I don't know what's going on, every time the Chinese New Year is approaching, there will always be an inexplicable song in my head: "I don't accept gifts for the holidays this year, and only brain platinum is accepted for gifts!"
Make a mistake and do it all over again. You have to receive gifts during the holidays, and you have to receive big red envelopes
Although it is better to spend a lot of money on the cold and asking for warmth, but to catch up with the New Year's holidays to visit relatives and friends, how to choose gifts will still be equally difficult for every Chinese, and some people are even forced to ask for help online.
The sheep didn't understand this stalk, did the sisters in Tianjin answer it?
As a traditional Xi of our Chinese civilization that has lasted for thousands of years, gift-giving is a science.
It doesn't matter, we can learn now, and let's look directly at the ceiling of the gift-giving industry - how to choose national gifts.
The last time the sheep and sisters showed the national gifts given by China to foreign countries in those years, highlighting the ultimate oriental aesthetics and top-notch Chinese craftsmanship
As the old saying goes, come and don't be rude.
Other countries have also given China many national gifts as a token of exchange of gifts and friendly relations.
As a witness of Sino-foreign friendship + history, representing the world's top aesthetics + craftsmanship, there are more than 670 national gifts, supporting a national gift museum.
Whisperingly, the National Rite Museum, the Central Gift and Cultural Relics Management Center in Beijing, only began to open to the public last year, and it is relatively small, and few people have visited it.
Today, the sheep will take the sisters to take the lead in the cloud tour! Continue to accumulate and improve the aesthetics, and feel how to choose the highest standard of national gifts.
The "conspicuous bag" in the exchange of gifts
A foreign national gift that deserves to be brought out in particular
Sisters should have heard the saying: "Thousands of miles to send goose feathers, the gift is light and affectionate." There's an allusion behind that.
In the Tang Dynasty, our country was prosperous and famous, and the emperor loved to make friends.
The mural painting of Prince Zhanghuai in Qianling, Shaanxi Province depicts the scene of diplomats receiving foreign envoys in Honglu Temple in the Tang Dynasty
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By the way, try the famous dish of the state banquet - cured meat and steamed buns, and they all say that they are good after eating. (Don't believe it, it's made up by sheep.)
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Tang Dynasty begonia-shaped capricorn pattern gold long cup
The inner bottom is decorated with the image of an animal Capricorn opera jewel with a dragon head and a fish body in Hindu mythology, which is said to be an innovation of Chinese craftsmen in absorbing Buddhist culture and referring to the shape of the long cup of the Persian Sassanid Dynasty
It is said that during the period of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the Nanzhao Kingdom (today's Yunnan) of Southwest Yi sent an envoy to Chang'an to eat meat and buns to pay tribute, and took a rare white swan as a national gift.
Tang Gongyi kiln Sancai plus blue treasure goose Hong Kong Guardian Spring Auction sold for 3.42 million
3,000 miles from Yunnan to Xi'an, it is rumored that it was summer, and the group of Burmese Bogao carried the swans across the mountains and waded through the water, giving the swans heat stroke, and they all poured foam.
So he ordered the swans to be released and brought to the lake to drink. The swan is very good at paddling, it escapes, he chases, it flies with wings, he only catches a piece of goose feather...
Tang Dynasty gem-encrusted swan gold ornaments Qinghai Tibetan Medicine Culture Museum collection
Let's go back like this, it is designated as a great crime to kill the head, and continue to move forward, if you don't provoke the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, you are afraid that you will have to go to war, but it will make the Burmese Bogao sad.
He thought about it, put the only remaining goose feather into the gift box, and attached a poem to explain the reason.
After meeting Tang Taizong, he respectfully presented the "National Gift of Nanzhaoguo", and also explained the meaning of this goose feather: "Although the swan flew away, the friendship between the two countries will last forever." ”
As the saying goes, don't stretch out your hand and don't hit the smiling person, and don't scold the giver when you open your mouth.
It is not easy to send goose feathers for thousands of miles, and the courtesy is light and affectionate, so Tang Taizong did not blame him anymore.
"Old Tang Book" records: In the sixteenth year of Tang Kaiyuan, Dakang Kingdom (Uzbekistan) offered the agate cup of the beast's head
The emperors of the Ming Dynasty were no better than Tang Taizong.
In the twelfth year of Yongle, Zheng He's younger brother Banggara (Bangladesh), whom he had befriended overseas, sent a giraffe. The Ming people do not know, not referring to the deer as a unicorn, as an auspicious ray.
"Painting the Qilin Shen Du Song", collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
During the Jiajing period, the Ottoman Empire (we called them Rumi at that time) also drove the lions of the Western Regions in the Amu Darya River and the rhinoceros of South Asia to be the beasts.
In addition, Zheng He's friends also sent ostriches, zebras, leopards, oryx... The national gift of the animal 园️.
Painted in the Ming Dynasty during the Chenghua period of the "Tribute Lion Map"
In the Qing Dynasty, the British Macartney Mission sent a national gift to congratulate Qianlong on his 80th birthday, which was more elegant.
They specially found two Chinese students to be translators, and asked the Chinese emperor what gifts he liked.
The scene of the Macartney mission giving a birthday gift to the Qianlong Emperor
It took a long time to prepare, and there were 19 items and 600 boxes.
It includes Western gadgets such as clocks, music boxes, automaton dolls, glass lighting fixtures, celestial locomotion instruments, and other Western gadgets, as well as silk and wool cotton fabrics, tapestries, vases and other British handicrafts.
Of course, Qianlong didn't look at these, and felt that it was not enough.
The Macartney Mission brought gold clocks and watches from the collection of Chengde Summer Resort
The timeline is pulled closer, and on the second day of the founding ceremony of the 49th year, New China received its first national gift.
It was a telegram sent by the Soviet Union to China for the establishment of diplomatic relations
This national gift was later given by one of our veterans, Putin, who was very, especially fond of giving us gifts.
Including but not limited to, the Russian national treasure Holy Stone Amber Chess
It is made from orange-red and orange-yellow amber from the Baltic Sea, and these two types of amber are highly prized in Chinese collectors, known as blood amber and beeswax respectively.
Model of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyakhta, Russia
The church is one of Russia's landmarks, and the porcelain technique used is similar to the cloisonné we are familiar with.
It has a strong Byzantine aristocratic style, combined with Eastern European enamel porcelain and rococo art, which is very magnificent.
The highest Russian medal of the Order of St. Andrew
The main body is a black double-headed eagle with a crown on its head, made of silver and gold-plated, and covered with blue enamel.
It is a symbol of Russia's highest honor, and only three countries have been awarded at the moment, and China is one of them.
The most precious is this video of "China's Rebirth".
On the 70th anniversary of the National Day, Putin found the color video tape of the founding ceremony taken by the Soviet Union that year and gave it to us.
This is the only color video of the founding ceremony in the world, and we don't have it ourselves.
Woo woo, I'll just say that Mao Zi and Lao Zhong are real cp, he understands so well!
Let's look at our hardcore friend Pakistan, the Wenchuan earthquake in 08, although they are far away.
Without hesitation, all the country's strategic reserve tents, supplies and medical teams were transported to the disaster area, and a "clearance" aid was carried out.
During his 15-year visit to Pakistan, the Pakistani side also gave him the highest level of greeting gifts.
Behind the special fuselage printed with the five-star red flag, eight Thunder Dragon fighters were lined up on both sides to escort the flight.
Cold knowledge: The Thunder is an advanced fighter jointly developed by China and Pakistan, with excellent performance and defending Pakistan's national security.
The picture of the escort of the Thunder Dragon fighter was carefully framed and given to us as a national gift
This is a national gift that has been hotly searched, a gift certificate for the 30,000 sheep in Mongolia
Mongolian friends believe that lamb is the best tonic and the first choice for gifts.
They hope that the little sheep given to them can enhance the resistance and immunity of the Chinese and defeat the epidemic as soon as possible.
According to the wishes of friends, most of them were distributed to the medical staff who are fighting on the front line of the epidemic.
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mentioned earlier that the swan overturned, it's strange, who sent the swan to pull the crotch
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In 72, U.S. President Richard Nixon visited China and also sent a pair of porcelain swans.
Created by the American master of hard porcelain firing, Bohm, the workmanship is exquisite, the shape is gorgeous, is one of the world's only two remaining treasured porcelain.
This swan national gift symbolizes loyalty and friendship, and is hoped to bring good signs to Sino-US relations.
But as the old saying goes, what you're afraid of comes. During transportation, one of the swan's feathers was knocked off...
Nixon saw that this was okay, as if it had been deliberately sabotaged, and he glued it back on, but left a broken mark.
During the exchange of gifts, Nixon explained to the grandfather at the head of Orange Island. Grandpa only said: "Isn't the broken relationship just picked up by you!"
I have a little bit of the art of speaking, and my sisters have learned it from me
In the same year, a businessman from Detroit, USA, presented us with a ping-pong diplomatic racket
On the racket with white letters on a blue background, a white dove holds an olive branch and flies, and the words "Generation Peace" are written in English.
The "ping-pong diplomacy" learned in history books has finally become concrete.
It was also in the year when Sino-US relations broke the ice, and Japan presented us with a Seiko brand quartz clock.
I wonder if Japan knew our customs and preferences when making the selection.
According to the Chinese way of thinking, this gift sometimes feels incredible...
One country, one thing, one style
How superb can the world's top aesthetics be
The national gifts that have outstanding significance + will be noticed, in fact, only account for a small part of the national gifts given by foreign countries.
In the National Rite Museum, there are many gifts that condense the aesthetic wisdom of various countries around the world and represent the highest level of craftsmanship, which is amazing.
Friendly reminder: The National Rite Museum mainly displays the representative national gifts that have been donated and given in diplomatic activities since the founding of New China.
The museum is divided into two floors and three main exhibition areas. Highlights: Niche, free (reservation required), worth seeing.
Listen to the sheep, come to Beijing must go to the check-in point!
There are a considerable number of national gifts in the museum from Asian, African and Latin American countries, and there are many of the best of the best.
The marble carved Taj Mahal model presented by India in 54 is also a typical landmark architectural national gift, with a very high degree of restoration
Myanmar Next Door: You send me too, and in the same year came an ivory carved lion
There is a saying that I don't know whether to say or not, we in China pay attention to good things in pairs, and send a lion to make up a good one.
This Vietnam has sent India and Myanmar, so don't be idle.
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In traditional Chinese culture, the dragon represents good luck and auspiciousness, and the double dragon means double auspiciousness and luck, which is quite appropriate this year
A wood-clad silver hairpin filigree gem-encrusted elephant presented by Sri Lanka
On the back of the elephant is the classic Buddha Tooth Pagoda, a national treasure, and the torso and limbs are wrapped in engraved silver plates, like armor, and the silver plates are also inlaid with gemstones, which is gorgeous and gorgeous.
A wooden tire black lacquer inlaid luodian square box presented by North Korea
It was a 60th birthday gift to the grandfather at the head of Orange Island in 53. In the center of the box, a snail is inserted into the Korean word "Longevity Without Borders", and the surrounding area is decorated with a delicate and delicate luoden pattern.
In 87, the DPRK presented a lacquer screen with a hundred treasures inlaid with autumn and sunset pictures wearing traditional costumes and full of ethnic customs
The lacquerware and luodian [luó diàn] crafts belong to the traditional decorative arts of the mainland, and luodian has also been selected as an intangible cultural heritage. (Sheep have published a special popular science, which can be reviewed at the end of the article)
These two Chinese skills were only introduced to the Korean Peninsula around the time of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, the gift of the DPRK is to say that it is good.
In fact, it is exported to domestic sales, but it is not as exquisite as that made by mainland craftsmen. It's good to send it, don't send it next time (send something we don't have.)
The same type of Syrian shell inlaid carved table and chair
Made with traditional craftsmanship dating back more than 4,000 years, it is both exquisite and distinctive.
Syrian craftsmen carved various patterns on the wood, took mother-of-pearl, carefully polished various small pieces, and then inlaid them into the wood to create different patterns.
A plate of four-cup tea made of red copper presented by Zambia
Zambia is an African country that established diplomatic relations with China relatively early, and its copper reserves rank among the top in the world.
The copper artwork that best reflects the characteristics of the country was sent as a thank you for China's assistance in the construction of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway.
Ostriches, in their native South Africa, have a high economic effect.
In 99, South Africa gave us a painted ostrich egg, which is the most conveyable handicraft
The amethyst agate parrot presented by Brazil has a vivid and realistic shape
The parrot symbolizes good luck and is also the national bird of Brazil, which is rich in amethyst minerals, and the two are full of sincerity.
To European countries, first look at Italy, the fashion capital of the world.
80 years sent us a... Ashtrays, glass. Don't say it, it's weird and good-looking.
If it weren't for the fact that the national gift was open to the public in the past two years, Yang Xunsi Yiwu would have taken action long ago.
Nowadays, we should have a piece of the same style (affordable version) at home.
With the silver cigarette case presented by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 82, Qi lived
Yang Duo said that this national gift is a historical witness to solving the problem of Hong Kong's return.
It was the meeting where the gift was given, and Margaret Thatcher was defeated in the confrontation with the old man who drew circles on the South China Sea, and accidentally fell in front of the Great Hall of the People...
Painted tall bowl gifted by Portugal
It is very in line with the aesthetics of the Chinese, and it will feel very compatible when you put it in the Palace Museum.
In 64, the 15th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Romania sent a porcelain pot painted with gold and painted grape harvest pictures
This porcelain pot with a crooked neck has a slight bulge in the chest and abdomen, and the soles of the feet are contracted.
With elegant glaze and bright brushstrokes, it depicts a scene of a Romanian girl's grape harvest, reflecting a strong Romanian style.
Note: Romania is rich in grapes and wine
Let's take a look at the strength of the tyrant countries in the Middle East, which is really not ordinary.
The golden peacock presented by the UAE in 90 years also has a sparkling ruby on its delicate feathers
A model of the old palace of gold and silver presented by Qatar in 01
With malachite as the pedestal, the silver-gilded landmark building of the capital Doha symbolizes support for China's accession to the WTO.
The falcon presented by Saudi Arabia in 10 years is slightly smaller than the national totem falcon, but it is still domineering
I'm sorry, but the impression of the UAE has solidified again
We've also received some lovely national gifts. Brazilian squatting villain
Many sisters should have watched "The Adventures of Tintin" when they were young, right?
It was created by the Belgian cartoonist Georges Remy, and in the thirties and forties of the last century, it was called the ceiling of European comics.
One of them, Ding Ding, who traveled around the world, came to China in 1934, that is, the comic book "The Adventures of Ding Ding - Blue Lotus".
This cartoon exposes the Japanese army's crime of aggression against China, breaks the stereotypical prejudice of the West against China, and has far-reaching significance for the Chinese
In 12 years, the Belgian government gave the mainland a porcelain puppet of "The Adventures of Tintin - Blue Lotus".
In the comic, Ding Ding, who wears a black melon skin hat, a blue Tang costume and old Beijing cloth shoes, stands in a porcelain vase decorated with traditional Chinese dragon dances, witty and innocent.
The painted woodcarved parrot given by Ecuador didn't know what to say, so I gave my aunts a heart
A conch lamp with shell shade presented by Tonga
How romantic it must be to fall asleep listening to the sound of the waves!
Wayang puppets presented by Indonesia
It's similar to our shadow puppetry, and if you can have a dream linkage, it's interesting to think about.
Should I say it or not, in terms of the selection of gifts, it has to be the national team's work!
People in different corners of the globe use natural materials such as minerals, fossils, metals, wood, and shells.
The eyes of the love of beauty have been cast on similar themes, and different expressions and aesthetic styles have been developed.
It can really be described as a country and a thing, and the aesthetic collision and cultural mutual learning of people of different races constitute this colorful world!
It is precisely because we in China have always made friends with sincerity and treated each other with courtesy, but all the gifts given are the best.
But the cultural inheritance in our bones has always guided us to exchange sincerity for sincerity.