CUHK
News Centre
CUHK Exhibits Horse Artefacts to Celebrate Lunar New Year
2014 is the year of the Horse according to the Chinese zodiac. To welcome the Lunar new year, the Art Museum and the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) jointly present the exhibition ‘Notable Horses in Chinese Culture: Celebrating the Year of the Horse’. Staging over 40 exhibits from the Han dynasty to modern China, this special exhibition vividly illustrates the manifold representations of horses in Chinese art and literature.
In Chinese culture, horse is the most highly prized among the six tamed animals, followed by cow, sheep, chicken, dog, and pig. Horses have played significant roles in the lives of humans since ancient times. For thousands of years horses have been the subjects of poetry, painting, handicrafts, and other art forms, many of which are as appealing and inspiring to us as they were to our ancestors.
Member of the public are welcome to visit the exhibition. Admission is free. Details are as follows:
Exhibition Period: 28 January to 16 March 2014
Opening Hours: Mondays to Saturdays: 10am-5:00pm
Sundays and public holidays: 1pm-5pm
Closed on Thursdays and Lunar New Year Holidays
Exhibition Venue: Gallery III, Art Museum East Wing, CUHK
Enquiries: 3943-7416
Attachments: Powerpoint introduction of the exhibition
Painted pottery horse with rider Han (206 BCE-220 CE) Collection of Art Museum, Gift of Friends of the Art Museum (1993.0075)
Anonymous One hundred horses Qing, 19th century Collection of Art Museum, Gift of Mr. Peter Chow (1999.0035)
Grey pottery horse Eastern Han, 2nd century Collection of Art Museum, Gift of Dr. T. T. Tsui (1998.0045)
Saddled horse with three-colour glaze Tang, First half, 8th century Mr. Frank K.L. Wu Collection
Bronze horse head Eastern Han, 2nd century Cheng Xun Tang Collection
Snuff bottle painted in famille-rose enamels with Mu Wang’s eight horses Qing, Daoguang (1821-1850) Huaihaitang Collection
The Art Museum and the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of CUHK jointly present the exhibition 'Notable Horses in Chinese Culture: Celebrating the Year of the Horse'. (From left) Prof. Poon Ming-kay, Associate Professor and Prof. Ho Che-wah, Chairman of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, and Prof. Xu Xiaodong, Associate Director of the Art Museum, CUHK.
