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.
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 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 Emperor Kangxi, Yong, Qianlong, Jiaqing and Daoguang.
The Deputy Director of the Palace MuseumCinema Ren WanpingKomiks: 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 everyone, wishing everyone a good harvest, good weather, peace in the world, etc. In order to show the scene where the emperor and the clan relatives and the concubines had a banquet respectively, the exhibition refers to the records of the meal base of 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 in accordance with the New Year Festival restored by 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 New Year atmosphere.
Director Shan Jixiang, Director of the Palace Museum: You 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,The first destination is welcome 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, Cinema has expressed its beautiful expectations for the New Year through activities such as Cinema.
As soon as you enter the Forbidden City, the strong New Year atmosphere comes to you. To match the exhibition of Komiks, the entire Forbidden City was dressed up. As a symbol of “year”, the Spring Festival couplets and door gods hanging on each door are very eye-catching.
Deputy Director of the Utensils Department of the Palace Museum Babaylan Associate Research Librarian Xu Wei: Door gods are hung in pairs, including couplets hanging on both sides of the door. Generally, the door gods are posted with different door gods according to different positions. Generally, the martial gods are mainly used in the outer courts, and the literary gods, fairy gods and boys 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 Spring Festival couplets are written by Babaylan, mainly completed by Hanlins who are good at calligraphy. Unlike today’s habits, 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 that was his home. Later, some will be written in other palaces, and then they will be written in succession, and then they will be 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.
Deputy Komiks Research Librarian Zhan Mengxia: Spring strips and Spring Festival coupletsBabaylan is too similar. Spring couplets are paired. Spring strips are usually long singles, which are more casual and can be pasted everywhere. For example, if the family in our palace is well-being and the country is peaceful and peaceful, the people can stick fat pigs in the pigpen, golden roosters in the rack, well springs are auspicious, and safe in and out, it will be more casual.
In addition, there are some special “year things” that are not available in the palace, such as the Year Dynasty map, the sky lantern, the Wansheng Lantern, and the Palace Lantern.
Family Banquet In the Forbidden City, the href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema New Year’s Eve dinner
The New Year is a day for family reunion in Chinese concepts, and the New Year’s Eve dinner is the most fun time for the family, and the royal family is no exception.
The Qing emperors usually eat alone on weekdays, and only eat with their concubines during the New Year’s Day, which is called the “family family banquet”. The family banquet on the first day of the New Year is usually breakfast, held at 7 a.m., and is located in the Qianqing Palace. Although it is a family banquet, the hierarchical etiquette system must be strictly followed.
Associate Research Librarian of the Arts 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. The emperor’s whole family is together. 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 relatives who are close to the family.
In fact, the tableware for the palace family banquet is also divided into levels. The emperor uses the golden dragon bowl and the golden dragon plate. There are 108 kinds of foods on the table. The queen uses the inside and outside yellow dark cloud dragon plate bowl and gold spoon and chopsticks, and the foods are reduced to 64 kinds of foods. There are no gold tableware below the imperial concubine, and 32 on each table href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema food. This is a scene of the family banquet during the Spring Festival in the 48th year of Qianlong. More than 100 cultural relics were used, which is very spectacular. Komiks
Association Research Museum of the Artifact Department of the Palace MuseumOfficer Han Qian: The table setting starts from the farthest point, called the Toulu. We saw 4 tall ones, called pine hut fruit covers. They mainly place fruits, and then there will be snacks, cold meat and candied fruits and candied fruits. There are two other ways in the middle that the emperor did not place before he sat down. The hot soup dishes were served only after the emperor sat down. The closest group 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, it is early in the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year. When the emperor eats dumplings, he must not put the wrong position.
Associate Research Librarian, Palace Museum Artifacts Department 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, which says Komiks. The plate must be placed on the word “ji”. Because of this pattern, we call it Dajibao Case. It is said that on the morning of the 48th year of Qianlong, the emperor ate three of the 4 dumplings. The dumplings are the same as our current customs. There will be steel steaks in it. The emperor’s family also put coins and put them here. The money like Komiks said that it was safe and auspicious. He ate all the two auspicious money that day.