Caption: The appearance of the new "Forbidden City Calendar" Photo courtesy of the Palace Museum
Today, the highly anticipated 2021 version of the "Forbidden City Calendar" was released online. 2021 is the Chinese New Year of the Chinese Lunar New Year, the zodiac of the ox, so this edition of the "Forbidden City Calendar" is based on the theme of "Fun Niu Celebrating the New Year, and Good Harvest" as the theme. It selects historical cattle relics in the Forbidden City Museum, and derived from cattle and my country's agricultural culture Related collections show rich content such as Niu Ying Feng Nian, Spring Lai Niu Fei, Ji Niu Nafu, Gengzhi-based, and Fairy Niu Chengrui.
"Forbidden City Calendar" has a long history of more than 80 years. It is published by the Forbidden City Press. It is an important window for introducing the treasures of the Palace Museum and promoting traditional Chinese culture. The 2021 edition is the twelfth volume of the "Forbidden City Calendar". Up to now, the "Forbidden City Calendar" has issued a total of 5 million copies and is known as "China's Most Beautiful Calendar."
At the online release and reading sharing session held this afternoon, the reporter found that the 2021 version of the "Forbidden City Calendar" has a unique design innovation: the plastic envelope and ribbon printed with the Forbidden City Calendar are both beautiful and anti-counterfeiting. In addition to the traditional "Forbidden City Calendar", the museum also released Chinese-English version, limited collection version, gold version, youth version, Fushou version, "Forbidden City Longquan Calendar", "Forbidden City Calendar 2021" and other versions, continuing the " The publication scale of the "Forbidden City Calendar" family.
Caption: The internal page of the new version of "Forbidden City Calendar" Photo courtesy of the Palace Museum
In addition to the external "new tricks", there are also many surprises in the calendar. This edition of "Forbidden City Calendar" displays 365 precious cultural relics collections of different dynasties, types and materials from different angles. Among them are "Cao Sugong's system of farming and weaving pictures and ink" of the Kangxi Dynasty and "Yinzheng's farming and weaving pictures" of the Yongzheng Dynasty. And the "Imperial Porcelain Plate Picture Album" of the Qianlong Dynasty became the "finishing touch", reflecting the emphasis on agriculture in the past dynasties. In addition, there are many important treasures in the calendar, allowing readers to feel the important influence of cattle and farming culture on our country. At the reading sharing session of
, Wang Xudong, Dean of the Palace Museum, said that the Palace Museum has a wealth of collection resources. "Forbidden City Calendar" is an important publication to display the museum’s collection of cultural relics. It is also a successful case of developing publication categories and developing cultural and creative undertakings. Collecting resources and spreading important models of traditional culture. "Forbidden City Calendar" embodies the spirit of continuous academic excavation and exploration by the people of the Forbidden City, and presents the humanistic spirit and value implicit in the culture of the Forbidden City to readers and audiences.
It is understood that the 2021 "Forbidden City Calendar" is currently available in Xinhua Bookstores across the country and the flagship stores of the Palace Museum on Tmall and JD.com. (Xinmin Evening News correspondent Pan Zixuan in Beijing)
