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Over 200 sets of cultural relics, nearly 90% of which made their debut at the Dragon Year New Year Cultural Exhibition launched by the National Museum

2024-02-06   

The National Museum of China has carefully selected over 200 cultural relics from its collection to launch the "Dragon Zhao New Year - Jiachen Dragon Year Spring Festival Cultural Exhibition", which will officially open to the public on the 6th. Nearly 90% of the cultural relics will be unveiled for the first time. The Hongshan Culture Jade Dragon is located at position C of the "Jiachen Dragon Year New Year Cultural Exhibition". On the 5th, a reporter from the National Museum of China saw at the exhibition that the Neolithic Hongshan Culture Jade Dragon, known as the "First Dragon of China", appeared at position C. The jade dragon is carved from dark green Xiuyan jade, with a smooth and clean body, a long kiss on the head to trim the eyes, a mane flying, and a body curled up like a hook. The design is vivid and exquisitely carved. Yulong, unearthed in Saiqin Tara, Wengniute Banner, Inner Mongolia, is one of the earliest discovered dragon images in China, providing important material information for studying the primitive form of dragons. The Shang Dynasty carved divination bones with the character "dragon" in oracle bone inscriptions. The National Museum of China also exhibited a Shang Dynasty carved divination bone at the site of the supply, on which the "dragon" was a pictographic character. The character "dragon" in oracle bone inscriptions during the Shang Dynasty was mostly placed vertically with the head up and the tail down. The dragon horn is used as a hammer and has teeth in its mouth. Although this oracle bone inscription is incomplete, experts speculate that it may be related to the Tulong praying for rain. On site of the Dragon Zhao New Year - Jiachen Dragon Year Spring Festival Cultural Exhibition. The statue of Fuxi and N ü wa provided by the National Museum of China brings the audience to ancient Chinese mythology, where Fuxi and N ü wa are often described as having a human faced dragon body or a human faced snake body. Most scholars believe that 7800 years ago, the Fuxi clan was merged and merged from the "snake totem" to the "dragon totem". Scholar Wen Yiduo pointed out in his "Fuxi Kao": "The dragon totem is not limited to its parts resembling horses, dogs, fish, birds, or deer. Its main body and basic form are all snakes. This indicates that in the era when many totem units were abundant, the snake totem was the most powerful. The merger and melting of these totems was the result of the merger and assimilation of many weak units by the snake totem." On site of the Dragon Zhao New Year - Jiachen Dragon Year Spring Festival Cultural Exhibition. The National Museum of China has selected over 200 pieces (sets) of cultural relics from its collection for exhibition, covering a wide range of time and types. Viewers can appreciate precious cultural relics from the Neolithic period to the early 20th century, with exhibits including various forms such as bronze, jade, porcelain, gold and silver, lacquerware, and painting. Among them, there are both the simple and naive Hongshan Jade Dragon, as well as the intricately arranged and magnificent Warring States Dragon and Tiger patterned Double Ear Plate; There are both cleverly designed and exquisitely shaped Tang Dynasty double dragon ear vases, as well as representative Qing Dynasty palace furniture works such as sea, water, cloud, and dragon patterned hardwood screens. On site of the Dragon Zhao New Year - Jiachen Dragon Year Spring Festival Cultural Exhibition. The exhibition provided by the National Museum of China focuses on the beauty of cultural relics, showcasing the beautiful meaning and cultural connotations of dragon patterns. Zhuge Yingliang, Deputy Researcher and Curator of the Research Institute of the National Museum of China, stated that in the long history, the image of dragon patterns has been continuously integrated and added, from the abstract original form to the concrete animal like form, from simple and naive to complex spiritual combinations. Its development and evolution reflect different styles of different periods

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