2020 is coming. It is 600 years since the completion of the Forbidden City and the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Palace Museum. What activities will the Palace Museum, which has long been surrounded by countless people, hold this year?
On December 30, 2019, the Palace Museum announced the key activities of "commemorating the 600 years since the completion of the Forbidden City and the 95th anniversary of the establishment of the Palace Museum".
There are many heavy exhibitions
In 2020, the Palace Museum will hold a series of high-quality exhibitions, covering topics such as ancient architecture, special calligraphy and painting, ancient artifacts, Chinese and foreign civilization and so on.
Among them, 'the 600 year exhibition of the completion of the Forbidden City' takes more than 20 key years in the time axis in the past 600 years as the base point to introduce the changes in the city in the past 600 years through key events such as the repair, transformation and protection of the Forbidden City.
"Past life - ancient figure painting exhibition of the National Palace Museum" will select the excellent works of the National Palace Museum to show the development of figure painting from the Eastern Jin, southern and Northern Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is reported that the famous painting "Han Xizai's banquet picture" will appear in the exhibition.
'eternal romantic figures -- Su Shi's theme calligraphy and painting special exhibition' will show Su Shi's artistic attainments and personality style, and its influence on future generations.
The "Ceramic Museum" reopened in the Wuying hall, taking the development history of Chinese ceramics as the key link, showing the continuous development process of Chinese ceramics for 8000 years. After the reform, the number of cultural relics increased from 400 to 1000.
In addition, 'China and Versailles' will also be unveiled in 2020. Based on the large-scale exhibition "China in the palace of Versailles / Art and diplomacy in the 18th century" held in Versailles in 2014, combined with the exquisite cultural relics brought by French courts, missionaries and envoys collected in the Palace Museum, the exhibition restores a fuller and more comprehensive cultural and artistic spectacle of China and France in the 18th century.
The Forbidden City is going to make a TV play
The reporter noted that in addition to a series of heavy exhibitions, cultural products will also appear in 2020.
For example, the National Palace Museum will design the commemorative signs of the 600 year anniversary of the completion of the Forbidden City and issue commemorative vouchers, commemorative coins and special stamps.
The production of the third season of the cultural quarterly program "Shangxin & middot; Forbidden City", which has attracted much attention before, will also be started in 2020. The production of TV documentary "Forbidden City" and large-scale epic drama "Forbidden City" will also be started one after another.
In addition, the Forbidden City is going to make a TV play. According to the relevant introduction, the production of the TV series "the Forbidden City is like a dream" will also be started in 2020.
Academic research has also made progress
In addition to key activities for the public, the palace museum also has new academic plans.
In 2020, the Palace Museum will hold a symposium to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the completion of the Forbidden City and the 95th anniversary of the establishment of the Palace Museum, and the fifth Taihe middot; A series of academic seminars focusing on the world Forum on the protection of ancient civilizations, the 600 year old Forbidden City and the International Academic Forum on the history of China's Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the international society for the protection and restoration of cultural relics (IIC) - 2020 International Symposium on the protection of ancient buildings of the National Palace Museum.
At the same time, the publication project of the centennial of the Palace Museum will be launched, and academic catalogues such as the complete collection of Su Dongpo's calligraphy, the past life - ancient figure paintings collected by the Palace Museum, the New Year greeting - the new year exhibition in the Forbidden City, and the exhibition catalogue of the 600 year old forbidden city will also be published.
The Palace Museum will also commend a group of "Palace Museum people" who have made outstanding contributions to the Palace Museum and reward those who have made outstanding achievements. (end) return to Sohu to view more