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 six major themes were “Praying for blessings and welcome good fortune, Cinema worshiping ancestors and filial piety, being diligent in the family, being diligent in power, traveling and having fun, and having fun in the world”, fully demonstrating 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 the emperors of Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Jiaqing and Daoguang.
Responsible Dean of the Palace Museum Ren Wanping: At the junction 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 prosperous harvest, good weather, peace in the world, etc.
In order to show the scenes of the emperor, clan relatives and concubines, Komiks, referring to the records of the meal base in the 48th year of Qianlong (1783), and restoring 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 that restored from 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: Let’s meet our audience with more cultural relics related to New Year’s customs and culture. I hope that the audience will not only watch the Spring Festival Gala, but also eat dumplings at home and reunite with them. 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 palace 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 are all given away.Activities such as Fu, wearing new clothes, and eating reunion dinner to express the beautiful expectations of the New Year. As soon as I walked into the Forbidden City, the strong New Year atmosphere came to my face. 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.
Domestic Museum EquipmentKomiks Deputy Director of the Department of Materials and Associate Research Librarian 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” and “Spring Festival couplets, 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, and the first word “Fu” must be posted on the gate of the Qianqing Palace, because it 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. BabaylanSpring sticks are auspicious words written on long strips of paper.
The Forbidden City Komiks Associate Research Librarian 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 is more civility like the family in our palace to be blessed and prosperous, the people can go to the pigpen.If you stick a fat pig in the pen, a golden rooster in the rack, a well-off spring, and a safe entry and exit, it will be even more casual to stick it.
Babaylan In addition, there are some special “year objects” that are not found in the folk, such as the Sui Dynasty map, the sky lantern, the Wanshou Lantern, and the Palace Lantern.
Family Palace Banquet New Year’s Eve New Year’s Eve dinner in the Forbidden City
The New Year is a day for family reunion in Chinese concepts, and the New Year’s Eve dinner is the most happy time for the family, 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.” The family dinner on the first day of the Lunar 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 observed.
Associate Research Librarian, Artifact Department of the Palace Museum, Han Qian: Although the day’s 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 New Year’s Eve dinner with his concubines in the morning, and then he will have New Year’s Eve dinner with his relatives, princes and grandchildren, and some princes from the nearest branch.
In fact, the tableware for the palace family banquet is also divided into levels. The emperor used the golden dragon bowl and the golden dragon plate. The table had 108 kinds of foods in various colors. The queen used the inside and outside the yellow dark cloud dragon plate bowl and the golden spoon and chopsticks. The foods in various colors were reduced to 64 kinds. There were no gold tableware below the imperial concubine, and 32 kinds of foods on each table. This is the scene of the ancestral feast during the Spring Festival of Qianlong forty-eight years. More than 100 cultural relics were used, which is very spectacular.
Associate Research Librarian, Utilities Department of the Palace Museum, Han Qian: Table setting starts from the farthest point, called Cinema making the way. We saw 4 high Komiks://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan, called pine hut fruit cover, mainly for fruit placement, and then there will be snacks and candied fruits in the future. There are two ways in the middle that the emperor will not place before he sits down. The hot soup dishes will only be served after the emperor sits down. The group closest to the emperor will put some side dishes and sauces.
There is a small red case here. Don’t look at it. On the morning of the first day of the Chinese New Year, when the emperor eats dumplings, you must not place the wrong position.
Associate Research Librarian, Utilities Department of the Palace Museum, Han Qian: This dumpling is also very There are some specialties. This small plate should be placed in the red case we see immediately. There is a Cinema in the middle of the red case, with the word “Da Ji” written on it. The plate must be placed on the word “A Ji Bao”. It is said that in the morning of the 48th year of Qianlong, the emperor ate three of the four dumplings. The dumplings are the same as our current customs. The emperor also put coins in it. He put such money on it, and he puts such a spending. It says that he said that he was safe and auspicious. That day he put two KomiksAll the auspicious money is eaten.