Auspicious prints to greet our future
New Year woodblock exhibition at the Capital Museum explores past and present, Fang Aiqing reports.
The Capital Museum will also exhibit gold artifacts from the collection of the Hong Kong Palace Museum from November to February 2026. Including gold pieces from the northern grasslands, the Central Plains, as well as the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the exhibition aims to present an overview of the development of gold craftsmanship over the course of 3,000 years and explore the historical role gold played in civilizational exchange.
From May to August, the Grand Canal Museum of Beijing will exhibit 300 artifacts unearthed from the 3,300-year-old Yinxu Ruins in Anyang, Henan province, where oracle bones inscribed with the earliest-known Chinese characters have been found.
According to Tan, the exhibition will be followed with another featuring artifacts discovered in two ancient shipwrecks in the South China Sea dating back to the Ming Dynasty.
