Ten treasures with the highest value in the Forbidden City 1. Along the River During the Qingming Festival
The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is a genre painting of the Northern Song Dynasty painted by the painter Zhang Zeduan. It is the only fine painting left by the painter and is now a national treasure of the Palace Museum in Beijing. This five-meter-long picture depicts a large number of people, livestock, houses, bridges and ships of all colors, each with its own characteristics, which is a true portrayal of the economic situation in the Northern Song Dynasty.
2. thousands of miles away
A Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers is a silk color painting created by Wang Ximeng in the Northern Song Dynasty. It is a landscape map of the south of the Yangtze River composed of rolling mountains and foggy rivers. It is one of the top ten famous paintings handed down from generation to generation in China, with vivid and meticulous images. This painting created by the traditional turquoise method can't surpass this painting in all the works in the Song Dynasty.
3. Five Cattle Map
Wu Niu Tu is a colorful painting created by Han Yun, a painter in Tang Dynasty, on jute paper. It is a piece of paper with a length of 20.8 cm and a width of 1.396.8 cm, and five cows with different postures are distributed from right to left. It is one of the few original paper paintings handed down from the Tang Dynasty, and it is also the earliest existing paper Chinese painting.
4. Plug wire, enamel branch and lotus pattern elephant ear furnace
This Yuan Dynasty cloisonne enamel is currently collected in the Palace Museum in Beijing. This elegant and dignified enamel, with a height of 13.9cm and a caliber of 16cm, is a representative work of enamel technology in the Yuan Dynasty, among which the lotus with flowers is the most decorative and one of the top ten treasures of the Forbidden City.
5. Pavilions painted in black paint, fairy's birthday bells
This royal palace clock, built in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, is185cm high and102cm wide. The overall shape is a wooden tire, black paint and a two-story pavilion. The changing scenery boxes on the left and right sides respectively perform the birthday celebration of the immortals and the participation of Haifu. This exquisite, simple and elegant clock is a masterpiece of Qianlong period.
6. Jade, Dayu, Water Control, Tushanzi
This palace jade, built during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, is currently collected in the Leshou Hall of Ningshou Palace in the Palace Museum. This jade is made of dense and hard sapphire, with a height of 224 cm, a width of 96 cm and a weight of 5000 kg. It is engraved with the seal script of the Emperor Qianlong of the Five Dynasties in Five Blessingg, and is one of the largest jade carvings in the world.
7. Jin 'ou Gu Yong Cup
There are four Jin 'ou Gu Yong Cup * * *, namely, 3 gold cups and 1 bronze gilding, which were made in the early years of Qianlong and Jiaqing respectively. The two sides of the Jinding-shaped round gold cup are engraved with the years of Jin 'ou Gu Yong and Qianlong respectively. At present, these four gold cups are hidden in the Wallace Museum in London, the National Palace Museum in Taipei and the National Palace Museum in Beijing.
8. Stone Drum
Stone Drum, also known as Chencang Stone Drum, is two feet high and more than one foot in diameter. It is one of the nine treasures in China and has the reputation of being the oldest in China. In 627, it was discovered on Shigu Mountain in Baoji City, Shaanxi Province, and the history before Qin Shihuang's reunification was recorded on *** 10 Shigu. It is the earliest stone carving poem in China, and is known as the ancestor of seal script.
9. Jade Yunlong pattern furnace
This Song Dynasty Dragon Furnace, 7.9 cm high and 12.8 cm wide, is currently in the Palace Museum in Beijing. Because it is an antique bronze jade made of sapphire based on bronze reed, this antique jade has Youlong, auspicious clouds and sea water patterns on it, and the inner bottom of the vessel is engraved with seven-character poems of Qianlong.
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Ping Fu Tie is a cursive calligraphy work created by Lu Ji, a calligrapher in Jin Dynasty. It is 23.7 cm high and 20.6 cm wide. This calligraphy work with 9 lines and 84 words, dating back to 1700 years, is currently collected in the Palace Museum in Beijing. It is the earliest existing calligraphy post of the Western Jin Dynasty found in China, which has important reference value for people to study the changes of characters and calligraphy.