From December 21, 2021, to April 10, 2022, following its successful series on jade culture, Chinese tea culture, and incense culture, the Guangdong Museum presents "A Song of Wine: An Exhibition of Chinese Wine Culture." This exhibition, centered on "wine," merges natural history with cultural relics. Through 254 pieces/sets of natural specimens and collection items such as bronzes, ceramics, and paintings (including 185 pieces/sets of cultural relics), it interprets Chinese wine culture from multiple perspectives, including ritual, health, customs, and export. The exhibition features for the first time many items from the museum's collection, including a bronze "jue" (ritual wine vessel), a rhinoceros horn cup with squirrel and grape motif, a silver three-dragon-foot ice bucket with dragon, flower, and figure motifs, ivory "jiu chou" (chip used during a drinking game), a silver-crested stem cup with The Three Kingdoms figure-story motifs, the Qing dynasty Evening Banquet Scroll by Chen Yunlong, a small tin ewer with carved flowers, brewing tools, and wine jars.
China's wine-making craft has a long history, and its brewing technology is unique. Cultural exchange along the Silk Road enriched the raw materials for wine-making, and the qu (fermentation starter) production technology continuously improved, gradually becoming a typical representative of the Eastern brewing world. The exhibition is divided into four parts. Parts One and Two, "Green Floating Foam Aglow on the Freshly Brewed Wine" and "Talk of Mulberry and Hemp Over Wine," approach from a natural science perspective, using plant specimens and interactive installations to show the visitors the raw materials, aromas, types, and brewing techniques of wine. Part Three, "Can You Drink a Cup?," uses bronze ritual vessels, ancient books, and paintings to lead the visitors through the fascinating wine rituals and customs, from "floating wine cups on a winding stream" (qushui liushang) to the drinking of Tusu wine. Part Four, "A Rosy Shadow Enters the Jade Cup," selects traditional Chinese and export wine vessels whose forms and styles were exquisite for their times, showing the fusion of Chinese and Western cultures and the inheritance of craftsmanship embodied in these vessels.
The cultural wine is poured, let us listen to a toast. "A Song of Wine" uses a perspective that integrates modern technology, nature, and history, and a display method that combines exquisite artifacts with interesting experiences, to lead the visitors in exploring the origin and inheritance of wine, and savoring its elegance and worldly flavors. For more information and related activities, please stay tuned for the updates in the official website, WeChat account, and Weibo of the Guangdong Museum.
The Guangdong Museum currently operates under a full-appointment, time-slotted admission system. Visitors must make a real-name booking in advance through the WeChat official account. Entry requires presentation of one’s original ID card, verification of the blue or green “Yuekang Code” or “Suikang Code,” wearing a mask, and passing a temperature check.
Date: December 21, 2021 to April 10, 2022
Venue: No. 3 Exhibition Hall, 3rd Floor, Guangdong Museum
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