Introduction

The Flavor of Hunan

The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Taking the Spring Festival as an opportunity, the special exhibition "the Flavor of Hunan" invites the audiences to gather at the Hunan Museum to experience the customs, sceneries and local specialties of Hunan and share the taste of the Spring Festival.

The Hunan Museum，with its abundant collection of cultural relics resources, brings cultural relics alive and connects history with the present through the scene experience of juxtaposition of ancient and modern times and comparison of time and space. The design of the lacquer plate, a leopard cat, excavated from Mawangdui in the Western Han Dynasty is the image ambassador of this exhibition. It travels from ancient to modern times, travels all over Hunan province, and explores the unique taste of Hunan’s new year. From the family banquet of sitting on the ground and eating separately in Western Han Dynasty to the round table dinner of the New Year’s Eve these days, the exhibition focuses on telling the Hunan’s and China’s stories behind the cultural relics and local sceneries.

Features

Interesting Knowledge: customs of Hunan and China are vividly interpreted.

Drawing on the visual language of the Tantou New Year pictures(it is a kind of painting style which is unique to Chinese Han nationality), with the leopard cat as the image ambassador, visitors will travel through ancient and modern times to see the development of Chinese New Year’s customs, and travel to Hunan to appreciate the New Year’s customs of 14 cities.

Scene Re-creation: Western Han banquet experience

Combining with the collection of Hunan Museum, the exhibition presents Western Han Dynasty banquet in different occasions. With the help of modern means of expression, audiences can interactively enjoy etiquette, food and vessels of Western Han.

Art Deconstruction: a table of New Year's Eve dinner

Applying deconstruction techniques, pop art to present a table of contemporary Hunan New Year's Eve dinner in the Hunan Museum, forming a contrast with the Western Han Dynasty banquet scene where people sit on the ground and eat separately.