Introduction to the collection of the Palace Museum

The collection of cultural relics in the Palace Museum is complete, covering ancient and modern times, with high quality and rich categories. The total collection has reached more than 6.5438+0.8 million pieces (sets), mainly including palace cultural relics, ancient buildings, Ming and Qing books, etc. There are 25 categories of collections, including more than 8,000 pieces (sets) of first-class collections, which can be called art treasures, such as Painting, A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains, Five Cows, Han Xizai's Night Banquet and Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, all of which are important paintings, with 53,000 pieces. There are 75,000 pieces of calligraphy such as Preface to Lanting Collection, Postscript to Mid-Autumn Festival and Postscript to Yuan Bo. There are 2,800 more.

These three * * *156,000 pieces are unparalleled in the world, and the collection of paper cultural relics is the most concentrated. The Palace Museum has the largest collection of bronzes in the world, with a total of 654.38+0.6 million pieces, of which 654.38+0.67 pieces with pre-Qin inscriptions are particularly precious. There are also 65,438+065,438+0,000 pieces of gold and silver, 65,438+09,000 pieces of lacquerware and 6,600 pieces of enamel, all of which are works of art handed down from generation to generation.

Jade stone tools are the pride in the collection of the Palace Museum. China has a civilization of 5,000 years, even dating back to 8,000 years ago. Jade and stone tools collected by the Palace Museum can be connected in series to form a complete historical chain.

Ceramics, the Forbidden City is the museum with the largest collection of ceramics in the world, which is an astronomical figure. There are 367,000 pieces, more than 95% of which are imperial kiln porcelain produced in Jingdezhen.

The Palace Museum has carving skills 1 1000 pieces and other skills 13000 pieces. In our collection, it is this kind of bonsai that needs careful care and is difficult to keep. It is half a meter high. Branches are made of precious stones, petals are made of jade pieces, and upright leaves are dyed with ivory and teeth.

There are 68,000 pieces of paper, ink, pens and inkstones in Four Treasures of the Study, and the number is also very large. There are 6,200 pieces of Ming and Qing furniture, either mahogany or Huang Huali.

A large number of physical objects for tribute, commodity trade and cultural exchange through the "Belt and Road" are kept in the Palace Museum. For example,/kloc-western clocks and watches with the largest collection and the best quality in the 0/8th century have a collection of 2,200 pieces in the Palace Museum.