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, restoring a variety of ancient palace festival customs in the past, presenting the audience with a festive New Year atmosphere for the first time.
Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw In the exhibition hall of the Meridian Gate Main Building and the East and West Yanchi Building, 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 the world”, fully demonstrated the New Year customs of the Qing Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty. The “Praying for Blessings and Welcomes Fortune” in Xiyanchi Tower shows the indispensable items during the New Year. They not only include objects with court characteristics such as the Year of the Year and the Palace Lanterns, but also the words “Babaylan” written by the emperors of the Five Dynasties 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 and his clans’ 1960 witch cloth draw and the concubines having a banquet respectively, the exhibition refers 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 Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw atmosphere of the Royal New Year’s Eve dinner. In addition, the entire Forbidden City open area is Cinema 1950witch cloth drawFrom the New Year decoration restored by the old customs of the Qing Palace, New Year pictures and Spring Festival couplets are posted on the palace gates, 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 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 come to the Forbidden City for the first time.
Hanging the door god and pasting Spring Festival couplets, court festivals are of particular importance
For thousands of years, the activities of the New Year have been abundant and colorful. Whether it is normal, Cinema 1950 witch clothes draw and the Forbidden City have expressed their beautiful expectations for the New Year through activities such as sending blessings, wearing new clothes, and eating reunion dinners.
As soon as you enter the Forbidden City, the strong New Year atmosphere comes to you. To cooperate with the exhibition, Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw the entire Forbidden City was dressed up. As a symbol of “year”, the Spring Festival couplets and door gods hanging 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 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 Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw habits, 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, from Qianqing Gate and Qianqing PalaceStart at the same time and spread out in turn.
Associate Research Librarian Zhan Mengxia: People need to paste the word “Fu” in the people, 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 Babaylan 1990 clothes draw 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 Institute of the Artifact Department of the Palace MuseumKomiks 1960 witch cloth drawPersonnel Zhan MengBabaylan 1990 clothes drawSummer: Spring stripsCinema 1950 witch cloth drawSpring couplets are paired, and spring strips are usually a long single sheetKomiks 1960 witch cloth draw, it is more casual 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 Picture, 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 Cinema 1950 witch cloth drawThe New Year’s Eve dinner is the most fun 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. 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 clan, the prince, the prince, and some princes from the neighborhood.
Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw 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 a total of 108 kinds of food. The queen used the inside and outside the yellow cloud dragon plate bowl and the golden spoon and chopsticks. The food of each color was reduced to 64 kinds. There were no gold tableware below the imperial concubine. There were 32 kinds of foods on each table. This is the scene of the ancestral feast during the Spring Festival of the 48th year of Long. More than 100 cultural relics were used, which is very spectacular.
Associate Research Librarian, Utilities Department of the Palace Museum, 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. There are two other ways in the middle that the emperor will not place before he sits down. The hot soup dishes will be served 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.
The Arts Department of the Palace MuseumBabaylan 1990 cloth draw Associate Research Librarian 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 “Da Ji” written on it, and the plateBabaylan 1990 cloth draw must be placed on the word “ji”. Because of this pattern, we call it the Dajibao case. It is said that in 8 years of Qianlong’s 4Cinema 1950 witch cloth drawOn the morning of 8 years, the emperor ate three of the four dumplings. The dumplings are the same as our current customs. Steel steaks are placed inside. The emperor’s family also put coins and put such money, which says peace and auspiciousness. He ate all the two auspicious money that day.