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[Benefits and Powers] Carrie Lam's Forbidden City opens

2022-06-22T07:54:12.258Z


The Hong Kong Palace Museum opened today, congratulations! It is absolutely correct that the state supports Hong Kong in establishing the Palace Museum and promoting national cultural education. This suggestion was put forward by the current Chief Executive Carrie Lam.


The Hong Kong Palace Museum opened today, congratulations!

It is absolutely correct that the state supports Hong Kong in establishing the Palace Museum and promoting national cultural education.

This proposal was proposed by the current Chief Executive Carrie Lam, and the architect was also chosen by Carrie Lam. Now the fee for the Forbidden City is also decided by Carrie Lam's team.

Today, the team of the Hong Kong Palace Museum is the same team that confirmed the establishment of the Palace Museum in the West Kowloon, so Carrie Lam should take the main responsibility.

Beijing let Lam Cheng go to build the Forbidden City in Hong Kong. Today’s Forbidden City in Hong Kong can be said to be Lam’s Forbidden City.


HSBC opened in 1985, becoming a world-class building and confirming Hong Kong's status as an international financial center.

The architectural design is technological and innovative, and the lighting, ventilation and construction forms completely adopt new models, which have far-reaching influence.

After HSBC is the Bank of China Building. Mr. Pei's design is very elegant. It adopts steel structure and introduces the concept of China's rising. The interior space is practical, and the lower floor is a Chinese castle-like design.

It is a classic architectural example of the fusion of Chinese and Western cultures, and it is also a portrayal of Hong Kong's prosperity in the 1980s and 1990s.

What can the architect of Lam Cheng's Forbidden City bring to Hong Kong?

A few years ago, the Government Headquarters also used the same architect. After the opening of the Political Consultative Conference, what did it bring to Hong Kong?

I don't need to tell you, everyone knows it.

The architecture of the Forbidden City in Hong Kong is built in a model that dumps the pyramid, and the four sides are not balanced, which is completely contrary to the Chinese architectural design. Is this really Chinese culture?

Suddenly it is said that it is a three-dimensional central axis. What is a three-dimensional central axis?

There are two large atriums in the interior space. These two atriums are not used to store the exhibits of the Forbidden City, but to put a lot of iron materials like prisons.

The entire Hong Kong Palace Museum uses some very temporary metal shells from the outside to the inside.

Why use a metal shell to do it?

Is there a math expert behind it saying that Hong Kong owes money, so it needs a lot of iron?

Hate that iron is not steel, this is true.

The Forbidden City in Hong Kong is a good one, but some people resisted saying that it was a branch of the Forbidden City, so they said they would cooperate with other international museums.

Will the establishment of a Hong Kong Palace Museum turn into a foreigner's palace museum, like M+?

These questions have been asked along the way, and sometimes I am really embarrassed to ask them, but I have to ask them.

You have to ask: Why does the Forbidden City charge a fee?

So some people said: because the insurance premium is expensive, there is no purchase in Hong Kong, so there is a fee.

So have you consulted with the central government?

There are more than 1.8 million pieces in the Forbidden City in Beijing. Is it possible to buy some permanent collections for Hong Kong?

Is the Hong Kong Palace Museum no time to do it?

Still no one does it?

Still not in the mood to do it?

National treasures are of course important, but in the state of Hong Kong society's complete lack of awareness of Chinese culture, national treasures may be too far away from ordinary citizens.

Will the national treasures be appreciated only by the dignitaries, but not by ordinary citizens?

Basic national cultural education is very important, but how?

How to do?

Have the authorities explained it?

In fact, the culture of the Hong Kong government is only for cultural activities, not really to enhance the soft power of culture.

The Hong Kong government's culture is to hold the opening ceremony, cut the ribbon, and the leaders say something.

So will Lam Cheng's Forbidden City be different?

What impact will the team inside have on Hong Kong?

Will it bring about a Forbidden City craze, making Hong Kong young people more passionate about traditional culture and attracting universities to offer more courses related to the Forbidden City culture?

Mr. Zhuang Shen, one of the founders of the Department of Art of the University of Hong Kong, is also an expert on the Palace Museum.

He has written over a thousand articles about Chinese culture and appreciation of cultural relics for the magazines run by Hu Juren. Can these articles be adapted into short films?

Should the Forbidden City in Hong Kong learn from the Macao Museum and do some more down-to-earth exhibitions, such as introducing the clothing, food, housing and transportation of the Forbidden City? More than ten years ago, the Macao Museum held a series of exhibitions in the Forbidden City, which were very relevant, such as the Forbidden City Food and Ware Exhibition, the Forbidden City Stationery exhibition, these can make the general public have an understanding of Chinese culture, rather than being high.

Recently, the Forbidden City has received a large number of very precious gold jewelry purchases. How can these purchases be in line with Hong Kong?

Will the Forbidden City finally become like M+, an unattainable wealthy club?

Hong Kong really lacks basic cultural education.

The reason why Hong Kong is a cultural desert is because the government does not irrigate or water it, it just keeps setting off fireworks and holding events, but not really irrigating.

What to irrigate?

It is to improve the cultural level of Hong Kong people.

However, Lam Cheng's Forbidden City seems to be just repeating the model of the LCSD, that is, to hold an opening ceremony and talk to some leaders. After the opening, there is no problem with the number of people. In the end, he reached out to ask for government funding subsidies.

The entire West Kowloon Cultural District is basically like this. Money is not spent on irrigating Hong Kong people, but on some architects, builders and events.

From a practical point of view, the architectural design chosen by Carrie Lam is completely impractical.

The huge atrium is not used for exhibitions. It takes up so much space that the exhibition space is very small and lacks greatness.

The biggest problem is that the whole building completely violates the traditional Chinese concept of architectural space.

Why choose this building?

What is the meaning behind it, is it to prove that the West is stronger than Chinese culture through anti-Chinese architectural design?

Is there really no room for Chinese culture to develop?

Is it true that no architect can design a space with a Chinese flavor?

of course not.

There is a professor Wang Weiren at the University of Hong Kong. He designs some high-rise buildings in the Chinese courtyard model. These buildings also have some practice in Hong Kong and the mainland.

Why did the architectural design of the Forbidden City in Hong Kong come up with a tripod that is not like a tripod, but looks like a space base in Japan's Gundam animation, or like a camping metal charcoal stove without expert inference and analysis?

Sometimes, we can only sigh and say: the fate and fortune of a place, it is really difficult for you to change it.

And the appearance of strange buildings is precisely a problem.

When the strange building of CCTV was completed, the central government issued an order that such strange buildings should not appear in Beijing again.

However, the Hong Kong government has not learned the lessons of the Government Headquarters.

In any case, the emergence of the Forbidden City in Hong Kong itself is a very good thing. The next step should be to explore how to bring it back to the right track. In terms of architectural space, exhibition planning, and overall national education functions, we should strengthen the relationship with the Forbidden City in Beijing. The integration and cooperation of the museum, rather than another Western-dominated Hong Kong Palace Museum.

Hu Enwei


is a member of the National Hong Kong and Macao Research Association, a member of the Jiangsu Provincial Political Consultative Conference, and Zuni.

Icosahedron United Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer


(The article is purely the author's opinion and does not represent the position of Hong Kong 01.)

Source: hk1

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