West Kowloon 🐉Cultural District🎭: 21/8 Hong Kong 🇭🇰 Palace Museum Day Tour

The West Kowloon Cultural District is not far from Kowloon Station (Elements Shopping Mall) on the Tung Chung Line and Airport Express, Hong Kong West Kowloon Station (High Speed Rail), and Austin Station on the Tuen Ma Line. It takes about 20 minutes to walk from Kowloon Station to the nearest building in the Cultural District, M+ Visual Arts Museum. There is a free shuttle bus at Exit D of Austin Station, which runs every 10 to 20 minutes from 0900 to 2030 to travel between M+ and the Hong Kong Palace Museum in the Cultural District, with convenient transportation.

The Hong Kong Palace Museum was completed and opened on 03/07/2022, covering an area of 10,000 square meters. The square tripod-shaped building is 6 stories high and has 3 special exhibition halls and 6 permanent exhibition halls. The permanent exhibition hall displays 900 cultural relics on long-term loan from the Beijing Palace Museum, including

1) Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, Hongli (a big Manchu surname - Aisin-Gioro), "The Tribute of All Nations", foreign envoys and subjects from the northwestern frontier brought local products and waited outside the Taihe Gate to meet the emperor (the one holding a child in the Ningshou Palace in the picture), the ethnic minority subjects in Xinjiang in the picture include Yarkand (Shache County), Wushi (Wushi County), Kashhar (Yanqi Hui Autonomous County), Hotan (Hotan Prefecture), Yili (Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture), and Brut (Kirgiz/Kyrgyz 🇰🇬)

In addition, the tribute trade vassal states in the picture (the Qing emperor 🫅 had the responsibility to protect) included the Joseon Dynasty 🇰🇷 (now North Korea 🇰🇵 and South Korea 🇰🇷), Ryukyu 🏝️ (renamed "Okinawa Prefecture" after the Meiji Emperor of Japan 🇯🇵 sent troops to invade), Annan (Vietnam 🇻🇳), Sulu (Sulu Islands in the Philippines 🇵🇭🏝️), Uttarakuru (Thailand 🇹🇭), Myanmar 🇲🇲, Kazakhstan 🇰🇿, and Andijan (eastern Uzbekistan 🇺🇿)

The other foreign envoys in the picture are Luzon (Luzon Island, Philippines), Brunei, Kalaba (Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia), Banjarmasin (Borneo/Kalimantan Island, Indonesia), Sura (Sumatra Island, Indonesia), Johor Sultanate (now Johor and Pahang States, Malaysia, Singapore, Riau Islands, Indonesia and part of Sumatra), Malacca (Malaysia Asia 🇲🇾Malacca), Songkhla (Songkhla Province in the southern part of Thailand 🇹🇭), Cambodia 🇰🇭, Atlantic Ocean (Portuguese 🇵🇹 colony ~ Goa, Daman-Diu in India 🇮🇳), Atlantic Ocean (Portugal 🇵🇹), England 🇬🇧, France 🇫🇷, Halvija (Switzerland 🇨🇭), Sweden (Sweden 🇸🇪), Russia 🇷🇺, Ugaria (Hungary 🇭🇺), Alyvan (Yerevan, the capital of Armenia 🇦🇲)

2) Qianlong wore a royal blue robe with cloud and dragon pattern ☁️🐉 in important ceremonies👘

3) Rosewood screen, carved cloud dragon pattern ☁️🐉 throne🪑, crane incense burner ♨️, hollow cloud dragon pattern ☁️🐉 incense tube ♨️

4) European 🇪🇺 imported rhino-carrying 🦏 dressing mirror🪞

5) Concubine in the harem👩🏻Head ornament with flower and butterfly pattern (including black velvet, iron wire, silver-plated gold, pearls📿, precious blue emerald bird feathers plucked alive🪶 inlaid with metal base "Dian Cui", priceless, "Dian" is pronounced "tin4田" in Cantonese and "dian4店" in Mandarin)

6) Yongniuqiaokou Bi Zhong 🛎️～～Nanlü Lv (the tenth of the twelve musical scales, a percussion instrument for court sacrificial ceremonies🎎)
7) The first golden pagoda in the Qing Palace, which was built with 85,000 grams of gold and inlaid with 293 large pearls, turquoise, red coral, lapis lazuli and other gemstones, over 500 pieces, was enshrined in the Chongjing Hall of Chonghua Palace for daily Buddhist practice.

8) White silk-wrapped glass bottle from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty ⚱️, blue glass lotus pattern 🪷 double-handled tripod stove ♨️, Venus glass rooster-shaped 🦆 water pot (used for grinding ink and adding water to the inkstone pool before writing calligraphy 💦, "Yu" is pronounced "yu4ru" in Cantonese)

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