"Three Kingdoms" relics put on display at National Centre for the Performing Arts

At the beginning of April, 2010, the Beijing opera epic “Red Cliff”composed by the National Centre for the Performing Arts will be shown for the fifth time at the center. Before this legendary story of war, the centre will hold the "Red Cliff—the Records of Three Kingdoms—Homecoming Report Exhibition" on January 15 through March 15, beating the battle drums of the Three Kingdoms ahead of time.

A visitor looks at a standing figure from the Eastern Han Dynasty

At 3:00 pm on January 15, the “Red Cliff—the Records of Three Kingdoms—Homecoming Report Exhibition” was launched in the eastern hall on the northern underwater corridor. Members of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee’s Standing Committee, the head of the Beijing Municipal Publicity Department and the vice mayor of Beijing Cai Fuchao, the director general of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage Shan Jixiang, the vice chairman of the Beijing’s Political Consultative Conference and the director of the National Center for the Performing Arts Chen Ping, vice director general of the Beijing Municipal Administration of Cultural Heritage and the secretary of the Party Leadership Group Cui Guomin, the director of the Art Exhibitions China Luo Bojian, the vice director of the Palace Museum Chen Lihua, the vice director of the National Center for the Performing Arts Wang Zhengming, the director of Japan’s Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Itsuki Iwata, as well as other officials, attended the opening ceremony.

This exhibition is mainly sponsored by Art Exhibitions China and the National Centre for the Performing Arts and co-sponsored by the Beijing Art Museum, the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum and the Yellow Mountain Art Museum. It also received support from over 30 participating organizations in China. At the exhibition, 117 pieces (groups) of rare cultural relics and over 10 accessorial items will be exhibited, including 52 national class-A pieces. The Three Kingdoms era, when a lot of heroes emerged, will re-appear in Beijing.

The National Centre for the Performing Arts held the historical relic exhibition for the first time, using multimedia to show the history of the Three Kingdoms period.