The Sculpture Museum of the Palace Museum opened on the 30th, displaying more than 15000 pieces (groups) of cultural relics in a warehouse style. This is the first time since the establishment of the Palace Museum to hold a special cultural relics exhibition of engraving.
On October 30, guests unveiled the Sculpture Museum of the Palace Museum. Photographed by Shi Chunyang
The Sculpture Museum is located in the southeast Chonglou and the Imperial Court in the Taihe Gate, where the exhibition of Qing Dynasty imperial engraving relics in the Palace Museum is held. The exhibition is a fruitful display of the collation and research of the engraving cultural relics in the Palace Museum, focusing on 32 representative cultural relics. From the three aspects of national politics, culture, education, and technology, it interprets the imperial engraving of the Qing Dynasty in the context of the history of Chinese classics, printing history, and the imperial history of the Qing Dynasty, and excavates the historical information contained in the engraving cultural relics, Give play to its special role in philology.
Among them, the engraving of "Regent's Decree" carved in May of the first year of Shunzhi's reign in the imperial palace of the Qing Dynasty is a rare copy used to print government documents; The exhibition shows engraving plates, archives and printed materials together to support each other, which is an important physical basis for the early printing activities of the Qing Dynasty's internal government, and plays an important role in rectifying the imperial agenda and stabilizing the state politics.
"Thirty six Scenery Poems of the Summer Resort", two volumes, is a printed copy of the Zhu ink set engraved by the government in the fifty second year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty. The painting circle is neat, the scenery is bright, and the engraving is meticulous. It is extremely exquisite. It is the best of the landscape prints in the Qing Dynasty.
The Imperial Annals of the Imperial College in the 14th year of the reign of Emperor Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty is not only the best edition of the Imperial College, but also the largest and longest woodcut edition in the Palace Museum.
According to reports, the Palace Museum has collected more than 210000 internal government engravings from the Ming Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty. The contents include a subset of the classics and history, government documents, etc. The languages include Han, Manchu, Mongolian, and Tibetan, which are characterized by different formats, dignified fonts, beautiful images, and exquisite carving.
The exhibition will be open to the public from October 31. (Source: China News Service Reporter Ying Ni)
