Today is the "little year" in the north! Are sweeping, sacrificing stoves, and eating meat all arranged?
The "Little Year" has arrived, and the New Year is even closer to us. In order to welcome the Year of the Tiger, museums have launched "Tiger" theme exhibitions to create a Spring Festival atmosphere, convey New Year blessings, and also let people have a comprehensive understanding of the "big cat" that everyone loves from nature to culture.
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National Museum
Tiggo You'an - 2022 Chinese New Year Exhibition
The exhibits in the collection exhibited in this exhibition from the Shang Dynasty to the beginning of the 21st century include noble utensils with brilliant gold and jade and fine craftsmanship, as well as the remains of coarse pottery and gray tiles, simple and lovely city wells, with rich categories, reflecting the long-standing and endless tiger culture of the Chinese nation from all aspects of culture. More than 70% of the exhibits are exhibited for the first time, showing the charm of cultural relics and art, while presenting the latest preservation and research results of the museum, realizing the desire to make historical relics come alive and enrich the cultural life of the masses.
Bronze tiger hammer
Folded shoulder jar belly, shaped like a teapot, the top is decorated with tiger stripes, and the lid is topped with a tiger body dragon tail beast, the overall shape is dignified and elegant, and the ornamentation is exquisite. Because its flow pipe is in the shape of a crouching tiger, the top cover is cast with the inscription "self-made offering", so it is called a tiger lock. According to experts, it is likely to be a ceremonial instrument used in ritual ceremonies. The ancients of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties attached importance to sacrifice, and the ritual vessels of the tiger image carried important religious significance.
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Liaoning Provincial Museum
Tiger Tiger Shengwei - Nongyin Tiger Year New Year Zodiac Cultural Relics Exhibition
Since the beginning of the Year of Yi Weiyang, the Liaoning Provincial Museum has launched an exhibition of zodiac cultural relics every year on the eve of the Spring Festival, and it has been eight years now. This year coincides with the Year of the Tiger, about the tiger, people have woven many moving stories and legends in the inheritance of the past generations, forming a variety of zodiac customs and very distinctive tiger culture, leaving a wealth of cultural relics. On the occasion of the Spring Festival, the Liaoning Provincial Museum selects more than 100 cultural relics related to tigers, including paintings, bronzes, jades, ceramics, gold and silver, embroidery, currency and other categories of tiger culture themes from the Shang Dynasty to modern times, and presents this exhibition to the audience together with the relevant exhibits provided by the Liaoning Provincial Cultural Heritage Protection Center, so that the audience can more intuitively feel the majesty and bravery of the tiger and feel the profundity of Chinese culture.
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Zhejiang Natural History Museum
Tiger In the Year of the Tiger - Chinese New Year Exhibition
"Tiger In the Year of the Tiger - Chinese New Year Exhibition" is one of the series of zodiac exhibitions launched by the Zhejiang Museum of Natural History. The exhibition mainly exhibits 16 specimens of felines such as Siberian tiger, South China tiger, Southeast Asian tiger, clouded leopard, snow leopard, rabbit and so on, as well as 3 fossils of paleontological organisms such as saber-toothed tiger and giant chin tiger, and systematically introduces the feline family.
In the tiger culture section, the exhibition also exhibits a variety of interesting folk daily necessities, such as tiger pillows, tiger hats, tiger head shoes, etc., behind these daily life artifacts, but also contains people's good wishes for tiger happiness and childlike fun.
Unit 1: "Tigers and Nature". From the five aspects of tiger origin, tiger morphological characteristics, tiger species, tiger habits and tiger ecological role, the exhibition systematically introduces tigers and their cat families through graphic display boards, specimens, scenes and multimedia. A total of 16 cat specimens such as The Siberian Tiger, the South China Tiger, the Southeast Asian Tiger, the Clouded Leopard, the Snow Leopard, and the Rabbit Are exhibited, as well as 3 paleontological fossils such as the saber-toothed tiger and the giant chin tiger.
Unit 2: "Tigers and Humans". From the three units of "Human-Tiger Conflict", "Endangered" and "Walking with Tigers", the exhibition shows the changes in the relationship between humans and tigers over thousands of years, the survival of tigers in the wild and the relevant measures introduced by humans in protecting tigers through graphic display boards, three-dimensional characters, multimedia and physical objects.
Unit 3: "Tigers and Culture". The exhibition covers from the story of the tiger in the Chinese zodiac to the dragon and tiger relics of the majestic tiger, from the weiyi tiger representing state power to the folk tiger of folk daily life, from the religious tiger belief to the tiger worship of ethnic minorities, through multimedia, graphic display boards, interactive installations, and a variety of interesting folk daily necessities, such as tiger head shoes, tiger head hats, cloth tigers and other physical objects, showing the colorful tiger image and the unique connotation of Chinese "tiger culture".
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Ningbo Museum
Tiger Tiger Shengfu - a group exhibition of cultural relics and pictures of the New Year of the Tiger in the Year of the Tiger
Since January 21, the Ningbo Museum, together with the Yunnan Provincial Museum, the Jingzhou Museum and the Ningbo County And Urban Museums, launched the "Tiger and Tiger Shengfu - Joint Exhibition of Cultural Relics and Pictures of the Chinese New Year of the Tiger". This exhibition brings together more than 130 precious tiger cultural relics from various museums, including many rare national first- and second-class cultural relics, with rich pictures and text materials, which are exhibited at the Same Time in Ningbo Museum and Ningbo Bang Museum.
Bronze Tiger Zun
The Bronze Tiger Zun from the Jingzhou Museum is one of the representative works of bronze heavy objects in the southern region of the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the upright tiger body is decorated with phoenix and tiger stripes. The vivid shape and bold style highlight the aesthetic characteristics of Jingchu culture, and the tiger zun was excavated from the silt layer of rivers and lakes, and there is no trace of long-term use, which should be used to sacrifice rivers, lakes, mountains and rivers. This also shows Chinese respect for tigers.
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Yangzhou Museum
Tiger Tiger Shengwei - Yangzhou Museum Year of the Tiger Zodiac Art Exhibition
Tiger tiger born Weiner auspicious, peaceful and joyful and healthy. On the occasion of retiring the old and welcoming the new, yangzhou museum specially held the "Tiger Tiger Shengwei - Yangzhou Museum Tiger Year Zodiac Art Exhibition", a total of 55 pieces (sets) of exhibits, including 29 pieces (sets) of cultural relics from 5 cultural institutions and 26 pieces (sets) of folk exhibits such as embroidery and clay sculptures.
Contemporary Jia Wenzhong", "The Year of the Tiger"
Originated in the Jiadao period of the Qing Dynasty, prospered in the early republic of China, mainly using the means of transmission, interpretation, inscription and other means, the original gold and stone contained in the quaint and profound presentation of the paper, is the peak of the development of Chinese rubbing technology, is a collection of epigraphy, archaeology, aesthetics Trinity of high-level art category, with its unique charm to stand in the forest of today's art. Exquisite rice paper, thick and light changes in ink color, and elegant inscriptions have created a perfect artistic life with high artistic and collection value.
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Shanghai Museum
The Year of the Tiger Smile - The Spring Festival Exhibition of the Year of the Tiger in China and Japan
Since ancient times, China has been the habitat and cultural homeland of tigers, and has also left behind a wealth of archaeological remains, documentary records, myths and legends related to tigers. In the long history of inheritance, Chinese tiger culture has also spread to Japan. In order to welcome the Year of the Tiger and the 50th anniversary of the normalization of Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations, the Shanghai Museum and the National Museum of Kyushu in Japan jointly held the "Year of the Tiger - Spring Festival Exhibition of the Year of the Tiger in China and Japan".
A total of 10 cultural relics (including online exhibits) are exhibited in this exhibition, including 6 fine cultural relics selected by the museum and 4 exchange artifacts from the Kyushu National Museum in Japan. The exhibition is free to the public from 18 January and runs until 27 February 2022.
Jin Dynasty yellow ground black color goose reed pattern tiger pillow
The Reed Tiger Pillow of the Golden Age Yellow Ground Black Colored Goose Is Crouching Tiger Shaped, with a pillow surface on the back, and the front is low and the back is high. The tiger body is first applied with white makeup soil, and then covered with yellow color, the yellow color depicts the tiger spot in black color, the pillow surface is not applied yellow color, and the white ground is painted with black color on the goose reed pattern, and the brushwork is vivid and lively. Tiger pillow has the meaning of auspiciousness and ward off evil spirits, ceramic tiger pillow is a very distinctive living tool prevalent in the Jin Dynasty, roughly white land and yellow land, the main production area is in Shanxi, Henan area. Judging from archaeological excavations, its use range is concentrated in the Yellow River Basin.
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Nantong Museum
Yinhu Nafu - Nantong Museum Garden Tiger Year Zodiac Cultural Exhibition
Nantong Museum has selected more than 80 cultural relics and 5 specimens from the collection, in order to show the natural attributes of tigers at the same time, show the branding of "tigers" in people's spiritual culture, customs, clothing, food, housing and travel, hoping that the audience can understand and feel the origin and meaning of zodiac culture while tasting the strong Taste of the Year, touch the psychological pursuit and aesthetic taste of the ancients, and increase the responsibility of cultural inheritance.
Zhang Shanxiao set up a color tiger standing
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Guangdong Mobile Museum
FuHu Add Wings - Shiwan Ceramic Sculpture Tiger Year Zodiac Cultural Exhibition
In 2022, coinciding with the Year of the Tiger, the "Fuhu Add Wings - Shiwan Pottery sculpture Tiger Year Zodiac Cultural Exhibition" jointly sponsored by guangdong Mobile Museum and Guangdong Shiwan Ceramics Museum will be exhibited in Leizhou City Museum, Zhaoqing City Museum, Heyuan City Museum, Yingde County Museum, Guangzhou Conghua District Museum, this exhibition is based on the axis of time, from primitive society to modern society, combined with Shiwan tiger pottery sculpture, pictures, texts to tell those things about tigers.
The exhibition is divided into three parts. The first part, "The Year of the Tiger Speaks of the Tiger", introduces the origin, characteristics and current status of the tiger through the vivid and vivid tiger pottery sculptures found in archaeology; the second part, "The Tiger is the Zodiac", through the documents and archaeological excavations, introduces the origin of the zodiac and the totem worship symbolized by the tiger zodiac; the third part, "The Elegant Customs of the Tiger", through the initial contact between man and the tiger, to the hatred and love for the tiger, and then to the tiger as the omnipotent mountain god and the ancestor of man, showing the sacrifice of the tiger in ancient times. It vividly shows the auspicious meaning of the tiger and the penetrating application of folk art.