What anniversary is the Forbidden City this year? Key activities of the Forbidden City in 2020.

Dear friends, there are still many activities waiting for you in the Forbidden City in 2020. Don't miss them. The following is a detailed introduction about the activities of the Forbidden City. If you have time to visit the Forbidden City, you must not miss it. You can learn about related activities in advance.

What anniversary is the Forbidden City this year? 2020 is the 600th anniversary of the establishment of the Palace Museum and the 95th anniversary of the establishment of the Palace Museum, which is a cultural event of the whole society. The Palace Museum will take the mission of inheriting and carrying forward Chinese excellent traditional culture, and strive to promote the protection, research and inheritance of the world cultural heritage of the Palace Museum, and promote the innovative development of Chinese excellent traditional culture.

The Palace Museum will present splendid cultural activities in the year of Daqing, including holding a series of academic seminars, releasing a series of research results, launching a series of fine exhibitions, organizing a series of public welfare activities, producing a series of film and television works to promote the culture of the Forbidden City, and commending a group of "Forbidden City people" who have made outstanding contributions. The activity will highlight the cultural connotation and the value of the times of the Forbidden City, inherit and carry forward the excellent Chinese traditional culture, care for the heritage with ingenuity, nourish the society with culture, and hand over the magnificent Forbidden City to the next 600 years.

On the 30th, the Palace Museum announced the key activities of "Commemorating the 600th anniversary of the Palace Museum and the 95th anniversary of its founding". It is reported that the Palace Museum will hold a multi-theme exhibition. Among them, the "600th Anniversary Exhibition of the Forbidden City" introduces the changes of the city in the past 600 years based on more than 20 key years on the time axis of the past 600 years. "Past World-Exhibition of Ancient Figures in the Palace Museum" featured masterpieces of the Palace Museum, showing the development of figure painting from the Eastern Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In addition, a special exhibition of Su Shi's calligraphy and painting will be held, and the "ceramics museum" will be reopened in Wuying Hall, and the number of cultural relics will be increased from 400 in the original "ceramics museum" to 1000.

Hold a series of academic seminars

The Forbidden City is not only the pride of the Chinese nation, but also the precious cultural heritage of all mankind. It is of extraordinary historical, cultural and practical significance to hold academic activities to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the establishment of the Forbidden City and the 95th anniversary of the establishment of the Palace Museum. As the imperial palace in Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Forbidden City is the concentrated expression of China's ancient urban construction and palace architecture thought, and also the origin of many important palace events in Ming and Qing history. The Palace Museum established on this basis is different from ordinary museums. It not only carefully preserved the royal palaces and old treasures left over from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but also made a more in-depth and detailed study on the history of ancient buildings, courtyard cultural relics, palace historical relics, archives of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, classics of the Qing Dynasty and 1995 Palace Museum.

As for academic seminars, the Palace Museum will hold a series of academic seminars focusing on commemorating the 600th anniversary of the Forbidden City and the 95th anniversary of the establishment of the Palace Museum, the 5th Taihe World Forum on the Protection of Ancient Civilization, the 600th anniversary of the Forbidden City and the China International Forum on the History of Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the IIC- Palace Museum 2020 International Symposium on the Protection of Ancient Buildings. This paper discusses the historical responsibility of the Palace Museum to inherit and carry forward Chinese excellent traditional culture, how to promote the research and inheritance of the world cultural heritage of the Palace Museum, how to innovate and develop Chinese excellent traditional culture, and how to play a realistic role in cultivating and practicing socialist core values, so as to lay a solid foundation for the protection and inheritance direction of the Palace Museum in the next 600 years.

Publish a series of research results

Academic research is one of the core tasks of the Palace Museum, and the publication of research results is the internal driving force to support the continuous progress of the museum. In 2020, the Palace Museum will publish a series of works of old experts, including works, Liu Jiu 'an's notes on calligraphy and painting appraisal, diaries and Geng's works. The academic manuscripts written by the older generation of Forbidden City experts combined with years of work experience show the academic responsibility of a generation of Forbidden City people with profound knowledge and solid research skills.

Academic monographs and collections will also be published, such as hall of mental cultivation Conservation Research Series, Baoyun Building, Study on the Original Appearance of Qin 'an Temple, Picture Book of Qing Palace, Architectural Way of the Forbidden City, Historical Investigation of Manchuria from National Customs to Etiquette, Journal of the Forbidden City Society of China (Tenth Series), Essays on Cultural Relics Restoration of the Palace Museum and Essays on Archaeology of the Palace Museum. The first Oracle Inscriptions in the Forbidden City (co-published), the complete works of Dong Qichang's calligraphy and painting, the complete works of Su Dongpo's calligraphy, the past life in the Palace Museum-ancient figure paintings, the exhibition catalogue of the New Year's Eve of the Forbidden City, the exhibition catalogue of the 600th anniversary of the establishment of the Palace, and other academic catalogues were published, and the youth reading I'm going to the Forbidden City was published.

Launch a series of fine exhibitions

In the year of Daqing, the theme of the exhibition to be held by the Palace Museum covers ancient architecture, special paintings and calligraphy, ancient cultural relics, Chinese and foreign civilizations, etc. , bringing a new exhibition experience to the audience.

"The 600th Anniversary Exhibition of the Forbidden City" takes more than 20 key years on the time axis in the past 600 years as the main line, introduces the changes of the city in the past 600 years through key events such as the construction, repair and protection of the Forbidden City, and interprets the Forbidden City as the highest realm of the perfect combination of palace architecture technology and art.

meridian gate

"The Past World-Exhibition of Ancient Figures in the Palace Museum", featuring masterpieces of the Palace Museum, shows the development of figure painting from the Eastern Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Han Xizai's Night Banquet (Part)

"Romantic Figures through the Ages-Special Exhibition of Su Shi's Theme Painting and Calligraphy" shows Su Shi's artistic attainments and personality style, as well as its influence on later generations.

Su Shi's Calligraphy in Northern Song Dynasty (Part)

"ceramics museum" reopened in Wuying Hall, taking the development history of China ceramics as the key link, showing the sustainable development of China ceramics for 8,000 years. After the transformation, the number of cultural relics has increased from 400 in ceramics museum to 1 000.

Dry Qinglong vases with various glazes

"China and Versailles Exhibition" is based on the large-scale exhibition "China of Versailles//Kloc-Art and Diplomacy in the 8th Century" held in Versailles in 20th/10th/4th, and combined with the exquisite cultural relics brought by the French courts, missionaries and envoys collected by the Palace Museum, to restore the more full and comprehensive cultural and artistic splendor of China and France in the 0th/8th century.

Exterior view of Versailles

Organize a series of public welfare activities

In the summer of 2020, the Palace Museum will hold "Oasis Action-600 Primary School Students Walk into the Forbidden City" and "Memories of the Forbidden City? 600 middle school students from both sides of the Taiwan Strait, Hong Kong and Macao entered the Forbidden City for cultural exchanges and public welfare activities, and the Forbidden City theme calligraphy competition-600 teenagers entered the Forbidden City, leading children to feel the charm of traditional culture at close range, broaden their knowledge horizons, stimulate patriotic enthusiasm and enhance cultural self-confidence.

Shoot a series of film and television works to promote the culture of the Forbidden City.

During the year, TV series Dream of the Forbidden City, TV documentary The Forbidden City, the third season of the new Forbidden City, and the large-scale epic The Forbidden City will be produced one after another, so that the culture of the Forbidden City can be integrated into life and benefit the public.

Commend a group of "Forbidden City people" who have made outstanding contributions.

To commemorate the 600th anniversary of the Forbidden City and the 95th anniversary of the establishment of the Palace Museum, the Palace Museum will commend a group of "Forbidden City people" who have made outstanding contributions to the Palace Museum and reward those who have made outstanding achievements.

In addition, the Palace Museum will design the symbol of the 600th anniversary of the Forbidden City and issue 600th anniversary coupons, commemorative coins and special stamps.

Commemorate the 600th anniversary of the Forbidden City and the 95th anniversary of the establishment of the Palace Museum.

During the series of activities, the Palace Museum will make the celebration a people's festival based on the principle of enhancing the public's sense of cultural participation and cultural acquisition, showing the cultural confidence of the Chinese nation and enhancing the far-reaching influence of Chinese culture.