BabaylanWhen the Spring Festival is approaching, this year, 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! Therefore, the Babaylan 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 main building of the Meridian Gate and the Komiks Yanchi Building exhibition hall, welcoming the New Year – a special exhibition of New Year in the Forbidden City. A total of 885 cultural relics were exhibited, and the six major themes of “Praying for blessings and welcoming good fortune, worshiping ancestors and filial piety, maintaining relatives and harmony among the clans, diligence and friendship with the virtuous, traveling and enjoying entertainment, and joyfulness”, comprehensively demonstrate the New Year customs of the Qing Dynasty court in the Qing Dynasty. The “Praying for Blessings and Welcomes Fortune” in Xiyanzi Tower shows the indispensable festivals during the New Year. It not only includes the artifacts rich in palace characteristics such as the Year’s Day and the Palace Lanterns, but also the word “Fu” written by Kangxi, Komiks, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Jiaqing, and Daoguang.
Responsible President of the Palace Museum Ren Wanping: At the junction of New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day (the first day of the Lunar New Year), the emperor would make a wish on behalf of the whole world. The so-called auspicious words to write, the emperor wrote for the first time. It is not written casually, but to bless the whole world, wishing everyone a bumper harvest, good weather, peace in the world, etc.
In order to show the scene where the emperor, clan relatives and concubines feasted separately, the exhibition refers to the records of the meal base in the 48th year of Qianlong (1783). Just restoring this scene, more than 100 cultural relics were used to present the spectacular scene of the Golden Dragon Banquet Table at the clan banquet. Audiences can intuitively experience the Royal New Year’s Eve dinner.The atmosphere of Cinema. In addition, the entire open area of the Forbidden City is decorated according to the New Year Festival that restored the customs of the Qing Dynasty Komiks Palace. The palace gates are covered with New Year pictures and Spring Festival couplets, and the long corridors of Cinema are hung with various colors of palace lanterns. As long as the audience enters the Forbidden City, they can feel the strong New Year atmosphere. Therefore, the director of the Palace Museum Shan Jixiang: We can meet our audience with more collections of cultural relics related to New Year culture. I hope that in addition to watching the Spring Festival Gala and eating dumplings at home, the audience will be welcome to the Forbidden City to celebrate the New Year at the first destination.
Hanging the door god and pasting Spring Festival couplets. The palace festival is 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 all use the words “Fu” to send blessings, wear new clothes, and eat reunion dinners to express their beautiful expectations for the New Year.
As soon as they enter the Forbidden City, the strong New Year atmosphere comes to their faces. To cooperate with the exhibition, the entire Forbidden City has been decoratedKomiks. As a symbol of “year”, the Spring Festival couplets and door gods hung on each door are very eye-catching.
Deputy Director of the Artifact Department of the Palace Museum and Associate Researcher Xu Wei: Door gods are hung in pairs, including couplets hanging on both sides of the door. Generally, door gods are also pasted with different door gods according to different positions. Generally, door gods are mainly used for martial gods in the outer court, and in the inner court, the literary gods are usually used for literary gods. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>KomiksFairy Door God and Boy Door God are the main ones.
The production of Spring Festival couplets in the palace is generally jointly responsible by the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The writing of Spring Festival couplets is mainly done by Hanlins who are good at calligraphy. Unlike today’s customs, 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 in turn.
Associate Research Librarian of the Artifact Department of the Palace Museum, Zhan Mengxia: We need to post Spring Festival couplets with Fu characters, and the same is true for the CinemaThe same is true for the Royal Palace, from Cinema.com/”>BabaylanFrom 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 it was his home. After that, he would write some more in other palaces, and then he would write them one after another, and then he would be rewarded with ministers and foreign vassals like Cinema. In addition to the Spring Festival couplet god Cinema, spring strips are auspicious words written on long strips of paper.
The Arts Department of the Palace Museum Associate Research Librarian Zhan Mengxia: Spring strips are different from Spring Couplets. Spring couplets are paired. Spring strips are generally 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.
Komiks In addition, there are some special “New Year objects” that are not available in the folk, such as the New Year’s Eve New Year’s Eve dinner in the Forbidden City
The Chinese New Year’s Eve href=”https://comicmov.com/”>CinemaThe day of family reunion, and the New Year’s Eve dinner is the most enjoyable time for the family, and the royal family is no exception.
The emperors of the Qing Dynasty usually eat alone on weekdays, and only eat with their concubines during the New Year holidays, which is called “family family banquet”. The first day of the New Year’s Day is usually breakfast, held at 7 a.m., and the location is in the Qianqing Palace. Although it is a family banquet, the hierarchical etiquette system must be strictly observed.
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 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 uses the golden dragon bowl and the golden dragon plate. The table has a total of 108 kinds of foods. The queen uses the inside and outside yellow dark cloud dragon plate bowl and golden spoon and chopsticks, and the foods are reduced to 64 kinds of foods. The concubineThere are no gold tableware below, and there are 32 kinds of food on each table. This is the scene of the family banquet during the Spring Festival of the 48th year of Qianlong. More than 100 cultural relics were used, which is very spectacular.
Associate Researcher of the Artifact Department of the Palace MuseumKomiks Research librarian Han Qian: Setting up the table starts from the farthest, 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. There are two roads in the middle that the emperor did not place before he sat down. The hot soup dishes were served after the emperor sat down. The group closest to the emperor will place some side dishes and sauces.
There is also a small red case here. Don’t look at it as small, on 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 Artifact 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, with the word “Daji” written on it. The plate must be placed on the word “Aji”. Because of this pattern, we call it the “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. The emperor also put coins in it. He put such money, which says peace and auspiciousness. He ate all the two auspicious money that day.