when: 20 February 2024 | venue: Chau Chak Wing Museum | cost: Free | address: University Place, University of Sydney, Camperdown NSW 2006 | website: https://www.sydney.edu.au/museum/whats-on/talks-and-events/lunar-new-year-festival-2024/chinese-community-language-tours.html | tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/chinese-community-language-tour-cantonese-tickets-794859735867?aff=oddtdtcreator
published: 16 Feb 2024, 5 min read
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Join a tour of the Chau Chak Wing Museum's exhibition 'Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature' in Cantonese.
Belt toggles, known as zhuizi (坠子), are small carved ornaments used as counterweights on cords tied around belts in traditional Chinese dress. Rising in popularity from the 1600s, belt toggles were used to secure pouches and cases for everyday items like tobacco, chopsticks, knives and money. Carved from a diverse range of natural materials to represent a variety of figures, plants, animals, and everyday objects, these splendid miniatures manifest Chinese culture and material values.
'Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature' was developed in partnership with the Powerhouse Museum and features objects mostly on loan from the Powerhouse collection, which includes one of the world's largest collections of Chinese toggles, donated to the museum by Hedda and Alastair Morrison.
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Join a tour of the Chau Chak Wing Museum's exhibition 'Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature' in Cantonese.
Belt toggles, known as zhuizi (坠子), are small carved ornaments used as counterweights on cords tied around belts in traditional Chinese dress. Rising in popularity from the 1600s, belt toggles were used to secure pouches and cases for everyday items like tobacco, chopsticks, knives and money. Carved from a diverse range of natural materials to represent a variety of figures, plants, animals, and everyday objects, these splendid miniatures manifest Chinese culture and material values.
'Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature' was developed in partnership with the Powerhouse Museum and features objects mostly on loan from the Powerhouse collection, which includes one of the world's largest collections of Chinese toggles, donated to the museum by Hedda and Alastair Morrison.
Go see Chinese Community Language Tour: Cantonese 2024.
Chinese Community Language Tour: Cantonese 2024 is on 20 February 2024. See start and end times below. Conveniently located in Camperdown. Call 02 9351 2812 for details. Visit their website at https://www.sydney.edu.au/museum/whats-on/talks-and-events/lunar-new-year-festival-2024/chinese-community-language-tours.html.
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