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The Heart of the Beauty

The Ferenc Hopp Museum of Far Eastern Art offers a selection of its 8000 Chinese objects to celebrate the first 65 years the diplomatic relations between China and Hungary.

Jade objects are also known as the diamonds of the East in Chinese culture. They have the same role as precious metals have in Western cultures. Jade evokes the powers of heaven and earth symbolising the positive aspects of power with its transparency, durability and indestructibility.

Chinese porcelain is admired in the West for its formal variability, splendid ornaments, majestic material, clinking sound and for its whiteness. It is no coincidence that it received the name white gold while it was arriving in larger and larger quantities in Europe from the beginning of the 16^th century.

In 105 AD the invention of paper was announced to the emperor, who ambitiously started to use and spread this novelty. Firstly official documents and religious texts were written on it, then around 600 AD printing started to make use of paper. From the 13^th century on it became widespread in traditional Chinese painting allowing painters to apply a more dynamic painting style.

The history of silk also stretches 7000 years providing materials for the garments of the rich and surface for paintings. All the typical forms of forms (scrolls, albums, fan) and leitmotifs (landscape, bird-flower and figurative pictures) of Chinese silk painting are featured in this exhibition.