Year of the Tiger Stains "Tiger" Qi These cultural venues in Shencheng are infested with "tigers."

Original title: The Year of the Tiger "Tiger" Qishen City These cultural venues are infested with "tigers"

Yinhu Shanghainese harmonic pronunciation "Yingfu". During the Spring Festival holiday, in addition to going to the zoo to see tigers, many cultural venues in Shencheng held exhibitions with tigers as the theme and different characteristics, so that more citizens could spend a cultural year and dip into the "tiger" atmosphere.

The Shanghai Museum, together with the Kyushu National Museum in Japan, held the Special Exhibition "The Year of the Tiger laughing" - the Spring Festival Exhibition of the Year of the Tiger in China and Japan. In folk customs, the tiger also carries beautiful meanings such as eliminating disasters and warding off evil spirits. A total of 10 cultural relics (including online exhibits) are exhibited, including 6 fine cultural relics selected by the Shangbo Main Museum, and 4 exchange artifacts from the Kyushu National Museum in Japan.

Yellow-ground black colored goose reed pattern tiger pillow, Gold (1115-1234) Shanghai Museum collection

Blue-and-white tiger bamboo figure twelve-shaped plate, 19th century, collection of Kyushu National Museum, Japan

Five artifacts are on display in the hall on the first floor of the Shangbo Museum, including the Golden Age Yellow Ground Black Colored Goose Reed Tiger Pillow from the Shangbo Museum, the Western Han Dynasty Gilded Golden Tiger Town and the Jin Dynasty Akiyama Jade Ornament, and the 19th-century Blue and White Tiger Bamboo Figure Zodiac Plate and the Blue and White Tiger Bamboo Pattern Large Plate from the Kyushu National Museum in Japan.

Among them, the Jin Dynasty yellow land black color goose reed pattern tiger pillow for the crouching tiger shape, tiger pillow has an auspicious, evil meaning, ceramic tiger pillow is a very characteristic of the Jin Dynasty popular life tools; jin Dynasty Qiushan jade ornament front uses through-carving techniques to show the mountain forest scene such as oak trees, mountain stones, ganoderma lucidum, etc., during which a tiger crouches back, the head and hair are carefully depicted, full of simple mountain and forest wild fun.

Influenced by Chinese culture, Japan has long had the custom of worshipping tigers, but there are no tigers in its territory, so the image of the tiger in cultural relics is often full of different imaginations, and the tiger in the painting is gentle and amiable.

Tiger tiger, good luck koi, three "sheep" Kaitai, "horse" to success... The Shanghai Museum of History, not far from the Shanghai Museum, is holding a special exhibition of Chinese auspicious culture , "Fulu Shouxi", to deliver an "auspicious cultural feast" in the Spring Festival crowd.

With the theme of "Fulu Shouxi", the exhibition exhibits nearly 300 works (sets), including specimens of animals and plants such as sheep, deer, magpies, peonies, cranes, etc., peony plates of Yaozhou kiln tangled branches, three-legged silver plates of Tang Gilded Jinzhi deer patterns, and Qing Tongzhi pastel Wufu Bao Shou pattern bowls, so that nature, history and humanities collide and blend, interpret the origin, inheritance and influence of auspicious culture, and inherit the Chinese auspicious culture represented by "Fulu Shouxi".

In particular, the prologue of the exhibition begins with "Tigers and Tigers Are Powerful", telling about the nature and culture related to tigers, and praying that human society will work together and become more powerful than the tigers to get out of the haze of the epidemic as soon as possible.

The annual exhibition of maritime customs is being held at the Shanghai Municipal Museum of Art. With the theme of "Yinhu Dialect Zodiac", the exhibition explores the origin of the Chinese zodiac, the connotation of zodiac folk culture and the interesting zodiac "cold knowledge" with the audience, as well as interactive games such as zodiac idiom turntable and zodiac hand shadow.

Many exhibits are rare to see. For example, the giant series of products customized by Master Zhang Tonglu of the Cloisonné Taidou for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo - the Cloisonné Zodiac Dazun, the folk collector Zhang Jianping's collection of the "Zodiac Beast Head Wine Glass", Yang Shaorong's collection of the Qing Dynasty Shanxi, Ningbo, Shandong and other places of the tiger head hat, tiger head shoes and so on.

At present, young people's new understanding and expression of the zodiac are also presented in the exhibition. Located on the second floor of the White Box Exhibition Hall, hundreds of outstanding designers innovated the artistic graphic design of the Tiger in the Chinese Zodiac, interpreting the Chinese Zodiac Sign of the Year of the Tiger in the eyes of modern people - "Love Tiger Yo" (transliteration of the English "I love you"), through various visual presentations and exquisite cultural creations, setting off the festive atmosphere of the Year of the Tiger.

The new museum of Pudong Qunyi Museum is in the trial operation stage, and the first large-scale exhibition "Tiger and Tiger Life Style - The 7th Chinese Ceramic Zodiac Theme Series Exhibition" is free to the public and lasts until February 6 (the sixth day of the first lunar month).

Walking into the exhibition hall, you enter the world of "Hundred Tigers" made of ceramics. Among them, there are both fierce tigers who bravely move forward, and there are also tigers of kings who contemplate everything; there are both playful and cute cute tigers, as well as avant-garde anthropomorphic thought tigers... In the context of different eras, different creators use different artistic techniques to depict, outline, carve and shape the ceramic art zodiac works, which is dazzling.

The exhibition includes more than 30 ceramic varieties from more than 10 kilns, such as Jun Kiln, Ru Kiln, Duandian Kiln, Shiwan Kiln, Ding Kiln, Cizhou Kiln, Yaozhou Kiln, Jingdezhen Kiln, Yixing Kiln, Chaozhou Kiln, Sancai Kiln, Dehua Kiln, etc., bringing together the masterpieces of ceramic masters, the best works of folk collections, and the avant-garde works of young artists, showing the history of Chinese zodiac cultural inheritance spanning more than 1,000 years.

What kind of "tiger" is the children's pen? "Uh-huh, here comes the tiger!" ——The 13th International Children's Zodiac Painting Exhibition was unveiled at the Shanghai Hongqiao Museum of Contemporary Art and major sub-exhibition areas.

Shanghai Hongqiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Children's publishing house, changning district education institute launched a collection and selection of primary and secondary schools and art institutions, received more than 4,000 works submissions, and selected 374 selected works from them, including 57 award-winning works, involving graphic painting, three-dimensional sculpture, video, installation, intangible cultural heritage and other types.

Compared with previous years, this year's Zodiac Exhibition has also stepped out of a single professional pavilion and expanded to multiple fields such as community, intangible cultural heritage, and digital. In addition to the main exhibition area of Hongqiao Museum of Contemporary Art, there are also digital exhibition areas located in Changning Culture and Arts Center Sound and Shadow Space, intangible cultural heritage exhibition areas located in Xinjing Town Community Cultural Affairs Center, community exhibition areas located in Rong Gubei Station, digital community exhibitions located in Huazheng Trail And Law Theater, and library exhibition areas located in Changning District Children's Library West Hall, which deliver traditional Zodiac culture to citizens' doorsteps and into people's lives.

In addition to museums and mass art galleries, bookstores have also launched activities full of tiger elements. On the third floor of Sinan Bookstore, the 2022 Tiger Tiger Shengwei Book Ticket New Year Exhibition was unveiled, adding a reading atmosphere to the festival through the collection ticket works created by dozens of artists across the country around the Year of the Tiger. Enjoying a small collection of book tickets with the theme of "tiger" is like swimming in a miniature art kingdom, the small tickets not only convey aesthetics, but also show a variety of painting types and production methods.

In addition to enjoying the exhibition, the public can also read the works. At Duoyun Academy, flagship store, Duoyun College, Guangfulin store and Sinan Bookstore, the bookstore selected books related to "Tiger" and related to the New Year, and launched the "Tiger Tiger Shengwei • Tiger Year New Year Book Exhibition", which presented a strong New Year atmosphere in the bookstore.

(Bao Yongting)