Lofty Mountains and Flowing Water: Chu Style Lacquerware and Lacquer Art Innovation Exhibition

Location: West Sector 1

Themed on Lofty Mountains and Flowing Water, the exhibition's curator has selected the qin, or Chinese lute, as its representative image. 

Through the processes of making and decorating lacquerware, the exhibition showcases the unique charm of Chu-style lacquer painting, a technique listed as a national intangible cultural heritage item. Lacquerware has a long history in China, famous for its good physical properties, wide practical value and strong artistic expression.

Chu people had a special preference for lacquerware. Both the variety and the quantity of Chu lacquerware far exceeded those of other states of the period. Chu lacquerware comes in a rich and colorful variety of types, with exotic and mysterious shapes, complex and exquisite workmanship, and noble and elegant patterns.