Director of the Forbidden City of Hong Kong: The development of Chinese cultural undertakings is not only regional, but also needs to be displayed in detail to the world

[Global Times Reporter Zhao Jueyu Lou Kang] Facing Victoria Harbor, shaped like ancient Ding, the Hong Kong Palace Museum in the West Kowloon Cultural District is another "new landmark" in Hong Kong. A gift. Wu Zhihua, the curator of the Hong Kong Palace Museum, recently described the positioning of the museum in a video interview with the Global Times reporter: it will be based on Chinese culture, the Forbidden City culture, and into the elements of Hong Kong. Essence

Wu Zhihua, the director of the Hong Kong Palace Museum of Cultural Museum, from the Hong Kong Palace Museum of Culture

This museum that has been preparing for many years has held the opening ceremony on the 22nd of this month and will be officially opened to the public on July 2. At that time, 914 precious cultural relics from the Beijing Palace Museum will be unveiled with the Hong Kong Palace Museum at the opening exhibition. Among them, 166 first -class cultural relics.

The Palace Museum, which has a history of more than 600 years, is a gathering place for 5000 years of civilization in China. Most of the cultural relics exhibited at the opening exhibition of the Hong Kong Palace Museum of the Hong Kong Palace Museum are borrowed from the Palace Museum, but this does not mean that the two are "headquarters" and "" "Branch" relationship. As the third "Forbidden City" after the mainland and Taiwan, the Hong Kong Palace Museum has a unique role and mission. "There is a very important concept of the Forbidden City of Hong Kong -connection." Wu Zhihua explained to the Global Times reporter that the Hong Kong Forbidden City connects cultural relics to the lives of modern people and audiences around the world. He said that the Forbidden City of Hong Kong is located in the most modern places in the SAR and shows the oldest culture of China. The museum hopes to let the audience see the traditional culture of 5000 years and the development of the Hong Kong metropolis.

Former Deputy Director of the SARC, who has been engaged in the Wenbo work for more than 30 years, told reporters, "We need to fully understand our own history, and hope that the audience will be Chinese, through real cultural relics, understand our past, present, and future. "". Wu Zhihua hopes to bring a more emotional and understanding of national emotions through the way of storytelling. "Behind these cultural relics is the ethical value of our Chinese nation, and it is the soul of our nation."

Wu Zhihua recalled that Hong Kong had been ruled by colonial for more than 100 years, and did not start to understand and educate Chinese history and culture until returning to the motherland. He said that after this period, he had experienced some difficulties, but after the implementation of the "Patriotic Governing Hong Kong" and the transformation of the entire social environment, people could let go to promote these education, especially for young people.

The Hong Kong Palace Museum of Culture does not simply "move" the Forbidden City of Beijing to the Port of Victoria. Wu Zhihua attaches great importance to the concepts of "present" and "local". Therefore, the museum has incorporated a large number of Hong Kong elements from the design to the exhibition. Many people notice that although the design is incorporated into a large number of Forbidden City elements, it is not traditional red wall and yellow tiles. The outer wall uses more modern decorations such as decorative aluminum plates and glass curtain walls.

"Chinese culture is not a single concept, and different regions have diverse expressions." Wu Zhihua told the Global Times reporter that the Hong Kong Palace Museum hopes to gradually integrate into the Palace Museum's culture in Hong Kong culture. The development and progress of Chinese culture has contributed. Wu Zhihua said that Wang Xudong, dean of the Palace Museum, recently visited the Forbidden City of Hong Kong that some new technologies and expression methods in the exhibition are different from that of the Palace Museum, which can learn from each other.

The "connection" of the Hong Kong Palace Museum of Culture also contains the idea of ​​conversation and exchanges between different cultural dialogues. The "Fourteenth Five -Year Plan" proposed that Hong Kong supports the development of Chinese and foreign culture and art exchange centers. Wu Zhihua said that the development of Chinese cultural undertakings is not only regional, but also needs to be displayed in detail in the world. The Hong Kong Palace Museum of Culture hopes to promote communication and dialogue between people, between countries, regions, and regions.

Hong Kong is an international city. The team of the Cultural Museum of the Palace Museum of Hong Kong is also an international team. This makes the museums expected to become a new platform for promoting cultural dialogue and exchanges. Next to the museum is the M+of the Contemporary Visual Culture Museum that opened at the end of 2021. In Wu Zhihua's words, the former lets the world see China, the latter looks at the world from China, and can cooperate with each other.

Wu Zhihua said that the Forbidden City has a very rich and important cultural resources. The future focus of the Hong Kong Palace Museum of the Palace Museum will also be the Palace Museum culture, but the proportion of exhibits in the Forbidden City may be reduced, increasing other Chinese culture and world culture. For example, the museum hopes to carry out some projects in the future and use historical explanation of Chinese civilization to develop through exchanges, rather than solve contradictions through unilateralism or war.

On the 14th of this month, the first four fourteen tickets of the Hong Kong Palace Museum began to be released publicly online, and more than 60 % of them have been sold. Wu Zhihua told reporters that this shows that Hong Kong society has a lot of expectations for the museum. "Hong Kong citizens' love for Chinese culture may not be fully expressed in the past, lacking a good platform, which proves that there are many things we can do."

Pictures of the Hong Kong Palace Museum from the Cultural Museum of the Palace Museum of Hong Kong

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