The Unique China

China is a large and spacious land home to countless groups, each with its own culture and traditions. But for all its diversity, certain threads run through China's long history - dragons, jade, silk, porcelain, to name a few. To examine the facets of China, we will be 3 of its repositories of the ancient tradition - Shanghai Museum, Beijing Jade Museum and the Hong Kong Heritage Museum.
Shanghai Museum houses a magnificent collection of ancient Chinese art in its 11 galleries and 3 exhibition halls. The permanent galleries will present artifacts representative of the main sections of Chinese art, namely, old bronze, antique ceramics, painting, calligraphy, antique sculptures, antique jade, coins, Ming and Qing furniture, seals, and minority nationalities.
A view over Shanghai Museum allows you to see the many innovations of the Chinese. For example, China was one of the first countries to the money as a medium of exchange. The Gallery of Chinese coins contain almost 7000 exhibits of early coins.
China celebrated ceramics on display at the Shanghai Museum and a tri-colored pieces from the Tan Dynasty, blue, white and black glazed porcelain and dismissed from the Song, Liao and Jin Dynasty. A visit here is a must for any connoisseur of Chinese culture.
More typical of Chinese treasures, you can see in the Shanghai Museum are Chinese seals. These stamps are printed with Chinese characters, based on documents, contracts, and the works of art to prove identity and authenticity. The oldest date back to 3000 years.
And now for our second museum, the Jade Museum in Beijing, the Forbidden City, once the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. Since 1924, it is the Palace Museum houses an extensive collection, especially from the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Jade is of central importance for the Chinese culture for millennia. In ancient China, it was also known as "the essence of heaven and earth" and "The Royal Gem '. Its value exceeds the event that the gold for the Chinese and it symbolizes nobility, perfection, constancy, and immortality.
The jade collection to the Beijing-Jade-Museum is a wonderful place to admire this article from the majority of Chinese materials. The display consists of approximately 30,000 pieces, with the oldest from the Neolithic.
Hong Kong is a very special part of China, from 1841 to 1997, it was from another country, Great Britain. In these 156 years of colonial rule, Hong Kong developed from a fishing village on the economic and financial power in Asia. Today Hong Kong is still a bustling boomtown feel, but also an oasis of calm in the form of parks, temple Islands. To the past of this special place can be found on the Hong Kong Heritage Museum in Sha Tin disctict.
In a 3-storey purpose-built structure that has the shape of a Chinese ancestor Hall, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, with 6 six permanent exhibition galleries - New Territories Heritage Hall (with models of traditional shops and a Hakka fishing village), Children's Discovery Gallery, Cantonese opera Heritage Hall, TTTsui Gallery of Chinese Art, displays artifacts from the former Tsui Museum of Art, and the Chao Shao-gallery. There are six thematic galleries for temporary exhibitions.
It is easy to reach in China and overwhelmed have a feeling you know less than when you arrived. But visit this major museums in China and you'll find this great country is not so unfathomable after all. Before the trip to China, make sure that the hotel reservations are. Hotels in Beijing Hotels in Hong Kong can be booked in advance via the Internet, and then you can enjoy the best in China.
Richard has over 20 years experience in the travel industry and writes for the cheaper than hotels. Cheaper than hotels offers cheap hotels in China.

Author :Richard Greaves