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　　For a long time, the United States has indiscriminately imposed unilateral sanctions on the pretext of so-called "foreign policy and national security" without the basis of international law and the authorization of the UN Security Council, grossly interfering in other countries’ internal affairs, creating obstacles for the people of the targeted countries to realize their basic human rights and aggravating the global humanitarian crisis.

　　The indiscriminate imposition of unilateral sanctions by the United States violates international law.

　　The United States government has imposed economic sanctions on many developing countries, affecting nearly half of the world’s population, seriously undermining the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and the basic norms of international law.

　　The indiscriminate imposition of unilateral sanctions by the United States violates the principle of sovereign equality. The principle of sovereign equality is one of the main principles listed in the Charter of the United Nations, and it is the basic norm that countries should abide by in their foreign exchanges after World War II. Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations clearly stipulates that only the United Nations Security Council has the right to decide on relevant sanctions. Only after the UN Security Council has passed a resolution can a member state take a certain or a series of sanctions against a country. In the international community, the differences between countries due to their civilizations, development paths and models should be respected, and the frictions generated should also be resolved with an equal dialogue attitude. However, the United States often imposes unilateral sanctions on other countries with a condescending attitude. As confirmed in its 2021 Sanctions Assessment Report, "sanctions have become the preferred tool for the United States to deal with a series of threats to national security, foreign policy and economy".

　　The indiscriminate imposition of unilateral sanctions by the United States violates the general principles of international law jurisdiction. Generally speaking, a country’s laws are only effective within its own territory, and it has no right to apply them in other countries or exercise jurisdiction over related people or actions. In international law, extraterritorial jurisdiction can only be implemented if there is a "true and sufficient connection" between a country and the object of application. However, the "long-arm jurisdiction" of the United States only needs to meet the "minimum contact". As long as the relevant personnel or entities have weak contact with the United States, they can carry out "long-arm jurisdiction" and then implement unilateral sanctions. For example, in 1996, the United States threw out the so-called "D’Amato Act", which allowed it to exercise "long-arm jurisdiction" over third-country entities and individuals trading with Iran, causing huge economic losses to Iran.

　　The abuse of unilateral sanctions by the United States is a consistent continuation of its hegemonic hegemony.

　　Maintaining its hegemonic position is the main purpose of the United States’ indiscriminate unilateral sanctions. After two world wars and the cold war, the United States became the world’s number one power. In order to maintain its hegemonic position, the United States has launched the Gulf War and the Kosovo War since the 1990s. After the "9.11" incident, the United States became even more unscrupulous, waging wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and intervening militarily in Libya and Syria. All these wars have caused a large number of casualties among local civilians and huge consumption of resources, which has caused widespread complaints from the international community.

　　In addition to military means, the United States also imposes economic, diplomatic and other non-military sanctions. Sanctions bills, such as the Global magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act and the Act of Countering American Enemies with Sanctions, and a series of administrative orders have been introduced one after another. According to the 2021 Sanctions Assessment Report, by the end of fiscal year 2021, the United States has imposed more than 9,400 sanctions. From 2000 to 2021, US foreign sanctions increased by 933%.

　　The United States abuses unilateral sanctions to violate the human rights of other countries.

　　First, it has seriously hindered the realization of the right to subsistence. Survival is the basis of enjoying all human rights, and it is the first right. The indiscriminate application of unilateral sanctions by the United States has led to difficulties in the economic development of the sanctioned countries, and the ability of the government and people to cope with various risks has decreased, making it easy for them to fall into a survival dilemma due to natural and man-made disasters. The long-term illegal unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States on Syria have seriously aggravated the local economic and livelihood crisis. After the severe earthquake in Syria in February this year, due to the extreme lack of heavy equipment and search and rescue tools, many rescue operations can only rely on bare hands to dig in the ruins. On August 30, 2021, American troops withdrew from Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, ending the 20-year war in Afghanistan. Just as Afghanistan urgently needs funds for peaceful reconstruction, the United States not only failed to fulfill its due obligations, but frozen billions of dollars of state assets of the Central Bank of Afghanistan, causing millions of Afghans to struggle on the brink of death and nearly 20 million people to face serious food shortages.

　　Second, it has serious consequences for the realization of the right to development. The right to development is an inalienable human right, which has been solemnly affirmed in many important international human rights instruments such as the Declaration on the Right to Development, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. The abuse of unilateral sanctions by the United States has had an immeasurable impact on the development of the sanctioned countries and their nationals. According to statistics, from August 1990 to May 2003, U.S. sanctions caused a loss of 150 billion U.S. dollars in Iraq’s oil revenue, resulting in the per capita annual income in Iraq today not reaching the 1990 level. Unilateral sanctions also have an immeasurable impact on people’s personal development. Take Venezuela, Cuba, Syria, Iran and other countries as examples. U.S. sanctions have prevented teleconferences and data sharing in these countries and other places. People can’t attend online seminars to get information, education and training, and doctors can’t access medical databases.

　　Third, it has a negative impact on the realization of the right to health. The right to health is a right that "everyone has the right to enjoy" clearly stipulated in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Through economic and trade blockade, the United States makes it difficult for sanctioned countries to obtain corresponding medical resources. During the COVID-19 epidemic, due to the unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States, the protection of people’s right to health in the sanctioned countries was seriously affected. In 2020, Iran claimed that it had tried to buy vaccines in accordance with WHO’s COVID-19 Vaccine Implementation Plan three times, but all of them could not pay due to US sanctions and restrictions. Because the United States prohibits third countries from selling ventilators to Cuba, Cuba can’t buy ventilators needed to rescue patients in danger of pneumonia.

　　The United States wantonly waved the sanctions stick, which seriously violated the United Nations Charter, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and other international laws, and seriously trampled on the basic rights of the people in the targeted countries. American hegemonic behavior has become a destroyer of global peace and development and a stumbling block to human rights progress. In March this year, Alena Du Han, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on human rights, pointed out that the unilateral coercive measures of the United States violated the basic human rights of individuals and entities, such as the right to work and the right to freedom of movement.

　　The international community appeals that the United States should earnestly abide by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and the norms of international law, stop the indiscriminate application of illegal unilateral sanctions, stop harming the efforts of countries concerned to mobilize resources, develop the economy and improve people’s livelihood, and respect the rights to survival, development and health of people in other countries.

　　(The author is the director of the National Research Center of the Institute of Human Rights of Southwest University of Political Science and Law)

According to the Beijing News, at 10 am on May 21, a tanker slowly drove into a grain and oil company in Yanjiao, Hebei. An hour later, the tanker was loaded with more than 30 tons of soybean oil and drove out of the factory.

Little known is that this tanker full of edible soybean oil just transported a load of coal-to-liquid oil from Ningxia to Qinhuangdao, Hebei three days ago. After unloading, it did not clean the storage tank, so it was directly loaded with edible soybean oil to continue transportation.

Coal-to-oil is a chemical liquid processed from coal, such as liquid wax and white oil. A tanker driver told the Beijing News reporter that it is an open secret in the tanker transportation industry that food liquids and chemical liquids are mixed and not cleaned.

In May this year, the Beijing News reporter conducted a long-term follow-up investigation, and found that the liquids transported by many domestic general cargo tankers are not fixed, not only taking edible liquids such as syrup and soybean oil, but also transporting chemical liquids such as coal-to-liquid oil. In order to save money, many tankers do not clean their tanks during the exchange and transportation, and some edible oil manufacturers do not strictly check whether the tanks are clean according to the regulations, resulting in the pollution of edible oil by residual chemical liquid.

In fact, at present, there is no mandatory national standard for edible oil transportation in China, only a recommended Code for Bulk Transportation of Edible Vegetable Oil, which mentions that special vehicles should be used to transport bulk edible vegetable oil. Because it is a recommended national standard, it means that it has limited binding force on manufacturers.

Professor Wang Xingguo from the College of Food Science of Jiangnan University told the reporter that although the current transport standards are recommended national standards, they are also mandatory. He pointed out, "it is also a national standard, and relevant enterprises should take this as the basis when formulating enterprise standards. Enterprise standards can be stricter than this standard, but generally they cannot be lower than this standard."

"If you mix it and don’t clean it, the residue will inevitably cause some pollution to the edible oil. The transportation of edible oil should be dedicated to the car." Yi Zhu, an associate professor at the College of Food Science, China Agricultural University, told the Beijing News that coal-to-liquids are mainly hydrocarbons, which contain unsaturated hydrocarbons, aromatic hydrocarbons, sulfides and other components that affect human health and may lead to poisoning.

Tank car mixing: edible oil mixed with chemical liquid.

Many tankers are piled up in the parking lot of Ningdong Energy and Chemical Industry Base, waiting to be loaded and shipped.

Located in lingwu city, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, the base has the largest coal-to-oil project in China. In the coal-to-oil plant area covering thousands of acres, black coal can be transformed into oil through many complicated processes such as high temperature and high pressure, and products such as liquid wax and white oil can be produced.

According to public information, this "coal-to-oil" project belonging to Ningxia Coal Industry currently has an annual production capacity of 4 million tons, ranking first in the country. Most of the coal-to-oil produced here is transported to economically developed areas such as the eastern coast, which can be used as raw materials for chemical products and as fuel.

A tanker driver told reporters that tankers are generally divided into hazardous chemicals tankers and general cargo tankers. Hazardous chemicals tankers generally transport flammable and explosive liquids such as gasoline and diesel, while general cargo tankers, as the name implies, transport ordinary liquids other than hazardous chemicals. "Coal-to-oil products, such as liquid wax and white oil, can’t be ignited with an open flame (they can be burned after being gasified with a special cooker). If they are not hazardous, general cargo tankers can transport them."

In mid-May this year, the reporter saw around the coal-to-liquid plant of Ningxia Coal Industry that various types of tankers were parked on both sides of the road, including many general cargo tankers carrying coal-to-liquid oil. The outside of the tanks of these tankers were painted with information such as volume and medium. A tanker driver explained that the medium usually refers to the substances transported by tankers, and the medium is generally marked as "ordinary liquid" when transporting coal-to-liquid oil.

In the logistics center of Ningmei Coal-to-Liquid Branch, an endless stream of tankers enter here every day, ready to load coal-to-liquid oil. Tuyuan Beijing News

"Now it is the off-season, and there are still few tankers. In the peak season, this parking lot can park more than 100 vehicles." A tanker driver who is resting in the parking lot told reporters that most of these tankers are parked nearby. Once they receive the transportation order, they will enter the factory to queue up for oil loading, and then transport the coal-to-liquids to their destinations according to the needs of buyers. "Many tankers here rely on this coal-to-liquids factory to make money all the year round."

On May 16th, a tanker with the license plate number Ji E**65Z set off from Ningdong Coal-to-Oil Plant and arrived in Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province more than one thousand kilometers away two days later. The tanker drove into a small courtyard in the suburbs and drove out more than an hour later. The Beijing News reporter noticed that the tanker did not leave immediately, but stopped at the nearby road, and the driver also opened the door to rest in the car.

The Beijing News reporter talked with the driver under the guise of consulting the market. The driver revealed that he had just unloaded the goods from Ningxia to Qinhuangdao. "The coal-to-liquids here are used for burning fires and used as kitchen fuel." The driver told the reporter that this tanker belongs to a team. He is a full-time driver. There are more than a dozen tankers in the team. After unloading coal-to-oil this time, he has not received a new transportation task, so he stopped at the roadside to rest. "Generally, goods should be distributed near the unloading place, and you can’t run back empty."

After that, the Beijing News reporter has been observing the movement of this tanker nearby. On the afternoon of May 20th, the tanker was restarted. In the evening, it drove to Yanjiao Town, sanhe city City, Hebei Province, and entered the parking lot belonging to a grain and oil company. According to the doorman, the parking lot belongs to Huifu Grain and Oil Group, and the tankers parked here are all ready to transport edible oil into the factory.

At ten o’clock the next morning, the tanker successfully entered the production plant of Huifu Grain and Oil Group. Until now, this tanker has not been washed since the unloading of coal-to-liquid oil. An hour later, the tanker was loaded with goods and drove out of the factory. The transport documents retained by the factory doorman show that the goods loaded by this tanker into the factory are first-class soybean oil, with a net weight of 31.86 tons.

On May 24th, in a parking lot in Tianjin Binhai New Area, a tanker with the license plate number Ji E**76W was also waiting to transport edible oil. Waiting for the gap, the reporter learned from the driver of the tanker that the tanker had just delivered coal-to-liquids from Ningxia to Hebei. After unloading the coal-to-liquids in Shijiazhuang the day before, it rushed to Tianjin from Shijiazhuang overnight. The driver revealed that since the unloading of coal to oil, the tanker has not washed the cans. The driver doesn’t care if he is worried about being rejected by the edible oil manufacturers. "You can install it, but you can’t install it."

In the afternoon, the Beijing News reporter saw the tanker drive into a factory called China Grain Storage Grease (Tianjin) Co., Ltd.. According to the factory security guard, including this tanker, soybean oil is loaded into the factory. Because the distance is not far, the reporter can clearly see the whole process of loading oil in the tanker outside the factory. From beginning to end, the tanker has not encountered any obstacles, and no one has checked whether the tank body is clean or not. About forty minutes later, the tanker was full of oil, and the weighbridge in the factory area showed that the tanker was filled with 35 tons of soybean oil.

This means that this tanker, which has just been unloaded from coal to oil, has been successfully loaded with edible oil without washing the tank.

On May 21st, a tanker with coal-to-liquids unloaded entered a grain and oil company to load soybean oil without washing the tanker. Tuyuan Beijing News

Cost saving: mixing without cleaning is becoming the norm.

The reason why tankers transporting coal-to-liquid oil to coastal areas mostly distribute edible oil on their return journey is that there are many manufacturers producing edible oil here.

The reporter learned in the interview that at present, the manufacturers of edible oil in China are mainly concentrated in coastal areas. Taking soybean oil as an example, it is generally necessary to rely on ocean-going freighters to import soybeans from abroad. The factories that produce soybean oil are usually located around the port, and there are many edible oil manufacturers in Tianjin Binhai New Area.

An edible oil industry insider told the Beijing News that not all edible oils are common small packages when they leave the factory, and many of them are sold in the form of bulk oil. "Some edible oil manufacturers located near the port do not do terminal retail, they will sell edible oils to other manufacturers, which will pack them into small packages for external sales, and some food enterprises will purchase bulk edible oils as raw materials."

Edible oil manufacturers sell bulk oil to the outside world, and also rely on tankers to transport it. Many transport vehicles come from Xingtai.

Many people in the industry said that Nanhe District, Xingtai City, Hebei Province is a well-known "hometown of tankers" in the industry. "Nanhe does this more, with at least 3,000 tankers." This is consistent with the phenomenon observed by reporters in interviews in many places. No matter around the coal-to-liquids plant in Ningxia or near some edible oil manufacturers, the number of tankers with the license plate number "Ji E (Xingtai, Hebei)" is the largest.

On May 14th, many tankers were parked in a parking lot in Nanhe District, Xingtai City, Hebei Province. Many local people are engaged in the tanker transportation industry. Tuyuan Beijing News

Many local tanker drivers in Nanhe said that at first, local tankers only transported edible oil, and later began to transport other liquid goods. In recent years, many tankers began to go to Ningxia to pull coal to make oil.

"In the past, tankers carrying edible oil generally returned empty. Taking Tianjin to Xi’ an as an example, the earliest one-way freight quotation was above 400 yuan per ton, and now it has dropped to around 200 yuan." A tanker driver told reporters that due to the increase of tankers in the past two years, the competition has intensified, and the transportation price of tankers has also dropped a lot, which forced many tankers to find ways to distribute goods when returning. Under such circumstances, many tankers set their sights on coal-to-liquid transportation. "It is difficult to distribute goods around the unloading site, and what is generally loaded. In recent years, there is also a great demand for coal-to-liquid transportation in Ningxia."

At the same time, under the background of gradually decreasing freight rates, tankers transporting edible oil can not only be used for special vehicles, but many tankers don’t even clean their tanks in order to save costs. "The cost of a single can washing is as low as three or five hundred, and as high as eight or nine hundred." A tanker driver revealed that because ordinary tankers often exchange goods and transport, washing cans every time is also a big expense, so many tankers choose to save money when exchanging goods and transport.

In the survey, the Beijing News reporter learned that the vast majority of tankers belong to the fleet. There are hundreds of tankers in the large-scale fleet, and only a few tankers in the small-scale fleet. The proportion of individual tankers is very small. For tankers belonging to the fleet, some drivers told reporters that although their drivers sometimes want to wash cans, they should also listen to the arrangement of the fleet boss. "The boss will make it clear, and the boss will not make it clear."

The control is not strict: the edible oil manufacturer has gone through the motions of inspecting cans.

In the eyes of many tanker drivers, the reason why the team boss doesn’t arrange to wash the cans is more because some edible oil manufacturers are not strict, and they usually don’t check whether the cans are clean. "If you check the cans, you have to wash them. If you don’t check the cans, you don’t have to wash them."

In Xingtai, Hebei Province, a tanker driver said that because he often deals with various edible oil manufacturers, the team owner has long been well aware of the inspection of each manufacturer’s cans. "Generally, we don’t go down to the cans for inspection, just look at the two mouths. We will just wipe these two mouths."

At the beginning of June this year, the Beijing News reporter called Huifu Grain and Oil Group in the name of transporting edible oil. A staff member said that they did not require a special tanker for edible oil, but only required that the goods transported by the tanker for the first three times were also edible oil. "The tank needs to be kept clean and tidy, and workers will inspect the tank before loading oil." However, many tanker drivers revealed that this grain and oil company is not strict in tank inspection. "They usually look at the oil drain first and wipe it clean. It would be easier if acquaintances often come to transport oil." The driver can also make up the information of the goods that need to be filled in the manifest before.

On May 24, at the entrance of an edible oil factory in Tianjin, the tanker driver was wiping the oil unloading port to cope with the inspection of the factory. Tuyuan Beijing News

The reporter also called China Grain Oil (Tianjin) Co., Ltd., and a sales manager said that in principle, a special tanker is needed to transport edible oil, but then he added that as long as the tank has the words "special for edible oil", "In fact, we don’t check the tank, and we can’t tell whether it is a special tanker for edible oil." He stressed that the contract for selling edible oil is agreed by the buyer, and the tanker is also hired by the buyer. After the edible oil is loaded on the car, they are not responsible for its quality.

Another company that produces edible oil, which is also located in Tianjin Binhai New Area, is not strict in the inspection of cans.

On May 24th, a tanker driver waiting to enter the factory to load oil told reporters that this company’s tank inspection is just a formality, and only the driver needs to upload a few photos, "photos of the oil drain and tank mouth taken by himself, and the tank has the words’ edible oil’." He revealed that he can cope with the past by using the earlier photos stored in his mobile phone. "You can just find a few clean photos and give him a glance, whether it’s today’s photos or not."

As for some edible oil manufacturers’ request to spray the words "edible oil" on the outside of the tank, the driver said that it was very easy to deal with it. Just erase the words "ordinary liquid" marked on the tank before and spray the words "edible oil" again. "Now there is varnish, and it is very convenient to alter it."

In late May, the reporter observed at the gate of this company that many tanker cars that came into the factory to transport edible oil had obvious signs of alteration. Some tankers just covered the words "ordinary liquid" with stickers, and then re-posted a sticker with the words "edible oil".

Even if there are such obvious alteration marks, it will not affect those tankers to transport edible oil.

A tanker waiting to be loaded with cooking oil in the factory, the medium information of the tank was covered by white paper, and a note with the words "cooking oil" was re-posted next to it. Tuyuan Beijing News

Transportation specification: Bulk edible oil transportation should be dedicated to special vehicles.

In fact, the GB/T30354-2013 Code for Bulk Transportation of Edible Vegetable Oils (hereinafter referred to as the Code for Transportation), which was implemented in China in 2014, mentioned that special vehicles should be used to transport bulk edible vegetable oils, and non-edible plant tankers or containers should not be used for transportation. It is also mentioned in the Transport Specification that before loading grease, it is necessary to carefully check whether the transport container is a special container and whether the container is clean and dry.

However, the Transport Code is only a recommended national standard, not a mandatory national standard, and has limited binding force on edible oil manufacturers.

Professor Wang Xingguo from the Food College of Jiangnan University told the reporter that although the Transport Code is a recommended national standard, it is also mandatory. He pointed out, "it is also a national standard, and relevant enterprises should take this as the basis when formulating enterprise standards. Enterprise standards can be stricter than this standard, but generally not lower than this standard."

As far as the transportation of bulk vegetable oil is concerned, Professor Wang Xingguo thinks that relevant enterprises should refer to the Transport Standard and use special transport vehicles, otherwise there is a risk of contamination of edible oil during transportation.

On May 24, a tanker that had just unloaded coal-to-liquids drove into China Grain Storage Oil (Tianjin) Co., Ltd., and the driver climbed onto the top of the tanker to prepare for the shipment of edible oil. Tuyuan Beijing News

Qiu Jian (pseudonym) is a tanker driver who has been in business for more than ten years. He told reporters that if the tank is not washed after unloading coal-to-liquid oil, there will usually be a few kilograms to more than ten kilograms of coal-to-liquid oil left in the tank. "If you wash the tank, you usually need to use alkaline water, and then steam the tank at high temperature after washing, so that it can be relatively clean. If it is just ordinary water washing, there will be some residue." Qiu Jian said that in most cases, the residual coal-to-liquid oil will be mixed with edible oil. "Like the white oil liquid wax in coal-to-liquid oil, it is colorless, transparent in color and not easy to see."

He said that non-hazardous chemicals liquids such as industrial wastewater, plasticizer, waste engine oil and water reducer can be transported by ordinary tankers, and coal-to-liquids only belong to the category with relatively large traffic at present. "There are several coal-to-liquids manufacturers besides Ningmei, and other manufacturers that produce chemical liquids may share tanker transportation with edible oil manufacturers."

Qiu Jian told reporters that although the receiving party of edible oil will take samples for inspection when unloading, due to the limited inspection items, even if other impurities are mixed in edible oil, ordinary inspection can’t detect it. "There are more items for testing moisture and acid value."

Qiu Jian believes that bulk edible oil is actually in a semi-detached state during long-distance transportation. "The manufacturers who sell oil don’t care much, and the companies that buy oil don’t know, which makes the transportation companies take advantage of it." Qiu Jian revealed that many transportation orders are generally subcontracted at different levels, and both buyers and sellers have no idea about the tanker that will eventually be transported.

As a tanker driver, Qiu Jian was very helpless. He called for attention to such industry chaos, because edible oil is related to thousands of households. He said: "Coal-to-oil may be clean, and other unusual chemical liquids may be more harmful if they pollute edible oil."

In Qiu Jian’s view, transportation companies are guided by the standards of edible oil manufacturers, and the chaos in this industry can be avoided only by strict control of edible oil manufacturers. "Careful inspection of cans by edible oil manufacturers should be the most effective and can solve 99% of the problems."

Yi Zhu, an associate professor at the College of Food Science of China Agricultural University, told the reporter that coal-to-liquids are mainly hydrocarbons, and the unsaturated hydrocarbons, aromatic hydrocarbons, sulfides and other components contained in them pose health risks to the human body. Long-term consumption may lead to poisoning. "The more you eat, the greater the toxicity. When there are more benzene or aminobenzene components, it may also affect hematopoietic function."

Yi Zhu believes that if the tanker transporting edible oil also transports other chemical liquids, the risk is even more unpredictable. "If you don’t know what kind of pollutants are in this oil, it is even more difficult to prevent. If the toxic chemical liquid remains inside, direct contact or inhalation may cause harm to the human body, such as organic solvents, acids, alkalis, heavy metals, etc., which may cause damage to the respiratory system and digestive system."

Original title: Investigation of chaos in tanker transportation: Direct shipment of edible soybean oil after unloading coal-to-liquids

　　CCTV News:The Survey of Good Life in China pays special attention to the consumption characteristics of married men. Where do they spend more? What are the differences between the consumption characteristics of married men in different regions? Let’s take a look.

　　According to the data of China Good Life Survey, married men have a strong sense of family responsibility. Cars, housing and insurance are their favorite consumption, and their consumption in these three aspects is obviously higher than that of men in other States. At the same time, however, they have the greatest pressure to shoulder family responsibilities, and they spend the least on entertainment consumption such as tourism, culture and entertainment. Another interesting discovery is that responsible married men are more eager to get promoted in education and training. Being a good husband, a good father and a good son, married men seem to be working hard on this road.

　　In the comparison of married men’s consumption expenditure in seven regions, the survey found that married men in South China love to buy houses most, men in Southwest China love to buy cars most, people in Northwest China love fitness more, and people in Northeast China prefer digital products such as computers and mobile phones. Married men in North China have a great demand for self-improvement and pay more attention to health preservation.

　　In the comparison of different types of cities, married men in first-tier cities spend far more on housing than married men in second-and third-tier cities, while married men in second-and third-tier cities spend significantly more on health care, cars and tourism than those in first-tier cities. In contrast, married men in first-tier cities are under greater pressure and have no life to settle down.

　　No matter where they are, married men in the first, second and third tier cities are surprisingly consistent in spending on education and training. According to the data of the past ten years, married men in different types of cities have reached a high degree of unity in education and training expenditure for the first time.

　　Married men generally pursue high-profile education and training consumption. Where do they spend all their money? A more in-depth survey on the Internet found that more than 70% of married men who have a high willingness to spend on education and training actually spend money on their children’s education. What a pity for inherit the wind!

　　What do married men choose to do in their leisure time in a day? A large survey found that between "family" and "self", the art of "carrying water" by married men has been perfected. Nearly half of the married men are willing to undertake the trivial housework during this time, 38.96% of them just want to "quietly" brush their mobile phones, 36.98% choose to watch the world through TV, and 31.12% are willing to experience life in a sweat.

In the midsummer, the new exhibition "Zhai Zi China" of Shanghai Museum, which was officially exhibited today, brought the audience to the Central Plains of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties to explore the spirit and charm of the magnificent civilization in the pre-Qin period; "Tarrasa: Marine Civilization and Greek Art" makes people feel the wind blowing by the Aegean Sea. China National Museum "Oriental Lucky Gold" focuses on the historical culture, etiquette civilization, science and technology and artistic achievements of China, South Korea and Japan with ancient bronzes.

Overseas, the self-portrait discovered not long ago after Van Gogh’s "The Head of a Peasant Woman" was exhibited for the first time in the exhibition "Taste Impressionism: Modern French Art from millet to Matisse" at the Scottish National Gallery.

"The Paper Art Review" specially sorts out the exhibitions worth watching for a week, in order to provide dinner for readers.

Shanghai

House China —— Exhibition of Three Generations of Civilization in Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties in Henan Province

Venue: Shanghai Museum

Exhibition period: July 30-October 23, 2022

This exhibition is the first special exhibition of Shanghai Museum’s "Why China" cultural relics and archaeology exhibition series. Through more than 200 pieces (sets) of precious cultural relics from Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, it leads the audience to trace back to the Central Plains in Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties and explore the magnificent spirit and charm of the pre-Qin period. The exhibition name "Zhai Zi China" comes from the inscription of He Zun, a bronze ware in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, and it is also the origin of the earliest known word "China".

Tarrasa: Marine Civilization and Greek Art

Venue: Shanghai Museum

Exhibition period: July 19-October 9, 2022

"Tarrasa" is taken from Thalassa, the goddess of the sea in ancient Greek mythology, which symbolizes the ocean that surrounds the Greek mainland and breeds many islands. It not only represents the main geographical features of Greece, but also is an important part of Greek life and psychology.

The exhibition displays 34 pieces (sets) of modern and contemporary Greek art works, and reproduces 5 ancient Greek cultural relics in the form of holographic projection, trying to explore and show the special relationship between Greece and the ocean from a historical perspective, and how they reflect the rich connotation of the ocean in visual art.

Prosperity and Prosperity —— Shanghai Museum’s Gifted Cultural Relics Exhibition

Venue: Shanghai Museum

Exhibition period: March 10th, 2022-January 8th, 2023.

There are 195 donated cultural relics in the exhibition, including Wang Nanping and Fang Shuyan’s "The Outline of Lengyan Sutra" donated by Wang Anshi in the Northern Song Dynasty, Fu Cha, the King of Wu in the late Spring and Autumn Period donated by Stanley Ho, and the Ming Dynasty Shen Zhou’s "Drawing the Axis of Xie ‘an Dongshan" donated by Weng Wange. The exhibition is another exhibition of cultural relics donated by Shanghai Expo after the "Prosperous Millennium" and "Mountain Scenery" held last year, and it is also a wonderful chapter in the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Shanghai Museum this year.

Giorgio Morandi

Venue: Shanghai Jiushi Art Museum

Exhibition period: July 9-October 9, 2022

There are 51 original paintings of Mo Landi on display, including 39 oil paintings, 6 original prints, 4 watercolors and 2 sketches, spanning Mo Landi’s nearly 50-year creative career. The works on display are from the Mo Landi Museum in Bologna, Mo Landi’s hometown, the National Museum of Modern Art in Rome, the world-famous Giovannadi private collection and IMAGO Gallery.

Endless with Heaven —— Shaanxi Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang Cultural Relics Exhibition

Venue: Fengxian Museum, Shanghai

Exhibition period: July 15th-September 15th, 2022.

The exhibition, in chronological order, is divided into four units, namely, "Brilliant History of Zhou Dynasty", "Oriental Empire", "Heroes of Han Dynasty" and "Meteorology of Prosperous Tang Dynasty", which shows the splendid history of the Chinese nation and its energetic and tolerant cultural self-confidence from the aspects of political system, social economy, people’s livelihood culture and foreign exchange.

Dahan Haijiang: South Vietnam Maritime Civilization Exhibition

Venue: China Maritime Museum

Exhibition period: July 1-September 18, 2022.

154 pieces/sets of unearthed cultural relics were exhibited, including the only complete silk jade garment in the world, the largest gold seal in the Western Han Dynasty, and the only dragon button emperor seal in the Han Dynasty, which showed the unique Lingnan style and maritime culture of South Vietnam.

Straight and detour: the path of modern architecture in Taiwan, China

Venue: Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art

Exhibition period: July 16th-October 16th, 2022.

The exhibition will introduce nearly 60 works by 16 architects/studios in Taiwan, China, and display related manuscripts, films, paintings, photographs, documents, models and immersive experience devices. The exhibition aims to sort out the development and latest exploration of modern architecture in Taiwan Province, and show the architect’s prudence and reflection on its identity.

Transforming the Future-The 8th Shanghai Duolun Youth Art Exhibition

Venue: Shanghai Duolun Modern Art Museum

Exhibition period: August 2-August 31, 2022

In the exhibition, works were collected by public solicitation and nomination and recommendation, and finally the works of 18 artists/groups were selected by the expert judges, covering painting, installation, sound, video and performance.

Beauty of Power —— Lu Xun and Printmaking

Venue: Shanghai Luxun Memorial Hall

Exhibition period: July 26th-September 12th, 2022.

The exhibition displays 89 pieces (sets) of rubbings, notes, Japanese ukiyo-e, European prints and prints created by China emerging woodcut artists trained by Lu Xun, among which 11 pieces are first-class cultural relics, and most of the rest are second-class cultural relics, in addition to 15 works of art by famous artists. In this way, it presents the accumulation process of Lu Xun’s artistic thoughts, and advocates and promotes the artistic creation of modern woodcut prints in China.

Long-term design: thinking and practice

Venue: Pearl Art Museum

Exhibition period: July 3-November 6, 2022

With more than 600 design works in 9 units, the exhibition goes deep into the traditional and modern features of regional products, and comprehensively and systematically introduces the design thinking and multi-field practice of Nagaoka Sage.

Jiangnan Life Aesthetics Exhibition

Venue: Shanghai Museum of History

Exhibition period: July 29th to August 28th, 2022.

Taking cultural relics as the carrier, the exhibition aims to show Jiangnan culture which is connected with rich, poetic, picturesque, moral and other cultural meanings. At the same time, the "Green Gold Beautiful Life-Fantasy Tour of China Tea in 17th-19th Century" presents the maritime tea trade in 17th-19th century and the influence of China tea culture on the world. This exhibition can be regarded as an extension of "life in the south of the Yangtze River", and can be viewed in contrast.

Nara Yoshitomo

Venue: BudiTek Art Museum (temporarily closed)

Exhibition period: March 5-September 4, 2022

Through more than 70 important paintings, sculptures, ceramics and installations, and more than 700 manuscripts that have not been exhibited, the exhibition reviews Nara Yoshitomo’s prolific artistic career spanning 37 years. This exhibition is not only the first solo exhibition of Japanese artist Nara Yoshitomo in Chinese mainland, but also his first large-scale retrospective tour around the world.

Water Domain —— Exhibition of the Kebranly Museum and the Fran? ois Schneider Foundation in France

Venue: Pudong Art Museum

Exhibition period: until August 31st.

The theme of "Water Domain" is water, which is the core of human life. It presents more than 100 collections of exhibits from the French Kebranli Museum and the Fran? ois Schneider Foundation, and has a unique dialogue from five aspects: water landscape manufacturing, water daily life, liquid imagination, sacred territory and water geographical transition.

Thomas Dimander: The Tongue of History

Venue: UCCA Edge

Exhibition period: July 8-September 4, 2022

Through more than 70 works such as photography, movies and wallpaper created by the artist in his career, the exhibition systematically sorts out the artistic practice of integrating sculpture and photography and exploring the junction of history, images and architectural forms.

The voice of all things

Venue: West Coast Art Museum (temporarily closed)

Exhibition period: July 28th, 2021-February 5th, 2023.

The exhibition brings together more than 160 masterpieces collected by Pompidou Center, and leads the audience into the hinterland of the avant-garde art movement under the background of globalization from the beginning of the 20th century to recent years with 18 exhibition chapters, touching the pulse of historical times with "things" and sinking into the sound behind listening to art..

Never Here —— Exhibition of Picasso, Van Donggen and Wu Lintian’s Works

Venue: Jane Gallery (CJ Fine Art, No.1, Lane 800, Zhongshan South Road)

Exhibition period: August 5-September 29, 2022

The exhibition combines eight Picasso’s works, two illustrations created by Van Dongen for Kipling’s collection of short stories, The Most Beautiful Story of Kipling, a famous British writer, and seven works recently created by China artist Wu Lintian, showing a special collision and integration of Chinese and Western arts. The Picasso series prints exhibited this time are the last set of prints made by Picasso before his death. In 1969, Picasso, who was 88 years old, spent two months creating 29 delightful portraits on corrugated paper with watercolor pigments, including mustaches, musketeers, deconstructed female faces, and abstract faces of Balzac, Shakespeare, Rembrandt and other literary giants. Among them, "Musketeer" series is one of the most important creative themes of the artist in his later years.

Wu Lintian is a painter who is engaged in abstract art creation and studies the tradition of Chinese painting. The seven works in this exhibition have changed their previous fascination with black and brown, and are mainly light pink. The works take the ancient towns, villages, pastoral areas and streets around the artist’s studio as the main reference objects, and complete the imagery creation by means of board linen and homemade pigments.

Substitute flowers for trees-Betan Lavier

Venue: Shanghai Fosun Art Center

Exhibition period: July 1st-September 4th, 2022.

This is the 73-year-old French national treasure artist’s first exhibition in Chinese mainland. Looking back on its pioneering artistic practice, the exhibition explores the relationship between painting and sculpture, expression and abstraction, and life and art with its iconic misappropriation art, and at the same time, creates a fantastic world of subversion for the audience through the concept of "scene construction".

Huayuan-Natural Return to the City

Location: moca shanghai.

Extension: lasting until mid-August.

With the unique curatorial concept of "thinking", the exhibition focuses on introducing the topic of "supernatural city". It is composed of three exhibition areas and seven unit theme exhibitions, bringing together the works of 12 artists, covering paintings, installations, images, photography and other media, and expressing the topic of "sustainable development" with the continuous increase of temperature in a cool way.

Your childhood, my memory —— Children’s images in contemporary photography

Venue: Biyun Art Museum, Pudong

Extension: lasting until September 18th, 2022.

Through 10 groups of 99 works by many artists, the exhibition shows some concrete achievements in children’s image creation in China since the reform and opening up, including both documentary works reflecting social changes and childhood scenes "imagined" thanks to digital technology.

Beijing

Worship Wei Yao De —— Qing Dynasty Military Equipment Exhibition in the Palace Museum

Venue: Beijing Guardian Art Center

Exhibition period: July 22-October 30, 2022

According to their functions, the exhibition divides the Qing Palace’s armament cultural relics into three units, namely "Courtesy to Heaven and Earth", "Shenfeng Grasping Victory" and "Baoye Ningtao", showing the application of armament in etiquette and war and its artistic characteristics.

Encounter Mesopotamia: Fine Exhibition of Ancient Syrian Cultural Relics

Venue: National Museum of Classics

Exhibition period: June 25th-September 12th, 2022.

The area where the Tigris River and the Euphrates River, which originated in Anatolia mountains in history, flow is called the two-river basin, and the ancient Greeks called it Mesopotamia, which means "the land between the two rivers". The exhibition displays 196 pieces/groups of exquisite cultural relics from Syria, depicting a long historical and cultural picture, and also showing the friendly cultural exchanges between China and Syria.

The Origin of Italy-Exhibition of Ancient Roman Civilization

Venue: National Museum

Exhibition period: July 10th-October 9th, 2022.

The exhibition gathered 503 ancient Roman cultural relics to tell the lifestyle, folk customs and social reality at that time.

Oriental Lucky Gold-Exhibition of Ancient Bronzes in China, Korea and Japan

Venue: National Museum

Exhibition period: July 26th-October 9th, 2022.

About 50 pieces (groups) of fine bronze cultural relics collected by the national museums of China, South Korea and Japan are displayed in the exhibition, taking bronze as the carrier, presenting the ancient history and culture, etiquette civilization, science and technology and artistic achievements of the three countries.

Accumulate Thick and Spread Wide —— Exhibition of Archaeological Achievements of National Museum

Venue: National Museum

Extension: from July 2, 2022.

In the exhibition, more than 240 representative archaeological relics were selected from different dimensions of land, sea and air to show the archaeological achievements of Guobo around specific archaeological cases.

Rong Yao Dan Qing —— Portrait Exhibition of Ming and Qing Dynasties in China National Museum

Venue: National Museum

Exhibition period: from April 29th, 2022.

The exhibition consists of three units, and more than 50 masterpieces (sets) of portraits of Ming and Qing dynasties are selected. The themes cover the royal family, famous officials, celebrities, literary societies, boudoir, women’s faces and other aspects, and the interpretation of the functional meaning of paintings is systematic, diverse and in-depth. Including "Sitting in Kangxi’s Study", "Du Fu’s Herb-picking Map" and "Chasing Huan and Getting Lu Map".

Sven Chuan Gu Feng: Deng Tuo donated ancient painting exhibition.

Venue: China Art Museum

Exhibition period: June 21st-August 25th, 2022.

To commemorate the 110th anniversary of Deng Tuo’s birth, China Art Museum held this exhibition, displaying more than 70 paintings donated by Deng Tuo. Through the three parts of "Xiaoxiao Bamboo, Lei Leishi", "Moving Vivid Quality to Freehand Style" and "Seeing the Road with Sincerity", the cultural value and charm of China’s ancient paintings were interpreted. The exhibition will also present a set of photos, documents and books for the first time, showing Deng Tuo’s elegance and charm.

A Master and a Half-bosom Friend —— A New Situation of Flower and Bird Painting by Qi Baishi, Yu Feian and Wang Xuetao

Venue: Beijing Painting Academy

Exhibition period: June 30th-September 18th, 2022.

The exhibition collected more than 70 pieces of flower-and-bird paintings by Qi Baishi, Yu Feian and Wang Xuetao. From the perspective of artistic inheritance, the exhibition studied three different types of flower-and-bird painters as a whole, and analyzed and explored the fundamental reasons why modern flower-and-bird painters opened up a "new realm" in the era from the four dimensions of "tracing back to the ancients", "imitating the ancients" and "expressing their feelings" for the broad audience.

Architecture with Five Senses: Kengo Kuma Architectural Design Exhibition

Venue: Guardian Art Center

Exhibition period: July 22-October 30, 2022.

The exhibition starts from the "five senses" from the presentation to the content, emphasizing all the senses of the future architecture responding to the lawsuit, and exhibiting works such as Bamboo Stream, Bamboo Qu, Bamboo and Stone, which bring comfort to people’s hearts.

Peking University Archaeology 100 Years Special Exhibition of Archaeology Major in 70 Years

Venue: Secler Museum of Archaeology and Art, Peking University

Exhibition period: May 3, 2022-May 10, 2023

The exhibition presents more than 100 pieces (sets) of exhibits, including cultural relics specimens, excavation reports, photos and literature files excavated by Peking University Archaeology over the years. There are two exhibition lines inside and outside the exhibition. The inner line is the memorabilia of the college, and the outer line introduces the important archaeological work that Peking University participated in and its contribution to the development of discipline theory and method.

Zhejiang(Province)

Wind and Lotus —— Lotus Culture and West Lake in Hangzhou

Venue: West Lake Art Museum

Extension: lasting until September 7th.

There are 170 lotus-themed cultural relics and handicrafts on display in the exhibition from Neolithic Age to modern times, all of which reveal the charm and elegance of lotus-themed cultural relics, from the Chicken Head Pot in the Six Dynasties, the celadon in Yueyao, the celadon with lotus patterns in Longquan Kiln in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, to Chen Hongshou’s "Lotus with Two Butterflies".

Metaphysics —— Longquan celadon from the perspective of Song Yun

Venue: Zhejiang Provincial Museum

Exhibition period: June 18th-August 18th, 2022.

More than 20 pieces of southern song Longquan celadon unearthed from the cellar in Jinyucun Village, Sichuan Song Porcelain Museum were exhibited, including the southern song Longquan celadon bottle, the southern song Longquan celadon water purification bowl and the southern song Longquan celadon ear-piercing bottle. This is also the second series exhibition of Longquan celadon with the theme of comparison between ancient and modern after 2021.

Antique Shadow —— Huang Binhong’s Ancient Seal Collection Exhibition

Venue: Zhejiang Provincial Museum (Wulin Hall Area)

Exhibition period: June 1st-September 3rd, 2022.

In the exhibition, 129 buttons of ancient seal collected by Huang Binhong before his death are displayed in contrast with his calligraphy and interpretation, supplemented by more than 40 manuscripts of seal science and ancient philology and paintings and calligraphy works. Through Huang Binhong’s collection, this paper aims to explore his views on collection, art and values, so as to pursue the interaction between Huang Binhong’s artistic creation and collection and his hidden spiritual pursuit.

Ding Bing and Hangzhou in the 19th Century

Venue: Hangzhou Museum

Exhibition period: May 18th-November 20th, 2022.

The exhibition is the first exhibition of the "Qiantang Tide" urban culture series, with a total of 63 sets/pieces, including letters, scrolls, rare books, bronzes, silks, ceramics, furniture and many other categories. The exhibition is divided into three units, namely "People on Qiantang River", "Reviving the Old Lakes and Mountains" and "Relieving Hang Cheng". It focuses on the construction and reform of Hangzhou gentry represented by Ding Bing in the late 19th century in many fields, such as industry, education, culture, charity and city, which provides a reference for China’s modernization.

From Hutemas to Future Vision: Design History of Soviet Russia —— Creating a New World

Venue: China International Design Museum of China Academy of Fine Arts.

Exhibition period: March 17th-September 22nd, 2022.

Focusing on the design innovation from Soviet Russia to the Soviet Union, the exhibition is the first large-scale exhibition of the complete design history of this period in China, aiming at exploring the pioneering experiments and achievements of the design in this period for building a new life world, and tracing back to the endogenous motivation and creativity in the design and art fields. The types of works presented in the exhibition cover drama, architecture and handicrafts related to this theme, as well as most modern design categories such as products, planes, clothing and transportation.

Jiangsu(Province)

"Jin State" Special Exhibition

Venue: Nanjing Museum

Exhibition period: June 25th-October 7th, 2022.

The exhibition displays 231 pieces (sets) of fine cultural relics from Shanxi Museum. Through three units, namely "Favourite of Hefen", "Striving for hegemony in the Spring and Autumn Period" and "Yu Lie San Jin", it focuses on the 600-year great achievements of the State of Jin from "sealing brothers with tung leaves" to "dividing Jin into three families".

Pan Yuliang painting special exhibition

Venue: Nanjing Museum

Exhibition period: July 16th-October 10th, 2022.

The unique artistic interest of Pan Yuliang’s works under the collision of Chinese and western cultures is realized from three units: Portrait and Figures, Women and Human Body, Scenery and Still Life.

"Enriching the Brilliance, Being Beautiful and Being Great" Series Exhibition to Commemorate the 100th Anniversary of Suzhou Art College.

Venue: Suzhou Art Museum and Yan Wenliang Memorial Hall.

Exhibition period: from July 15th.

The exhibitions include "Picturesque Canglang Overlooking the South of the Yangtze River-Invitation Exhibition of National Oil Paintings by Famous Oil Painters" (Suzhou Art Museum), "Looking at Canglang Festival-Yan Wenliang and Suzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Canglang’s Three Masters’ Eyes and Beads"-Exhibition of the Works of Yan Wenliang, Hu Cuizhong and Zhu Shijie, the main founders, and the exhibition of the works of Wu Zishen, an important sponsor, etc.

The Appearance of Civilization —— Exhibition of Ancient Cultural Relics in Eurasia

Venue: Suzhou Wu Culture Museum

Exhibition period: June 30th-September 20th, 2022.

The exhibition brought together more than 190 sets (pieces) of representative cultural relics of various civilizations on the Eurasian continent, and the cultural relics were collected from Syria, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Italy and other countries. These ancient cultural relics from foreign countries show some characteristics of the formation and development of civilizations in the Mediterranean region, western Asia and central Asia, and lead the audience to feel the characteristics of cultures in Asia and Europe and the exquisiteness of cultural relics from different angles.

Beauty surnamed Dong

Venue: Suzhou Museum

Exhibition period: June 3-August 31, 2022

The exhibition found 10 "Dong Shi" recorded in history, from Dong Meiren in Sui Dynasty to Dong Xiaoyuan in late Ming Dynasty, including more than 70 pieces (sets) in different categories, including gold and silver wares, porcelain, inscriptions, ancient books, calligraphy and painting, showing the beauty of ancient ladies’ daily life, telling the marriage and life, talents and images, feelings and ideals of women in Dong Shi through one piece of cultural relics, and using this as a window to explore China.

Zhongzhi Shenzhou —— Gorgeous Luoyang City in Tang Dynasty

Venue: Yangzhou China Grand Canal Museum

Exhibition period: May 27th-August 28th, 2022

There are more than 230 exhibits (groups) in this exhibition, which are from the Institute of Archaeology of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Longmen Grottoes Research Institute, Luoyang Museum, Luoyang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and shangcheng museum in yanshi. The exhibits are all archaeological excavations and collections of Tang Dynasty remains in Luoyang, among which there are rich first-class cultural relics, many of which are exhibited for the first time.

Purple jade is full of fragrance —— Special exhibition of Yixing purple sand in Nanjing Museum

Venue: Yangzhou Museum

Exhibition period: July 29th-October 9th, 2022.

92 pieces/set of Yixing purple sand ware were displayed, and the traditional craft, interesting aesthetics and literati charm of Yixing purple sand were shown to the audience from three aspects: "purple jade and gold sand", "the music is wonderful" and "the rhyme is full and dry".

Henan(Province)

Wang Duo Calligraphy Art Exhibition —— With an array of horses and a pen.

Venue: Henan Museum

Exhibition period: July 8-September 12, 2022

The exhibition carefully selected nearly 80 pieces (sets) of exhibits from 20 cultural and cultural institutions, covering the representative calligraphy works and rubbings handed down from ancient times in Wang Duo, as well as some works of making friends. They were gathered together and displayed in four parts, namely, "Imitating the Sage from Ancient Times", "Exploring the Path to Find Yourself", "Being Broad-minded" and "Writing by Literary Friends", which not only reflected the specific style and aesthetic orientation of the times.

Hebei

Fulu Shouxi Good Life —— Special Exhibition of Auspicious Culture in China

Venue: Hebei Museum

Exhibition period: July 8-November 8, 2022

More than 300 pieces (sets) of exhibits with auspicious meanings have been carefully selected in this exhibition, and the exhibition theme of "Fu Lu Shou Xi" has been condensed, including porcelain, jade, gold and silver wares, calligraphy and painting, fabric, paper-cutting, animal specimens, scientific painting, etc. Through the excavation of traditional auspicious culture in China, the audience can deeply understand the natural and humanistic attributes of animals and plants, and the important influence of auspicious culture on national spirit and social life.

Gracefulness —— The Elegant Life of Empresses in Qing Dynasty

Venue: Chengde Museum

Exhibition period: July 25th-October 25th, 2022.

The theme of the exhibition is the life of imperial concubines in Qing Dynasty. Through three units, namely "beautiful clothes and ornaments", "famous utensils" and "leisure and elegance", nearly 80 cultural relics, such as dress accessories, makeup combs, literary study, calligraphy and painting, needlework embroidery and tea set tableware, are displayed to reproduce the graceful, quiet, rich and unique court life of imperial concubines in Qing Dynasty.

Hunan

Infinite Beauty —— Literature and Female Images in Figure Paintings in Ming and Qing Dynasties

Venue: Hunan Provincial Museum

Exhibition period: June 23rd, 2022-October 30th.

The exhibition is divided into four units: the first unit expresses ancient women’s contribution to the family, the second unit shows the realization of ancient women’s social values, the third unit conveys the influence of women’s spiritual strength on the world, and the fourth unit explains the awakening of women’s self-awareness, focusing on the multiple social roles played by ancient women, their self-cultivation and sense of home country, and showing the literature and female images in figure paintings in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Shanxi

The Great Man and the King of Chu —— Xuzhou Han Dynasty Chu Cultural Relics Exhibition

Venue: Shanxi Museum

Exhibition period: June 21st-October 10th, 2022.

More than 270 pieces of Han Dynasty cultural relics selected in the exhibition are mainly unearthed from the tombs of several Han Dynasty princes in Xuzhou, supplemented by the tombs of the emperors in Shanxi and related Han tombs, which interpret the historical features of the Han Dynasty vassal countries from various angles and provide a new perspective for the public to understand the culture of the Han Dynasty.

Guangdong

Faxian Dingyao

Venue: Nanyue King Museum

Exhibition period: June 21st-September 20th, 2022.

In the exhibition, 294 pieces/sets of porcelain, kiln furniture and specimens from Ding Kiln in various periods collected by many cultural and cultural institutions in Hebei and Nanyue King Museum were exhibited, including 22 pieces/sets of first-class cultural relics. Combined with exquisite cultural relics, it is divided into six themes: Famous Dingzhou, Beyond the Dust for a Thousand Years, Gunnar Palace, Elegant Geometry, Great White in the World and Millennium Covenant. Through the history, decoration, technology, culture and communication of Ding Kiln, the product appearance, cultural connotation and the development of contemporary Ding porcelain in different periods are presented.

Hong Kong

Opening Exhibition of Hong Kong Palace Museum of Culture

Venue: Hong Kong Palace Museum of Culture

Extension: from July 2, 2022.

Seven special exhibitions were launched in the first phase, presenting more than 700 precious cultural relics from the Palace Museum in Beijing, covering 25 categories such as paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics, gold and silver wares, jade articles, lacquerware, sculptures, books and classics, with a time span of 5,000 years.

Taipei

The quintessence of rare books and ancient books collected in the Academy —— Brahman and Classic Fold

Venue: North Campus of National Palace Museum in Taipei

Exhibition period: until September 11th.

The exhibition is divided into two parts: "Brahma" and "Sutra". The former starts with "books written on leaves", selects and displays the sutra of Bayleaf in Myanmar, and tells the origin of "Brahma". In the latter, books are hand-rolled, and the earliest Chinese tripitaka-Chongning Zang (in the early 12th century) is matched. After comparing and expounding its evolution, various classics such as Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are displayed, showing its unique style of solemnity, prudence, simplicity and elegance.

Popular national treasure exhibition

Venue: Southern Campus of National Palace Museum in Taipei

Exhibition period: January 25th, 2022-January 29th, 2023 (the exhibits will be updated on July 26th).

Focusing on the famous works in the art history collected by the National Palace Museum in Taipei, the cultural relics on display are all popular national treasures. On July 26th, the masterpieces of the Qing Dynasty, such as Yu Bi Shu Wan Shi Shi Shi Biao and fleshy stones, will be exhibited, and Wang Xizhi’s Three Postings of Peace, How to Serve an Orange, will be exhibited from October 4th to October 30th.

Worm hide and seek

Venue: North Campus of National Palace Museum in Taipei

Extension: lasting until September 25th.

The exhibition focuses on the paintings of grass insects in past dynasties, hoping that the audience can find out these little creatures captured by the painter, know their true identities, and understand the stories related to grass insects and the hidden meanings behind them.

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Britain

Taste Impressionism: French Modern Art from millet to Matisse

Venue: National Gallery of Scotland

Exhibition period: July 30th-November 13th, 2022.

The exhibition shows many world-class masterpieces such as Van Gogh, Degas and Gauguin, as well as seven complete sets of Jazz by Monet and Matisse, which tells how Scotland became one of the greatest collections of impressionist and post-impressionist art in the world. The self-portrait just discovered after Van Gogh’s "The Head of a Peasant Woman" in 1885 is also displayed in the form of a light box.

Anatomy: about life and death

Venue: National Museum of Scotland

Exhibition period: July 2-October 30, 2022

The exhibition explores people’s pursuit of anatomical science in the past 500 years, and also shows the art and history related to it. These include Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches and the bones of the corpse trafficker William Burke, a man who killed for science and eventually became a scientific specimen himself.

Pre-Raphael School: Sketch and Watercolor

Venue: Ashmoline Museum, Oxford

Exhibition period: July 15th-November 27th, 2022.

More than 100 pre-Raphael works on paper (including portraits created by painters, commissioned paintings, and themes such as history, literature, and scenery) were exhibited. Most of the works are collected by the Ashmoline Museum since 1893, mainly from the legacy of Martha Qom, a pre-Raphael patron.

Tutankhamun: Digging Files

Venue: Bodley Library, Oxford University

Extension: lasting until February 5, 2023.

This year marks the centenary of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb by British archaeologist howard carter and his team. Different from previous exhibitions which focused on Tutankhamun and howard carter, this exhibition paid special attention to the contributions of other members of the team outside Carter, especially the unknown Egyptian workers who helped to discover Tutankhamun’s mausoleum.

Milton Avery: American master of color matching

Venue: Royal Institute of Art, UK

Exhibition period: July 15th-October 16th, 2022.

Milton Avery (1885 -1965), a modern American artist, is regarded as one of the greatest color masters in North America in the 20th century. He described the American land and seascape in the wild way of French Fauvism, which had an important influence on the creation of Roscoe, Pollock and others. The exhibition presents 70 paintings created by him from 1930s to 1960s, which are usually characterized by depicting daily life, including portraits of relatives, tranquil scenery in Maine and Cape Cod.

Edvard munch: A masterpiece from Bergen.

Venue: Courtyard Gallery

Exhibition period: May 27th-September 4th, 2022.

From the 1980s to 1909, the exhibition spanned several decades, and only 18 works of Monk were exhibited, but each one was a masterpiece full of vitality and dramatic tragedy. The works on display include Morning (1884), Summer Night (1889), Night of Karl John (1892), Melancholy (1894-1896) and Before Dying (1895), which shows the development of Munch’s art.

Picasso and Angel: Face to face

Venue: British National Museum

Exhibition period: June 3-October 9, 2022

Picasso’s Woman with a Book (1932) at the Norton Simon Museum in California was exhibited for the first time alongside its inspiration Anger’s painting Madame Moisil. Picasso met the mysterious Madame Moisil for the first time in an exhibition in Paris in 1921, and was deeply fascinated. In the next ten years, Picasso repeatedly paid tribute to Angel in his works of art.

Female Power: From Gods to Demons

Venue: British Museum

Exhibition period: May 19th-September 25th, 2022.

With the theme of "Women’s Power", the exhibition brings together ancient paintings, sculptures, sacrificial objects and modern and contemporary artworks from six continents around the world, focusing on the female gods and demons worshipped and feared by human beings in the past 5,000 years, and examining the role played by women in shaping human cognition of the world from a cross-cultural perspective.

Reconstruction: the woman in the window

Venue: Dulwich Art Museum, London

Exhibition period: May 4th-September 4th, 2022.

The exhibition spans all ages, starting from an ancient Greek vase, and brings together more than 50 works by Botticelli, Luo Saidi, Hockney: A Life In Pictures, Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman and other artists, revealing how artists interpret women in different times and cultures with a traditional theme.

United States of America

Chrome: Ancient Color Sculpture

Venue: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Exhibition period: July 5, 2022-March 26, 2023

In the original and energetic form, the exhibition "restored" and reproduced 14 ancient Greek and Roman statues such as the Sphinx, as well as more than 40 other ancient sculptures and pottery. In the bright exhibition hall of the Metropolitan Museum, they talk with ancient sculptures polished by time into pure white.

Memory of water

Venue: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Extension: lasting until April 2, 2023.

This is a small, poetic and multifaceted exhibition, which discusses the material and symbolic role of water in Native American life. Organized by Patricia Marroquin Norby, deputy curator of American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the exhibition combines traditional cultural relics in the museum’s permanent collection with contemporary works on loan, some of which are made by non-indigenous artists.

Raphael-The Energy of Renaissance Images: Dresden Tapestry and Its Influence

Venue: Columbus Museum of Art, USA

Exhibition period: it will be exhibited until October 30, 2022.

Six large-scale tapestries of biblical scenes designed by Raphael were exhibited, which were based on the same batch of design sketches as Raphael’s tapestries for the Sistine Chapel, and were woven by a workshop in London after Raphael’s death. The exhibition tries to show the power of image reproduction hundreds of years ago and the influence of Raphael tapestry painting on later artists.

"Cezanne" Special Exhibition

Venue: Chicago Museum of Art

Exhibition period: May 15th-September 5th, 2022.

The exhibition explores Cezanne’s cross-media and cross-genre artistic practice through 80 oil paintings, 40 watercolors and sketches, and two complete sketches. In addition to still life, portrait theme, impressionist landscape painting, Mount St. Victor, "Bather" series and other iconic painting themes of Cezanne, the exhibition also exhibited early fable paintings that were little known. These works combine the artist’s palette, composition deconstruction and other most advanced technical analysis to interpret how Cezanne conceived and made the image step by step towards the truth of the human eye.

Matisse: The Red Studio

Venue: new york Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

Exhibition period: May 1st-September 10th, 2022.

The exhibition brings together six existing paintings, three sculptures and a ceramic work from the works in The Red Studio, and presents them in the exhibition-they were in Matisse’s studio when Matisse drew The Red Studio. It is reported that this is the first reunion of these works after more than one hundred years.

Diego Rivera’s America

Venue: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Exhibition period: July 16th, 2022-January 2nd, 2023.

The exhibition presents 150 oil paintings, murals and sketches by this Mexican artist. The exhibition focuses on Rivera’s creation from the 1920s to the 1940s, when he regarded murals as "weapons" of social change and expressed his vision of "Pan-American reunification" on both sides of the border between Mexico and the United States.

Georgia O ‘Keeffe, photographer.

Venue: Denver Art Museum, USA

Exhibition period: July 3-November 6, 2022

When Ou Jifu devoted herself to photography in the mid-1950s, her creative identity and unique artistry had been established. Photography showed the artist’s persistent fascination with natural cycles and changes, while the exhibition was a tribute to Ou Jifu’s fascination with visual metaphors.

Norway

Norway’s new national museum opens

Venue: New National Museum of Norway

Exhibition period: from June 11th.

The new National Museum of Norway is composed of the National Gallery of Norway, the Museum of Architecture, the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design and the Museum of Contemporary Art, with a cost of about 500 million pounds and more than 6,500 collections on display. The new National Museum specially set up the "Monk Hall" for edvard munch, displaying 18 core works of Monk, including Scream.

Italy

The 59th Venice Biennale

Venue: Venice

Exhibition period: April 23rd-November 27th, 2022.

The theme of the exhibition is the short story "Milk of Dreams" by Leonora carrington, a British-born Mexican surrealist artist, which discusses post-human, deformation, ecology and other issues. The exhibition itself is like a revival of surrealism in this era.

The theme exhibition of this Biennale has 213 artists from 58 countries and 81 countries. It is reported that the number of artists participating in this Biennale will be the highest since 2005, which is double the number of the previous Biennale. At the same time, this Biennale has set the highest number of female artists, and more than 80% of the participating artists are women.

France

The Golden Age of the Portuguese Renaissance

Venue: Louvre

Exhibition period: until October 10, 2022.

About 15 Portuguese paintings that are rare in France are exhibited, showing this fragment that is rarely mentioned in the history of art. The Portuguese Renaissance combined Flemish style with local national traditions, and developed its own unique style by combining keen and even humorous observation and narration.

German/1920s/New Objectivism/august sander

Venue: Pompidou Art Center

Extension: lasting until September 5, 2022.

The exhibition covers painting, photography, architecture, design, literature and music, etc. From Santer’s photographic work "People in the 20th Century" to otto dix’s portrait series, it depicts a group image of the 20th century and resonates with the present world undergoing various changes.

Germany

The 15th Kassel Literature Exhibition

Location: Castle Land

Exhibition period: June 18th-September 25th, 2022.

The exhibition was curated by ruangrupa, an Indonesian artist group. They got inspiration from the "Micang" in rural Indonesia, formed the curatorial concept, and regarded the literature exhibition as a collective resource "from and used in Kassel city" to support local artistic practice.

The 12th Berlin Biennale

Venue: Berlin Art Institute, Hamburg Railway Station Art Museum, KW Center for Contemporary Art, etc.

Exhibition period: June 11th-September 18th, 2022.

The theme of the 12th Berlin Biennale is "Still exists!" Curator Kader attiya, a French-Algerian interdisciplinary artist, discussed the theme of "Crazy and destructive competition of global capitalism in production". Other topics covered in the exhibition include global warming, decolonization and the role of human beings in it. However, what supports this Berlin Biennale is neither the past nor the colloquial future, but it points to the real world in different ways.

Schliemann’s world

Venue: James Simon Art Museum and New Museum.

Extension: lasting until November 6, 2022.

2022 is the bicentennial of the birth of Heinrich Schliemann, a German archaeologist and discoverer of the ancient city of Troy. There are about 700 exhibits on display in this exhibition, including spectacular archaeological excavations, as well as many international borrowed exhibits, which will focus on the unexposed side of schliemann and what he was like before he started archaeology. The exhibition also uses the current research results to critically examine the archaeological methods of schliemann’s time.

Switzerland

The Evolution of mondriaan

Venue: Basel Beyeler Foundation

Exhibition period: June 5-October 9, 2022

There are 89 works on display, 82 of which are borrowed from art institutions and private collectors all over the world. Through the comparison and continuation of works in different periods, we can see the changes of mondriaan’s art.

Picasso-El greco

Venue: Basel Art Museum

Exhibition period: June 11th-September 25th, 2022.

The exhibition traces greco’s influence on Picasso in the form of a pair of their works, highlighting the lifelong kindness of the "old master" to the modernists.

Japan

In 2022, the wife of Yue Hou had an art festival of the earth.

Location: Yue Hou’s wife has

Exhibition period: April 29th-November 13th, 2022.

Among this year’s earth art festival, there are the dead Christian’s "Mori Jing", the Russian artist Kabakov and his wife’s new work "Tower of Holding Hands" that have participated since the first session, and the Ukrainian artist Jenna Kadyrova’s "stone bread" that yearns for daily life and peace; The works of Japanese local artists reflect the local culture and the use of daily tools.

Dialogue between Nature and Man: From Friedrich, Monet, Van Gogh to richter

Venue: National Western Art Museum

Exhibition period: June 4-September 11, 2022

To celebrate its reopening, the National Museum of Western Art in Japan launched this exhibition in cooperation with the Museum Folkwang, Essen) in Germany. Focusing on the "Dialogue between Nature and Man", it brought together more than 100 collections from German Romanticism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism to modern art in the 20th century, and traced back the changes of western perception of nature and artistic expressions in modern times.