The Palace Museum is located in the northeast of the Palace Museum, in the Ningshou Palace area, which is a treasure house for collecting and displaying precious cultural relics of the Palace Museum. The following are some cultural relics that are known as the treasure of Zhenbaoguan town hall:
Pinch wire enamel wrapped branch lotus pattern like ear furnace
Era: Late Yuan and early Ming
Features: palace equipment, furnace body with blue glaze as the ground, neck decorated with chrysanthemum pattern, abdomen decorated with branch lotus pattern, bright colors, exquisite workmanship. The enamel is crystal clear, some areas show glass-like transparency, and the enamel color is thick and coordinated, which is both magnificent and elegant.
Value: A representative work of the enamel process of the Yuan Dynasty, showing superb metal processing technology and enamel glaze preparation technology.
Carved lacquer moire plate made by Zhang Cheng
Era: Yuan Dynasty
Features: The works of the lacquer master Zhang Cheng in the Yuan Dynasty, the black paint of the pan wood tire, the carved moire inside and outside, the pile paint is thick, the carving is round, and it has the characteristics of “Wujian Zhu line”. The bottom of the disc has a “Qianlong year” and a “Zhangchengzao” needle stroke near the edge of the foot.
Value: Exquisite workmanship, great artistic and historical value, showing the charm of ancient lacquer craft.
Qianlong style Jin Ou Yonggu Cup
Era: Qing Dynasty
Features: Made of pure gold, inlaid with pearls, gems, exquisite shape. The mouth of the cup is shaped, meaning that the foundation is permanent. The whole body is covered with chiseled flowers, the core of which is mainly pearl, red and sapphire. There is a Kui dragon running upward on each side. The head is embedded with beads, symbolizing vitality and majesty.
Value: The Qing Dynasty emperor held the New Year’s Day ceremony when the special wine cup, symbolizing the stability of the state power and the supremacy of imperial power. The production process is exquisite, reflecting the superb level of ancient gold and silver ware production.
Black paint group fairy birthday bell
Era: Qing Dynasty
Features: Integration of a variety of processes, clock body gorgeous. Whenever a specific moment, the time person appears, the scene box interprets the “sea house add” “group fairy birthday” scene, meaning auspicious. Seven sets of mechanical systems were cleverly installed inside the clock, which were responsible for the walking time, the telling time and the vivid devices in the scene box, highlighting the extremely high technical level at that time.
Value: It is not only a fine work of art, but also an outstanding representative of ancient clockmaking technology.
Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival by Zhang Zeduan
Era: Northern Song Dynasty
Features: Colored on silk, in the form of a long volume to describe the northern Song capital city of Tokyo (today’s Kaifeng, Henan Province) urban appearance and the living conditions of various classes. The whole picture depicts more than 550 people, all kinds of transportation vehicles such as cars, coupes, boats, etc., and delicately shows the commerce, handicraft, folk customs and architectural art of the society at that time.
Value: National treasure level cultural relics, with high historical and artistic value, is a valuable data for the study of the social history of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Lang kiln red glaze bottle with straight mouth
Era: Kangxi period of Qing Dynasty
Features: Qing Kangxi Lang Ting extremely supervision, shape tall and straight and elegant, the whole body of red glaze, bright and deep color. Due to the high temperature, the glaze is flowing, the mouth is exposed to the fetus, the bottom of the red glaze is thick, and the outer bottom is composed of Qianlong imperial poems.
Value: represents the peak of porcelain firing technology in the Kangxi period, showing the ancient craftsmen’s exquisite control of color and shape.
Heavy drinking Asian square bottles
Era: Late Shang Dynasty
Features: Bronze wine vessel with elephant head on four shoulders, decorated with animal face pattern, Kui pattern, etc. There is an inscription on the inside of the mouth, indicating that it is a treasure for the sacrifice of the queen and the prince of the subnationality. Solemn shape, exquisite workmanship.
Value: The Palace bronzes represent works, showing the superb level of bronzes production in the Shang Dynasty.
Pingfu
Era: The Western Jin Dynasty
Features: Western Jin Dynasty writer, calligrapher Lu Ji book, the earliest existing celebrity ink. The content of the letter is to greet a friend about the disease, the writing is smooth, the style is simple and elegant.
Value: It is of great significance to the study of the changes of characters and calligraphy, and is known as the “ancestor of calligraphy”.
Shen Zifan Kesi “Mei Magpie Map” axis
Era: Southern Song Dynasty
Features: Weaving with the technique of “passing through the warp and breaking the weft”, the color silk collocation is clever, the technique is skilled, and the warp and weft density is high. The picture is simple and simple, vivid and elegant, with the seal of “Zi Fan system” and the imperial seal of Qianlong.
Value: One of the representative works of Kesi silk, showing the superb level of ancient weaving technology.
Blue jade cloud dragon pattern furnace
Era: Song Dynasty
Features: blue jade, with “work” character pattern as the base, decorated with dragon, auspicious clouds and sea water pattern. Qianlong’s seven-character poem engraved on the inner bottom, the lines are long flying and phoenix dancing, and the pen is firm and powerful.
Value: The bright pearl of jade in the Song Dynasty, exquisite craftsmanship and profound cultural connotation.
Three dragons and two Phoenixes in the Forbidden City
Era: Ming Dynasty
Features: The crested crown of Empress Xiaojing of Ming Dynasty, height 35.5 cm, diameter 20 cm, weight 2.95 kg. To paint the fine bamboo silk woven, decorated with kingfisher feather point Tsui Yi cloud pieces, etc. The crown front has a pair of green blue phoenix, the top equidistant arrangement of three golden dragons, the back has six “Bo bin”. A total of 95 rubies, sapphires, 3,426 pearls.
Value: The representative of the Ming Dynasty royal jewelry, showing the noble status and luxurious life of the Ming Dynasty queen.
These cultural relics are not only the treasure of the Palace Museum, but also the testimony of the long history and splendid culture of the Chinese nation. With exquisite craft, unique shape and profound cultural connotation, they attract tourists from all over the world to watch and study.
