Wuhan, 5 May (ZXS) -- Topic: Chime Music and Dance Strength "Circle Fans" Jing Chu is romantic
China News Agency reporter Liang Ting
In the newly built chime recital hall of the Hubei Provincial Museum, the crisp and melodious sound of chimes swirls for a long time; The graceful dancing posture interprets the banquet scene of the court of the Chu State, reproduces the audio-visual feast of ancient Chinese music culture in the pre-Qin period, and allows the audience to linger.
As the "business card" of Hubei Provincial Museum, the chime music and dance, with its strength "circle fans", has recently welcomed tourists from all over the world to compete for "check-in".
In April this year, the chimes of the Hubei Provincial Museum were played. Photo by Zhang Chang, reporter of China News Agency
"After the ticketing system opens, it sells out in a short time." Luo Le, the composer of the Hubei Provincial Museum Chime Orchestra, is coordinating the temporary performance, and he told reporters that the daily visitor reception in the museum has been close to the peak recently.
In Luo Le's view, chime music and dance use the art form of combining song, music and dance to "jump" out of the display case, and the audience directly "looks at its shape, listens to its voice, feels its feelings, and understands its meaning", interacting and connecting with the cultural relics.
In December 2021, the third phase of the Hubei Provincial Museum was completed and opened, and the exhibition area expanded to 12,3 square meters. The cultural relics collection is moved to a "new home", and the treasure of the town hall lives in a "mansion". In the 6-square-meter exhibition hall, the "king of swords" Yue Wang Goujian sword emits a sharp cold light in the display case. Outside the exhibition hall, there are already long queues of visitors.
Li Danyi, a college student from Nanyang, Henan Province, and her roommate "rushed" into the museum just after leaving the station. She said that she came to Yue Wang Goujian Sword to explore the secret of its "thousand-year-old stainless steel". "When I come to a city, I first walk into a museum." Li Danyi said that all kinds of cultural and creative peripherals are innovative, making young people very "on the head" (Internet slang, mostly refers to the overly excited and uncontrollable emotions caused by a certain thing).
"Thousand-year-old stainless steel" Yue Wang Gou sword and emitted a sharp cold light in the display case. Photo by Zhang Chang, reporter of China News Agency
In the exhibition hall of Zeng Hou Yi, under the bright dome of the "Twenty-eight Stars", the chimes of Zeng Hou Yi, who moved into the "new home", are even more magnificent and solemn. In this exhibition hall, visitors always "surround the display case layer by layer" just to see the treasure of the town hall.
Hubei Provincial Museum has more than 24,<> pieces (sets) and nearly <>,<> national first-class cultural relics (sets), especially Shang and Zhou bronzes, Warring States Qin and Han lacquered wood, Chu Qin and Han simple mu, pre-Qin and Ming dynasty tombs unearthed gold and jade objects.
Zeng Pan, director of the exhibition department of Hubei Provincial Museum, introduced that the museum's "archaeology" and "music" characteristics are distinct, and its core collection is mainly archaeological excavations; Among them, the musical relics represented by the chimes of Zeng Hou Yi reveal the development and evolution of the ancient ritual music system. Combined with the characteristics of cultural relics, the new museum has set up 6 permanent thematic exhibitions, including "The Eight Hundred Years of the State of Chu", "Zeng Marquis Yi", "Zeng Shijia - Zeng Guo Revealed by Archaeology", "Special Exhibition of the Sword of King Goujian of Yue", "Treasure of King Liangzhuang", "Eight Sounds and Ming-Music Cultural Relics Exhibition".
Zeng Marquis Yi's chimes that moved into his "new home" are even more magnificent and solemn. Photo by Zhang Chang, reporter of China News Agency
Docent Wei Lai has worked in the Hubei Provincial Museum for 6 years and has experienced many changes in the museum. He said that in recent years, the young group has set off a "cultural fever", and the number of young people entering the museum to "check in" is increasing; Compared with the "passive input" explanation, the audience is now more willing to exchange and discuss, and many "cultural relics fans" come to the exhibition with questions.
In recent years, many cultural relics in the museum have become "popular" on the Internet, and in the online world, they have been re-interpreted by young people.
Among them, a dried bream unearthed in Jingzhou, Hubei Province, during the Warring States period, is still well preserved after more than 2000,<> years, and the fish scale patterns are clearly distinguishable. Netizens called it "the most well-known salted fish ever". This "cultural relic fish" is one of the representative exhibits of Jingchu food culture, and together with the remains of peppercorns, ginger, rice and other plants unearthed, it reproduces the food culture of the Chu people.
In the Hubei Provincial Museum, a dried bream unearthed in Jingzhou, during the Warring States period, is still well preserved after more than 2000,<> years. Photo by China News Agency reporter Liang Ting
The well-known tomb of Zeng Marquis Yi also unearthed a set of copper stove plates, which is the earliest bronze cooking utensil found to fry and bake food, and when it was unearthed, there was charcoal in the furnace, and there were crucian fish bones in the plate, from which it was inferred that Zeng Guojun Zeng Marquis Yi loved to eat fish; The cooking method of grilled fish has been circulating in Chudi for a long time. The treasure of the new Jin Town Hall, Zeng Marquis Yi Zun Plate, is considered to be the most complex and exquisite bronze device in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, and the Zun Li contains wine, and the plate is filled with water, which can be used for warm wine or ice wine, which shows the exquisite life of Zeng Hou Yi.
The picture shows the Zeng Marquis Yizun plate. Photo by Lily Liu
Wang Xianfu, deputy director of Hubei Provincial Museum, said that from many cultural relics, we can interpret the details of the life of the ancients and other information, which are closely related to the current daily life. Pulling in the distance between cultural relics and the public and excavating the story behind them requires a "grounded" interpretation. Making cultural relics "alive" is the direction of continuous exploration.
Recently, the newly created immersive holographic drama "Meet King Chuzhuang" was unveiled at the Hubei Provincial Museum. Combined with the characteristics of cultural relics in the collection, virtual reality, naked-eye 3D and other technologies carry out digital art processing of Chu cultural elements, reproducing the legendary history of King Chu Zhuang winning the Central Plains.
"With the help of scientific and technological means and art forms, realize the empathy of cultural relics and audiences." Wang Xianfu said that science and technology are "blessed" and art is reproduced, so that cultural inheritance maintains strong vitality.
Spanning thousands of years, the brilliant cultural relics tell and reproduce the brilliant Jingchu civilization. Wandering through the Hubei Provincial Museum, visitors can explore the secrets of time and space, meet the present, and speculate about the future. (End)