Exhibition opens to celebrate Year of the Horse
By: By Lin Qi
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Exhibition opens to celebrate Year of the Horse
The Chinese Traditional Culture Museum has opened Guo Nian , a new year exhibition which it started last year to celebrate Spring Festival. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] BUZZ NOTE: This caption is identical to and applies to all images below.
At Guo Nian , a New Year exhibition that has just opened at the Chinese Traditional Culture Museum in Beijing, one finds horses — the zodiac animal for the upcoming Chinese New Year — in all forms and media. For millennia, people have believed that the horse embodies their hopes and good wishes.
The museum's exhibition hall has been transformed into a temple fair, filled with the festive atmosphere that visitors remember from their childhood. It is a Chinese version of a fantasy land, where visitors can buy handicrafts, watch craftspeople work, and taste seasonal foods and drinks. Bringing together an array of crafts and performances, the exhibition showcases the traditions and folk customs that have been handed down for generations. It is also a place where people can come together, embodying the Chinese New Year tradition of reunion, one of the core values of Spring Festival.
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The other day I watched (again) the movie Contact. When Dr. Ellie Arroway was sent to Vega in order to return to Earth to relate what she saw and heard there, Vega was such a magnificent sight to be seen, she said "So beautiful, they should have sent a poet." What she said ran through my mind when I went through these images.
The Chinese certainly do know how to do colorful art objects.
The beauty of their artistry has had 5000 years of practice, and IMO it sure as hell shows it.
With the Year of the Horse soon to start, I could use a horse myself these days. But thankfully I don't need a cane as yet, and certainly not a walker or wheelchair. It's just that these old bones are getting a little creaky.