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Yesterday, the “West Lake · Meet Love – West Lake Love Story Exhibition” was opened in the General Hall of Hangzhou West Lake Museum (No. 89 Nanshan Road) under the Administrative Committee of Hangzhou West Lake Scenic Area. The exhibition was hosted by the Administrative Committee of Hangzhou West Lake Scenic Area and hosted by the General Hall of Hangzhou West Lake Museum and Zhenjiang Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center.
This year is the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Italy, and also the year of Sino Italian culture and tourism. Hangzhou will hold a series of activities for the 2020 China (Hangzhou) Global Love Culture Week. Hangzhou is known as the capital of love, and the West Lake is also known as the lake of love. The beautiful and inspirational natural landscape of the West Lake has aroused the endless imagination of people of all ages, and has given birth to a strong love culture that is fascinating, sighing, and nostalgic. Among them, the most famous ones are the “Butterfly Lovers”, which were included in the four Chinese folk love stories, and the “Xu Xian and the White Lady”, who played the role of “waiting for one thousand years”. These stories endow the West Lake landscape with richer levels and connotations, deeper aesthetic feelings and experiences, and more emotional space and spiritual sustenance of artistic conception.
Recently, the Standing Committee of Hangzhou Municipal People’s Congress decided to set up “Hangzhou West Lake Day” on June 24 every year from this year. In order to celebrate the establishment of “Hangzhou West Lake Day”, the West Lake Scenic Area carried out a series of activities with the theme of “Love Me, Beautiful West Lake, Guard the Spiritual Home”. This exhibition is part of a series of activities in the West Lake Scenic Area. By exploring the connotation of love stories in the West Lake, such as “Butterfly Lovers” and “The Legend of White Snake”, the exhibition shows the inherent cultural origin and humanistic feelings between the West Lake landscape and the love story, deeply interprets the connotation of the West Lake landscape spiritual home and the characteristics of the famous cultural lake, vigorously promotes the dissemination of excellent traditional culture, and enriches the spiritual and cultural life of the people, And contribute to the 2020 China (Hangzhou) Global Love Culture Week.
Hangzhou and Zhenjiang are both famous for their rich love stories, which have many similarities in content and relics, as well as regional characteristics. At the opening ceremony of the exhibition, Hangzhou West Lake Museum and Zhenjiang Intangible Heritage Protection Center formed an alliance and issued certificates. The “Love Story Protection Alliance” aims to strengthen exchanges and cooperation between the two places, jointly promote the research, inheritance and protection of love stories, and contribute to the construction of spiritual civilization with excellent classical culture.
Exhibition time: June 22 – September 6, 2020
Venue: the first floor above the ground of Hangzhou West Lake Museum
Correspondent Sun Liang and reporter Yu Qian