This year is the 2575th anniversary of the birth of Confucius, and this National Day holiday, the Forbidden City launched the Wumen Exhibition, "The Journey of the Avenue - Confucian Culture Special Exhibition", which exhibited a total of 380 pieces (groups) of exhibits from home and abroad, leading the audience to explore the thousand-year-old wisdom of Confucian culture.
The Forbidden City Exhibition
Explore the thousand-year-old wisdom of traditional culture
The theme of this exhibition, "The Journey of the Great Road", is written in the chapter "The Book of Rites ·and Rites", which expresses Confucianism's pursuit of a beautiful social order and morality such as establishing a world for the common good, stressing faith and cultivating harmony, which is not only a classic expression of the Confucian ideal of "Datong" society, but also constantly endowed with a new connotation of the times, reflecting the unique understanding and mission of the Chinese nation for building a community with a shared future for mankind. The exhibition is divided into three units: "Tracing the Ancient Confucianism", "Becoming the World" and "The Master of All Ages", through rich archaeological evidence, the survival of classics, and the collection of cultural relics, it excavates and sorts out the historical formation of Confucian culture, expounds the core civilization concept of Confucianism, and shows its far-reaching influence from all over the world.
The first exhibit of Yingmen, "Confucius Clothes Mirror", was unearthed from the tomb of the Marquis of Haiyang in the Western Han Dynasty, which shows us the image of Confucius in the hearts of people in the Western Han Dynasty. The figure in the upper column on the back of the mirror is Confucius on the left and Yan Hui on the right.
Many precious cultural relics are embodied
Chinese civilization is pluralistic and unified
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In addition to the "Confucius Clothes Mirror", the exhibition also exhibits 20,000-year-old pottery shards from the Xianren Cave in Jiangxi, and precious cultural relics such as Neolithic Shangshan culture pottery pots painted with similar gossip symbols, outlining the basic background of the pluralism and unity of Chinese civilization; There are also renaming formulas that reflect the "book and script" system after Qin's unification of the world, and as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty chose Confucianism as the official orthodoxy, it laid the tone for the traditional culture for more than 2,000 years. It is understood that the newly launched "Journey to the Avenue - Confucian Culture Special Exhibition" of the Forbidden City will be on display until January 5 next year.
Picture scroll stone scripture rubbing
380 pieces (groups) of precious cultural relics were unveiled
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There are also many precious cultural relics on the exhibition, and a precious cultural relic from the Osaka City Museum of Art in Japan is called "(Biography) Tang Dynasty Wang Wei Painting "Fusheng Sutra Scroll", which depicts the story of Fusheng Sutra teaching:
Legend has it that in the Qin Dynasty, Fu Sheng hid his treasured "Shangshu" in the walls of his house. During the reign of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, the Book of Shang was on the verge of being lost, and the imperial court turned to Fu Sheng for help, so that this important Confucian classic could be passed on.
Xiong Changyun, Jinshi Group, Department of Artifacts, Palace Museum: Fu Sheng memorized these 28 "Shangshu" through dictation, which became the most important source of the scripture "Shangshu" we know now. Now there are 28 articles in the "Book of Shang", and later one article was split and became 29 articles, which is from the "Book of Shang" taught by Fu Sheng.
It is reported that this cultural relic is very precious, and it will only be exhibited for one month. Another group of blockbuster exhibits are 3 pieces of the Eastern Han Dynasty's Xiping Stone Classics and 4 pieces of the Three Kingdoms Zhengshi Stone Classics, before the invention of printing, the Stone Classics were the most authoritative official texts for everyone to learn the Confucian classics.
Xiong Changyun, Jinshi Group, Department of Artifacts of the Palace Museum: Manuscripts are easy to make mistakes, and the officials of the Eastern Han Dynasty realized this problem and made the first set in China, engraved Confucian classics on stone, and established an authoritative definitive version.
Some of these stones are written in three different scripts, namely Guwen, Xiaozhu, and Lishu, and the layout is arranged in the shape of "Pin", and there are also three fonts arranged straight down.
Xiong Changyun, Jinshi Group, Department of Artifacts of the Palace Museum: Guwen, Xiao Seal, and Lishu represent the three periods before the Eastern Han Dynasty, which are the Warring States Period, and the ancient text is actually the Warring States Period, the small seal represents Qin, and the Lishu represents the common font of the Han Dynasty, which represents the inheritance of Confucian classics, written in three different fonts.
After thousands of years, the stone has been completely damaged, and the exhibition has carried out a preliminary restoration of the former appearance of the stone in the form of rubbing.
Xiong Changyun, Jinshi Group, Department of Artifacts of the Palace Museum: Mr. Ma Heng, the old director of the Forbidden City, made a restoration of the Zhengshi Sutra. It is very difficult to see some broken words and find its place in the scriptures, and every remnant stone is a fragment of civilization. The stone is so strong that it is difficult to pass it on, and the Confucian classics can still be seen in different forms now, because the scholars of the past generations have continued to inherit it, inherit it, and keep it fresh for a long time, and it can still be preserved in front of our eyes.
Confucian culture has always migrated with the times, and together with other excellent ideologies and cultures produced in the process of the formation and development of the Chinese nation, it has become an important spiritual nourishment for the Chinese nation's endless growth and development. At the same time, it also continues to provide useful inspiration for the communication and understanding of people around the world and the exchange and mutual learning of civilizations.
Source: CCTV news client
Editor: Xiao Jinlan