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故宫
The Forbidden City as museum: imperial collecting, conservation, and exhibitions that reopen court culture.
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Calligraphy and Painting
Palace Museum debuts a Song Jiucheng Palace rubbing
Northern Song rubbing of the Jiucheng Palace “Liqueur Spring” inscription—Shengfang Wang family copy.
Palace Museum
Thirteen heritage sites and the allure of early Chinese civilization
Beijing Minsheng’s civilization series—thirteen sites that open early China’s deep past.
Forbidden City
Forbidden City × Versailles: a Sino-French palace hang
In Wenhua Hall, the Forbidden City meets Versailles—seventeenth- and eighteenth-century court dialogue.
Palace Museum
Zhang Qing on restoring Chengxintang paper
Conservator Zhang Qing on Chengxintang paper: restoration craft and how historic paper is used again.
Gandhara
Generosity, compassion, filial piety, and becoming a Buddha beyond the kalpa: Gandhara's sacrifice to feed the tiger Jataka
In the Palace Museum’s Gandhara show, the Jataka of self-sacrifice to feed a tiger links South Asian stone to Chinese Buddhist art.
Narcissus
Narcissus letters from Forbidden City flower albums
Emerald sleeves and yellow crowns—narcissus as a Palace Museum “flower letter” motif.
clear confession
Flower letter from the Forbidden City | Suichao Qing offering: elegant charm of vase flowers, peace and auspiciousness
Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, "the first day of the first month is the dynasty of the year". At this time, the yuan will start again, ...
pine
Heavy Snow | Pines in the Forbidden City's paintings: uplifting the ground and rising to the sky, clear shade covered with green moss
On the fourteenth day of the winter month of the lunar calendar, there is heavy snowfall in the twenty-four solar terms. "The big one is full. So far, the ...
Chen Hongshou
"The painting of the old lotus is a masterpiece of a generation": the famous relics in the Forbidden City meet in Shaoxing
Chen Hongshou (1598-1652), courtesy name Zhanghou, nicknamed Laolian, was a native of Zhuji, Shaoxing Prefecture, Zhejiang Province in the Ming Dynasty. Mr. Lu ...
Taipei Palace Museum
Autumn Equinox: mountains in Forbidden City painting
Frost and turning leaves—autumn mountains as the Palace Museum paints the Autumn Equinox.
Bailu
White Dew: reed geese in Forbidden City painting
Reed-wild geese as a White Dew motif—flight, season, and Palace Museum brushwork.
Palace Museum
Li Song’s “Soldier” opens Forbidden City figures
Song dynasty “Soldier” leads a Palace Museum hang of figure painting across dynasties.