To welcome the first Spring Festival after the successful application for World Heritage status, the Shenyang Palace Museum has launched the "Family and Country in Spring - Shenyang Palace Museum Festival Cultural Special Exhibition", showcasing nearly 70 sets of cultural relics and treasures from the museum's collection. Through themes such as bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new, praying for good fortune, reunion and beauty, the exhibition takes visitors to experience the customs of the Qing Dynasty court. The Spring Festival, formerly known as "New Year's Day" or "New Year's Day", is a time when people bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Through various auspicious activities, people pray for a happy and prosperous new year. During the Qing Dynasty, before and after the Spring Festival, activities such as sacrificial ceremonies, rituals, entertainment banquets, and awards would be held as usual, such as winter solstice worship and New Year's greetings. Lin Chengzhao, a staff member of the Exhibition and Communication Department of the Shenyang Palace Museum, said that at the end and beginning of each year, the Qing Dynasty court would add festive atmosphere through representative customs such as writing blessings and welcoming good fortune, holding New Year's banquets, copying scriptures and praying for blessings. The Spring Festival is the most concentrated time of the year for various folk activities. From the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, hanging door gods and couplets, setting up annual offerings, and writing spring posts... The Qing Palace celebrates the New Year through various customs and activities. In the exhibition, cultural relics such as "Qing Wawa Door God", "Qing Qianlong Pink Double Phoenix Ears Hundred Deer Zun", and "Qing Pink Big Fortune Gourd Wall Bottle" present beautiful scenes of praying for blessings and good fortune in the palace during the Spring Festival. Lin Chengzhao introduced that the Spring Post is a poem submitted by a courtier in the palace to the emperor on the day of the Beginning of Spring, mostly consisting of five or seven character quatrains. In addition to the courtiers, the emperor himself also wrote spring poems during the Qing Dynasty, and the number of poems written by Emperor Qianlong was particularly considerable. The five character and seven character poems on the "Qing Dong Bangda Calligraphy and Painting Imperial Collection of Ji Chou Spring Post Scroll" exhibited this time were inscribed by Emperor Qianlong for the "Sui Chao Tu" in the year of Ji Chou (1769), expressing his wishes and blessings for the Chinese New Year. (New Society)