Original title: Celebrate the New Year in the museum! The Jiachen Dragon Year Zodiac Cultural Relics Exhibition is here
As the Year of the Dragon is approaching in the lunar calendar, the "Dragon Walking in China - Jiachen Dragon Year Zodiac Culture Exhibition" with the theme of the Zodiac Dragon has been launched in cities in the north and south of China.
The exhibition selects 490 images of cultural relics and artworks with the theme of auspicious dragons from cultural and museum institutions across the country to be displayed to the public, from multiple perspectives such as zodiac beliefs, the evolution of dragon images, dragons in history and culture, and dragons in folk culture.
Painted pottery dragon plate Tao Temple site Linfen City Museum, Shanxi Province.
Gilded Dragon, Tang Xi'an Museum.
S-shaped "dragon jade pendant Xuzhou Museum of the Western Han Dynasty.
Under the guidance of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the "Zodiac Cultural Relics Exhibition" jointly planned and launched by the China Cultural Heritage Newspaper and the Zodiac Culture Communication Alliance is one of the important activities of "Celebrating the New Year in the Museum", which has been held for 11 consecutive years since 2014, and the number of units participating in the joint exhibition has increased from the initial 7 to more than 60, and the exhibition venues have increased from more than 10 to more than 200.
The "Zodiac Cultural Relics Exhibition" effectively integrates the cultural relics resources of museums across the country, makes a large number of Zodiac cultural relics resources precipitated in museums flow, and gives full play to the superposition effect of Zodiac culture and Spring Festival culture, which is a "cultural feast" of the Spring Festival with feelings and temperature.
*: CCTV news client.