The Spring Festival is the grandest Chinese traditional festival, for the new year stands behind it remarks a new chapter to dream and set goals. There are multiple joyful customs and activities expressing new year wishes, such as staying-up for the new year, greeting visits to relatives, pasting Spring Festival Couplets, pasting window paper cuts, hanging Chinese lanterns, lighting firecrackers, delivering red envelopes, eating dumplings, and watching folklore performances like lion and dragon dance. Here in the form of online virtual exhibitions, we display the excellent work of traditional Chinese culture and art, depict living sceneries in a harmony with Chinese people, and demonstrate peace and prosperity of contemporary China, expressing Chinese New Year best wishes to people all over the world.

Family Reunion Dinner by YANG Ziqi

Xianju Lantern

Zhejiang Art Museum has launched an online integrated art exhibition themed on the fantasy of the Spring Festival. This online virtual exhibition project, integrating live scenes, animations, videos, pictures, and interactive mini-games, demonstrates chronological sections of "Spring Festival Custom in Pictures" and "Spring in the Southern Yangtze". Chinese New Year folklore activities, Chinese calligraphy, a Chinese delicacy, traditional Chinese medicine, New Year Pictures by traditional watermark printing, paintings on Spring Festival, and intangible cultural heritage performance skills are presented to audiences at home and abroad with Chinese New Year cultural symbols embedded with values of the Chinese nation.

Simply scan the code below or click https://wx.zjam.org.cn/Interact/CZH/index.html to enjoy the exhibition!

(Edited by Ye Ke)