London will host a major exhibition（展览）of 15th-century Chinese artwork, including paintings, sculptures（雕刻）and porcelain, which are all from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).
And the exhibition will be open from Sept 18 to Jan 5. And there will be 108 cultural relics from 10 museums in China, as well as from the British Museum and museums in Japan, the United States and Europe. The exhibition will be in five parts - court, arts of war, arts of peace, religious belief and diplomacy. The event will be a highlight of this year's about 20 overseas cultural relic exhibitions of China.
Ming Dynasty is described by some as "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history”. During this time, Beijing became the capital of China. And also in this time, Zheng He (1371-1433) set sail and reached the shores of eastern Africa.
Jessica in the British Museum, said "reading" an artwork may differ in various cultures. "When a Chinese audience sees a painting you see figures and stories. But we see beautiful landscapes."
She said the British people had a basic knowledge of the dynasty.They know about porcelain and many British people probably knew more about the later period of the Ming Dynasty after the Portuguese and Spanish came to China to trade. Their houses and dining tables have Chinese blue and white vases but they don't know much about the earlier period, which in China was a more culturally important period.
This exhibition provides good chances for more people to get to know China, especially the Ming Dynasty.
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