Beijing 2024 - Forbidden City Ceramic Exhibition Part 1

So this was the first hall we visited, a smaller hall at the left side of the Forbidden City. Almost every halls and court yard in the Forbidden City has a cultural exhibition showing the finish of Chinese craftsmanship and arts.

But first, let me show you the garden inside the side courtyard. Yes, there is even a cool garden here. And it has a similar but smaller scale river running through it. And so green too! Love the green trees around it with the white marbled water way. Lovely landscape! 

And to even get to the side hall, we had to walk some distance. And there was also a large ground area in front of the hall. Almost like a smaller scale grand entrance. There was even a bridge you had to cross.

Once inside, if you look up, goodness the roof was so elaborately decorated! Love the green and gold colour scheme! Everything looked almost new. Very well maintained! This was just a minor hall!

As luck would have it, it was a ceramic exhibition that I found myself stumbling into! Yay!

I admit, I spend more time here cause it was the first exhibition we went to, the first hall. Everything inside was just so beautiful, elegant, and so detailed! If every exhibition was like this, we won't have enough time to cover everything in a day! I  mean, look at those chinese characters carved into this stone! I can't even write as beautifully as those characters!

There were also tea pots! And some looked less chinese than I thought a chinese tea pot was supposed to look like! Like the one on the left here. It looked middle easter, persian, I don't know. Definitely not chinese. But it was. Cause China is so huge! And very close to the middle east too. It was fascinating!

The colours of the pieces were also stunning. I love ceramic! or Porcelain. 

I also love the signature they usually put at the back of a ceramic piece. It usually tells you the maker and the year it was made. And if it's fine bone china, it would also states it here. So this is actually the first thing I looked at when I buy a piece. Didn't matter if it's first or second hand pieces. I wanted to know all these information before deciding whether to buy it. And this culture has been here for thousands of years! How cool is that! More detailed pieces in the next post! This is just the introduction post.