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1/ Food Writing in Hong Kong Literature

Date: 2025/4/2 (Wednesday) to 2025/10/7 (Tuesday)
Time: Library Opening Hours
Venue: Hong Kong Central Library (Hong Kong Literature Room)
Description: This exhibition is one of the activities in the Chinese Culture Promotion Series. The LCSD has long been promoting Chinese history and culture through organizing an array of programmes and activities to enable the public to learn more about the broad and profound Chinese culture. For more information, please visit https://ccpo.gov.hk/en/.

1/ ‘Mystery of Chinese Writing’ Roving Exhibition

Date: 2025/8/6 (Wednesday) to 2025/9/9 (Tuesday)
Time: Library Opening Hours
Venue: Hong Kong Central Library (1/F, Exhibition and Activities Area)
Description: The development of Chinese characters has a long and rich history, beginning with the pottery inscriptions in the late Neolithic period, progressing to the oracle bone scripts and bronze inscriptions in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and evolving through small seal scripts after the unification by Qin to clerical scripts during the Qin and Han periods. By the Tang dynasty, Chinese writing system had fully matured and the art of calligraphy scaled new heights. As of today, Chinese characters continue to embody the wisdom of the past and demonstrates the charm of Chinese culture. The exhibition will use simple writings, images of artefacts and vivid illustrations to showcase the development and cultural connotations of Chinese characters.

1/ Exhibition on Documents of Cantonese Attire in the Last Century

Date: 2025/5/1 (Thursday) to 2025/8/31 (Sunday)
Time: Library Opening Hours
Venue: Hong Kong Central Library (8/F Rare Book Reading Room)
Description: Cantonese attire, with the use of indigenous fabrics and unique clothing style, not only preserves traditional elements but also incorporates the styles of modern fashion. The document display explores the changes of Cantonese clothing, presenting people’s livelihood and willingness of trying new styles over the past century through old photographs, newspaper clippings, etc. collected through the Documents Collection Campaign.

This document display is also one of the activities in the Chinese Culture Promotion Series. The LCSD has long been promoting Chinese history and culture through organizing an array of programmes and activities to enable the public to learn more about the broad and profound Chinese culture. For more information, please visit https://ccpo.gov.hk/en/.
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