China News Agency, Hong Kong, June 20 (Reporter Zhang Xiaoxi) Wang Xudong, director of the Palace Museum, was invited to enter the Hong Kong Palace Museum on the 20th to give a speech on the theme of "The Forbidden City to Watch Together for Humanity".

In an interview with a reporter from China News Agency after his speech, he expressed the hope that the Hong Kong Palace Museum can become a window for cultural exchanges and dialogues, allowing excellent traditional cultures from all over the world to exchange and learn from each other here.

Hong Kong Palace Museum.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Li Zhihua

　　On the same day, the United Hong Kong Foundation and the Hong Kong Palace Museum co-organized the "China Lecture Hall", inviting Wang Xudong to give a keynote speech and exchange and share with all the guests.

This is also the first time that the Hong Kong Palace Museum has held a large-scale personal keynote speech event, attracting more than 300 scholars, educators and culture and art lovers to participate in the event.

　　Wang Xudong said in his speech that the Forbidden City has transformed from a former "Royal Forbidden Garden" to a national treasure-level museum and a world cultural heritage.

The Forbidden City is not only a six-hundred-year-old Forbidden City, but also a gathering place of five thousand years of Chinese civilization, showing the convergence and fusion of diverse cultures.

　　In an interview after his speech, he talked about the two main purposes of building the Hong Kong Palace Museum: First, on the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, to continue to inherit and promote Chinese culture in Hong Kong, so that Hong Kong compatriots can enhance their understanding of Chinese culture. The second is to make the Hong Kong Palace Museum a place, platform and window, so that civilizations and excellent traditional cultures from all over the world can communicate, dialogue and learn from each other in the Hong Kong Palace Museum.

　　He also mentioned that the national "14th Five-Year Plan" supports the development of Hong Kong into a cultural and artistic exchange center between China and foreign countries. The cultural relics of the Forbidden City are the crystallization of ancient Chinese culture and art. As other civilizations in the world form dialogues, we also hope that traditional Chinese culture will inject new vitality into modern Hong Kong, so that Hong Kong can continue to exert its advantages in innovation and other aspects.

　　"We hope that more than 7 million Hong Kong citizens can deepen their recognition of the motherland's culture through the Palace Museum's exhibits on display at the Hong Kong Palace Museum, and more importantly, create a new culture that is in line with this era, examine today, and face the future. ." Wang Xudong said.

　　In addition, he also had a panel discussion with Wu Zhihua, director of the Hong Kong Palace Museum, Chen Qizong, chairman of Hang Lung Properties, Zheng Peikai, first director of the Chinese Cultural Center of the City University of Hong Kong, Chen Wanxiong, honorary director of Jao Tsung-I Academy, and Ding Xinbao, visiting professor of the Department of History, Chinese University of Hong Kong. , Szeto Yuanjie, former director of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, and others started a dialogue.

Many Hong Kong guests shared their views on traditional Chinese culture and cultural relics protection, and expressed their expectations for the Hong Kong Palace Museum.

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