[Explanation] On February 21, the special exhibition "Golden Showcasing—Ancient Gold Artifacts Collected by the Hong Kong Palace Museum and Mengdiexuan" was unveiled at the Hong Kong Palace Museum.

Wu Zhihua, curator of the Hong Kong Palace Museum, said the exhibition will be open to the public from February 22 to September 25, 2023, featuring 220 sets of ancient Chinese gold wares.

　　[Concurrent] Wu Zhihua, Director of the Hong Kong Palace Museum

　　The exhibits in this exhibition span the history from 1000 BC to nearly 3000 years. Our focus of this (exhibition) is to see the role of gold in cultural transmission, especially in the northern grassland people and our Central Plains their influence on the course of our cultural development through migration, trade, and military contacts.

　　[Explanation] Wang Yiyou, deputy curator of the Hong Kong Palace Museum, said in an interview with a reporter from China News Agency that this exhibition is the first special exhibition focusing on the collection of the Hong Kong Palace Museum, and most of the exhibits are collected from ancient China. The collections donated to the museum in 2022 by Lu Yinyin and Zhu Weiji, the owners of Mengdiexuan of gold and silver artifacts, the earliest exhibits can be traced back to the 18th century BC.

　　[Concurrent] Wang Yiyou, Deputy Director of the Hong Kong Palace Museum

　　Our first annual exhibition in the Year of the Rabbit is "Golden Splendor - Ancient Gold Artifacts Collected by the Hong Kong Palace Museum and Mengdiexuan", so it is a very auspicious exhibition.

How is this exhibition different from our other inaugural exhibitions?

One of the characteristics of this exhibition is that this exhibition is based on the collections of our museum. Where does the collection come from?

Hong Kong has a very good and very generous group of collectors who have donated their collections over the years to the Hong Kong Palace Museum, and that became the basis of our first collection.

Today, the Hong Kong Palace Museum has received more than 1,000 collections.

　　[Explanation] Wang Yiyou said that there are a total of 220 sets of ancient Chinese goldware on display in this exhibition, including gold ornaments of ancient nobles, decorations of horses and carriages.

Among them, the gold wares that impressed her most were the hairpins worn by noble women in the Tang Dynasty.

　　[Concurrent] Wang Yiyou, Deputy Director of the Hong Kong Palace Museum

　　For example, you will see some very gorgeous hair accessories inside, especially some hairpins that use a lot of craftsmanship. First of all, I think it is very interesting that the hairpins are very large. You can imagine the hair accessories of noble women at that time Because the hairpin can be so big, the hairpin is engraved or hammered, or some other crafts, such as gold bead craft and inlay craft, are used to create extremely gorgeous gold ornaments, so I especially recommend it to everyone. to see.

　　[Explanation] It is reported that this exhibition is divided into three parts. The first part shows the early gold wares in China and the Eurasian grasslands in the 18th century BC, and explores the interaction between the grasslands and the Central Plains. The exhibits include treasures used by the Huns nobles. The golden crown; the second part focuses on the gold wares of the Tang Dynasty and the Tubo Dynasty from the 7th century to the 10th century AD, showing the role of gold wares in the close communication between the two dynasties; the third part presents the achievements of ancient Chinese gold wares in the glorious period, It shows the localization and national integration characteristics of gold products from Liao, Song and Ming Dynasties.

　　Reporter Liang Yuan reports from Hong Kong

Responsible editor: [Luo Pan]