Toronto Dragon Festival 2018

在中国驻多伦多总领事馆大力协助之下,终于诞生了第一届Toronto Dragon Festival,地点就在多伦多市府广场。除了有中国美食、传统民俗演示、非物质文化遗产展示,开幕当天还有精彩的文艺节目表演可以免费观赏。如果您错过了今年的龙节,不必担心,因为明年还会再次举办。

Toronto Dragon Festival 2018
当天恰逢世界杯足球赛决赛,法国队获胜后,法国队球迷挥舞法国国旗在多伦多四处游走庆祝,一度占领市府广场水池区域。
Toronto Dragon Festival 2018
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Toronto Dragon Festival 2018
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Metropolitan Museum of Art – Asian Art

The Met‘s Asian department holds a collection of Asian art, of more than 35,000 pieces, that is arguably the most comprehensive in the US. The collection dates back almost to the founding of the museum: many of the philanthropists who made the earliest gifts to the museum included Asian art in their collections. Today, an entire wing of the museum is dedicated to the Asian collection, and spans 4,000 years of Asian art. Every Asian civilization is represented in the Met’s Asian department, and the pieces on display include every type of decorative art, from painting and printmaking to sculpture and metalworking. The department is well known for its comprehensive collection of Chinese calligraphy and painting, as well as for its Nepalese and Tibetan works. However, not only “art” and ritual objects are represented in the collection; many of the best-known pieces are functional objects. The Asian wing also contains a complete Ming Dynasty-style garden court, modeled on a courtyard in the Garden of the Master of the Fishing Nets in Suzhou.

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Bishop White Gallery of Chinese Temple Art, ROM, Toronto

The Paradise of Maitreya, the magnificent mural that dominates this gallery, adorned the wall of a Chinese Buddhist monastery that no longer exists. It was created more than seven centuries ago during the Yuan dynasty, when Khubilai Khan ruled and the first travel to China by Europeans such as Marco Polo and his father were chronicled.

A favourite with visitors, this gallery is home to one of the world’s most important collections of Chinese temple art. Some of the first acquisitions made by Royal Ontario Museum are housed here, including the murals – three of the world’s best-preserved – and fourteen large, breathtaking Buddhist and Daoist sculptures from Shanxi province in north China.

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Royal Ontario Museum: Gallery of Chinese Architecture

Royal Ontario Museum has the largest collection of Chinese architectural artifacts outside of China.

China’s iconic architectural style is as old as the civilization itself. Throughout, connections and oppositions between Yang-houses (architecture for the living) and Yin-houses (architecture for the dead) intertwine through the Chinese concept of geomancy, or fengshui. Imperial buildings were distinct from those for common living; each planned, built and adorned in different ways to satisfy requirements for form, function and ritual.

China’s legacy of building and architecture is told through the largest and best collection of Chinese architectural artifacts outside of China. The mighty Ming Tomb, the Tombs of Han and Tang, and the reconstruction of a corner of a Chinese Imperial Palace building are focal points of a collection that includes architectural features, embellishments, statuary and more.
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多倫多2011台灣文化節

今年的多倫多台灣文化節同樣是為期三天.可惜我雜務纏身,只有週六能抽出半天時間參與.

首次現身多倫多的電音三太子是今年文化節的一大亮點.台灣民間的三太子就是托塔李天王的三子哪吒.電音三太子將原來是鄉間和廟會用來降妖除魔的神聖儀式,結合了現代舞蹈及音樂元素,一躍成為萬眾矚目的焦點,全家大小都可以一同參加的娛樂活動。

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台灣美食一向是台灣文化節的重頭戲,今年也不例外.
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