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

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 unbroken lineage. Over the course of thousands of years of development in the Chinese 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 antiques that were once hidden in imperial palaces and wealthy families' 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 duty 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 holding a tale behind it. History is not just a series of words 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 stories behind them, and allowing readers to get closer to the cultural relics, to understand them better. By immersing readers in the era in which these cultural relics were created and the dramatic lives of the people closely connected to them, they can relive the good and evil, beauty and ugliness, joys and sorrows that occurred with the cultural relics. This is done to inspire people to love our nation's splendid culture even more and cherish the valuable cultural heritage left to us by our ancestors.