The "Chinese Living Room" of Paris Four Plaza -Chinese Complex of Dawen Houguo [Photos]

Xinhua News Agency, Paris, June 15th: Entering the "Chinese Living Room" in the Paris Plaza -China Contest of Dawen Houguo Hugo

Xinhua News Agency reporter Tang Yan

On June 14, tourists visited the "Chinese Living Room" in Hugo, France in Paris, France. Xinhua News Agency reporter Gao Jing was taken by Gao Jing

In 1811, 9 -year -old Victor Hugo went to Spain to reunite with his father who worked in the Napoleonic army. In a display gallery, he saw two huge and exquisite Chinese vases, which was deeply touched in his heart, and began to have endless reveries to strange China.

This is the porcelain in the "Chinese Living Room" shot in Hugo's former residence in Paris, France on June 14. Xinhua News Agency reporter Gao Jing was taken by Gao Jing

Today, more than two centuries later, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency entered the Hugo Former House Museum in the Fogi Plaza in Paris. In the "Chinese living room" designed by Da Wenhan Hugo on the third floor, it is filled with Chinese porcelain, lacquer wood furniture, palace lamps, decorative bamboo curtains ... The living room creates a gorgeous and unique Chinese culture Atmosphere.

On June 14, a tourist visited the former residence of Hugo in Paris, France. Xinhua News Agency reporter Gao Jing was taken by Gao Jing

The curator of the Hugo House House of Paris and Genxi Island, Gree Lal Audie, welcomed us in the "Chinese Living Room". He deliberately chose to interview when there was no tourist, and removed all the protection fences, allowing us to appreciate each design of Hugo at close range.

In 1802, Hugo was born in the eastern city of Bezan Song and is a representative of the 19th -century romantic literature in France. In 1831, his novel "Mother Paris" was published and achieved great success. He rented a 280 -square -meter apartment in Furi Plaza in 1832, and it was 16 years. In 1851, after Napoleon III coup, Hugo rose up and was forced to exile. In 1902, on the occasion of Hugo's century, the Paris Municipal Government transformed this apartment in the Hugo Residence Museum in the Hugo Plaza. This former residence condenses the legend of Hugo's life. On the three floors of the museum, according to the living room designed for his girlfriend Juliet Drue when Hugo was exiled in the Geese Strait Genxi Island, this "Chinese living room" was displayed.

On June 8th, the director of the Hugo House Museum of Paris and Genxi Island, the director of the Hugo Museum of Hugo, accepted an interview with Xinhua News Agency in Paris, France. Xinhua News Agency reporter Sun Xinjing Photo

Auditi told reporters that he had been the curator of the museum for 11 years. In this living room, he often asked himself a question that all first -by -visitors would have: Why did Hugo who had never been to China loved Chinese culture so much?

He told reporters that there can be too many stories to explain. For example, Hugo's second daughter Adele recorded his father's first encounter with Chinese porcelain when he was 9 years old. For another example, when Hugo went to Spain in 1843, he wrote a letter to the eldest daughter Loopotin that he was surprised to find that there were many Chinese porcelain in Spain.

This is the former residence of Hugo, which was shot in Paris, France on June 14. Xinhua News Agency reporter Gao Jing was taken by Gao Jing

Audine said that the decoration of the "Chinese Living Room" room reflects the common love and appreciation of Hugo and Druze for Chinese culture. Hugo is constantly collecting Chinese art in both Paris and in exile. He then borrowed from the "Chinese Elements" to decorate Druze's room. The woodcuts in the room and the patterns on the lacquerware are drawn by Hugo himself, and the carpenters on Genxi Island are requested to engrave. "Hugo is inspired by Chinese furniture, porcelain, and flower and bird patterns. It is immersed in the feeling of Chinese painters." Audine said.

On June 14, a tourist visited the former residence of Hugo in Paris, France. Xinhua News Agency reporter Gao Jing was taken by Gao Jing

Audine believes that Chinese crafts and porcelain have become popular in Europe since the 18th century, and the differences between Chinese culture and Western are fascinated by Europeans. "Specifically, porcelain, lacquer wood furniture, silk, etc., as a carrier of culture, entered Europe, and the artistic methods of Chinese cultural expression and characters are very different from Europeans. Therefore, for Hugo, Chinese culture is undoubtedly him for him The elements of dreams: its uniqueness, its unusual, its beauty, and it can inspire people's huge curiosity. Hugo tries to find the key to understand Chinese culture. "Audie said that Hugo said that Hugo is in his paintings , I often try to paint with ink with ink like Chinese painters. It is necessary to know that Chinese ink painting was rarely circulated in Europe at that time.

This is the details of the "Chinese Living Room" shot in Hugo's former residence in Paris, France on June 14. Xinhua News Agency reporter Gao Jing was taken by Gao Jing

Audine said that Chinese readers know Hugo, on the one hand, because of his work "Notre Dame", "Misery World", "1993", etc., on the other hand, his famous "Letter of Captain Bartler" Essence After the British and French Allied Army entered Beijing in 1860, after the precious cultural relics of the Yuanmingyuan Park and set fire to the Yuanmingyuan, Hugo wrote a letter to the French captain who showed off his achievements to him in 1861. Thinking: "There are Paton Temples in Greece, there are pyramids in Egypt, there are beasts in Rome, the Virgin is in Paris, and there is a Yuanmingyuan in the East. If you have seen it, but everyone has dreamed of it. Some of the terrible and unknown masterpieces are faintly visible in the unknown morning light, just like the silhouette of Asian civilization on the horizon of European civilization. "

This is the details of the "Chinese Living Room" shot in Hugo's former residence in Paris, France on June 14. Xinhua News Agency reporter Gao Jing talked about the expectations of the future. Audie said that the Hugo Former House Museum has cooperated with China many times in recent years, and has held exhibitions about Hugo in Guangzhou and Shanghai. The precious decorative wall board has been across China as part of the exhibition. He said that before the outbreak, there were the largest number of Chinese tourists in museums every year. He hopes that after the epidemic, he will continue to exhibition with China to promote the research and exchanges between the two countries in the Fa.

This is the famous wooden board pyrograph "Acrobatic boy" in the "Chinese Living Room" in Hugo's former residence in Paris, France on June 14. V and H are the first letters of the name of Victor Hugo. Xinhua News Agency reporter Gao Jing was taken by Gao Jing

Audi takes us to the famous wooden board pyrograph "Acrobatic boy" in the living room: Hugo draws a Chinese acrobatic teenager who maintains a balanced on the chair. Victor Hugo's first letter V and H. This picture can't help but remind people of the 9 -year -old boy more than 200 years ago facing Chinese porcelain, ripples in his heart.

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