Chinanews.com, Beijing, August 26th, title: Experience drinking soy juice in an ancient straw cup!
Have you got these "fancy" poses for visiting museums?
Author Ma Shuaisha
What was unearthed in the gilt parrot-patterned silver jar in the Tang Dynasty?
Are there toilets in the Tomb of the Han Dynasty in Beizhai, Yinan?
How was the mural of "Xuanwu Tu" in Han Xiu's tomb destroyed by tomb robbers restored?
Through "checking in" the museum, museum enthusiast "Artery Shadow" is using his lens to attract netizens to pay attention to the museum and understand the stories behind the cultural relics. His enthusiasm for the museum has helped him accumulate a number of fans.
Nowadays, there are more and more people like "Artery Shadow" who like to go to the exhibition in depth and share their experience.
Museums that were once "highly cold" have become more and more "net celebrities" for people to "charge" and "check in", integrate into the popular "fashionable life" and collide with new sparks.
How many "fancy" poses did you get when visiting the museum?
Walking into the museum, the audience’s postures are different, taking notes, listening to explanations, searching on mobile phones, taking pictures... Museum lovers "Arterial Shadow" are "out of the circle" based on photographs of cultural relics taken while visiting the exhibition. Today, he has nearly 4 million fans on social media platforms.
Many netizens believe that the agile beauty revealed by the “certificate photos” of cultural relics taken by “Artery Shadow” shows a quiet and spiritual museum world and is helping more people to “plant grass” museums.
The public visited the Tsinghua University Art Museum "Pillars-The 120th Anniversary of Liang Sicheng's Birth Document Exhibition" on weekends.
Photo by Ma Shuaisha
"Artery Shadow" has so far checked in more than 200 museums and taken about 500,000 photographs of cultural relics. It is a treasure of many exhibits in domestic museums.
He said that he "is just an ordinary visitor who loves museums and a person who loves to'post photos'".
For him, visiting a museum is like going out to go shopping or watching a movie. It has become an important way of leisure. When he is free on weekends, he puts on his camera and goes to the museum for an hour or two.
Wu Kejie, a doctoral student from the Center for Historical Geography Research of Fudan University, also visited at least 200 museums, and is still impressed by the 2015 "Shiqu Baoji Special Exhibition" in the Palace Museum.
"At that time, the "Surfing the River on Qingming Festival" and "Five Bulls" caused a sensation in the city. I started from school at 6 o'clock and waited for 3 hours to see the exhibition. I was a little tired, but I felt it was worth it! "
In addition to daily visits and exhibitions, going to museums wherever you go has become a tacit understanding for many museum lovers.
In Wu Kejie's view, museums are the best window to understand local history, culture, customs, and customs. The collections in various places not only convey the humanistic temperament of the city, but also ignite the "spark" of the audience's thinking.
Every time she goes to a new museum, the "post-90s" girl Cheng Xiqi will first look at important collections and special exhibitions.
When she talked about going to Shenzhen for an internship two years ago, she just happened to catch up with the special exhibition of "Dahan Haiyunhou" at the Shenzhen Museum.
Before viewing the exhibition, she also watched Haiyunhou's related documentaries, "Looking at the cultural relics with an understanding of the characters, you will have different perceptions."
Photo by “Artery Shadow” of Song Blue Glass Bridge Hairpin at Shanghai Museum of Glass
Many museum enthusiasts have become active tellers of museum stories while visiting exhibitions, attracting popularity and adding vitality to museums in different ways.
Beginning last year, "Artery Shadow" has successively cooperated with many museums to reveal the stories behind the museum and its collections through videos, such as how the Longmen Grottoes "moved into" the museum, and a close observation of the excavation of the Dingdong Tomb of Cixi in the restoration room of the museum. Funeral costumes, etc.
As the title "Secret Mirror" conveys, he conveys the unknown stories and rare places in the museum to the audience through the lens.
In addition to the "secret mirror", he also became the "evaluator", evaluating whether ancient things are useful in a humorous style.
He even used a pastel lotus suction cup to experience the feeling of drinking soybean juice with an ancient straw cup. He also humorously joked in the video, "The principle of using the autumn exercise cup is to solve the plastic restriction order. The problem provided a new way of solving problems", which attracted the attention of many netizens.
Wu Kejie became a volunteer interpreter at the Zhejiang Provincial Museum, giving lectures on the "Long Songs of Vietnam" Zhejiang General History Exhibition.
"Every time I see everyone listening to the explanations and being full of interest in the history and cultural relics of my hometown, I feel very proud." Nowadays, there are not a few museum volunteers like Wu Kejie. They are building a relationship between the museum and the audience. Bridges and bonds attract more audiences.
What kind of "sparks" will collide between the museum and the audience "two-way"?
According to official data, during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the number of registered museums nationwide increased from 4,692 to 5,788, an increase of 23.4%.
In 2020, museums across the country will hold more than 29,000 exhibitions and plan more than 25,000 educational activities. Even with current restrictions, they will still receive 540 million visitors, including 130 million minors.
Zhu Yarong, deputy curator of the Sanxingdui Museum, is deeply touched by the development of the museum. “In the past, most of the people who visited the museum were middle-aged people with a higher level of education. Now, more and more young people, parents and children are entering the museum. Paying more attention to knowledge and culture. As the audience increases, the people's requirements for museums in all aspects have increased, which makes us feel a certain amount of pressure and motivation."
Photo by "Artery Shadow" in a white glazed bowl from Jinjun Kiln in Osaka Municipal Museum of Oriental Ceramics
With the number of museums and the number of visitors on the rise, Chinese museums are also embracing a new generation of viewers through "upgrading and upgrading".
Zhu Yarong has been in the museum for more than 20 years and has witnessed the "innovation" process from planning special exhibitions to launching virtual exhibitions, from preparing micro-broadcast dramas to designing museums and cultural creations.
"Facts have proved that museums must not just keep an inherent display and exhibition. They need to constantly update the contents of the exhibition, improve the display level, develop cultural and creative products, carry out rich social education activities, and continue to meet the people's cultural needs for the museum." Zhu Yarong Say.
Based on the domestic basis, many museums have become more and more international perspectives.
Sultan, deputy curator of the Tsinghua University Art Museum and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, told Chinanews.com that China's museums have made rapid progress in recent years, not only increasing the number of museums, but also the quality of their exhibitions.
In the current era of globalization of exhibition content, the exchanges between domestic and foreign museums are becoming closer. Especially in Chinese metropolises, you can see more and more exhibitions featuring international trends in the fields of historical relics and contemporary art.
"Artery Shadow" from the Palace Museum's collection of a famille rose with peach and bat pattern during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty
"The increase in this type of exhibition helps to allow the audience to experience diverse cultures and different perspectives, including differences in values, thinking, and expression." Sultan said, "The international perspective can quickly shorten the distance between individuals and the world, regardless of Whether it is questioning or criticizing or embracing, it can bring vitality to the exhibition and bring new feelings to the audience."
In fact, good museums and audiences have been "going in both directions" and embracing each other.
As the number of museum visitors increases and the types of audiences become more diverse, it will be more to be seen what kind of "sparks" the museum will collide with the audience.
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