There will be more than 200 cultural relics on display in the Nandaku of the Forbidden City, and people who work in the Forbidden City vividly compare them to "IKEA in the Ming and Qing Dynasties".

The Nanxun Hall and Nandaku of the Forbidden City, which were once warehouses and had kept police dogs, have been vacated, and the first stage of the exhibition will come to an end this month. Here, 2,000 pieces of precious furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties will will no longer be "stacked" and they will "spread their arms and legs" to tell the story of the Ming and Qing courts.

According to this opening speed, 80% of the area of the Palace Museum will welcome guests this year. Yesterday, Shan Jixiang, curator of the Palace Museum, revealed that all units or institutions outside the Forbidden City are expected to move out in 2020. By 2025, the opening area of the Forbidden City will reach 85.02%, and 30% of the 1.8 million treasures are expected to be exhibited. Masterpieces handed down from ancient times such as A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains will be "resurrected" with the help of science and technology, and the audience will be invited to explore the secrets in the painting.

At present, there are still four units or institutions outside the Forbidden City, most of which are units with the prefix "country". Through decades of efforts, the problem of their emigration is expected to be solved. It is estimated that by 2020, there will be no units or institutions inside the palace wall.

People in the Forbidden City have to move out of ancient buildings and even out of the palace walls. According to statistics, there are currently more than 1,500 employees in the Forbidden City, and about half of them need to deal with cultural relics every day. In the future, they can still work in the palace to ensure the safety of cultural relics. The remaining 750 office workers will gradually move out. Earlier, Shan Jixianghas also made it clear that all staff members' private cars would be gradually banned. The vacated ancient buildings will be opened as much as possible.

"The Forbidden City receives 17 million visitors every year, and we hope to turn tens of millions of visitors into hundreds of millions." ShanJixiang is planning planning to bring the Forbidden City closer to people. "In recent years, through digital technology and multimedia demonstrations, the number of visitors to the official website of the Forbidden City has reached 891 million in 2017."

The Forbidden City has continuously expanded its open area from 30% in 2002 to over 80% this year. Shan Jixiang says: "Our aim is to have more space to display the cultural relics collected in the Forbidden City. At present, the Forbidden City has a collection of 1.86 million cultural relics, but due to factors such as venues, the exhibition ratio is only about 2%."

In the future, this proportion will continue to expand. He says: "We hope to reach 8% by 2020. By 2025, 30% of cultural relics will be exhibited."

The forms of cultural relics exhibition will also be more diversified. At present, the high-tech interactive art exhibition ofthe Along the River During the Qingming Festival 3.0 is the most popular exhibition. With the help of science and technology, people travel back to the Song Dynasty, enter the famous painting, sit in Sun's Mutton Restaurantand cross Hongqiao by boat. "Many cultural relics are as precious as the Along the River During the Qingming Festival, and they do not have the conditions for exhibition all the year round. Therefore, we hope that famous paintings can enter the audience's life through scientific and technological means. At present, A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains has started its resurrection plan."

Currently, exhibitions are preparing in the Nandaku and Nanxun Hall of the Forbidden City. This is not only the exhibition hall of the furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but also the warehouse of these furniture"made of either rosewood or dalbergiaodorifera." In other words, in the future, the audience will have the opportunity to approach the cultural relics warehouse for the first time and explore the secrets through the window.

Dan Jixiang introduces that there are more than 6,500 pieces of furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the Forbidden City, of which 1,000 treasures are displayed in the original exhibitions such as Hall of Supreme Harmony and Cining Palace, and the rest are scattered in 87 warehouses. "Some furniture can only be stacked, and the most one has 11 floors. The preservation environment is not good."

The exhibition hall of the furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties will display and store about 2000 pieces of furniture. This part will be distributed in three phases, the first phase mainly displays the classic furniture of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong's periods, and at the same time, there is a part of warehouse display; The second phase is all storage areas; The third phase mainly displays the furniture from the Ming Dynasty. In the future, it will form a new exhibition area with Wuying Hall and Baoyun Building. Dan Jixiang says: "It is estimated that the visit time will take about one hour."

Long and narrow exhibition hall space, with a corridor in the middle, with furniture arranged on both sides according to different scenes such as study, piano room and courtyard. At the corner of the exhibition hall, the scene of Painting Emperor Hongli appraised antiques will be restored. Wang Ge says: "Try to find furniture according to the picture, and we have found a sunflower-style table with red paint and gold." The only difference from the painting is that this table is not plain, but a "fully decorated" round table. "This is a typical Yongzheng style, and even the corners are full of decoration."

After this scene, the audience will enter the "warehouse" area. Through the huge glass windows, the furniture will be neatly placed on the tall shelves. People in the Forbidden City vividly compare it to "IKEA in the Ming and Qing Dynasties".Nanxun Hall, a rare relic of the Ming Dynastyin the Forbidden City, is about to start its exhibition. Twenty or thirty pieces of furniture displayed here are all made by craftsmen of Ming Dynasty.Theyare rare furniture of the Ming Dynastywith "trademarks".

"There are more than 360,000 pieces of porcelain in the Forbidden City, and most of them are sleeping in the warehouse." Shan Jixiang introduces that they will also be displayed in storage in the future.