Beijing 2024 - National Museum of China (中国国家博物馆) Scuplture Exhibition Part 2

OMG, another long picture post of sculpture! I promise, this is the last one! (For this museum anyway.....) 

I think we can conclude that Godness of Mercy was a crowd pleaser, cause there were just so many pieces on her alone in different pose. This one is the hundred hand version, each holding a different thing representing different meaning. 

A different version. This will be the last one! I Promise! 

I like this one. I think I have a Facebook shared post about something similar about carving your own beauty or talent is the best thing you could do for yourself, or something cheesy like that. Again, this reminded me more of Greek Gods instead of Chinese..... I wonder why......

A beautiful piece of QiGong, the famous monk. When I was young, I used to read comics and story books about him. Probably the only Chinese books I read aside from LaoFuChi. Love the dark green skin tone they gave it, and that rib bones! Love it!

Another beautiful wise man piece. Love the elongated shape of it, kinda tells you he is very old and wise! Love the beard too! And the robe, and how thin he is!

A piece of Nezha on a dragon? Looks like Nezha to me anyway, the boy that has fireballs on his legs.

Elegant lady reading a book?  I wish she was playing Chinese Chess instead, but maybe ancient ladies don't play chess?

Two old man playing chess? This is like those classic pieces you would often find under a bonzai plant, around a pond, or practically any curated Chinese garden. Chinese playing chess is a popular activity, usually among old man, in almost any Chinatown in the world. Why don't ladies play chess? I love playing chess. Most exciting game for me :)

Love this simple piece. A fat elegant general? Feels so steady. So comforting. 

Another balance piece, lady at a lotus pond defying gravity piece. China craftman, you are amazing!

Here are more elegant ladies defying gravity, almost floating in the air. 

The final piece here, fairies dancing in a tangled circle. The sculpture blog post ends here as we come in full circle :) Thank you for doing the mad dash run with us as we try to cover everything before being chased out of the museum. by 430pm, all the museums were already starting to appear in every hall of the museum, ready to chase people out!