Next court we visited, a painting exhibit. I think it may be a new exhibit or something, as there were a lot of reporters on site. But luckily the crowd was still managable.
Again, the walk there itself was quite relaxing and beautiful. Wooden plank walk beneath the beautiful trees lining each side leading you into the exhibition ground.
Not only was this just a painting exhibition, it was paintings of beautiful ladies of the court.
Although it was just a small hall, the quality of the exhibit was impressive. Mainly cause I've never seen so many paintings of such high quality before in a single place. I mean, there is the Singapore Gallery.... But somehow the art pieces here were filled with history and culture and oozed a different vibe all together. I guess it being held inside the Forbidden City itself adds up to the vibe.
I guess the word that would best describe it was classical. Classical art pieces of Chinese Court Beauties.
I even love all the chinese writings on them. So elegant and fine.
There was a gift shop outside the hall. It looked like just another historical building, but there are signs saying that it was a book shop or a gift shop. Since there wasn't a crowd there, I was curious and wanted to step in to take a look even though the husband was at first reluctant to.
The inside was itself a work of art! The way they display the goods, almost like an exhibition by itself. We spend some times browsing, but didn't want to stay too long in a shop. Still, it was worth a visit. The items weren't too expensive, but we didn't purchased anything here.
A cute small display in one of the display corner. Simple and minimalistic. Love it.
After that, we head outside again and groups of people were everywhere. Some even brought their own chairs for sitting, a very common site in China! The next post will be a documentation of all the cool paintings of beauties from the exhibition :)
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