The Stories Behind the Cultural Relics - New Capital Museum Album (1)

Author: Beijing Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics
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Publishing Date: 2007-01-01
Features: The Chinese nation has a long history and splendid culture; the civilization of Huaxia has a profound and continuous heritage. Over the course of thousands of years in the development of our nation, our ancestors created countless masterpieces of human civilization. These masterpieces of human civilization include not only the magnificent ancient architecture scattered across the land of Huaxia like stars but also the exquisite national treasures, calligraphy, paintings, and cultural artifacts that were once hidden in imperial palaces and wealthy families' deep courtyards. After enduring vicissitudes and numerous disasters, these relics have been passed down to us, each of them invaluable, requiring us to look up in awe. They are tangible witnesses to the rise and fall, honor and disgrace of our nation, recording both the glory and dreams of our ancestors and the humiliation and confusion of our nation. Protecting and inheriting these historical relics, as well as popularizing knowledge of cultural relics and history, is the responsibility and historical mission of cultural relic workers today. The Stories Behind Cultural Relics is a special album from the Beijing Museum of Natural History. The Capital Museum not only houses 120,000 kinds of cultural relic treasures but also preserves a vast number of stories, with almost every cultural relic having a (zhé qū - winding and dramatic) story behind it. History is not just a series of texts recorded in books but also a series of stories that can be told through cultural relics. The compilers of this series of books aim to unveil the mysterious veil covering the faces of cultural relics, telling the (zhé qū - winding and dramatic) stories behind them, and bringing readers closer to the cultural relics, to new cultural relics. They want readers to step into the era in which these cultural relics were created, into the winding and dramatic lives of the people closely related to them, and to revisit the good and evil, beauty and ugliness, joys and sorrows that occurred with the cultural relics, thereby calling on people to love our nation's splendid culture even more and cherish the precious cultural heritage left to us by our ancestors.