Usually we go to museums to see cultural relics, then have you tried to use hearing to feel the charm of cultural relics? On October 29, the Hong Kong Teana Dunhuang Orchestra held the "Museum Series: Voices from Cultural Relics" concert in Shanghai, presenting the stories of cultural relics through original music, including murals from Dunhuang, cultural relics from the Forbidden City and other works of art representative in traditional Chinese culture, bringing audiences a unique cultural feast.

In the course of the concert, the audience can not only enjoy the beautiful folk music, but also see the appearance and pattern of the cultural relics on the big screen behind the orchestra on the stage, some of which are processed in an animated way to make the picture more vivid.

Ji Wenfeng, founder and honorary head of the Hong Kong Teana Dunhuang Orchestra, said in an interview with the Morning Post reporter that the orchestra is committed to original music to promote Chinese culture, especially China's two great world cultural heritage peaks: "The Dun Huang of mankind" and "the Forbidden City of the world", and to attract more young people to learn about these world cultural heritage.

"The murals in Dunhuang, the Buddha statues in the caves, and the cultural relics in the museums each carry different cultural connotations and radiate different light. They all carry the traces and wisdom of human beings. Through a series of music, we hope to gaze at the beauty of cultural relics and listen to the emotions of cultural relics."

A total of 10 pieces of music were performed at the concert. For example, the piece called "Dragon Pattern" was commissioned by the Hong Kong Palace Museum to compose this piece for Sanxingdui after it exhibited some of the relics of Samsungdui last year.

Through a repetitive melody, the music expresses the shape and charm of the dragon totem in Sanxingdui. The different timbre composition makes the audience deeply feel the mystery and antiquity of Sanxingdui.

Another piece played by pipa and Konghou at the concert, "Fa Hua Jing Change: A Metaphor of the Fire House", is based on the theme of the Fa Hua Jing Change in the Dunhuang fresco, and depicts the scene of the mural with music: there are several children playing in the house, and after the sudden fire, they are unable to escape under the influence of obsession, showing the pulling and twisting of people in difficulties, and finally they can feel warmth and hope.

Blue and White December is inspired by the wine glasses used in the imperial palace of the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, which are painted with flowers representing 12 months.

When listening to this music, the audience can not only see the different tree and flower patterns on the 12 cups on the big screen, but also feel the emotional changes of the spring, summer, autumn and winter scenery and the expression and charm of different flowers through the music.

"There are many cultural relics in the museum, in fact, is an endless source of inspiration, we hope to tell the history of cultural relics, its vicissitudes, its behind the story, hope that more friends to go to the exhibition to see cultural relics, more to stare, more to watch, more to understand the story behind it." Ji Wenfeng said.

CAI Liang, Director of the Hong Kong SAR Government Office in Shanghai, also said that through original music, the orchestra conveys its passion for traditional Chinese culture to all of you. You can not only feel the history and culture of Dunhuang and the Forbidden City, but also enjoy the elegance of young musicians.