Rites and wisdom

Home to a number of important archaeological discoveries, East China's Shandong province has an abundance of artifacts from different periods that are of great historical significance and artistry. But what do these pieces of historical evidence suggest specifically? What clues to the development of Chinese civilization do they reveal? And what picture do they present of events in Shandong and how they've changed history? The answers to these questions are revealed at The Evolution of Rites in the East, an exhibition at Tsinghua University Art Museum that has gathered around 400 objects from the collections of several Shandong museums. Running through to Feb 18, the exhibition underscores the role of Shandong as one of the origins of Chinese civilization. Artifacts on show include color-patterned pottery and jade ornaments from the Neolithic Dawenkou culture, ceremonial bronzes and Buddhist statues from between the fourth and sixth centuries, and ceramics made in Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province.

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