Cai Yuanpei'S Children Donated The Chicago World Expo Tea Table In 1934.

These days, I walked in. huashan road Cai Yuanpei's former residence exhibition hall can see many new exhibits appearing in the museum. The most notable of these is a set of coffee tables. According to the words inscribed on the coffee table, the tea table is exactly the same as the Chinese tea table displayed on 1934 in World Expo, Chicago. A few days ago, Mr. Cai Yuanpei's children donated large quantities of articles that Mr. Cai Yuanpei had used to Cai Yuanpei's former residence exhibition hall, including a large number of objects related to World Expo.

Expo tea table is particularly conspicuous.

Cai Yuanpei's son, eight year old Cai Ying, told reporters that his father was hired by the then national government in 1933 as chairman of the Preparatory Committee for the Chicago Expo. The reporter saw that a letter of appointment to Mr. Cai Jiemin (Mr. Cai Yuanpei's alias) of the Chicago Expo Preparatory Committee is explaining this identity. The tea set is four, but there are only three left. They can be stacked up in size. The tea table is painted red, with traditional Chinese patterns carved on peacock, and the legs of the tea table reveal the fine and gentle furniture of China after the Qing Dynasty.

According to the words inscribed on the tea table, at that time, Dong Fang fan, who was then from the Hui children's Hospital of Fujian, was responsible for organizing a batch of Fuzhou lacquered wares in World Expo, which was held in Chicago, United States. The tea table was also selected. One set was sent to the United States in 1933, and the other was presented to Mr. Cai Yuanpei by Dong Fan Fan in 1934. Reporters learned that around 1923, Fuzhou Pingshan founded the Fujian Hui children's Hospital, with wood engineering, lacquer engineering and other specialties, half work and half study. The Fuzhou's free tire lacquer ware was originated from China's traditional lacquer art for more than two thousand years.

Cai Yingduo told reporters that the tea table had been kept at home for many years, and the brothers and sisters had never paid much attention to it. This time they held the World Expo of Shanghai. They discovered that there were still many items related to the Expo. Cai Yingduo took out a copy of Chicago. The World Expo The picture album shows the reporter that the title page is written by Mr. Chen Xihao, who went to participate in the Expo in. The Museum of China was described in detail in the picture book. "After a while, the exhibition hall will burn all the pamphlets into CDs and roll them in the museum." The director of the exhibition hall told reporters.

Substantial exhibits for the first time

Reporters at the site of Cai Yuanpei's former residence saw that the former residence had been refreshed and clean after renovation, and a rockery and small garden were renovated outside the former residence, and bamboo was replaced and bamboo barriers were replaced. The central air-conditioning is installed in the former residence, and the outer part of the house is also partitioned with wooden barriers, which is quite commensurate with the atmosphere of the garden.

This time Exhibition Center The portrait painted by his father, Zhou Jun, was painted on his father's portrait. "My mother likes to paint for her father, and my father likes to write poems on his mother's paintings." Cai Yingduo said. The reporter saw the expression of Mr. Cai Yuanpei in his painting, and wrote in his poem: "I move in every moment, and I follow people in different subjects. But the first thing I can do is to know how to stay.

Reporters saw the exhibition hall also has a large number of objects donated by Mr. Cai Yuanpei's children for the first time. Among them are the inkstones, Narcissus, inkpad, porcelain, soap and so on used by Cai Yuanpei. What Mr. Cai Yuanpei liked most was a set of glass lamps, which was sent to Shanghai by his 70 year old school. It says "Cai Dean Zhi Cun".

Cai Yingduo told reporters that more people came to visit the exhibition hall, and that more people could understand the love between the Chinese people and the Expo.