HK exhibition shows shared culture
1 year ago

HK exhibition shows shared culture

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The Panyu shrine, one of the art pieces on display at the Under the Same Roof: Origin and Art of Lingnan Traditional Architecture exhibition at the Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre on Dec 12. A5.5-meter tall and 4.8-meter wide Lingnan-style structure — the Panyu shrine — was among 170 relics, bearing the same cultural markings, being showcased for the first time in the Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui since Dec 12. In light of the size of the hundred-year-old shrine, the heritage center had to build a temporary hall to house the 26-square-meter grade-one national treasure from the Guangdong Folk Arts Museum. Huang Haiyan, a research fellow and the director of the Guangdong Folk Arts Museum, speaks to China Daily, about the story behind the exhibition, four years in the making and is called, Under the Same Roof: Origin and Art of Lingnan Traditional Architecture.

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