June 14 is China's Cultural and Natural Heritage Day. This year's theme is "Let cultural relics glow with new vitality and shine with new splendor". The main city event hosted by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and the Hunan Provincial Government will be held in Changsha, Hunan Province, and will present the theme exhibition "The Endless Yangtze River Rolls on - Yangtze River and Chinese Civilization Exhibition". The Paper's "The Paper's View of the Exhibition" will broadcast live at that time.
The Paper learned that cultural relics departments and museums across the country will organize more than 7,000 offline and online activities on that day, including more than 3,000 cultural relics services for the benefit of the people. In Shanghai, 30 cultural relics buildings and museums will be open to the public free of charge (with reduced admission).
Changsha Main Venue: Focus on "Giving Cultural Relics New Vitality"
According to the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, this year Changsha's main city activities will include a series of cultural relics publicity and display, selection and promotion, and related releases.
During the event, the opening ceremony of the host city event, the theme forum "Let Cultural Relics Glow with New Vitality and Bloom with New Glory", and the 5th Cultural Relics Science and Technology Innovation Forum will be held; grassroots cultural and museum workers will be invited to give thematic speeches; a list of selected and recommended cases for high-quality development of cultural relics undertakings and a list of high-quality new media communication projects for Chinese cultural relics in 2025 will be announced; related activities of the National College Students' Cultural Relics Protection Law Moot Court will be held; cases of the integration of cultural relics and technology will be released; the launch of "National Treasure Moments", "Take a Lesson Together | Our Chinese Civilization - Rice "Xiang" Floating for Ten Thousand Years", and "China Archaeology Lecture Hall" (Fifth Season) will be announced; the documentary "Because of the Yangtze River" and the large-scale cultural program "Treading Song·Cultural Heritage" will be launched; the issuance of the National Treasure series of commemorative coins (the third group) will be launched; the theme exhibition "The Endless Yangtze River Rolls in - The Yangtze River and Chinese Civilization Exhibition" will also open. The exhibition takes the Yangtze River as the stage, cultural relics as the protagonists, the evolution of civilization as the main line, and national character as the characteristics. It tells the great role of the Yangtze River in the origin, formation and development of Chinese civilization, and in the integration, evolution and rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Poster for the exhibition "The Endless Yangtze River Rolls on - The Yangtze River and Chinese Civilization"
Pottery bowl with pig pattern. Hemudu culture of the Neolithic Age. Collection of Zhejiang Provincial Museum
Exhibits of the “Buddha’s Light and Golden Shadows: Gold and Bronze Buddha Statue Art from Past Dynasties in the Hunan Provincial Museum”
As the host city, Hunan Province will organize 425 distinctive supporting activities such as cultural relics exhibitions, special lectures, research and practice, knowledge quizzes, and art performances, and launch a series of people-friendly measures such as ticket reductions, extended closing hours, and benefit performances. The Hunan Provincial Museum will launch exhibitions such as "Buddha's Light and Golden Shadows - The Art of Gold and Bronze Buddha Statue in the Museum's Collection of Successive Dynasties", presenting more than 100 gold and bronze Buddha statues from the Wei and Jin Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the Hunan Museum's collection; Changsha City will launch 10 supporting activities such as the "Masterful Hands and Ingenuity · Cultural Relics Reborn - Make History Within Reach" cultural relics restoration experience, and 5 special exhibitions such as "Images of the Heart - Gu Gan's Chinese Calligraphy Abstract Art Exhibition", to promote the sharing of the results of cultural relics protection and utilization by all people.
During the Cultural and Natural Heritage Day, under the advocacy of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, local cultural relics departments and cultural and museum units will organize more than 7,000 offline and online activities, of which more than 3,000 cultural relics benefit the people. The main venue series of activities in Gansu Province kicked off at the Fuxi Temple Tourist Service Center in Tianshui City, and the main venue activities in Jiangxi Province started in Jingdezhen.
Shanghai: 30 cultural relics buildings and museums will be open for free (reduced fees)
According to the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, as a featured event of Shanghai Cultural and Natural Heritage Day, the "Cultural Relics Buildings Open to the Public for Free" has always been well received. This year, a total of 30 cultural relics buildings and museums will be open to the public for free (reduced fees). Among them, Fudan University's Ice Museum is open to the public for the first time after its renovation. For the specific opening list, please see:
The historic building in Shanghai, No. 580 Wujin Road, will be open to the public for free on the 14th
Around the Cultural and Natural Heritage Day, major museums in Shanghai presented a series of new exhibitions of fine cultural relics. "Treasures of Ancient Rhinoceros: Rhinoceros Horn Artifacts from the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the Shanghai Museum" exhibited more than 100 rare rhinoceros horn artifacts from the Shanghai Museum's collection, presenting the unique charm and profound connotation of rhinoceros horn artifacts from the Ming and Qing dynasties to the audience from multiple angles, and also showing the ancient people's pursuit of a better life.
"Ancient Rhinoceros Treasures: Rhinoceros Horn Artifacts from the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the Shanghai Museum" exhibits
Exhibits of "Revhua Nong Shen - Tang Dynasty Life Aesthetics Exhibition"
On June 18, Fengxian District Museum will join hands with 8 cultural and museum units to present the "Revlon Deep - Tang Dynasty Life Aesthetics Exhibition", which will display 323 cultural relics. From vivid painted figurines to tri-color wine glasses of various shapes, from the uniquely decorated Bacchus camel to the precious Kaiyuan Tongbao "limited edition", the types of cultural relics include ceramics, gold and silver wares, jade and stone wares, silk fabrics, etc.
(Part of this article is based on information from the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and relevant museums)
