Reading "Song Rhyme" in the Ancient City of Jinling: The Elegance of Scholars in Zhejiang's Cultural Relics
The surging news has learned that the trans year exhibition "Song Yun -- the spiritual world of scholars and officials" jointly created by the Zhejiang Provincial Museum and the Nanjing Museum will be opened in Nanjing Museum tomorrow (December 18). The exhibition showcases approximately 300 high-quality cultural relics from the Song Dynasty collected by 38 archaeological and cultural institutions, highlighting new archaeological discoveries in Zhejiang Province during the Song Dynasty, including a large number of cultural relics unearthed from the tombs of Song Dynasty literati and officials. It tells the story of the governance and literary life of Song Dynasty literati and showcases their spiritual world.
A large number of cultural relics unearthed from the tombs of civil officials, scholars and officials in the Song Dynasty, such as the Huangshi Tomb in Cangnan County, Zhejiang Province, the Tomb of Dong Kangsi in Zhuji City, the Tomb of Shi Shengzu in Quzhou City, the bronze hoard of Wulinmen in Hangzhou, and the bronze hoard of Rulin Village, Morong Township, Huzhou City, which reflects the trend of retro in the Song Dynasty, will be exhibited, New archeological discoveries in Zhejiang, such as porcelain unearthed from Fanshiqiao site in Huzhou, reflecting the elegant and exquisite life style in Jiangnan area of the Southern Song Dynasty, green glaze hexagonal landscape basin unearthed from Deoksugung site in Hangzhou in 2019, and black glaze lamp unearthed from Yangjiabu Song tomb in Huzhou in 2020.
The Southern Song Dynasty Nanjing Museum collects (partially) the letters of Zhu Xi and a waiter. The Song Dynasty advocated the rule of literature, which was the golden age of literati. The literati of the Song Dynasty had dual identities as political and cultural subjects, serving as both officials and scholars. The exhibition opens with the themes of "nurturing many scholars", "carving and printing to promote education", and "promoting academic excellence to become an official". It tells the story of the cultivation of literati and officials. Developed educational institutions such as official and private schools in the Song Dynasty cultivated a large number of Confucian scholars, laying the foundation for "governing the country through culture"; The development of Woodblock printing technology has promoted the popularization of culture and the spread of ideas, and has also provided basic conditions for ordinary students in remote mountain villages to promote the literati and officialdom through reading; Confucian scholars who have read a lot of poetry and books have passed the imperial examination and entered the civil service to become literati and officials. The exhibition is divided into two parts. The first part discusses the governance of the Song Dynasty's literati with the theme of "governing the world with culture", while the second part showcases the literary and artistic life of the Song Dynasty's literati with the theme of "elegant scholar circles".
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