Chao News client reporter Zhan Chengkai correspondent Wu Fangliang.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, are you celebrating the Spring Festival in **?
In Hangzhou, many citizens and tourists choose to "enter the palace" to experience a different New Year's flavor.
At 12 noon on February 10, Deoksugung Palace held a New Year's opening ceremony, and invited the "official saint" to welcome guests and read out the New Year's greetings.
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This scene made many visitors' eyes shine.
During the Spring Festival, the Southern Song Dynasty Deshou Palace Ruins Museum will use a series of rich and interesting welcome activities to let everyone feel the elegance of Song Yun in a happy and peaceful atmosphere.
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The "official saint" greeted guests at the palace gate, and a different opening ceremony came
As the opening ceremony progressed, the door of the Southern Song Dynasty Deshou Palace Ruins Museum slowly opened.
The official saints stood at the gate of the palace that had been carefully decorated, they smiled and opened their arms, inviting tourists to visit the palace, this immersive scene, the sense of ceremony was full.
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Many tourists can't hold back their excitement after receiving this "invitation".
Blessings, the palace gate opened, and tourists entered the palace one after another. Behind the ochre-colored palace walls, people seem to travel through time and space and place themselves in the magnificent palace of the Southern Song Dynasty.
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In ancient times, there was a "New Year's Day Pilgrimage Meeting" congratulatory ceremony, and now, Deshou Palace specially invited two national style Hanfu bloggers to restore the makeup of the "official saints" of the Song Dynasty, pay tribute to the traditional customs of the Song Dynasty, and read out the welcome message on the first day of the new year, extending New Year blessings to tourists.
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Many children at the scene were so happy when they saw these scenes that they thought they had walked into a movie.
I took my daughter to visit Deoksugung Palace today, I didn't expect to meet the 'official saint', my daughter likes to watch costume TV dramas, just saw this scene, I must take a photo with the 'official saint', they are also very cooperative, to meet the daughter's requirements, she is very happy. Ms. Li, a tourist, said with a smile that the surprise on the first day of the Lunar New Year was amazing.
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While visiting the museum, visitors can also engage in poetry with the "official family".
Moreover, there are also New Year's welfare gifts for answering questions. This also makes many tourists "poetry flourish", and they show a profound cultural heritage in the process of poetry, as if the literati and scholars in the Song Dynasty chanted poetry and music.
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During the New Year, Deoksugung Palace carries out various New Year activities, and the 'official family blessing' event that you see is one of them. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the 'official saints' played by the two Hanfu experts will act as NPCs to interact with visitors in the museum, participate in Q&A and group photos, creating a strong New Year's atmosphere. Zhou Ji, head of the Southern Song Dynasty Deshou Palace Ruins Museum, said.
It is understood that in order to allow more people to go to Deshou Palace to experience the Song Yun culture and the folk atmosphere of the New Year, the museum has also adopted various methods, and the number of places to make appointments to visit has also increased compared with weekdays to meet everyone's needs for admission as much as possible.
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From the first day of the first lunar month to the fifth day of the first lunar month, visitors with the dragon zodiac sign or the name "dragon" can receive the Year of the Dragon blessing
What to see in Deoksugung Palace during the Chinese New Year? The Southern Song Dynasty Deshou Palace Ruins Museum "Deshou Wanglong - Jiachen Dragon Year New Year Aesthetic Art Exhibition" is worth recommending to everyone.
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The exhibition combines the festival customs of the Song Dynasty royal family of "raising the mountain shed and Zhang Le Chen lantern", and connects the cultural relics resources of Deshou and the elements of the Song Dynasty. The design restores two groups of "color buildings". Through documents such as "Tokyo Menghualu", "Menglianglu" and "Capital Jisheng", as well as classic Song Dynasty paintings such as "Gate Panche Map" and "Qingming Riverside Map", the different styles of the Cai Lou have been carefully refined, deconstructed, reorganized and innovated, so that the audience can immerse themselves in the charm of Song Yun culture in the museum roaming.
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It is worth mentioning that the exhibition is equipped with a variety of interactive check-in methods. There are stamps to check in, six unique stamps are designed around the six cultural relics on display in this exhibition, and the audience can collect stamps with the "Deshou Dragon Map", and the stamps can also be exchanged for cultural relics postcards during the Spring Festival holiday.
At the same time, in conjunction with the Chinese New Year Art Exhibition of the Year of the Dragon, Deoksugung Palace also launched a series of check-in and welfare activities, allowing the audience to immerse themselves in the charm of Song Yun culture while roaming through the museum.
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Spending the New Year in Deoksugung Palace is not only about wonderful exhibitions.
In order to welcome the New Year of the Dragon, Deoksugung Palace has also launched a series of social and educational activities called "Deokshou Amusement", allowing visitors to find a strong New Year's flavor in the museum.
From February 10th to February 14th (the first day of the first lunar month to the fifth day of the first lunar month), all visitors whose zodiac sign is a dragon or whose name is "dragon" can enter the museum to receive the blessing of the Year of the Dragon. At the same time, from February 10th to February 12th, visitors can also get a "Deoksugung Rolling Red Envelope" to take home the blessings of the museum by walking into Deoksugung Palace and taking a photo with the "Deoksugung Wanglong" installation.
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Combined with the theme of "Song Fu Hangzhou Year", Deshou Palace excavates traditional culture with traditional festivals and customs as the background, and launches a series of welcome activities, inviting tourists to come to the palace to celebrate the New Year and feel the elegance of the thousand-year-old Song Dynasty, and also hopes to inject new vitality into the development of Hangzhou's cultural tourism.
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