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 on a record-breaking basis, restore various former palace festival 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, serving the family, working hard and being friendly to the wise, traveling and enjoying the world”, fully demonstrating the New Year customs of the Qing Dynasty 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 utensils of the Year and the Palace Lanterns and other utensils that are rich in the palace characteristics, but also the words “Fu” written by Emperor Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Jiaqing and Daoguang.
Responsible Dean of the Palace Museum Ren WanpingCinema 1950 witch cloth draw: At the intersection 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 for writing, the emperor’s first writing is not written casually, but to blessing everyone for the whole world, wishing everyone a bumper 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 experience the atmosphere of the Royal New Year’s EveKomiks 1960 witch cloth draw night dinner. In addition, the entire open area of the Forbidden City is decorated according to 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 various palace lanterns.As long as you walk into the Forbidden City, you can feel the strong New Year atmosphere.
Babaylan 1990 cloth draw Director of the Palace Museum Shan Jixiang: We can meet our audience with more collections of cultural relics related to New Year culture. We hope that in addition to watching the Spring Festival Gala and eating dumplings at home to reunite, the audience will go out of the house and welcome the first destination to celebrate the New Year in the Forbidden City.
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, they all use activities such as sending blessings, wearing new clothes, and eating reunion dinner to express their beautiful expectations for 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 door are very eye-catching.
Palace MuseumKomiks 1960 witch cloth draw Deputy Director of the Artifact Department, 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 also attached to 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 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 of the Artifact Department of the Palace Museum Zhan Mengxia: Folk Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawWe want 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. 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.Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw
Associate Research Librarian of the Artifact Department of the Palace Museum 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 literary style in our palace, such as the welfare of the country and the peace of the country, the people can stick fat on the pigpen.Babaylan 1990 clothes draw Pigs are full of pens, golden roosters are full of racks, wells are auspicious, and safe in and out, it will be even more casual.
In addition, there are some special “year objects” in the palace that are not available in the folk, such as the Sui Dynasty Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw, sky lanterns, lanterns, palace lanterns and other unique palace objects.
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 on weekdays, and Cinema 1950 witch clothes draw only ate with their concubines during the New Year Festival, which is called the “Clan Family Banquet”. 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 dinner, the Cinema 1950 witch clothes draw etiquette system must be strictly observed.
Deputy Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw 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 and his whole family are together. It is actually Babaylan 1990 clothes draw is divided into two parts. Generally, Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw In the morning, he would have New Year’s Eve dinner with his concubines, and then he went to the next Babaylan 1990 clothes draw for lunch with his relatives, princes and grandchildren, and some princes from the neighborhood.
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. The queen used the yellow dark cloud dragon plate bowl and the golden spoon and chopsticks inside and outside. The food of each color has been reduced to 64 kinds. There are no gold tableware below the imperial concubine, and 32 kinds of food on each table. This is the scene of the clan banquet during the Spring Festival of the 48th year of Qianlong. More than 100 cultural relics were used in Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw, which was very spectacular.
Associate Research Librarian of the Artifact Department of the Palace Museum Han Qian: Babaylan 1990 cloth drawThe table setting starts from the farthest, called Toulu. We saw 4 high ones, called pine hut fruit covers. The main ones are the fruits. Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw. Then there will be snacks, cold meat and candied fruits, and there are two in the middle. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema 1950 witch cloth drawThe road is that the emperor will not place before he sits down. The hot soup dishes will be served only after the emperor sits down. The group closest 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, 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, Utility 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 red case in the middle of the red case.A gourd with the word “Da Ji” written on it. The plate must be placed on it. Because of this pattern, we call it the “Da Ji Bao 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. There will be steel steaks in it. The emperor’s family also put coins and put such money. Komiks 1960 witch clothes draw, which says peace and auspiciousness. He ate all the two auspicious money that day.