Beijing News Express (Reporter Ni Wei) On August 23, the 2021 "Forbidden City Calendar" online release and reading sharing session was held in the Forbidden City Bookstore through online live broadcast. The 2021 "Forbidden City Calendar" has the theme of "Fun Niu Celebrating the New Year, Good Harvest and Millet", showing 365 precious cultural relics collections of different dynasties, types and materials.
will launch this year's "Forbidden City Calendar" in Chinese-English version, limited collection version, gold version, youth version, Fushou version, Forbidden City Calendar. Photo courtesy of the Palace Museum
2021 is the Xin Chou Year of the Lunar New Year, with the zodiac ox. "Forbidden City Calendar" selects historical cattle cultural relics in the Forbidden City collections and cultural relics related to my country's farming culture derived from cattle, showing that the cow welcomes the good year, the spring comes, the cow is rich, the lucky cow is satisfied, the farming is the foundation, the fairy cow is Chengrui, and the cow Contents such as interest, red and green writing of cattle, and hundred cattle for New Year. The
calendar displays 365 precious cultural relics collections of different dynasties, types and materials from different perspectives. Among them are three sets of "plowing and weaving pictures" of different dynasties, namely "Cao Sugong's system of plowing and weaving pictures and ink" of the Kangxi Dynasty, The "Yinzhen Plowing and Weaving Atlas" and the Qianlong Dynasty's "Imperial Cultivation and Weaving Picture Porcelain Plate Album" reflect the importance of agriculture in the past dynasties from the cultural relics. Other cultural relics in the calendar include the oldest surviving ink and color works on paper in my country, the "Five Bulls Picture" drawn by the Tang Dynasty painter Han Huang, and the cow-herding-themed works drawn by painters such as Li and Tang in the Song Dynasty. The theme is Lao Zi riding a bull. Yushan, bamboo root carving, etc.
"Forbidden City Calendar" selects 365 cultural relics related to cattle and farming culture. Photo courtesy of the Palace Museum
Today, the online release of the 2021 "Forbidden City Calendar" and the live broadcast of the reading sharing session began in the form of a dialogue. Wang Xudong, Dean of the Palace Museum, said that the "Forbidden City Calendar" is an important publication of the Palace Museum’s collection of cultural relics. It is a successful case of the Palace Museum’s development of publication categories and development of cultural and creative undertakings. It is also an important model for awakening collection resources and spreading traditional culture. .
"Forbidden City Calendar" is carried by the cultural relics collected by the Palace Museum and published by the Palace Press. From 1933 to 1937, the Forbidden City published five volumes of the "Forbidden City Calendar" for five consecutive years during the war. In 2009, the Palace Press used the 1937 edition of the "Forbidden City Calendar" as the blueprint to reproduce and resume the publication of the "Forbidden City Calendar". In 2010, the "Forbidden City Calendar" inherited the tradition and began to reform and innovate. Using the twelve zodiac as a clue, the content was enriched and carefully arranged. It became a historical reader of cultural relics with pictures and texts and thematic presentations, satisfying readers' "fragmented knowledge" The actual demand for daily reading. The 2021 "Forbidden City Calendar" is the twelfth volume of the new "Forbidden City Calendar" published. Over the past 12 years, the "Forbidden City Calendar" has issued a total of 5 million copies.
is different from previous years. The 2021 "Forbidden City Calendar" has an innovative design. The plastic seal and ribbon printed with the words "Forbidden City Calendar" are both beautiful and anti-counterfeiting. In addition to the traditional version of the "Forbidden City Calendar", there are also Chinese-English versions, a limited collection version, a gold version, a youth version, a Fushou version, "Forbidden City Longquan Calendar", and "Forbidden City Calendar 2021". At present, the 2021 "Forbidden City Calendar" has been launched in all Xinhua Bookstores across the country and the online flagship store of the Palace Museum.
This year marks the 600th anniversary of the completion of the Forbidden City and also the 95th anniversary of the establishment of the Palace Museum. The online release of the "Forbidden City Calendar" is the beginning of a series of activities for the "Forbidden City 600 Years National Reading". In the next two months, live cultural activities on different themes such as calligraphy and painting, ceramics, and ancient architecture will be launched as well as offline exhibition activities of the "Happy Reading Forbidden City".
Beijing News reporter Ni Wei
editor Bai Shuang proofreading Liu Baoqing
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