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With the arrival of the Spring Festival, the lunar calendar has entered the Year of the Tiger. In traditional Chinese culture, tigers are the king of mountain beasts and the eldest of all beasts, which means good luck and peace and a symbol of vitality and glory. "It's like a tiger that has wings", "The tiger has power", "A tiger lies in the middle hall, and it's good and auspicious." People's love for tigers can be seen from these words and folk sayings. So what are the elements of tigers in the Forbidden City? At the same time, there are many cultural relics in the Forbidden City, not all of them are just the norm. Which of them have their own "national trend" style? Let's go and have a look together.
CCTV reporter Ren Meimei: What tigers are there in the Forbidden City? What I hold is the Forbidden City Calendar with the theme of "tiger". The cover of the calendar is an image of a flying tiger with wings. This image is a Qing Dynasty cultural relic from the Forbidden City - the cloud pattern flying tiger flag.
Director of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Editorial Office of the Forbidden City Press Xu Hai: Cloud-patterned Flying Tiger Flag, it is a prop used for acting time in the Qing Dynasty acting organization Shengping Bureau . In the Qing Palace, a very important entertainment activity every year for the Spring Festival is to listen to the opera. Flying Tiger Flag is a prop used by generals when they appear. In addition to acting, it is also used as a military flag in the army marching, including the Eight Banners Army embroidered with flying tiger patterns, which is a symbol of power. The image of the flying tiger in the
flag is unique. The tiger with two wings is fierce and unrestrained, flying in the sky with tigers and tigers, looking both majestic and interesting. This year's Forbidden City Calendar contains a total of 151 tiger-element cultural relics. Why choose this one as the cover?
Director of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Editorial Office of the Forbidden City Press Xu Hai: Its color contrast is very vivid. The yellow tiger body, the red wings and auspicious clouds are a kind of auspicious meaning. Now we are popular with the concept of "national trend". Our choice of this tiger with a particularly national trend style represents our expectation for the new year.
"White Tiger": represents both direction and auspicious
Among the cultural relics of the Forbidden City, the image of flying tigers is not uncommon, but do you know that their "take-off" postures are different. In addition to the "Flying Tiger", what other tigers in the Forbidden City have unique shapes? Have a glimpse.
Tiger symbolizes power and power. For thousands of years, the ancients have used various materials to portray tigers in various shapes. The image of the flying tiger not only appears on ancient military flags and military quilts, but if you come to the sculpture hall of the Forbidden City, you can see the "White Tiger" flying in the wind brick .
Utility Department of the Palace Museum Liang Yong: It borrowed the image of a tiger and created it mythologically. Basically, it can be said that the tiger's head is still very similar to a tiger, but its body may borrow the long and thin body of a dragon. The bricks are covered with clouds, indicating that the tiger is flying in the wind, and there is a feathered man in front of it leading it to heaven.
The four-piece bricks in the group depict the images of Qinglong , White Tiger, Vermillion Bird , and Xuanwu . The ancients regarded them as "four divine beasts", representing the four directions of east, west, south and north respectively. The four god patterns on the portrait stone and the portrait bricks of the Han Dynasty , Sui and Tang Dynasties are more common. They not only represent the season and direction, but also are also mascots for warding off evil spirits and seeking blessings.
Qingyu Zodiac Tiger : Tiger head and human body. The cute and cute
0 is placed on the kang table in the sleeping hall behind the Palace Museum. It looks different. It is only 5.9 cm tall. It has a tiger head and human body. It wears a long neck gown and jacquard basket . It sits upright in the red sandalwood box with its eleven friends. It looks cute and cute and very interesting. According to historical records, this set of twelve zodiac signs of Qingyu was designed by Emperor Qianlong himself.
Shoushan stone carving "Little Cute Tiger": Shows superb carving craftsmanship
This piece is a Qing Dynasty Fuhu Arhat carved from the precious colored stone unique to our country - Shoushan Stone . It is only 12 cm tall. The Arhat sits with a smile on his face, and the tiger crawls beside the Arhat with his head held high, looking gentle and cute.Although the figure is not big, the carvings of the characters are extremely fine, with flesh and flesh seen from fibrous roots and hair. The patterns of clothes and tiger body patterns are also expressed by fine engraving lines, showing a superb craftsmanship.
The tiger-shaped porcelain pillow popular in the Song and Jin Dynasties
The ancients not only made tigers into ornaments, but also combined them with objects in life, giving them practical value. What kind of "tigers" were popular during the Song and Jin dynasties? Let's take a look together.
The brown glaze painted tiger-shaped pillow on display in the Forbidden City Ceramics Hall was very popular among the people during the Song and Jin Dynasties and was very popular. Now they can be seen in many museums. Use the tiger's back as the pillow surface, and only shape the rough concave contours on the head, tail and claws, and then use ink to outline the tiger's mouth, eyes, nose and ears. The brushwork is concise and bold, lively and natural. The tiger's head is huge and integrated with the body. The proportion of its limbs is significantly shortened, making the tiger look cramped into a ball, giving people a cute and cute feeling.
Utensils Department of the Palace Museum Dong Yanqing: Tiger-shaped pillows are mostly produced in folk kiln factories. Its popularity is closely related to folk life and people's expectations for life, and is given the meaning of warding off evil and eliminating disasters.
Watch cultural relics online to enjoy the "good" banquet of the Year of the Tiger in the Forbidden City
There are many tiger cultural relics in the Forbidden City, just look at these. The 2022 "Forbidden City Calendar" selects 151 cultural relics about tigers, paintings, accessories, clothing and other cultural relics, tiger talisman , tiger festival, tiger-shaped wear, tiger-head hat , tiger-head boots ... all in your eyes; in addition, during the Spring Festival, the Forbidden City Digital Cultural Relics Library will release 15,000 new cultural relics images, and will also launch the Tiger Year Cultural Relics Zone to bring you a "good" banquet in the New Year of the Chinese New Year.
Editor: Zhenglong
Source: CCTV News Client
