Rare ancient artefacts show Chinese civilisation’s origins in Hong Kong exhibition
The Hong Kong Palace Museum exhibition includes more than 100 artefacts dating back to the earliest traces of Chinese civilisation
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then just how illustrative of bygone civilisations are well-preserved artefacts that are millennia old?
More than 100 rare and recent archaeological finds from China are being shown at the Hong Kong Palace Museum in an exhibition called “The Origins of Chinese Civilisation”.
Some of the items date back as far as 6,000 years, when some of the earliest human cultures – alongside the Mesopotamia, Egyptian and Indus civilisations – were developing near the Yellow, Yangtze and Liao rivers. Sixteen are categorised as “grade one” national treasures.
It is a unique opportunity to see all of the artefacts in one setting, as they are normally exhibited separately at 14 museums and archaeological institutions in mainland China.
“This exhibition is one of the most comprehensive exhibitions on the origins of Chinese civilisation in recent years, and also one of the first exhibitions on this topic in Hong Kong,” says Raphael Wong, associate curator of the Hong Kong Palace Museum.
