In 2021, under the guidance of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the Sichuan Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics and the Chengdu Municipal People's Government, sponsored by the China Cultural Relics Exchange Center, the Propaganda Department of the Chengdu Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Chengdu Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Tourism, and undertaken by the Wuhou Ci Museum in Chengdu, the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms Exhibition" brought together more than 160 pieces (sets) of fine cultural relics from 18 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China and 36 cultural and museum units, and through the two major sections of "The Age of Heroes" and "Eternal Three Kingdoms", comprehensively displayed the history of the three countries and the cultural origins of the three countries, telling the story of the rich Chinese style. A contemporary Romance of the Three Kingdoms with a Chengdu flavor. During the exhibition, 1,416,160 visitors were received throughout the exhibition, which triggered a heated discussion. At the beginning of 2022, the "Great Three Kingdoms Chronicle Exhibition" won several awards.
■ "2021 China Museum Art Museum Poster Design Annual Promotion Activity" Annual Top Ten Works Award
On January 24, 2022, the results of the "2021 Annual Promotion Activity for poster design of china museums and art galleries" guided by the China Cultural Relics Exchange Center and sponsored by museum headlines were announced, and the poster of the "Great Three Kingdoms Exhibition" submitted by the Wuhou Ci Museum in Chengdu won the annual top ten works award.
The event comprehensively demonstrated the visual achievements of Chinese museums, art galleries and related cultural and art institutions in 2021 in poster design, with a total of 311 groups of posters participating in the annual promotion exhibition, more than 30,000 people participating in the pre-voting and commenting online, and hundreds of experts voting and judging. After the voting of the masses and industry experts, the poster of the "Great Three Kingdoms History Exhibition" stood out in the selection of layers and ranked among the top ten.
The main visual poster of the "Great Three Kingdoms Exhibition"
The "Three Kingdoms Exhibition" series of posters is divided into main visual posters and cultural relics posters. The main visual poster takes Guan Gong's original hand-drawn drawing as the main image, using symbolic design elements such as galloping war horses, armor and armor, green dragon crescent knife, red and gold color scheme supplemented by water ripples, and cleverly matching the atmospheric and energetic writing style "Chronicles of the Great Three Kingdoms" exhibition title, showing the magnificent momentum of the heroic era, awakening the audience's historical memory and heroic feelings, and striving to let the audience truly feel the magnificent storms and turbulence of the Three Kingdoms period.
"Romance of the Great Three Kingdoms Exhibition" cultural relics poster
A group of eight cultural relics posters, selecting representative fine cultural relics as the design language, grasping the charm of cultural relics, refining the theme copy, interpreting the historical information and stories behind the cultural relics, illustrating and presenting key exhibits such as Jiang Wan's hook, seven-story Pavilion Pottery Canglou, Copper Carriage and Horse Honor Guard, Copper Silk Jade Robe, etc., leading the audience to intuitively perceive the strong historical and cultural atmosphere and rich and diverse exhibition content, and conducted a dialogue with the cultural relics through time.
■ "2021 Excellent Public Cultural Space Case - Cultural and Art Space" Award
Jointly guided by the Public Service Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Steering Committee of the Shanghai Citizens' Cultural Festival, sponsored by the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism and the People's Government of Pudong New Area, and undertaken by the Publicity Department of the Pudong New Area Party Committee (Bureau of Culture, Sports and Tourism), the "2021 Yangtze River Delta and Some Cities in the Country's Most Beautiful Public Cultural Space Competition" was recently announced, and the exhibition space of "Three Kingdoms Cultural Showroom and Green Rain Xuan" submitted by Chengdu Wuhou Ci Museum won the "2021 Excellent Public Cultural Space Case - Cultural and Art Space" award.
The "Exhibition of the Three Kingdoms" is outside the exhibition hall of the first part
The "Romance of the Three Kingdoms Exhibition" fully takes into account the echo between the exhibition hall, the garden space and the venue building, and distributes the upper and lower parts in two exhibition halls, of which the first part is in the Three Kingdoms Culture Exhibition Hall and the next part is in the Green Rain Pavilion Exhibition Hall. The outdoor unified use of theme walls and curtains to create an exhibition atmosphere, the curtain adopts the original hand-painted gilded veil of the heroes of the Three Kingdoms, which also fits the theme of the "Hero's Era" in the previous part. In the next prologue, a round halo background on the red wall, the sacred and majestic bronze statue of Guan Yu sits in the center, with the metal three-dimensional characters on the left side of the wall "Forever Three Kingdoms", a very tense display scene, bringing a strong visual impact and emotional resonance to the audience. The design of the exhibition hall in the first part presents the magnificent style of traditional classics, and the design of the second exhibition hall shows the contemporary lively art bits, the linkage between ancient and modern, trying to create an exhibition hall with a sense of ceremony that can be seen, heard and touched.
The preface to the next chapter of the "Great Three Kingdoms Chronicle Exhibition"
■ "2021 Chengdu Life Aesthetics Award - Chengdu Inspiration" Award
On January 24, 2022, the "Chengdu Life Aesthetics Awards" held by YOU Chengdu announced the results, and the "Exhibition of the Three Kingdoms" of the Chengdu Wuhou Ci Museum won the "Chengdu Inspiration" award.
The culture of the Three Kingdoms has rich heritage resources and social foundation in Chengdu. As the capital of the Shu and Han Dynasties, Chengdu has more than 50 cultural relics of the Three Kingdoms, and there are still three national theme attractions such as "Wuhou Ancestral Hall", "Jinli" and "Huanglongxi", as well as place names derived from the story of the Three Kingdoms, such as "Yiguan Temple", "Ge Mo" and "Wanli Bridge". The character images, historical stories and folklore of the Three Kingdoms have always been widely disseminated in Chengdu, and the "Great Three Kingdoms Chronicle Exhibition" came to Chengdu and exhibited at the Wuhou Ancestral Hall in Chengdu, which is known as the "Holy Land of the Three Kingdoms", creating a good atmosphere of integration, and the two complement each other and have special significance.
"Three Kingdoms Chronicles Exhibition" winning medal
The Three Kingdoms is a period full of laws and dialectics, although it is only a brief moment in the history of Chinese civilization, and the turbulence of the past few decades has given this period the characteristics of the times of revolution, good planning, and heroes, making it one of the most well-known eras for the public, streets and alleys, countless reviews. People's reverence for the heroes of the Three Kingdoms is an ideological projection and emotional resonance, and the enthusiasm for the Three Kingdoms is also the superposition and empathy of historical memory and individual experience. The face of the Three Kingdoms is not only a piece of history and a rendition, but also a cultural inheritance and spiritual resonance from ancient times to the present, under the rich and diverse means of expression in the new era, the culture of the Three Kingdoms is endless and timeless.
In order to continue to empower the cultural inheritance of the Three Kingdoms and create a strong atmosphere of "Holy Land of the Three Kingdoms, Happy New Year", in addition to the long-term basic exhibition "Ming Liang Ancients - Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang Junchen Joint Exhibition", Chengdu Wuhou Ci Museum also carefully planned the "Selected Exhibition of The Three Kingdoms - Three Kingdoms Relics Cultural Tourism Route Selection Exhibition", which has been officially launched on January 28. The exhibition will be the Three Kingdoms period of the Xiongguan Pass, ancient tomb temple, zhandao city site, The Yangtze River Graben and other strings into the east and north of the Three Kingdoms cultural tourism boutique study tour route, to provide the audience with a New Year travel guide. At the same time, based on the key scientific research project of Chengdu Wuhou Ci Museum,"Mingdui Universe - Investigation of Zhuge Liang's Cultural Relics in The Whole Country", the third part of the "Mingchu Universe - Zhuge Liang Relics Selection Series Exhibition" was launched on January 19, "Xinqiayan Huangyong", selecting 17 pictures of the museum's southern expedition relics to show the deep and extensive influence left by Zhuge Liang in the process of stabilizing and managing the southern central region, for people to explore the arduous journey and feel the cultural charm left by the footprints of a generation of Ming Xiang.
Red Star News reporter Zeng Qi
Edited by Li Jie
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