Last year, there was a cultural documentary that was well received, and the movie adapted from it was also very popular, that is, "I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City". The Forbidden City certainly plays an extremely important role in the history and culture of our country. Documentaries and films show for the first time the original state, collection status and long restoration process of the mysterious and noble cultural relics in the Forbidden City. The sentence that impressed me most after watching the movie was, "The value of cultural relics is not in restoration, but in inheritance." It can be said that this is the starting point of restoration of cultural relics, and it is the true meaning of the Forbidden City culture.
"I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City" has also been written into a book. After enjoying the brief but changing light and shadow shots, you can turn over the pages of the book and compare them one by one to appreciate the difference between the cultural relics in the Forbidden City before and after restoration. This uniquely records the imprint of time and history on them, and also records the difficulty of craftsmen staying isolated from the prosperity. We can see more things than restored clocks, bronzes, and guqins. In the mysterious light and shadow of the Forbidden City, those treasures with historical traces, each one has a life and story, and they are also a display of Chinese culture.
"The Romance of the Forbidden City" is a collection of a series of articles published by the author Zhu Yong in "October" magazine, using today's perspective to examine and describe the ancient masterpieces we are familiar with - - Wang Xizhi's "Lanting Preface", Zhang Zeduan's "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" and Han Xizai's "Night Banquet", etc. In this gentle book, the paintings and calligraphy that bear the heavy responsibility of history and have been collected and changed hands will once again reveal the people and things that once appeared and disappeared in the Forbidden City. Art is greater than dynasties, but the atmosphere of dynasties is also lingering. Following them is like traveling through time.
In fact, Zhu Yong himself believes that the Forbidden City is his lifelong writing resource. In addition to re-examining the paintings and calligraphy of the Forbidden City, the architecture of the Forbidden City, and even every corner of the Forbidden City from a historical and cultural perspective, he even interacts with The Forbidden City asks and answers itself. The poetic language, prose style and historical attitude take us back to the historical events inside and outside the Forbidden City and the profound cultural background of the times. In his writing, the Forbidden City to China is the Forbidden City of the imperial city, the Forbidden City of history, and the Forbidden City of culture. Of course, there are also many interesting books written by experts on Forbidden City studies, such as "From the Forbidden City to the Forbidden City" in our short book series.