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I'm paper piecing a quilt kit I won from Melissa's blog at 100billionstars.com/ . It combines Amy Butler prints and prints from Parson Gray! Instead of the mini quilt 100billionstars.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Garden-Geo... I am going to make this into a larger quilt. The contrast is absolutely stunning!
Wuhou Shrine (which I usually mistakenly call “Wuhou Temple,” though I think I’ve seen signage to that effect) is an interesting museum to literature/history. I call it a temple because it feels like a temple. As it’s not religious, though, it’s just a shrine.
So, what is it a shrine to? The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. That book (along with Dream of Red Mansions) is one of the most famous and most important of ancient Chinese literature. I’m ashamed to say I haven’t read either yet, though. Having said that, the following summary is a mashup of signage around the grounds and Lonely Planet China (2011).
Directly from LP: “Surrounded by gardens with mossy cypresses draped over walkways, this temple honors several figures from the Three Kingdoms period, including Emperor Liu Bei and legendary military strategist Zhuge Liang, who was immortalized in one of the classics of Chinese literature – Romance of the Three Kingdoms (San Guo Yanyi).”
And from signage near the entrance to the museum: “Wuhou Shrine of Chengdu, the largest museum (140,000 square meters) for the history of Three Kingdoms, displays about 50 life-size statues of the administrating staff from the monarchic Kingdom of Shu and preserves some ancient buildings, of which some were renovated in 1672 AD. As early as in Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty, the honorable and reputable shrine was a tourist destination.”
In my experience from what I’ve seen here and around China and South Korea, I’ll say the following things…
1. Wuhou Shrine feels as much like any religious temple as any Confucian Temple. (Since Confucianism isn’t really a religion, I don’t know why those are called temples and this isn’t.)
2.It’s very well-maintained and has a very parklike quality to its visit, which makes this one of the nicer places to spend time in Chengdu.
3.It’s impressive that a museum to history/literature is this…extensive. And this old. If the signage is accurate, the Tang Dynasty ended in 907 AD, if memory serves me right which makes this museum – in this location – over 1,000 years old. I think “impressive” is a huge understatement.
4.Like anything that old, it’s so hard to know what’s original, what’s renovated. I think it’s safe to assume every one of the buildings has been renovated. (If 1672 was the last renovation, I would be impressed, but since all of them have electricity…hard to believe that.) But what about the landscaping? How much of that is original? Those sorts of questions are curious to me.
5.Speaking of original, there is a burial mound for Liu Bei. It is 12 meters tall and encompassed by a 180-meter long wall. According to official Three Kingdoms records, Liu Bei died in 223 AD and was buried here (later joined by his two wives, Madam Gan and Madam Wu). However, I swear that I’ve read elsewhere that it’s inconclusive that Liu Bei is actually buried here. Whether he is or not, this is an impressive mound.
6.My final comment about Wuhou Shrine is that it’s just a beautiful park – especially in spring – with magnolias in bloom. (This first posting will highlight that; it’s from mid-March 2015. I’ll eventually have two subsequent Wuhou shoots to join this first group.)
As always, please feel free to leave questions or comments. I hope you enjoy the pictures and descriptions.
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So the new workflow is off to a fine start - I'm posting this in the same week I shot it! To be sure, I'm feeling my way around Lightroom still so I apologize if the colours look odd. Hopefully as I get more familiar with the new software, the processing is not as heavy-handed and the speed of posting actually picks up (gasp!).
Lots of wacky chair shapes around the hotel - loved the shadows cast by these on the sea view terrace
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Nothing special here, just an interesting facia on a parking garage. But, it does illustrate a point. Chicago outshines every other American city that I've seen in the architecture arena. (If you have another canidate, I'd love to check it out) Each building seems to be built to one-up its neighbors, enchance its neighborhood, and draw the viewer's eye towards it. This particularly appealed to me, and is in direct opposition to the 'make all the buildings blend with their neighbors' mentality that you see in too many cities. So, just a parking garage, but the owners went the extra distance to put a unique facia on it so that it was interesting and very pleasing to look at, instead of just another eyesore parking garage. That's what I liked most about Chi-town.