Earlier this week, I went to the Hubei Provincial Museum. It is pretty well set up, although it has nothing on the Museum of Fine Art in Boston.
I had gone over to the office of the company I work for to sign accident insurance. I suspect there is something I am not being told about it. I don't really care though.
So, after my office visit, I took a short cab ride along the east lake. Wuhan is situated at the confluence of the Han and YangTse rivers. There are alot of lakes (which are really ponds) all over Wuhan. The most beautiful, and biggest, of these lakes is called east lake.
The area around east lake looks alot better cared for than other less affluent parts of the city. There is a nice park and places to go swimming. You see alot of men fishing in the lake (i mean pond). Wuhan University (one of the best schools in China) is located in this area.
The Hubei Provincial Museum is located right next to the Hubei Museum of Art. I did not check out the art museum on this trip.
The Provincial Musuem is a large, stone ediface. It seems like architects in China like pedestrians to have ample opportunity to gaze at the design of buildings, because they design buildings with long treks to get to the front gate.
There was a nice Coi pond in the middle of the main plaze outside the museums front door.
The first exhibit I visited was about the Chu peoples. This was an early Chinese state that flourished about 1000 to 200 BCE. I saw some of their great Chariots (complete with horse skeletal fossils), their silk weaving, their various metal work, their sculpture, a nifty sword and some models that showed their architecture.
The Chu designed several large scale aquatic reservoirs. This was quite a feat, in my opinion.
I then went into the main hall, where there was a exhibit on loan from the Mongolian government (or a Mongolian museum).
The exhibit about Mongolians had some great artifacts
There was a porcelain relic that had a nestorian cross and mongolian writing, a bronze crucifix that was paired with a buddhist vajra and bell, a bronze hand cannon, and various other objects of art. I have not seen any exhibits about Mongolia before.
I then visited an exhibit about the tob of the Marquis Yi of Zeng. He was a very enigmatic figure, because none of the histories ever mentioned Zeng as a kingdom or state.
More about the museum in a future post.
It is a big hall, all made of stone.
Chu dynasty chariots. These were from a tomb.
They sacrificed the horses when they sealed the tomb.
The Sword of Goujian, an ancient Chu dynasty sword belonging to a Chu dynasty king (771 to 403 BCE). It is pretty cool looking.
A model of the ancient Chu capital Ying that is inside of the borders of present day Jingzhou, Hubei. Kind of a big small town.
This is one of the artifacts from a tomb. It is a very attractive sculpture.
The cat is the base of the sculpture. Very attractive stylistically.
Another funerary sculpture. This is a guardian from a tomb. It is kind of creepy.
A large wooden box with great design on it.
A figure of a boy riding on stylized creature.
The Chu had developed reservoirs in antiquity.
Mongolian statues.
The buddhist Vajra and bell side by side with a crucifix.
Apparently, the Mongols adopted nestorian christianity.
A handheld bronze cannon. I cannot imagine this was very accurate.
Looks exactly like european chess but with different characters.
An interesting board game that has a hunting motif.
A very attractive laquer box.
A very nice piece of of a silk robe.
This is from a rode used in buddhist dancing.
A mongol woman's traditional attire.
A mongol zither.
I can only imagine the sound of this.
I had gone over to the office of the company I work for to sign accident insurance. I suspect there is something I am not being told about it. I don't really care though.
So, after my office visit, I took a short cab ride along the east lake. Wuhan is situated at the confluence of the Han and YangTse rivers. There are alot of lakes (which are really ponds) all over Wuhan. The most beautiful, and biggest, of these lakes is called east lake.
The area around east lake looks alot better cared for than other less affluent parts of the city. There is a nice park and places to go swimming. You see alot of men fishing in the lake (i mean pond). Wuhan University (one of the best schools in China) is located in this area.
The Hubei Provincial Museum is located right next to the Hubei Museum of Art. I did not check out the art museum on this trip.
The Provincial Musuem is a large, stone ediface. It seems like architects in China like pedestrians to have ample opportunity to gaze at the design of buildings, because they design buildings with long treks to get to the front gate.
There was a nice Coi pond in the middle of the main plaze outside the museums front door.
The first exhibit I visited was about the Chu peoples. This was an early Chinese state that flourished about 1000 to 200 BCE. I saw some of their great Chariots (complete with horse skeletal fossils), their silk weaving, their various metal work, their sculpture, a nifty sword and some models that showed their architecture.
The Chu designed several large scale aquatic reservoirs. This was quite a feat, in my opinion.
I then went into the main hall, where there was a exhibit on loan from the Mongolian government (or a Mongolian museum).
The exhibit about Mongolians had some great artifacts
There was a porcelain relic that had a nestorian cross and mongolian writing, a bronze crucifix that was paired with a buddhist vajra and bell, a bronze hand cannon, and various other objects of art. I have not seen any exhibits about Mongolia before.
I then visited an exhibit about the tob of the Marquis Yi of Zeng. He was a very enigmatic figure, because none of the histories ever mentioned Zeng as a kingdom or state.
More about the museum in a future post.
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