Qing Qianlong color hundred-science pictures on the plate. (Palace Museum)
When asked which exhibit in the Hong Kong Palace Museum would be recommended to primary and secondary school students in Hong Kong, Wang Xudong, the representative of the 20th National Congress and the president of the Palace Museum, mentioned a very interesting exhibit - a picture of lacquerware hundreds of sons from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, which carved many cute children's images.He hopes to plan more exhibitions that Hong Kong teenagers like in the future, attract them to work with their families to experience the beauty of life and art left by the ancients, and to appreciate the humanistic spirit and moral norms contained in cultural relics.
"The exhibition of the Hong Kong Palace Museum has received high attention from Hong Kong citizens. Many parents take their children to visit and experience the excellent traditional culture of the motherland. I want to recommend an exhibit for the children. There is a picture of a lacquerware from the Qianlong period, which is very interesting." Wang Xudong said that the plate of this lacquerware is composed of five layers of colors from the bottom up, and it carved many very cute images of infants and toddlers.
Ancient customs, when young children are one year old, they place various objects in their plates and let them pick them up as signs. Wang Xudong introduced that this exhibit is used to place the "日本 " item. "This exhibit not only shows exquisite craftsmanship, but also reflects our excellent traditional Chinese culture."
Hong Kong middle school students went to the "Forbidden City Academy" to experience the beauty of Chinese culture and art. (Ta Kung Pao)
Planning an exhibition that children like
At the same time, Wang Xudong hopes that the audience can go to the Forbidden City Cultural Museum in Hong Kong to find the cultural relics that touched their hearts and share them. He also hopes that in the future, colleagues at the Palace Museum can plan more exhibitions that children like with their Hong Kong colleagues. "Not only are there exhibitions that offer treasures, but also some specific cultural themes to attract Hong Kong youth through colorful exhibitions."
Hebei Provincial Palace Museum and Hong Kong Museum jointly organize exhibitions with Hong Kong Museum
Wang Xudong said in an interview on the 20th that the Palace Museum and Taipei Palace Museum can use the Hong Kong Palace Museum platform to jointly plan exhibitions, academic exchanges, etc. He also mentioned that with the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, the Palace Museum on the Cross-Strait will further increase its efforts in cultural relics exchanges and academic exchanges in the future.
"I went to the Taipei Palace Museum twice when I was working at the Dunhuang Research Institute. After I arrived at the Palace Museum, I have not visited the Taipei Palace Museum." Wang Xudong said that in the past, the exchanges and cooperation between the two sides were very frequent and in-depth. Due to the impact of the epidemic, exchanges and cooperation have been temporarily interrupted. He hopes that the Palace Museum on both sides of the Taiwan Strait can jointly plan some theme exhibitions to display cultural relics from the Palace Museum on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. "Because we have the same roots and origins, I believe that through this kind of cultural relics and academic exchanges, we will definitely strengthen mutual understanding among our scholars and promote mutual understanding between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait."
Wang Xudong believes that the Hong Kong Palace Museum can provide a good platform for the cooperation exhibitions of the Palace Museum on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. "I hope that the Palace Museum, the Palace Museum in Taipei and the Palace Museum in Hong Kong can plan some very meaningful exhibitions and academic exchange activities. This wish can only be realized after we 'walk'." He said that he hopes that after the epidemic is over, the three parties will have the opportunity to sit together and plan future cooperation together.
Source: Ta Kung Pao
Editor: Guo Xiaoyan
Proofreading: Li Mengzhan
