Dress like a Chinese noble woman, 2,000 years ago! Mawangdui Treasures Coming to Shanghai

This silk painting is more than 2,000 years old. Unearthed from Tomb No. 1 at Mawangdui, it depicts a road connecting heaven, earth, and the afterlife. Starting July 3rd, it will be shown at Shanghai Art Museum as part of the largest and highest-level Mawangdui exhibition ever held outside Hunan province. This is the highlight of the exhibition. This is the first time in the history of Mawangdui's exhibition that two T-shaped paintings by Xing Zui Mu and Li Xi Mu have been shown in a series of exhibitions. Their names are inscribed on the list. This is one of the flying creatures, a medium to see the soul of the tomb owner, a medium to see the heaven. It has a very high ideological and artistic value. The exhibition will bring together 195 sets of relics, or 472 individual objects. Among them are three treasures prohibited from overseas exhibitions. Alongside the silk paintings are an early lacquer cosmetic box and a fragment of the silk manuscript version of the Book of Changes. While the title of the exhibition is a house of nobility, it is not simply about the wealth of a Han dynasty aristocratic family. Through patterns, household objects, and philosophical texts, it explores how people understand daily life, social order, and their place in the universe. A house of nobility is not just a rich family in terms of physical space or material life. It is also a cultural structure and spiritual home for Chinese people to organize and settle their lives. We can see in the Ma Wang Dui, for example, the guiding tree, the keystone garden, and some of the relics of health care, including a lot of incense. These are all part of the daily lives of Chinese people and continue to grow. This is the kind of state we are in. The Ma Wang Dui is to help us rethink how we can live a better life today.