Boston Longquan Celadon Exhibition” will be on display at the Forbes House Museum on 215 Adams St. in Milton from June 10 to June 14, with a special members-only preview on June 9.To get more longquan, you can visit shine news official website.

The exhibit includes 80 pieces of celadon artwork coming directly from Longquan, China. Celadon is a blue-green or gray-green ceramic made using glaze recipes and firing techniques that were introduced nearly 2.000 years ago.

The exhibition is a collaboration between the Forbes House Museum and the Boston Dragon Boat Festival in conjunction with the festival’s 40th anniversary. The festival, founded in 1979, is the oldest in North America and the largest Asian cultural festival in New England.

The 40th annual Boston Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival is scheduled for Sunday, June 9 from noon to 5 p.m. at Weeks Foot Bridge on the Charles River and Memorial Drive.

The festival, held in honor of an ancient celebration that originated in China, features dragon boat racing on the Charles River in Hong Kong style dragon boats. A total of 76 teams from the United States are competing this year.

Besides boat racing, the festival features traditional Asian arts and crafts, dragon and lion dances, Asian martial arts demonstrations, Asian dance and music, and wide selections of Asian foods. Around 30,000 people enjoy this popular cultural festival each year.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the festival, a delegation from Longquan, including seven of the top artisans in the nation, will be sharing their celadon artwork and cultural heritage during a week-long exhibition at the Forbes House Museum. They will demonstrate celadon making at the Dragon Boat Festival site on the Charles River on June 9 and the Forbes House Museum on June 10.

Longquan is a small city in Southeast China’s Zhejiang Province. Celadon production reached its peak during the Song Dynasty (960-1279). Since then, Longquan celadon has maintained its quality and reputation. In 2009, the traditional firing technique of Longquan celadon was listed by UNESCO among the Masterpieces of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This year marks the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening up. In line with "The Belt and Road" initiative and for the important deployment of "Cultural Zhejiang", the 2018 Longquan Celadon Exhibition Tour - New York Station, "Intangible Cultural Heritage - Chinese Classic", sponsored by the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Lishui Municipal People's Government and undertaken by the Longquan Municipal People's Government of Zhejiang Province, will be held on the 4th floor of the United Nations Headquarters Building in Manhattan on September 10. A total of 85 celadon treasures from 81 Longquan celadon artists will be exhibited at this event. you can visit shine news official website. The 2018 Longquan Celadon Exhibition takes the "Maritime Silk Road" as its starting point and is divided into three sections: "Origin", "Flowing" and "Integration", fully interpreting Longquan celadon's culture and creating a road of "celadon, openness and glory". "Origin" tells the extensive history of celadon through traditional celadon artworkssupplemented by a hand-painted traditional celadon firing process chart. The "Flowing" section shows the endless vitality of Longquan celadon through storyboards of modern celadon artworks (mainly works by young and middle-aged artists) and important international activities involving Longquan celadon. "Integration" mainly focuses on celadon handicrafts such as tea sets, tableware, stationery, flower utensils, incense utensils, and jewelry. Through tea ceremony, tea party and life scene displays, the audience can experience the charm of celadon and eastern-styled life. After the completion of the exhibition at United Nations Headquarters, a week-long exhibition will also be held in Soho District, New York, and a group of enterprises will be organized to promote celadon products and sign a celadon sales cooperation agreement with U.S. enterprises. It not only promotes "Intangible Cultural Heritage" culture, but also brings Longquan celadon products to the international market. Longquan is located in the southwest of Zhejiang Province, China, where Longquan people create beautiful Longquan celadon. Longquan celadon originated from the Three Kingdoms and the Jin Dynasty, flourished in the Song and Yuan dynasties, and has resurged in the contemporary era. It is a famous historical ceramic with the longest firing time, the largest number of kiln sites, the largest production scale and the widest export range of all Chinese ceramics. As the process passed on from generation to generation for more than 1600 years, Longquan celadon has developed four unique skills: preparing celadon glaze, applying the glaze several times, firing thick glaze and controlling cracked glaze. In 2009, Longquan celadon's traditional firing technique was listed by UNESCO in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and it is also the only ceramic project in the world listed so far. Longquan celadon is a classic of Chinese culture. It regards "harmony between heaven and man" as its aesthetic ideal and "Compare Virtue to Jade" as its value orientation, reflecting the beauty of "harmony" and "perfection". Historically, Longquan celadon was the cultural messenger of China's exchange with the world. In the Song, Yuan and early Ming dynasties, Longquan celadon had a leading role in the development of the long Maritime Silk Road. Products are exported to more than 50 countries in Asia, Africa and Europe, connecting China closely with the world. In recent years, Longquan has intensified its foreign exchange of celadon culture. Longquan celadon has shined at the Shanghai World Expo, World Internet Conference, the APEC meeting in Beijing, the G20 Hangzhou Summit, "The Belt and Road" Forum for International Cooperation Summit and other international conferences. It has been widely recognized by politicians and celebrities from all walks of life.