A few days ago, the Hong Kong Palace Museum announced that the second batch of 69 treasures from the Palace Museum was unveiled in October.
According to reports, the 69 precious cultural relics on display this time are all treasures of the Palace Museum. They are used to rotate from the opening of the Hong Kong Palace Museum, including painting, calligraphy, textiles and other fragile and light-sensitive works.
Based on the consideration of cultural relics protection, works of these materials can only be exhibited for three months.
Among the 69 cultural relics on display this time, 25 are displayed in the ninth exhibition hall. This exhibition displays precious horse-related collections of the Palace Museum and the Louvre, showing cultural exchanges and mutual learning between China and foreign countries.
The most eye-catching treasures include the painting "The Emperor Qianlong's Armor Riding a Horse" by a court painter in the Qing Dynasty, the legendary animal picture book "Beast Book" which took 11 years to create, and the "Beast Book·Dragon Horse" which records ancient beasts. A rare painting of the Qianlong Emperor and a royal woman riding and shooting in the Mulan paddock, "The Mighty Arc Captures the Deer" and so on.
The new collections of the Palace Museum exhibited in the first to fifth exhibition halls include: "Yongzheng Emperor Lin Yong Lectures" depicting Yongzheng's lectures at Guozijian, and Qianlong Emperor's 80th birthday gift to his mother, Empress Dowager Chongqing, "Ganzhuer" The Classics, a costume embroidered with gold thread and peacock feathers, "Song and Crane Pattern Lao Dan", the representative work of Qianlong's large pastel utensils, "Famille Nine Peach Knot Figure Celestial Ball Vase", Emperor Sejong (Yongzheng) and The almost life-size portrait of Empress Xiaoshengxian in court clothes, and the tower-type water clock that showcases the exquisite skills of craftsmen during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.
(Reporter Fan Siyi produced Xu Miaoqiao)
Responsible editor: [Luo Pan]