For a long time in the past, foreign art galleries were more interested in China culture. Now, a truly spectacular exhibition of China's ancient cultural relics will finally shake the hearts of the whole world-the China Cultural Relics Exhibition with the theme of "Towards the Prosperous Tang Dynasty" will be officially opened to the public at the Metropolitan Museum of New York on 10 local time.
In the words of the Metropolitan Museum, this will no longer be a simple archaeology, but a search and review for the world to truly capture the essence of China's ancient history and culture from these amazing cultural relics. This is the most important exhibition of China's ancient cultural relics in the past decade.
In fact, the China Antiquities Exhibition has been open to members of the Metropolitan Museum since June 45438+00, and it has received unexpected praise. More than 350 exhibits in the exhibition are all from China, some of which are precious cultural relics just unearthed last year. Experts from the Metropolitan Museum of China and National Cultural Heritage Administration have been planning this exhibition for more than seven years. More than 350 exhibits are mainly ancient cultural relics from the late Eastern Han Dynasty to the early Tang Dynasty, ranging from pottery, Buddha sculpture and utensils to calligraphy, jewelry, textiles and even funerary objects.
In order to highlight the importance of the exhibition, the Metropolitan Museum specially placed an Apollo statue at the entrance and exit of the exhibition. Although this is somewhat abrupt compared with the culture of China, the organizers have taken strict precautions against it. Most of China's ancient cultural relics in the exhibition are not prominent in size, but their exquisite production and elegant shapes have amazed everyone who visits and previews.
Most of the exhibits are made of pure gold and carefully carved by ancient craftsmen in China. Others include wheelbarrows, clothes hangers, lamps, masks and so on, which are rich in ancient China culture. Even the Metropolitan Hall, where no exhibits have ever been displayed, has specially placed an exorcism stone of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which is about 2.93 meters long and 1.90 meters high, with a red ribbon tied around its neck, also brought by China, to symbolize good luck.
"When everything is deeply buried in the ground by the dust of history, we hope that what happened in that eastern land 1500 years ago can be told by these' personal experience' objects." With a strong oriental complex, Montebello, curator of the Metropolitan Museum, expressed their original intention of holding this exhibition. "We strive to tell this history accurately, or at least achieve such a goal: not simply piling up, but realizing a' witness' of a period of history." This is a feeling that foreign friends like Montebello are looking forward to learning about the history of China. The ancient cultural relics exhibited in this exhibition "Towards the Prosperous Tang Dynasty" come from 47 museums and cultural relics collection units all over the country, covering the extraordinary history of Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties from 200 to 750, connecting two prosperous and civilized times in China.
Judging from the preview in the past few days, people who are familiar with examining China's ancient cultural relics with archaeological eyes generally praise such an exhibition form with historical accumulation. Among all the exhibits, the most concerned is the sculpture with the theme of China soldiers riding war horses and chariots, and a group of bronze figures with realistic expressions two feet high. Both were found in an ancient tomb of the Han Dynasty.