In anticipation of the New Year, many art galleries around the world are running new exhibitions for our cultural enrichment.

Take the National Museum of China which opened a Confucius cultural exhibition last week in Beijing.

The exhibition displays more than 700 pieces of cultural relics, documents and artworks related to Confucian culture in four sections that reveal the life and thoughts of Confucius, the development and spread of Confucianism, as well as artworks themed around the Chinese philosopher. The exhibition will be held until March 27.

Not far from the National Museum of China, the Palace Museum has already opened a series of activities to mark the 600th anniversary of the construction of the Forbidden City, including an exhibition about the encounter between the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery and the Palace Museum.

This exhibition presents 224 of the most precious works from these two collections in a display of the Panchen Lamas' contributions to the Qing court's establishment of a unified, multi-ethnic country, and the cultural and historical significance of the unique arts and heritage of the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery. The exhibition runs until February 29.