“Nightingale From the East”
To commemorates 300 years of China-Denmark
relations, the kingdom of Denmark invitational exhibition
“夜莺東來”
紀念中丹關系3 0 0 年
中國書畫丹麥王國邀請展
Preface
One of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, "the nightingale", describes a
nightingale singing in distant China, bringing happiness and comfort to people，
even its beautiful singing impressed the emperor and the travelers from all over
the world. This fairy tale describes all of Andersen's imaginations about China.
In 1868, Andersen made an album of collages for the granddaughter of Adolphus
Druson, and one of the pages was entitled "China", which was pasted with
pictures of the Europeans' imagination about the Chinese -- flowers and birds,
little houses and pavilions. In the middle of the page, three lines of poetry
were specially written: "The Chinese eat rose syrup, use silk as mouthwash and
half of their houses are gilt." Although Andersen had never visited China during
his lifetime, this probably represented the most accurate and comprehensive
impression of China in the minds of the people of the Kingdom of Denmark at that
time.
In 1674, King Christin V of the Kingdom of Denmark sent a letter to emperor
Kangxi requesting the establishment of trade and navigation relations. The
merchant ship "Fortuna" of the Kingdom of Denmark arrived in Fuzhou after two
years' voyage, opening the first page of friendly exchanges between the two
countries. During more than three hundred years, China and the Kingdom of Denmark
have maintained close contacts. Moreover, in the western world, Denmark kingdom
is the second country to have established diplomatic ties with the People's
Republic of China. With the wide spread of Andersen's fairy tales, Chinese
people mostly learn about the Kingdom of Denmark based on their understanding of
Andersen. Thus it can be seen that culture and art are always the forerunner of
the communication of human civilization.
As the hometown of Hans Christian Andersen, the Kingdom of Denmark will hold
the " Tour in the Hometown of Hans Christian Andersen -- special exhibition
of Chinese calligraphy and painting in Denmark", which is one of the serial
activities of the spectacular exhibition "the relationship between China and
Denmark for 300 years" in the city museum of Odense city. It will display works
of Chinese calligraphy and painting carefully created by the representative
Chinese artists of the Chinese calligraphy and painting delegation invited by
the Chinese Culture Center in Denmark. The members of the delegation include
Pang Liming, Zhang Yaolai, Zhao Dechang, Jiao Xiaohong, Yu Jianshi, He Yuandong,
Guo Zhenshan, Xue Ming,Gao Shan, Yu Lan, Liu Qingyang, Huang Wenxin and so on.
It's believed that the show of their different artistic styles will impress
the Danish people with the unique charm of Chinese painting and calligraphy
tradition and the pursuit of painting aesthetics. We are hoping that through
this special exhibition, the beautiful rhythm of Chinese traditional culture
and art will echoe across the Kingdom of Denmark, just like the sound of the
nightingale in Andersen's fairy tale.
序 言
安徒生童話中，有一篇《夜莺》，記述了遙遠的中國有一只歌聲美妙動聽的夜莺，為人
們帶來快樂與安慰，它動聽的的歌聲甚至打動了皇帝以及世界各國到訪的旅行家。這篇
童話中描述了安徒生對于中國的所有想象。1868 年，安徒生為阿道爾夫· 德魯森的外孫
女克裏斯汀妮做了一本拼貼畫冊，其中有一頁題為“中國”，四周貼滿了歐洲人想象中
的中國人、花和鳥、小房子和小亭子，在頁面正中，安徒生還專門寫了三行小詩：“中
國人吃的是玫瑰糖漿，擦嘴用的是绫羅綢緞，半座房子鍍得金光閃閃。”盡管安徒生一
生未能到訪過中國，但是，這大概代表了當時的丹麥王國民衆心中對中國最概括、最準
確的印象了。
1674 年丹麥王國國王克裏斯欽五世致函康熙皇帝請求建立通商通航關系，丹麥王國商船
“福爾圖那”號經過兩年航行到達福州，掀開了兩國友好往來的第一頁。三百多年間，
中國與丹麥王國一直保持著密切的交往，丹麥王國還是世界上第2 個與中華人民共和國
建交的西方國家。伴隨著安徒生童話的廣泛傳播，中國的民衆大多依托于對安徒生的認
知了解了丹麥王國。由此可見，文化藝術永遠是人類文明交流的先導力量。
作為安徒生的故鄉——丹麥王國奧登塞市城市博物館舉辦“中丹關系300 年”大型展覽
的系列活動之一的“安徒生故鄉行——中國書畫丹麥特展”，展出丹麥中國文化中心邀
請訪丹中國書畫藝術代表團龐黎明、張耀來、趙德昌、焦小紅、喻建十、何元東、郭振山、
薛明、高山、于蘭、劉慶楊、黃文新等中國繪畫代表性藝術家精心籌備的中國繪畫藝術作品，
相信他們不同風格的藝術呈現，能夠為丹麥王國的民衆們展示中國書畫的傳統獨特魅力
及繪畫美學追求。希望這次專題展覽，能夠如同安徒生童話中的那只夜莺，將中國傳統
文化藝術的美妙韻律，唱響在丹麥王國。
