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 words “Fu” written by the 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, Babaylan (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 wrote at the first time, not casually, but to bless the whole world, wishing everyone a prosperous harvest, good weather, peace in the world, etc.
In order to show the scene where the emperor and clan relatives and concubines feasted separately, the exhibition referred to the records of the meal base in 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 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: We can meet our audience with more cultural relics related to the New Year’s culture. We hope that the audience will not only watch the Spring Festival Gala, but also eat dumplings at home to reunite with each other, and welcome the first destination 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, and whether it is ordinary people’s homes Cinema or the Forbidden City, they are all delivered byActivities such as Fu, wearing new clothes, and eating reunion dinner to express the beautiful expectations of the New Year.
As soon as you enter the Forbidden City, the strong New Year atmosphere comes to you. 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 gate of Cinema 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 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 beginning of the twelfth lunar month, the emperor had to write the first word “Fu” on the Dragon Stage. The first word “Fu” must be posted on the door 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. 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 things” in the palace that are not available in the folk, such as the Sui Dynasty map, the sky lantern, the Wanshou Lantern, the Palace Lantern, and the palace lantern.Utensils.
Family Palace Banquet New Year’s Eve New Year’s Eve dinner in the Forbidden City
New Year’s EveKomiks is a day for family reunion in Chinese concepts, and the New Year’s Eve dinner is the most happy moment for the family, and the Royal Family is no exception.
The Emperors of the Qing Dynasty usually had their meals alone on weekdays, and only ate Cinema with their concubines during the New Year Festival, which was called the “Clan Family Banquet”. Family dinners on the first day of the Lunar New Year are usually breakfast, held at 7 a.m. Babaylan, located in the Qianqing Palace. Although it is a family banquet, the hierarchical etiquette system must be strictly observed.
Associate Research Librarian of the Palace MuseumCinema Associate Research Librarian 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’s whole family is together. It is actually divided into two parts. Generally, he will have the New Year’s Eve dinner with his concubines in the morning, and then in the afternoon he will have the New Year’s Eve dinner with his relatives, princes and grandchildren, and some princes from the near branch.
In fact, the tableware for the court banquet is also divided into levels. The emperor used the golden dragon bowl and the golden dragon plate. The table was filled with 10 kinds of foods in various colors. The queen used the inside and outside Komiks Huang Anyunlong plate bowl and the golden spoon and chopsticks, and the foods in various colors were reduced to 6. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks 4 kinds, there are no gold tableware below the imperial concubine, 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 Research Librarian, Palace Museum Artifacts Department Han Qian: Setting up the table starts from the farthest, called 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 there are two more ways in the middle. The emperor did not place them before he sat down. He was hot soup dishes.After the emperor sat down, the hot dishes were served. The group closest to the emperor would put some side dishes and sauces on them.
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.
SoKomiks Associate Research Librarian of the Artifact Department of the Palace Museum Han Qian: This dumpling is also very particular. This small plate should be placed in the red case we see immediately. There is a Babaylan in the middle of the red case, with the word “daoji”. The plate must be placed on the word “good” and the case has 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 four dumplings. The dumplings are the same as our current customs. The emperor also put coins in the house, and the money was spent like this, which said peace and auspiciousness. That day, he ate all the two auspicious money. Komiks came.