Friday, March 9, 2018, Shanghai (2 of 2), Museum 2 of 2

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This blog post continues our visit to the Shanghai Museum; the last post included the Ancient Chinese Jade Gallery and Chinese Mong and Qing (pronounced ching) Furniture Gallery.  This post includes the Chinese Painting Gallery and Ancient Chinese Ceramics Gallery.  Unfortunately we did not have time to view eight additional galleries.

 Note the dates on some if the paintings and ceramics; millenniums ago!  Chinese are excellent craftsmen as well as industrious.

 After visiting the museum, we walked through the Peoples' Square and Peoples' Park then rode our bus to the Bund.  An intro is provided at the end of the paintings.

Chinese Painting Gallery


 









Chinese Ceramics Gallery









Would you guess this is a 5-inch long bird feeder?




What do you think these three items are?
If you guessed these are ceramic bed pillows you are correct!














These two pieces are on loan from the Acropolis Museum.




Upon walking out of the museum we saw the Shanghai city hall across the Peoples' Square.

Big Brother!
Major hotels.
Cherry blossom trees about to bloom.

Shanghai opera house with three auditoriums.

On our bus ride to the river walk (Bund) we passed numerous apartments with laundry drying.
Hop-On/Hop-Off tourists bus.  These are all over Europe and South Africa and maybe the remainder of the world.
 Along the Bund (river walk) is a memorial to soldiers.  The three pillars are rifles stacked at barrels.
The Huangpu River, formerly romanized as Whangpoo, is a 113-kilometer (70 mi) long river flowing through Shanghai that was first excavated and created by Lord Chunshen, one of the Four Lords of the Warring States during the Warring States period (475 BC - 221 BC).  It is the last significant tributary of the Yangtze before it empties into the East China Sea. The Bund and Lujiazui are located along the river.
The Huangpu is the largest river in Shanghai, with Suzhou Creek being its major tributary. It is on average 400 metres (1,312 feet) wide and 9 metres (30 feet) deep. It divides the city into two regions: Pudong ("East Bank" - old side) and Puxi ("West Bank" - new side).
Shanghai convention center on "new" side of the river.

 Monument dedicated to Chinese workers.
Note all the cameras on all the poles; Big Brother watching.  No wonder no crime in Shanghai.
Cruise ship small compared to the high rises.

Big Brother on every street corner.
The real China away from the tourist areas.
Cameras everywhere.
Our cruise ship pulled out toward sea after dark.  Shanghai is as pretty after dark.











On our way next morning toward Hong Kong, we pass hundreds of fishing vessels on the East China Sea.  We will pass between mainland China and Taiwan.





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