New exhibition lectures on the spring in gardens will be held at the Capital Museum in Beijing.

Exhibition Lecture | Splendor of Spring in Gardens

During the Exhibition of Cultural Relics in Beijing's famous classical gardens, Beijing Municipal Administration Center of Parks, taking the theme of “Gardeners Talking About the Beauty of Gardens,” will deliver to the public a series of expert lectures, through which you will enjoy the splendor of the gardens.

Chinese classical garden art consists of elements such as hill-building, water-managing, rock-piling, plant-planting, pavilions, terraces, towers, halls, balconies, and boathouses. Loaded with rich cultural details and the wisdom of ancient gardening, it has always been our ideal spiritual homeland.

Keynote Speaker: 

Li Weimin

Former chief engineer of the Beijing Municipal Administration Center of Parks, former director and professor-level senior engineer of The Beijing Preparatory Office of the Museum of Chinese Gardens. Member of China Landscape Architecture Professional Degree Postgraduate Education Steering Committee, Vice Chairman of the National Technical Committee on Municipal Landscape Architecture of Standardization Administration of China, landscape architecture expert of Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development

Explain profound Chinese garden art in a simple way;

Help you to appreciate the essence of classical garden culture;

Explore the connotations of traditional Chinese culture behind gardens while indulging in mountains and rivers.

Lecture Topic:

Splendor of Spring in Gardens

Time:

June 15, 2019

9:30-10:30

Capacity:

200 people

Venue:

Multifunction Hall, Capital Museum

Application process

Long press to access the mini-program and for more information 

Tips:

1. Audio recording, video recording, and photography are strictly prohibited without permission.

2. The lecture capacity is 200 people. The spaces are limited. If you are unable to attend, please cancel your appointment at least one day before the application closes.

3. Sign-in will start 15 minutes prior to the lecture. Audience with an appointment is expected to arrive on time for sign-in. If you are more than 15 minutes late, entry will not be granted on that day.

4. Make sure to bring your cell phone used for application to sign in as sign-in is conducted electronically this time. If you are unable to carry out electronic sign-in, please save and present screenshots showing successful application.

5. Please turn off the ringtone of your cell phone to keep the venue quiet. 

2.When “Cultural and Natural Heritage Day” Meets the Dragon Boat Festival | Plenty of Events at the Capital Museum

A traditional Chinese festival falls on June 7.

In September 2009, the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival was listed as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Item, becoming the first Chinese festival to make it onto the list.

This minor vacation also includes June 8, the 14th “Cultural and Natural Heritage Day” in China. The Capital Museum will take this opportunity to stage colorful events for you to celebrate the festival with us. 

Event:

Drawing delicate dragon boats, and spreading realgar wine to exorcise evil spirits

The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional Chinese festival that takes on rich historical and cultural deposits in its inheritance and development. During this time of the year, the Capital Museum always initiates fascinating events such as drawing dragon boats, spreading realgar wine, and making sachets for children and invites people to spend a joyful and educational holiday together.

Time:

June 7, 2019, 9:30

Venue:

Printing Workshop, Capital Museum

Participants:

30 children aged 9-12

Application process:

Long press to identify the QR code for application and for more information 

Museum Cultural Show & Learning about People, Things, and Life during the Dragon Boat Festival

In 2018, the Museum formed a special explanation team: Fanghua Explanation Team. The members of the team, with an average age of 57, are all retirees from all walks of life in the capital city, including teachers, leaders of state-owned enterprises, senior enterprise managers, lawyers, etc. They all showed their ardor for museums by continuing to dedicate themselves to spreading traditional Chinese culture and knowledge to the audience via the Capital Museum.

After a year of industrious training and practice and the addition of new Fanghua members, a stronger and more mature Fanghua Explanation Team will make their debut on "Cultural and Natural Heritage Day" on June 8 this year to explain the city's culture and the first national treasures “Bojuli” (early Western Zhou tripod cauldron) and "Coral enamel bottle with flowers and bird patterns." The event also includes the presentation of embroidery and silk fabrics from Capital Museum restoration experts, which demonstrates the charm and inheritance of traditional culture.

The most beautiful bronzeware from the Western Zhou Dynasty–Bojuli

Early Western Zhou (from the middle of the 11th century BC to the middle of the 10th century BC)

unearthed in 1974 at the No.251, Western Zhou Tomb, Liuli River, Fangshan District, Beijing.

Collected at the Capital Museum

Rarely-seen secret treasures–Coral enamel bottle with flowers and bird patterns

Emperor Yongzheng (1723~1735)

Collected at the Capital Museum

It has always been a traditional Chinese custom to have Zongzi (traditional Chinese rice dumplings) on the festival. Besides, it has become one of the most influential and widespread folk eating customs in China. Fanghua Explanation Team teachers will invite the museum’s armed police officers to make Zongzi to promote intangible cultural heritage and celebrate the festival together with them.

Time:

June 8, 2019

10:30-11:30 

Venue:

Ceremony Hall, Capital Museum

Opening of New Exhibition!!

Implements of Ingenuity–Modern Chinese Ceramic Art Exhibition

The exhibition gathers 110 pieces (sets) of works by contemporary Chinese ceramic artists and is divided into four units. It comprehensively shows the inheritance and development of traditional Chinese ceramic techniques and the changes in ceramic art styles since the founding of China. It also expresses diversified aesthetic concepts and the personalized development space of contemporary ceramic art, which integrates multiple elements, such as classic and modern, fine brushwork and freehand brushwork, over-glaze and under-glaze, concrete and abstract, etc.

Cranes in brilliant light and reddish flowers

Jingdezhen kiln

Wu Tianlin

Jingdezhen of Jiangxi 

Pot with characters “梅、蘭、竹、菊”

Yixing red stoneware

Wang Yaping

Yixing of Jiangsu

Cabbage and ladybird

Jingdezhen kiln

Zhang Yinling

Jingdezhen of Jiangxi

Luoyang

Three-colour glazed pottery

Guo Aihe

Luoyang of Henan

Time:

June 8-August 8, 2019

Location of Exhibition:

M Hall, Ground Floor, Capital Museum

Cultural Treasure, Sea of Knowledge–Exhibition of Published Books of Cultural Relics in 70 Years Since the Founding of New China

The exhibition encompasses 98 excellent books of the Cultural Relics Press and 127 valuable pictures, showing the course of development and brilliant achievements in the publishing of cultural relics since the founding of New China 70 years ago. It reflects the extraordinary process in the preservation of cultural relics over the years. It also manifests the extensive, profound, and excellent traditional Chinese culture, and establishes a base of cultural confidence in the minds of the Chinese people.

Collotype books

Bronze Treasures of China

Audio and video product Dunhuang

Illustrated Catalogue of Selected Works of Ancient Chinese Painting and Calligraphy

Time:

June 8-November 3, 2019

Location of Exhibition:

Second-floor platform of Square Hall, Capital Museum

Application process:

Scan QR code to make an appointment

Lecture

Public Class | Evening Lecture | Calligraphy of Explanation for Studies and Calligraphy of Xian Yushu

Collected at the Capital Museum

Xian Yushu Calligraphy of Explanation for Studies

The original text is a famous article by Han Yu of the Tang Dynasty.

The first half of this scroll is mainly written in running script,

while the second half is primarily written in cursive script.

The scroll has 108 lines.

Free, easy, and coherent

Excellent stems and pause; great rhythm and harmony

As flexible as wash painting

It is a masterpiece of Xian Yushu

The calligraphy works of Xian Yushu, including running and cursive script, put Zhao Mengfu’s back-to-ancient ideas into practice.

Besides, his works have been influenced by the calligraphy of “Four Masters of the Northern Song Dynasty” and represent their styles perfectly.

June 8

Public Class | Evening Lecture

Ancient Collection Team of the Collection Department of the Capital Museum

Wu Haibin

presents to you

Calligraphy of Explanation for Studies and Calligraphy of Xian Yushu 

Lecture Topic:

Calligraphy of Explanation for Studies and Calligraphy of Xian Yushu

Time:

June 8, 2019, 18:00

Capacity:

90 people

Venue:

Multimedia Audio-Visual Room, First Floor of Circular Hall, Capital Museum

Application process:

Long press to identify the QR code for application and for more information 

Audience may enter with screenshots showing successful application.

Tips:

If you forget to take a screenshot, please go to the official WeChat account of the Capital Museum and tap on “Love · Participation”–“Application · Events,” which is located in the lower right corner, and then tap on the blue “My Appointment” icon located in the lower right corner.

Please do not waste your appointment. If you are unable to attend on that day, please cancel your appointment in WeChat. Absence without notification in advance will influence your future application for our activities.

Sign-in will start 15 minutes prior to the lecture. Audience with an appointment is expected to arrive on time to sign-in. If you are more than 15 minutes late, entry will not be possible on that day.

Audio recording, video recording, and photography are strictly prohibited without permission.

A double-festival feast full of delicious foods

Miss it and you will have to wait another year!

Come and join us!