166 national treasures appeared, what kind of "Forbidden City" to build in Hong Kong?

In the afternoon of June 22, the Hong Kong Palace Museum of Culture Museum

The opening ceremony was held and will be officially opened to the public on July 2nd

More than 900 precious cultural relics from the Palace Museum

The opening exhibition will be unveiled in the Hong Kong Forbidden City, of which 166 are first -class cultural relics

Most cultural relics are also exhibited in Hong Kong for the first time

In the Western Kowloon in Hong Kong, 40 hectares of land were artificially reclaimed, showing a regular hexagonal shape. There were venues such as opera center, art exhibition hall, theater and other venues scattered between the green space and the green space. It is planned as a special cultural and artistic area, the West Kowloon Cultural District, and is one of the world's largest cultural and artistic projects. At the top of the corner of the west side of the hexagon, there is a beige square building. This is the largest building in the art area, the Hong Kong Forbidden City Cultural Museum.

On July 2nd, the Hong Kong Palace Museum, which lasted for 4 years, will be officially opened on the 25th anniversary of the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong.

914 cultural relics from the Palace Museum will be unveiled in the Forbidden City of Hong Kong. This is the largest and highest -level outbound exhibition in the history of the Palace Museum. Among them, there are many heavyweight national treasures, such as Tang Yu Shinan (Biography) of the Eight Pillars of Lanting, the "Book of Lanting Pavilion", the five generations of Ruan Yan's handed down "The Girls' Immortal Picture Vol." "Picture", the famous children's pillow of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Qianlong Qianlong Baiyu Tongyin Lady Tu Shanzi, who cleverly gained the work of the Qing Dynasty.

On the eve of the opening of the museum, Wu Zhihua, the curator of the Hong Kong Palace Museum, talked about the museum's strategy of the museum in an interview with "China News Weekly": "From the perspective of Hong Kong, use the vision of Hong Kong, combined with the global vision, exhibit the Palace Museum The treasures of other important cultural institutions in the world have pushed Chinese culture to the world. "Wu Zhihua has more than 30 years of museum work experience, participated in the creation and management of many Hong Kong museums, and became the first curator of the Forbidden City of Hong Kong. Deputy Director of Kangle and Cultural Affairs Department.

The first batch of special exhibitions for the first batch of carefully planned is quite meaning: the exhibition is mainly based on the cultural relics of the Palace Museum, as well as the European museum and local museum exhibits. At the same time, the special exhibitions of multimedia artists are also set up. The arrangements of the Forbidden City, Hong Kong, international, contemporary ... all the arrangements of this new museum hope to become.

Hong Kong Palace Museum of Culture Museum. Photography/Reporter Zhang Wei

Song Huizong, Luo Shenfu, and children's pillow

Although the name "Forbidden City" in the name, the Hong Kong Palace Museum Cultural Museum is not a branch of the Palace Museum, but an independent museum. Essence Wu Zhihua described the relationship between the two not only a strategic cooperation, but also the relationship between the "Brother's Pavilion".

The Hong Kong Palace Museum of Culture is affiliated to the West Kowloon Cultural Zone and was fully managed by the Board of Directors of the Hong Kong Palace Museum by the West Kowloon Cultural District Administration. The chairman of the board of directors is MP, and the vice chairman is Professor Li Chuofen, and Lou Wei, the vice president of the Palace Museum, is the member of the board of directors. The museum was built by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charity Trust Fund, and supported some of its annual large -scale exhibitions and education projects from 2023 to 2031.

The first appearance of the Hong Kong Forbidden City Cultural Museum, just as its name, has the absolute characteristics of the "Forbidden City". The Palace Museum borrowed 914 precious cultural relics from Beijing to Hong Kong Island, including 166 first -class cultural relics, which belonged to the "national treasure" level, accounting for 18 % of the total number of exhibits. The exhibition period ranges from one month to more than one year. Of the seven opening exhibitions, 5 items belonged to the Palace Museum Collection Exhibition, which are divided into the theme of the Forbidden City Architecture, the Palace Museum's collection of ceramics, the life of the court of the Qing Dynasty, the portrait of the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and the Palace Museum's collection of the calligraphy and painting and painting.

One of the special exhibitions, "Treasure of Guo Guo: The Palace Museum, Tibetan, Tang, Song, Yuan Yuan Painting and Calligraphy" is star -studded. The exhibition will exhibit 30 classic masterpieces in the history of Chinese calligraphy and painting. These masterpieces of the Jin, Tang, Song, and Yuan calendar are all national first -class cultural relics, including the "Luo Shen Fu Tu (Northern Song Dynasty)" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Tang Yu Shinan (Biography) "The Book of the Lanting Pavilion", the Five Dynasties Ruan Yan's "The Girls' Immortal Picture Volume", the Song Huizong's "Xuejiang Return to the Map Vol." Zhao Boju (Biography) "Jiangshan Autumn Color Map" and so on. The exhibition is divided into three exhibition periods and one month each. During the three -month exhibition, visitors can enjoy different top calligraphy and painting every month. After these calligraphy and paintings were exhibited in Hong Kong, they would return to the Palace Museum to enter the warehouse for many years.

More than 140 porcelain in the porcelain exhibition area also gathered rare national treasures. For example, the well -known Northern Song Dynasty kiln child pillow was loved by Emperor Qianlong and wrote a lot of poems for him. The 40 sets of Yongzheng twelve -colored chrysanthemum panels customized in the court of that year are now only one set, and this time it is also exhibited in Hong Kong. There are very few young Northern Song Ru kiln, less than 100 worldwide, there are 20 pieces of the Palace Museum, and 2 are borrowed.

On June 9, exhibits in the Wenbo Museum of the Forbidden City of Hong Kong. Picture/Xinhua

In addition to the long -term display of cultural relics of the Forbidden City, the connection between this modern museum and the Forbidden City is also reflected in the elements of the Forbidden City itself. For example, a ribbon -shaped hollow glass road is surrounded by the front door. Under the sun, it shows the color that is different from the ground -at a glance at a glance, it is a simulation of the Jinshuihe River of the Forbidden City. The main gate borrowed the shape of the red door panel of the Palace Gate of the Forbidden City, but the door nails were not made of brass, but crystals. The more vague and critical materials are the use of the axis layout of the Forbidden City. However, the Palace Museum in Hong Kong transfers the plane of the central axis into vertical penetration. The audience can penetrate the vertical space of the entire building along the layer of progressive central axis. The most important hub on the central axis is the open atrium space of different heights of the third floor -drawing on the function of the Zichashi City Plaza -the underlying atrium is the main entrance, the middle atrium window is facing the Hong Kong Island Skyrim, and the floor -to -ceiling windows of the high -rise atrium are facing Lantau. Each layer has different vision.

Hong Kong people are not unfamiliar with the Forbidden City. In recent years, various exchanges between the Palace Museum and Hong Kong are quite frequent. They have both cultural relics and exhibitions. They have also specially invited Hong Kong youths to go to the Forbidden City to participate in cultural activities. In 2012, the Palace Museum signed a cooperation agreement with the Kangle and Cultural Affairs Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. Since then, large -scale cultural relics exhibitions have been held in Hong Kong Island every year. In 2017, at the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the "Eight -generation Emperor's House -The Cultural Relics Exhibition of the Palace Museum" "Wanshou Zaide — the celebration of the Emperor Qing Palace" was exhibited in Hong Kong, attracting hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong citizens Visit with tourists.

It was in 2017 that the Palace Museum and the Hong Kong West Kowloon Cultural District Administration held the "Construction of the Hong Kong Palace Museum Cooperation Agreement". According to the content of the agreement, after the completion of the Hong Kong Palace Museum in the West Kowloon Cultural Zone in Hong Kong, it will continue to exhibit cultural relics and collections of the Palace Museum to enrich the cultural life of Hong Kong. On the basis of the agreement, the Forbidden City Museum launched the preparation of the exhibition in 2018, gathered first -class experts and scholars to form a raising team to cooperate with the Hong Kong Palace Museum's Exhibition Team.

Mo Jialiang, a member of the Board of Directors of the Hong Kong Palace Museum and the original director of the Department of Art of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, told China News Weekly that the shortcomings of the local museum in Hong Kong are mainly national treasure -level art collections. The precious collections of the museum just supplemented the deficiencies of the local museum, and also suddenly improved the quality of the exhibits of the local museum.

Mo Jialiang said that the collection of the Palace Museum in Hong Kong for a long time can strengthen the cultural identity of Hong Kong citizens and allow foreign people to better understand the cultural origin of Hong Kong. On the other hand, the development of the Forbidden City of Hong Kong can also benefit from the academic achievements of many experts in the Palace Museum, and the mutual exchanges between the Mainland and the Hong Kong Museum experts will also be enhanced. This is beneficial to the development of Hong Kong culture, especially about traditional Chinese culture and art.

He is particularly concerned about the high degree of academic academic academic in the Forbidden City of Hong Kong. He believes that in the face of high -level Forbidden City collections, the Forbidden City of Hong Kong should handle its exhibitions, catalogs, research, etc. with higher academic requirements. "In this case, the Hong Kong Forbidden City can have a high academic positioning, but also lead and enhance the public's ability to appreciate Chinese culture and art." Mo Jialiang told China News Weekly, "As a director of the Hong Kong Forbidden City Members of the bureau, I have always adhered to this academic policy, so will it be the same in the future. "

Not only is the Palace Museum, but the Forbidden City of Hong Kong also intends to cooperate with a broader mainland museum to present a broader Chinese culture. Wu Zhihua, the curator of the Hong Kong Palace Museum of Culture, revealed to China News Weekly that the museum is negotiating with Sichuan Province to borrow Sanxingdui cultural relics and plan to exhibit in Hong Kong next year.

Louvre, Metropolis, Multimedia

From the perspective of Wu Zhihua, the curator of the Palace Museum of Hong Kong, the position of the museum is a "linked museum". Not only to promote Chinese culture and art, but also to promote the conversation between world civilization.

Such a positioning makes the Hong Kong Palace Museum of Culture inherently have a double face: it is both traditional, cultural, China, but also contemporary, artistic, and world.

Among the 7 exhibitions exhibited, there are foreign celebrities -the "Gallow the World: Ma Cultural Art" exhibition among the 100 Palace Museum's cultural relics, and 13 exhibits borrowed from the Louvre of France. Wu Zhihua said that the next round of special exhibitions in the plan will include cultural relics collected by the Royal Family in Liechtenstein.

A year and a half ago, Wu Zhihua sent nearly 70 letters to well -known museums around the world to introduce this newborn partner to international colleagues. He said in a video speech that when the museum had not yet opened, he had determined a group of cooperation intentions, including the Indian art of the Metropolitan Museum, the treasures of the Vatican Museum, the princes and famous paintings of Liechtenstein, and the Italian Renaissance painting. In particular, he mentioned that Islamic art and culture have not exhibited in Hong Kong for a long time, and the Hong Kong Forbidden City will fill this part. They have negotiated with Turkey. In the near future, they are expected to see the Islamic art of the Toca Royal Palace in the Ottoman Empire in Hong Kong.

As a newly born museum in the 21st century, and is located in a place where Chinese and Western cultures are blended with Chinese and Western culture, Wu Zhihua hopes that the Hong Kong Forbidden City will become a real and open international perspective. He put forward the concept of "looking at the world", and looked at human civilization with a vision rather than the western center. Such as the two river basins, India, Central Asia, and Islamic culture, they should be included in the field of vision. "Hong Kong is backed by the motherland and faces the world. Therefore, it is also reasonable to position the Hong Kong Forbidden City as a modern museum with an international perspective." It will become a major advantage of the Forbidden City of Hong Kong. For example, it may be more able to provide the elaboration and analysis of bilingual Chinese and English for the collection of the Palace Museum, and enhance the ability of Chinese and foreign people to appreciate and analyze the collection of the Forbidden City.

"The so -called linked museum ', the word' connection 'has multiple meanings here -successive ancient and modern, to enhance the interoperability through digital technology, strengthen the connection with the Mainland museums and audiences, and promote the exchanges between Chinese culture and global audiences. Wu Zhihua told China News Weekly.

Of course, the connection between the four -way Octopus also includes the connection with the local. The birth of the Forbidden City of Hong Kong will change the industry pattern of the Hong Kong Island Museum.

The development of the Hong Kong Museum industry has always been quite distinctive. In addition to public and private museums, there are also university museums, with many types, covering different fields such as history, culture, and art. As soon as the Hong Kong Forbidden City was born, it was integrated in the Hong Kong Island Museum Group and cooperated closely with a number of local museums. A number of museums and art museums such as the University of Hong Kong's Art Museum, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Art Museum, and the Hong Kong Maritime Museum have borrowed cultural relics, and the exhibits are exhibited in an exhibition.

This exhibition is "Together with the History of Hong Kong Collection", which will be the first large -scale exhibition to review the history of Hong Kong collection. Through more than 100 exhibits, it tells a century of art collection activities in Hong Kong. At the same time, it outlines the local museum. Development trajectory. Wu Zhihua said that this specially planned special exhibition will lead the audience to revisit the development period of the Hong Kong Public Museum before and after the "World War II". Exhibits include the University of Hong Kong's Fengpingshan Museum (now the University of Hong Kong Art Museum) and the Hall of Fine Arts (Hong Kong Art Museum (Hong Kong Art Museum) Previous) Early collections of the Cultural Museum of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

The latest museum left the booth for the oldest museums. This arrangement contains a strong regional atmosphere, emphasizing the "Hong Kong" side of the Hong Kong Palace Museum.

In terms of audience experience, this new museum also has many innovations. The Forbidden City of Hong Kong has displayed the treasures of the Palace Museum with a new curatorial approach and combined with new technology and new media. There are 53 multimedia exhibitions in each exhibition hall, interpreting the cultural and cultural relics of the Forbidden City through films, sounds, and interactive devices. The curatorial people hope that these forms of art and technology can create a creative immersion environment for audiences. One of the exhibitions "Ancient and Modern Union: Re -Interpretation of the Forbidden City Culture" specially invited guest curators to re -interpret and interpret the Palace Museum culture from the perspective of Hong Kong.

When "China News Weekly" asked Wu Zhihua's most hoped to recommend to the audience, he said proudly: "I believe it must be endless one day." He suggested that local audiences can become members of the "Friends of the Forbidden City in Hong Kong" members , Free visit throughout the year, "Visit at any time, slowly taste."

Send 2022.6.27 Total Issue 1049 "China News Weekly"

Magazine title: What kind of "Forbidden City" is going to build in Hong Kong?

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