Notes on Changle Road | Shanghai Museum

In the face of the mutant virus BA2, Shanghai went around in circles, and finally moved towards the closure of the city in the de facto sense. I don’t know when will the cultural relics in the Shanghai Museum be able to gather under the spotlights as usual, and greet the visitors from all over the world without a word?

Every trip I go to the museum. In the business plan, the first rule is to summarize the content of the ppt that fills the first page. For example, the restaurant will first put out the most proud main course and plate, and after rudely stuffing the stomach of the diners, there will be no room for questions and complaints. What the museum satisfies is this function: an object represents a city, and a line of text condenses a dynasty. The physical encyclopedia, sitting in the middle of the city.

The Shanghai Museum achieves this purpose in another way – it is called Shanghai, but it is not only focused on Shanghai, the exhibition halls are designed with special theme, many treasures have little origin with Shanghai, but the museum either relies on donations from private collections, or Relying on their own financial resources to collect, and finally the country's high-quality exotic products are collected into the arms. This is the attitude that only Shanghai can have. Just like the people who live here, they have different origins, and the land by the Huangpu River is no more than three generations of fetters, but as long as they really live here, they will become Shanghai people, confident, arrogant, and always. It has a unique aura, as Zhang Ailing said: "After all, she is from Shanghai!"

The Dake Ding of the town hall is placed in the center of the bronze ware hall on the first floor. This is a treasure of the Western Zhou Dynasty. It was buried in the ground somewhere in Shaanxi, and it was only unearthed in the cellar after thousands of years. Of course, being unearthed is not necessarily better than being buried in the ground. In a chaotic world, the cauldron has lost the majestic bearing of the ancient times, and will be displaced along with people. He has also experienced many stories, and finally settled down in the Shanghai Museum, sitting in a position where he can look around the whole museum, accepting the pilgrimage to the utensils of Xia Shang and Qin and Han Dynasties, and won the reputation of "the most important weapon of the country". Today this title has a different meaning than it did thousands of years ago, but it represents the same respected status. Whenever you approach, people will be surrounded by people all around, people will take out their mobile phones to take pictures, the shutter sound rises and falls through the glass, like a kowtow when facing the emperor. A sacrifice in the digital age.

You have gone through the ceramics hall, the calligraphy hall, the painting hall, and the top-quality Ru kiln porcelain, the only genuine work of Huai Su, and the famous paintings of talents from all dynasties. They've all been well-maintained: dirt cleaned, surfaces protected, maybe brackets and glue. The long years would have made them gradually invisible and unnoticed in any corner, and the museum provides them with a new life, they can reverse the traces of time, or at least let the traces of time coexist peacefully with themselves. The only price: Forget all the legendary adventures you've had, summarize your life into a few key years and significance, and then put together a solid overview that puts your resume firmly in front of you.

All kinds of cultural relics, all kinds of collections, there is no relationship between them. Before being put into the glass cabinet, they were scattered in their own lives, watching generations of masters welcome and send them away, living and dying; or in the cold and damp tomb, listening to the slow corrosion of water vapor and microorganisms. Today's reunion is hard-won, the residence is constant temperature and humidity, the lights are bright, and modern technology allows them to experience eternal life. How do they face the scrutiny of tourists? Do they still miss their companions under the earth?