Exhibition features imperial workshops of Nguyen Dynasty
Thua Thien-Hue (VNA) – An exhibition on imperial workshops under the Nguyen Dynasty
is underway in the former imperial city of Hue, the central province of Thua
Thien-Hue as part of the Hue Traditional
Craft Festival 2019.
The
event was opened on April 25 by the Hue
Monuments Conservation Centre.
Since 1885, due to socio-political impacts, the number of imperial workshops
was reduced, just enough to meet the demand of the royal family in some
fields with very limited scale. But professional skills and know-how continued
to be transferred by the artisans to apprentices, which was one of the
factors that helped traditional handicraft continue to develop, contributing
to diversifying industries and products in the traditional craft villages in
Hue and other localities in the country.
The exhibition not only brings an opportunity for visitors to admire
the royal objects, with a large variety of types, styles and sophisticated decorative
patterns, but also helps the public and tourists understand better about the
organisational structure, operating method and operation of the imperial workshop
system under the Nguyen Dynasty.
The Hue
Monuments Conservation Centre also cooperated with the National Archives Centre I to open an
exhibition named ‘Imperial workshops under Nguyen’s Dynasty as seen from
the Chau Ban (Imperial archives) – the Documentary Heritage
in the Memory of the World’ at the Dai Noi (Royal Palace), Hue city, on April
25.
On display are nearly 50 Chau Ban describing the
activities of units belonging to the imperial workshop system under the
Nguyen Dynasty in the process of preparing materials, labour and production
organisation for such products as furniture, coins, boats, weapons and
construction materials.
Both exhibitions will run until August 25.-VNA