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Shanghai Museum (part 1)

Sorry for the break in between my posts. I will try to write shorter posts more frquently from now on :-)

On Saturday David, Luo Qi and me were in the Shanghai Museum, which is one of the three biggest museums in China, beside the ones in Beijing and Taipei. The Shanghai Museum, located at People Square in Shanghai’s center, has about 12 galleries (own estimation) of different themes,e.g. the ones we visited, Archelology, Buddha-statues, Stamps, Pottery, Calligraphy, Painting. The pictures below are only the best ones I have taken. If you like to see more pictures from a particular gallery, just drop me a comment.

In front of the museum

Flying kites in front of Shanghai MuseumMe and Luo QiMe and David

The Archeology gallery

A mug, formed of wax, surrounded by clay, …Then the wax gets melted out and instead melted metal gets filled in. After this the clay is broken awayLü bells (Spring and Authumn Period, around 476 B.C.)Golden jar with fine patterns on the surfaceDavid (maybe) explains ancient Chinese characters ^^

The Calligraphy and Painting galleries

Artistic calligraphy writing (traditional Chinese characters)Calligraphy ScrollFamous painting (name, please ^^)Most famous part of this famous painting

The Stamp gallery

Stamps with tiny inscriptionsAn animal named Qi (like Luo Qi) which stands for luckOther stamps including their printout (above)

The second part will follow soon :-)
Would be great, if one of you (maybe David or Luo Qi) could provide me some more information like names of these artworks :-)

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3 Responses

  1. Posted on 7. March 2008 at 09:39 #comment-53

    Bian Qianwei




    The famous painting is called qīng míng shàng hé tú, which shows the whole view of Bianliang, which was the capital of Beisong Dynasty about 8 centuries ago. It’s at 24.8cm in height and 528.7cm in length. Almost every chinese knows this painting. If someone wants to see the whole painting, please click the following link: http://www.eyren.com/shoucang/qingming.jpg

  2. Posted on 8. March 2008 at 06:58 #comment-54

    Luo Qi




    The bell in the archeology gallery was built in late Spring and Autumn Dynasty, which was about 2500 years ago. Its Chinese name is biān zhōng.

  3. Posted on 10. March 2008 at 13:48 #comment-55

    Annica




    Ooooh I’d also like to have a Qi-animal ;) Matilda would like it, too, I bet!
    The bells are made the same way like the metal teeth we made in university :D

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