National Art Museum of China, Beijing

The National Art Museum of China, or Zhongguo Meishuguan, is a museum at 1 Wusi Dajie, Dongcheng, Beijing, China. Its exhibits are spread out over 3 levels and 14 halls. The exhibitions include both Chinese as well as international art and the occasional photography displays.

Unlike other forms of media such as film and literature, the art suffers less from government censorship.

At the National Art Museum of China, you can find an extraordinary amount of Chinese modern art.

How to reach the National Art Museum of China

Take the subway to the Dong Si subway station. The museum is open from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm daily, with the last entry allowed in at 4:00 pm. 

The exterior of the China Modern Lierature Museum.

The statue of Bing Xin displayed in gardens of the China Modern Literature Museum.

A portrait of Ba Jin collected by the China Modern Literature Museum

The China Modern Literature Museum is located in the Chaoyang District ofBeijing. The Museum constitutes the primary resource in China for materials on Chinese modern
literature and it is also the largest building in the world dedicated solely to literature and to collections relating to literature. Resources include a library, a documents hall, a hall for research materials, and a center for academic exchange. The mission of the museum is to collect, conserve, organize, and research works of modern and contemporary authors of China, their manuscripts, translations, books and letters, diaries, recordings, videos, photographs, documents and any other materials that relate to the critique of a work such as literary journals and newspaper reviews.

The China Modern Literature Museum was established in March of 1985. Its collecting principles do not distinguish on the basis of political views, artistic school or sect or style. All new literary materials since the beginning of the 20th century can be collected, including works from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and also overseas Chinese-language works. The museum currently has more than 300,000 collected items, among them 170,000 books, 2,100 kinds and 90,000 copies of magazines, 142 kinds of newspapers, 10,970 handwritten manuscripts, 8,282 photographs, 7,887 letters, 453 taped recordings, 773 videos, and 2,959 cultural artifacts.

The garden in the China Modern Literature Museum

The Museum has set up special rooms or cases for whole collections that have been donated to the museum. It has also set up collections in the name of the person donating. Such cases include the special collections of Ba Jin (1901-), Bing Xin (1900-1999), Xia Yan (1900-1995) and some fifty more authors, including those from Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas such as Lin Haiyin (1918-2001), and Bu Shaofu (1909-2000).
The China Modern Literature Museum actively carries on all kinds of literary activities, and has collectively edited a number of works on modern authors, as well as editing a quarterly journal together with the Modern Literature Research Association. Scholars both in China and abroad have carried on extensive interaction through the work of this museum. They have organized some major exhibits such as a retrospective of the works of Lao She (1899-1966) of Ye Shengtao (1894-1988), and an one-hundred-year tribute to Mao Dun (1896-1981).
The Museum has a multi-capacity hall that is offered for use as a site for literary discussions, research, speeches, performances, and exhibitions. A television hall is set up for televised events, and there is a media production room. The Museum is in a secluded garden full of trees. Inside, certain works of art were created specifically for the new museum by famous sculptors, painters, and craftsmen. There are oil paintings on the walls, colored glass inlaid in the walls, authors' sculptures, authors' signatures on ceramic vases and so on, providing an artistic atmosphere that is comfortable and conducive to reflection.
Address: Beijing City, Chaoyang District, Shaoyao Ju, Wenxue Guan Road, #45
Telephone: 86-10-84619071, 86-10-84615522-1104 or 2139
Fax: 86-10-84619054, 86-10-84619049
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China Pavilion 02

China Pavilion looks like building bricks or logs of wood built on top of each other but actually it represents one of the buildings out of ancient Chinese literature and the building is made out of concrete, glass and steel.

Osho, Zen, Dao, China and Meditation

Hangu Pass near Lingbao, Henan, China

"This is the actual border pass where Laozi (Lao Tzu) was detained and forced to write the Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching), considered to be the most powerful piece of Daoist literature 

extant." (courtesy Bob)

The Great wall Of China

The Great Wall of China is the longest structure ever built. Its length is about 4,000 miles (6,400 kilometers), and it was erected entirely by hand. The wall crosses northern China between the east coast and north-central China.

Over the centuries, various rulers built walls to protect their northern border against invaders. Some of the walls stood on or near the site of the Great Wall. Most of what is now called the Great Wall dates from the Ming dynasty (I 368-1644). The eastern end of the surviving Ming wall is at Shahaiguan, a town near Qinhuangdao on the coast of the Bo Gulf. In the west, the wall ends near the town of Jiayuguan. But during some periods, the wall reached as far east as Dandong and as far west as Dunhuang, near Anxi.

Parts of the Great Wall have crumbled through the years. However, much of it remains, and some sections have been restored. The main part of the wall is about 2,150 miles (3,460 kilometers) long. Additional branches make up the rest of its length.

One of the highest sections of the Great Wall, on Mount Badaling, near Beijing, rises to about 35 feet (11 meters) high. This section is about 25 feet (7.6 meters) wide at its base and nearly 20 feet (6 meters) at the top. Watchtowers stand about I 00 to 200 yards (91 to 180 meters) apart along the wall. The towers, about 40 feet (12 meters) high, once served as lookout posts.

In the east, the wall winds through the mountainous Mongolian Border Uplands. This part of the wall has a foundation of granite blocks. it has sides of stone or brick, and the inside of the wall is filled with earth. The top is paved with bricks set in mortar. The bricks form a road that was used by the workers who built the wall and by the soldiers who defended it.

Farther west, the Great Wall runs through hilly areas and along the borders of deserts. Stone and brick were scarce in these hilly and desert areas, and so the workers used earth to build this section of the wall. They moistened the earth and pounded it to make it solid.

Written records indicate that the Chinese built walls along their borders as early as the 600's B.C. Emperor Shi Huangdi of the Qin dynasty (221-206 B.C.) is traditionally regarded as the first ruler to conceive of, and build, a Great Wall. Most of the Qin wall was north of the present-day wall. Shi Huangdi had the wall built by connecting new walls with older ones. Building continued during later dynasties, including the Han (202 B.C.-A.D. 220) and the Sui (581-618).

By the time the Ming dynasty began in 1368, much of the wall had fallen into ruin. In response to the growing threat of a Mongol invasion, the Ming government began building a major wall in the late 1400's. This wall included most of what remains today. Like earlier ones, it protected China from minor attacks but provided little defense against a major invasion.

Through the centuries, much of the Great Wall again collapsed. However, the Chinese Communists have done restoration work since 1949, when they began to rule the nation. The wall no longer serves the purpose of defense, but it attracts many visitors. Tourists from around the world come to see the wall. Historians study writing and objects found in fortifications and tombs along the structure. Scientists study earthquakes by examining parts of the wall that have been affected by these earth movements.

A Red DElicious Food of china

Delicious food to eat,