CCTV News:On the occasion of the 600th anniversary of the Forbidden City next year, Yanxi Palace is planned to be transformed into a museum of foreign cultural relics, and hall of mental cultivation will also complete its research protection. Renovation began in 2015, and after five years, two palaces that have attracted much attention will meet the audience again next year.
The renovation plan of Yanxi Palace, which has attracted much attention in recent years, will be officially launched this year. It is expected that the Forbidden City will be transformed into a foreign cultural relics museum on the occasion of its 600th anniversary, and more than 10,000 foreign cultural relics will be displayed to the audience.
The Palace Museum has a rich collection of foreign cultural relics, including lacquerware, pottery, porcelain, glassware, enamel, metal, fabrics, paintings, books, sculptures, furniture, clocks and watches, scientific and technological instruments, etc., with various countries, including Britain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Russia, Italy, Austria, the United States, Bulgaria, Japan, North Korea and other countries. Its source is mainly the old collection of the Qing palace, and some of them are collected by the people or donated by individuals. Its era ranged from the 16th century to the early 20th century, and it was mostly in the 18th and 19th centuries.
According to the Forbidden City, the renovation plan of Yanxi Palace will be launched in the near future and transformed into a foreign cultural relics museum. Show the public the treasures of foreign cultural relics collected by more than 10,000 colleges.
Dan Jixiang, Dean of the Palace Museum:There will be a series of changes in the foreign cultural relics museum, which is a modern architectural form, so it is relatively large and has two floors. Therefore, those large clocks and watches return to the Imperial Palace in Ningshou Palace Garden, where they were originally placed, and large clocks and watches return there.
According to reports, Yanxi Palace is one of the six palaces in the Inner Palace. In the twenty-fifth year of Daoguang (1845), Yanxi Palace caught fire, leaving only the palace gate. In 1909, the first year of Xuantong, a 3-storey water hall was built in the original site of the palace, with stone and metal as the building and glass as the wall, so that you can watch fish near the water. Empress Long Yu inscribed "Lingnuman Xuan", commonly known as "Crystal Palace". In fact, this building was not completed at all and became the most famous unfinished project in the Forbidden City.