China Youth Daily Client News (China Youth Daily, China Youth Network reporter Jiang Xiaobin) "Zhong Ming Shengshi: The Forbidden City and Chengde Summer Resort Tibetan Clocks and Watches Joint Exhibition", opened to the public at the Palace Museum on January 26. The exhibition venue, the Exhibition Hall of the East Hall of the Qianqing Palace, was once the self-chiming bell of the Qing Palace in history.
The exhibition selects the representative clock collections of the Palace Museum and the Chengde Mountain Resort Museum, and exhibits them together, of which 40 clocks and watches are exhibited by the Palace Museum and 20 clocks and watches are exhibited by the Chengde Summer Resort Museum. The crisp bells meet here through time and space, playing a chapter of the bell's prosperity.
The clocks and watches of the Chengde Mountain Resort Museum exhibited this time are the most important parts of the museum's collection, which moved south with cultural relics in the 1930s and 1940s, and was transported back to Chengde from Nanjing in 1956, which was the first time to walk out of the summer resort with an overall appearance.
The production age of these clocks continued from the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century, covering not only the works of famous artists in Western countries such as Britain, France, switzerland, etc., but also the domestic products of the Qing Palace, Guangzhou, Suzhou and other places. The exhibition also specially exhibits 10 pairs of clocks and watches collected by the two museums on the same stage, so that the audience can not only appreciate the colorful clocks of different periods, different cultures and different regions, but also fully understand the status of the Qing Dynasty court clock collection and furnishings, and perceive the trajectory of the development and change of the Qing Dynasty court concept of time.
Clocks and watches are a very special and precious category in the rich collection of the Qing Dynasty court. The Forbidden City's collection of clocks and watches occupies an important position in the world's watch collection. As the center of politics and court life in the Qing Dynasty, the Forbidden City and the Summer Resort have historically collected a large number of self-chiming clocks, which are of the same origin and inseparable from each other.
The exhibition is jointly sponsored by the Palace Museum and the Chengde Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics, and supported by FAW Hongqi. According to the needs of epidemic prevention and control, the exhibition implements reservation admission, with a daily limit of 1,000 people, until the quota is full.
The exhibition will run until May 8. After the exhibition, some of the exhibits will continue to be exhibited at the Chengde Mountain Resort Museum.
Source: China Youth Daily client