This week weather has been very pleasant apart from being raining on the 18th August 2022, but most of the week it has been pleasant with blue skies and wispy clouds, looking in between photography taken by the wonderful Staff of the Forbidden City bookstore locatedwithin the massive array Complex of the Forbidden City- Palace Museum among with its Flagship store..
Forbidden city week of 15th – 19th August 2022
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In this year’s 2022, the second decade from the turn of the century in Beijing the Capital of China also the People’s Republic of China, , marking its six hundred and two years anniversary of the Forbidden city that marks the transitional point of in between the middle of the Ming Dynasty (1368- 1644) transitionally from Nanjing to Beijing towards the Qing Dynasty (1636-1644-1911) …. The Imperial Palace seen so many countless seasonally transitional equinoxes but further its six hundred years is iconic, but it’s five hundred ninety nine years it marks it Autumn Equinox…. In which it only took twelve years to build the same of the Daming Palace of The Tang Dynasty Xian Imperial Capital only it was least twenty times larger..
In this year’s 2022, the second decade from the turn of the century in Beijing the Capital of China also the People’s Republic of China, in which is also the year of the rat, marking its six hundred and two years anniversary of the Forbidden city that marks the transitional point of in between the middle of the Ming Dynasty (1368- 1644) transitionally from Nanjing to Beijing towards the Qing Dynasty (1636-1644-1911) …. The Imperial Palace seen so many countless seasonally transitional equinoxes but further its six hundred years is iconic, but it’s five hundred ninety nine years it marks it Autumn Equinox…. In which it only took twelve years to build the same of the Daming Palace of The Tang Dynasty Xian Imperial Capital only it was least twenty times larger….
After 5 years of project research and 4 months of non-stop documentary filming, the CCTV documentary “Masters in Forbidden City” presents three episodes of the repair process of various artifacts and conservators with distinct personalities. The first episode tells stories of the repair process of bronze ware, royal timepieces, and ceramics.
The CCTV documentary “I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City” has undergone 5 years of project research and 4 months of uninterrupted documentary shooting. There are three episodes in total. Each episode shows several types of closely related cultural relic’s restoration and restoration masters with different temperaments. The first episode tells the story of the restoration of bronzes, court clocks and ceramics.
Chinese people have a very special feeling for wood. For thousands of years, the Chinese have been building their homes with wood, which is far more fragile than stone. Living by trees, living in wooden houses, eating on wooden tables, sleeping on wooden beds, starting from wood, making paper with wood, printing with wood engraving, planting, cultivating, and carving one by one, wood carving The statue of Buddha seems to have more kindness that contains life.
The film focuses on recording the Forbidden City’s painting and calligraphy, bronzes, palace clocks, woodware, ceramics, lacquerware, treasure inlay, palace embroidery, etc., the restoration process of rare and rare cultural relics in this field and the life stories of the restorers. For the first time, the film fully presents the world’s top restoration process and technology of Chinese cultural relics, showing the original state and collection state of cultural relics; for the first time, it shows the inner world and daily life of cultural relic restoration experts at close range; for the first time, the restoration of Chinese cultural relics is completely sorted out. For the first time, through the interaction of “temples” and “jianghu” in the field of cultural relic restoration, it shows the inheritance code of the only “workers” in the four traditional Chinese strata “scholars, farmers, industry and commerce”, and their beliefs. And change.
This week, the topic of “cool” for the summery season, let’s start with “ice” today the temperature has been stuffy humid since last week of 13th June 2022 Week in Forbidden City Beijing – China – People’s Republic of China.
This week’s topic of “cool”, let’s start with “ice” today…..When it comes to “ice”, everyone may think of “ice cellar”, and “ice cellar” must be familiar to everyone. As the name suggests, it is a place to store ice. But there are a lot of particulars about taking ice, storing ice, and using ice: there is an item of “ice policy” as a norm in the Qing Dynasty’s “Da Qing Hui Dian” and “The Cases of the Imperial Qing Hui Dian”. It seems that wanting to cool down in summer is also a complicated process~
Round fan with peacock lacquer handle embroidered on white silk
Jiucheng summer vacation map
So let’s start with taking ice. Generally speaking, it is three days after the winter solstice every year. There is also a saying that in half a month, the ice cellar supervisor and the officials sent by the Ministry of Industry will worship the river god first, and then the director of the Ministry of Industry will worship the river god. One person leads the corvée or recruits civilian husbands to take ice from Tongzi River, Jinghe River (Yuhe) in the Forbidden City, Lotus Pond in Longwangtang, etc., and even go to Tongzhou River to take ice. Thinking that there were no modern means of transportation in ancient times, it is really a big project to go to Tongzhou to get ice.
Copper gold-plated tooth box boy fan
There is also a complete set of steps when taking ice: first, a dozen people form a team with equal spacing, and each person holds an ice plume. This ice plume is generally more than a foot long, with a handle and a four-edged long-pointed iron tool (the tools used for ice chiseling seem to be not simple). Generally, clear and thick ice cubes are selected, and everyone smashes against the ice surface repeatedly until a large crack is cracked. Then reverse the direction and repeat the same procedure to split the other three sides, so that you can get a large piece of ice.
Painted enamel flower and fruit bowl
And the ice cubes are not ready to be finished; there will be a very important process here: in order not to make the ice cubes stick to each other, the ice cubes will be separated by a clean straw. When these procedures are complete, the cellar door is sealed and the gaps are plugged with mud and straw. Why do you do that? Because the ice cellar will be closed until the beginning of summer, it is already a hot summer, so open the ice cellar, take out ice cubes for heatstroke prevention, and make all kinds of cool snacks. If the ice cellar is not sealed properly, there may be only one ice cellar in the end….
Copper Gold Plated Corner Food Container
After summer, the ice cubes taken out can be used to prevent heatstroke or make ice-cold snacks. The emperors and concubines of the Qing Dynasty also used refrigerators to cool off the heat and make “ice bowls”. The ice bowl is made of melon, fruit lotus root, lily, lotus seed, almond tofu, longan, raisin, fresh walnut and Chinese yam. Eating fruit lotus root can smooth the air, and eating green walnut can nourish the kidney. It is not only a cold drink, but also has a nourishing effect.
Pastel-like fruit high-footed plate
pastel like green porcelain fruit plate
The “refrigerator” mentioned above may not be the same as the refrigerator in our modern impression. It has two main functions: one is to store ice cubes in the box, put various summer fruits on the plate, and eat them after cooling. Another function is very cleverly designed. It uses the principle of endothermic refrigeration during the melting process of ice cubes to infiltrate the cold air into the room little by little through the small holes above the refrigerator to cool down. It can not only ice melons and fruits, but also can be used as an “air conditioner”, which is very convenient and interesting…
The Forbidden City Book Store which in the grounds of the Forbidden City Complex Forbidden City Hundred Excellent Books Public welfare reading activities! ” Forbidden City Hundred Excellent Books “故宫出版社 紫禁城100 Forbidden City 100 Excellent “The Forbidden City 100” Forbidden City Hundred Excellent Books…… Public Reading Activities “Palace Emperor’s Garden” The Forbidden City, an emperor’s palace, was founded by Emperor Yongle in Ming Dynasty, until Emperor Xuantong of Qing Dynasty abdicated, where 24 emperors ruled all directions. Today, when we visit the Forbidden City, we seem to be traveling with the emperors of all generations, because the palaces, gardens, and even the culture of the Forbidden City are inseparable from the with rich cultural connotations……
There are four gardens in the Forbidden City, such as Imperial Garden, Cining Palace Garden, Jianfu Palace Garden, and Ningshou Palace Garden (or Qianlong Garden). All four gardens are closely related to Emperor Qianlong. What this book intends to present is the pursuit of the deep meaning of Chinese landscape culture by ancient emperors. Chinese people regard gardens as landscapes, which has its own profound meaning. The production of ancient society was mainly agricultural, and people had deep affection for the land, mountains and rivers; everyone can understand the term formed by selecting the most representative “mountain” and “water”. In addition, the rule of emperors is called “sitting on the country”, and the decline and fall of the dynasty is called “throwing the country”, which also reflects the popularity of the landscape culture.
In 2019 Winter November, Beijing the Capital of China also the People’s Republic of China, in which next year 2020 the year of the rat, marking its six hundred years of the Forbidden city that marks the transitional point of in between the middle of the Ming Dynasty (1368- 1644) transitionally from Nanjing to Beijing towards the Qing Dynasty (1636-1644-1911) …. The Imperial Palace seen so many countless seasonally transitional equinoxes but further its six hundred years is iconic, but it’s five hundred ninety nine years it marks it Autumn Equinox…. In which it only took twelve years to build the same of the Daming Palace of The Tang Dynasty Xian Imperial Capital only it was least twenty times larger..
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In which during the 30th November 2019, winter has finally arrived in introduction of Snow that Chinese Painting the ancient Chinese Capital landscape within the palace halls golden yellow ceramic tiles of the Forbidden city in which painting a white snowy pavement fluffiness on the summer season almost six hundred year old pavements of the palace grounds.. making the snowy daytime sky like a white canvas replacing the blue skies..
