As the Spring Festival is approaching, this year, you might as well come to the Forbidden City in Beijing to see the exhibition, enjoy the palace lanterns, taste delicious food, and feel the flavor of the New Year! The Palace Museum will display nearly a thousand cultural relics on a record-breaking basis, restore many ancient palace festival customs, presenting 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 Xiyanzi Tower shows the indispensable festivals during the New Year, not only include objects with palace characteristics such as the Year’s Eve dynasty, palace lanterns, etc., but also the characters written by Emperors of Kangxi, 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 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. He should bless everyone, 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 had a banquet respectively, the Cinema exhibition refers to the records of the meal base in the 48th year of Qianlong (1783) and restored this scene alone, more than 100 Cinema 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 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 filled 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 will be Cinema. The new year pictures and Spring Festival couplets are posted. The long corridors are hung with palace lanterns. As long as the audience enters the Forbidden City, they will be Komiks can feel the strong New Year atmosphere.Komiks
Director Shan Jixiang: Let’s meet our audience with more 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 with them. The first destination is welcome to the Forbidden City to celebrate the New Year.
Hang the door god and post Spring Festival couplets to the Spring Festival.
Hang the door god and paste the Spring Festival couplets. 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 all use activities such as sending blessings, wearing new clothes, and eating reunion dinners to express their beautiful expectations for the New Year.
As soon as you enter the Forbidden City, the strong New Year atmosphere hits you. In order to cooperate with the exhibition, the entire Forbidden City is decorated. As a symbol of the “New Year”, the Spring Festival couplets and door gods hanging on various gates are very eye-catching.
Deputy Director of the Artifact Department of the Palace Museum, Associate Researcher Xu Wei: Door gods href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks are hung in pairs, including couplets hanging on both sides of the door body. Generally, door gods are pasted with different door gods according to different positions. Generally, martial gate gods are mainly used in the outer courts, and literary gate gods, fairy gate gods and boy gate gods in the inner courts.
The Babaylan, the spring couplets in the palace are generally jointly responsible by the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The writing of the spring couplets is mainly completed by Hanlins who are good at calligraphy. Unlike today’s customs, the spring 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 the Qianqing Gate, Qianqing Palace, etc. and spread out in turn.
The Arts Department of the Palace Museum Associate Research Librarian Zhan Mengxia: People need to paste the word “Fu” and “Spring Festival couplets” among the people. 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 it was his home. Then I will write some more in other palaces one after another, and then Komiks willHe wrote one after another, and then rewarded 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.
Associate Research Librarian, Palace Museum Artifacts Department Zhan Mengxia: Spring strips are different from Spring Couplets. Spring couplets are paired. Spring strips are generally long singles, and they are more casual when posted and can be pasted anywhere. If there are more literary things like the welfare of our palace, the country is prosperous and the people are safe, the people can stick fat pigs in the pigpen, golden roosters in the rack, good luck in the wells, and safe in and out, it will be even more casual.
In addition, there are some special “year objects” that are not available in the folk, such as the Sui Dynasty map, the Sky Lantern, the Wansheng Lantern, and the Babaylan 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.” Family dinners on the first day of the Lunar New Year are usually breakfast, held at 7 a.m., and are 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 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 and his whole family are together. Cinema It is actually divided into two parts. Generally, in the morning he will have New Year’s Eve dinner with his concubines, and then in the afternoon he will have New Year’s Eve dinner with his clan relatives, princes and grandchildren, and some princes from the near 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 has a total of 108 kinds of food on various colors. The queen used the inside and outside the yellow dark cloud dragon plate bowl and gold spoon and chopsticks, and the food of each color has been reduced to 64 kinds. There are no gold tableware below the imperial concubine. 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 Research Librarian, Utilities Department of the Palace Museum: Setting up a table starts from the farthest, called Toulu. We saw 4 tall ones, called pine hut fruit covers, mainly placing waterThe fruity ones will be served in the future, and the hot soup is served after the emperor will be placed. The hot soup will be served after the emperor sits down. The group closest to the emperor will be placed. Some side dishes and sauces will be served.
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 of the Artifact Department of the Palace MuseumCinema HanKomiks 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”. The plate must be placed on the word “dajibao”. 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 four dumplings. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>KomiksThe dumplings are the same as our current customs. The emperor’s family also puts coins and puts such money, which says peace and auspiciousness. That day he ate all the two auspicious money.