On July 19th 2023 , the multilingual website of the Forbidden City Palace Museum- Beijing, China, People’s Republic of Chinawas officially released at the Digital Cultural Tourism Development Forum of the 2023 China Internet Civilization Conference! The website covers five languages: English, French, Russian, Japanese, and Spanish, and will meet the needs of audiences with different languages.
The multilingual website of the Palace Museum is committed to establishing an international website that is concise, clear, easy to use for overseas audiences, and fits the construction of the modern civilization of the Chinese nation, including tour guides, information, panoramic tours, online exhibitions, collection appreciation, cultural topics, etc. Rich immersive content describing of the most detail collection that housed within the Forbidden city collection… .
During the Months of late July towards early August 2023 it has been serve Rainstorms in Beijing in which the 603 year old Forbidden city Drainage has been designed very well in countering those intense weather conditions….
去我们一起来读计划 In the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, a red silk embroidered gold Xi word butterfly pattern single cloak. Cloaks, shirts, waistcoats, etc. are all casual clothes worn by concubines in the Qing Dynasty, and they are also gorgeous and colorful parts of court costumes. According to Guangxu’s “Great Wedding Ceremony Red Documents”, the items prepared by Emperor Guangxu for the queen’s wedding include: a total of 236 pieces of casual clothes such as shirts, cloaks, tights, ragged coats, and mandarin jackets of various materials. Forty-four pieces of clothing, eighty sets of various inner garments, eighty pairs of various shoes and socks, etc. “Red Archives of Tongzhi Wedding Ceremony in the Qing Dynasty” also has records of the colors, textures, patterns and craftsmanship of the various garments in the queen’s dowry. This cloak should be the summer casual clothes of Emperor Guangxu, Empress Xiao Dingjing. The whole body is covered with red silk, mainly with gold thread, and the Chinese character “囍” is embroidered with hundreds of butterflies. Butterflies are a symbol of happiness and love, and the word “囍” in Baidie means a happy marriage for a hundred years….
去我们一起来读计划 In the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, a single cloak with bright yellow silk embroidered with peony circles and longevity patterns. This cloak is the concubine’s summer casual dress, with bright yellow plain silk as the ground, embroidered with lake-colored, white, and light-green silk threads to embroider peony flowers with folded branches, and decorated with flat gold embroidered group “Shou” in between. The neckline, sleeves and hem are all traditional auspicious patterns, woven with gold dancing butterfly tapestry and Yuanqing satin flat gold “Shou” peony border, the color matching is very coordinated, and the embroidery is exquisite, highlighting the imperial royal clothing .
去我们一起来读计划 Qing and Ming yellow silk 囍 word mink fur coat. The Palace Museum has a wide variety of ready-made garments for empresses and concubines of the Qing Dynasty, available in all seasons and in various textures. Manchu people who originally lived in the cold region of Northeast China, their love for fur products has not diminished in the slightest after entering the customs. Wool products such as winter clothing and crown hats occupied an important position in the ceremonial clothing of the Qing Dynasty. What grade and type of fur people of different status levels wore was also determined in the system…..
[The Forbidden City opened a new exhibition in Xinjiang! 】On July 28 2023, “Glory of the Flourishing Age-Exhibition of Qing Dynasty Palace Jade Collected by the Palace Museum” opened in the “Forbidden City Hall” of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum. This exhibition is also the first appearance of the “Forbidden City Hall” of the museum. For thousands of years, the excellent cultures of various ethnic groups have converged and jointly created a brilliant Chinese civilization. Among them, jades in the Qing Dynasty used a large number of unique Xinjiang jade materials, with excellent materials, regular shapes, and designs .
去我们一起来读计划 Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, a small waistcoat with pink and gold 囍 word butterfly pattern on the front. This vest is the queen’s daily casual dress, also known as tight-fitting, round neck, double-breasted, sleeveless, with open skirts on both sides and back. The pink ground on the front and back and the back, as well as the stone-blue garment hem, are woven with the word “囍”, interspersed with a pair of colorful butterflies dancing together, implying happy reunion. The rich and colorful dowry costumes of the empress not only reflect the noble status of the empress and the exquisiteness of the wedding in the emperor’s home, but also show the exquisite craftsmanship of our country’s weaving and embroidery.
Qing, Qing Kuan, etc., the queen’s dowry picture of the big wedding picture. This is the end of the dowry procession in “The Queen’s Dowry Picture”. The scene depicted is the dowry procession walking outside the Donghua Gate, carrying some red sandalwood carved boxes and a pair of red sandalwood carved cabinets as the final push. So far, the queen The 200 dowries carried into the palace were all carried into the palace, and the two-day dowry delivery event came to an end. During the entire process of the dowry entering the palace, in order to protect the safety of the dowry all the way, the troop carrying the dowry is composed of the school lieutenant Luan Yiwei and various personnel from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. , the Ministry of Internal Affairs, etc. will be taken care of along the way.
There is a time to see the end of the day when the clouds are cleared. When the wind stops and the rain stops, enjoy the beautiful sunlight and the fragrance of golden stamens together. Hello August….!
去我们一起来读计划 Qing, Qingkuan, etc., set up a welcome picture (partial) in the album of big wedding pictures. In the evening before the big wedding, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty held a grand canonization ceremony at the queen’s mansion first, and then welcomed the queen into the palace when she was a child. Although registration and welcome are two consecutive etiquettes, they are actually completed over two days. The sixth volume of Emperor Guangxu’s “Big Marriage Picture” “Collecting the Picture of Ingratiation” depicts the process of these two pre-wedding ceremonies, including 16 pages of images and 6 pages of illustrations. The following set of pictures are all taken from this volume. This is part of the page of “Picture of Salutation at the Palace of Compassion and Peace” The wedding ceremony of Emperor Guangxu was scheduled to be held on the twenty-seventh day of the first lunar month in the fifteenth year (1889). On the twenty-sixth day of the first lunar month, before the welcoming procession set off, Emperor Guangxu went to the Cining Palace to salute Empress Dowager Cixi and announce that he was about to become a queen. The eight pieces of gold in the empress dowager’s ceremonial car are located in Ciningmen Square. On the east side are the gold furnace, gold incense box, gold spit pot, and gold bottle; , Jinping, and the golden chair in the south.
去我们一起来读计划 Qing, Qingkuan, etc., set up a welcome picture in the album of big wedding pictures. These two pages show spectacular scenes, collectively known as “Pictures of Reception and Reception in the Palace of Imperial Harmony”. After Emperor Guangxu saluted the Empress Dowager in the Palace of Compassion and Ning, he was led by officials from the Ministry of Rites to the Hall of Supreme Harmony, where he first received the congratulations from the ministers, and then appointed envoys. In the picture, the senior scholar stands under the east eaves of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the cabinet officials, publicity officials, and officials of the Ministry of Rituals stand behind the senior scholar, the envoys, deputy envoys, and saluting princes and ministers kneel on Majesty Dan, and His Majesty Dan is more Saluting civil and military officials ranked according to the grade level according to the grade mountain mark, waiting for the emperor to come…..
去我们一起来读计划Qing , Qingkuan, etc., the album of the big wedding picture sets up a welcome picture (partial); the interior view of the Hall of Supreme Harmony. This is a part of the “Picture of the Welcome Ceremony in the Book of the Palace of Imperial Harmony”. On the screen, there is a festival table in the middle of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, with a red lacquer festival frame on the table. There are book cases and treasure cases on the left and right, and a gold box on the top, which is used to hold the gold book and the queen’s treasure. Under the eaves of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, there are eight pieces of gold from the Emperor’s Fajia brine book, namely, two gold furnaces, two gold vases, two gold incense boxes, one gold spit pot, and one gold washbasin. Under the east and west eaves of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, there are Zhonghe Shaoyue chime bells, chime chimes and other musical instruments.
去我们一起来读计划Qing , Qingkuan, etc., the album of the big wedding picture sets up a welcome picture (partial); the interior view of the Hall of Supreme Harmony. This is a part of the “Picture of the Welcome Ceremony in the Book of the Palace of Imperial Harmony”. On the screen, there is a festival table in the middle of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, with a red lacquer festival frame on the table. There are book cases and treasure cases on the left and right, and a gold box on the top, which is used to hold the gold book and the queen’s treasure. Under the eaves of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, there are eight pieces of gold from the Emperor’s Fajia brine book, namely, two gold furnaces, two gold vases, two gold incense boxes, one gold spit pot, and one gold washbasin. Under the east and west eaves of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, there are Zhonghe Shaoyue chime bells, chime chimes and other musical instruments.
The umbrella cover (replica) in the emperor’s brine book. The umbrella covers in the emperor’s law driving brine book include: curved nine-dragon cover, emerald green cover, purple sesame cover, straight handle nine-dragon cover, five-color flower cover, five-color dragon cover and red and purple two-color square umbrellas. The picture shows the five-color flower cap with straight handle.
The fan (replica) in the emperor’s brine book. The fans in the emperor’s law driving brine book include longevity fans, double dragon fans, single dragon fans, peacock fans, pheasant tail fans, and phoenix fans. They are square and round in different shapes, and red, yellow, and green. The four pieces shown in the middle are fans, the one on the right is a battle-axe, and the one on the left is a leopard-tailed gun used by the leopard-tailed squad.
去我们一起来读计划 Qing, Qingkuan, etc., set up a welcome picture (partial) in the album of big wedding pictures. This is a part of the “Picture of the Welcome Ceremony in the Book of the Palace of Imperial Harmony”. It depicts princes and ministers, civil and military officials, and chief and deputy envoys standing in sequence, waiting for the emperor to preside over the ceremony in person, and appointing envoys to go to the queen’s residence for registration and welcome ceremony. The details in the picture can be seen in various fans, buildings, flags, banners, Jing, flags, weapons, etc. in the ceremonial guard of the halogen book, and the musical instruments of Danbi Dale are placed under the eaves on both sides of the Taihe Gate.
Images and visuals are from – Forbidden City –Palace Museum Beijing- China –People’s Republic of China…..