{"id":12702,"date":"2011-02-07T05:50:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T12:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=12702"},"modified":"2011-02-07T05:50:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T12:50:50","slug":"forbidden-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2011\/02\/07\/forbidden-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbidden City"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>China&#8217;s most extravagant monarchs\u2014the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1736\u201395) presided over China&#8217;s last dynasty<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u5f18\u66c6\u5713\u5f62\u53e4\u88dd\u884c\u6a02\u5716\u50cf \u8ef8<br \/>\nPortrait of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/special\/forbidden_city\/images.asp\">Qianlong Emperor<\/a> in Ancient Costume<br \/>\nLent by the Palace Museum, Beijing  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/forbidden_02_.L.jpg\" alt=\"forbidden_02_.L\" title=\"forbidden_02_.L\" width=\"500\" height=\"509\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/forbidden_02_.L.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/forbidden_02_.L-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Qianlong Emperor was a master in using Western-style illusionistic images of himself in different guises to create alternate personae. Here, the youthful emperor had himself portrayed as a cultured Chinese scholar. Sitting in his study appointed with classical Chinese-style furniture, he is poised, brush in hand, to transcribe a poem onto a banana leaf. The only detail that distinguishes him from a traditional scholar is his ornate robe covered with auspicious motifs of flowers and cranes in bright, contrasting colors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/forbidden_08_.L.jpg\" alt=\"forbidden_08_.L\" title=\"forbidden_08_.L\" width=\"500\" height=\"244\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/forbidden_08_.L.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/forbidden_08_.L-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u4e7e\u9686\u5fa1\u7b46\u201c\u5c64\u95a3\u5ef6\u6625\u201d\u8cbc\u843d<br \/>\nQianlong Emperor (1711\u20131799; r. 1736\u201395)<br \/>\nCalligraphic Inscription, dated 1776<br \/>\nFrom the Belvedere of Viewing Achievements (Fuwangge)<br \/>\nLent by the Palace Museum, Beijing <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An avid calligrapher, the Qianlong Emperor developed a distinctive style characterized by regularity and restraint. Inscribed on gold-painted paper made specifically for the court, this text describes his anticipation of retirement. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Emperor&#8217;s Private Paradise:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/special\/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={28E96F8C-C8DE-42EC-BD4E-359940576D0C}\"> Treasures from the Forbidden City<\/a><br \/>\nFebruary 1, 2011\u2013May 1, 2011<\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/photogallery\/0,29307,2022389_2194503,00.html\">photos <\/a>from Time Magazine<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/special\/forbidden_city\/view_1.asp?item=18\">Rustic rootwood chair<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chinese paintings from as early as the eleventh century depict Buddhist and Daoist figures seated on rustic rootwood chairs as a way of suggesting their indifference to worldly goods and their synchrony with the natural forms of the cosmos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eBrMcaGkDYQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Puyi\">Pu Yi<\/a> February 7, 1906<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/An_Wang\">Dr. An Wang <\/a> February 7, 1920<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/works_of_art\/collection_database\/all\/offering_table_with_lords_of_the_cremation_grounds\/objectview_enlarge.aspx?page=1&#038;sort=0&#038;sortdir=asc&#038;keyword=&#038;fp=1&#038;dd1=72&#038;dd2=0&#038;vw=1&#038;collID=72&#038;OID=60050180&#038;vT=5&#038;hi=0&#038;ov=0&#038;hN=0\">Offering Table with Lords of the Cremation Grounds <\/a> fromTibet <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/2007\/08\/06\/dowager-empress\/\">Dowager Empress<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\" http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/2007\/08\/16\/chinese-antiquities\/\">Chinese Antiqities<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2009\/11\/12\/dr-sun-yat-sen\/\">Dr Sun Yat Sen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s most extravagant monarchs\u2014the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1736\u201395) presided over China&#8217;s last dynasty \u5f18\u66c6\u5713\u5f62\u53e4\u88dd\u884c\u6a02\u5716\u50cf \u8ef8 Portrait of the Qianlong Emperor in Ancient Costume Lent by the Palace Museum, Beijing The Qianlong Emperor was a master in using Western-style illusionistic images of himself in different guises to create alternate personae. Here, the youthful emperor had himself &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2011\/02\/07\/forbidden-city\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Forbidden City&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,22,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-china","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}