Inside the emperors’ Chinese New Year celebrations: immersive experience at Beijing’s Forbidden City reveals all
- Digital immersive display at the museum brings royal festivities for the Spring Festival vividly to life
- Exhibition also features a static display of over 800 cultural relics, including Lunar New Year decorations, used in the celebrations of the royal court
A digital tapestry portrays a royal courtyard filled with snow, the flakes of which waft up and down, following the movements of those watching it.
Peking opera performers come to life on another big screen, recreating the Lunar New Year theatre set up in the Chinese imperial palace in Beijing.
These are among the highlights of a digital immersive display recreating royal Spring Festival festivity scenes of old at the Forbidden City in the Chinese capital.
The exhibition showing how China’s emperors and the royal court celebrated the Lunar New Year is in two parts.
The digital section is situated near the museum’s Palace of Heavenly Purity, and is accompanied by a static display of relics.
The latest digital display follows the 4D rendering unveiled in July 2018 of Along the River During the Qingming Festival, a classical Chinese painting by imperial artist Zhang Zeduan which is famed for its detailed depiction of day-to-day street life along the Bian River in Bianjing, the capital of the Northern Song dynasty.
