China Tour ( 2 ) – Journey to the West, Art Museum & City Wall
Foreign ResidentChina Tour ( 2 ) – Journey to the West, Art Museum & City Wall
On 10th Sept, 2011, we arrived Xi’an,
Xi’an is an Ancient Capital of China,
under “Zhou, Qin, Han, Sui and Tang” dynasties.
Xi’an is one of the oldest cities in China,
with more than 3,100 years of history.
First, We visited the Giant/Big Wild Goose Pagoda.
It is a Buddhist pagoda/temple, located in southern Xi’an.
It was built in 652 AD, during the Tang Dynasty.
The main function of this pagoda is
to hold sacred texts and figurines of the Buddha.
Those were brought to China, from India,
by the Buddhist Monk “Xuan Zang”.
He is famous for his “Journey to the west”
( အနောက်သို့ ခရီးသွားခြင်း မှတ်တမ်း ).
The Bodhisattva (Guan Yin) instructed
the Buddhist Monk “Xuan Zang”.
So, the Buddhist Monk Xuan Zang &
his three protectors Sun Wukong (Monkey King),
Zhu Bajie (Pig) and Sha Wujing
travelled to the “Western Regions / India”,
(during the Tang Dynasty), to obtain sacred texts of Buddha.
Statue of Buddhist Monk Xuan Zang.
The Giant/Big Wild Goose Pagoda.
Donated to the Giant/Big Wild Goose Pagoda.
After that, we visited Xi’an Art & Calligraphy Museum.
Museum staff explained
the brief history of Chinese Art & Calligraphy.
She also demonstrated & taught us,
– the origin & logic of Chinese character & painting
– how to write Chinese characters.
Explained the brief history of Chinese Art & Calligraphy
Demonstrate how to write Chinese characters.
Recent Painting of Postgraduates Students.
Finally, we visited “The City Wall ( fortifications ) of Xi’an”.
It is the oldest and best preserved Chinese city walls.
The existing City Wall was started by the Ming Dynasty in 1370.
Area = 14 km²,
Length = 13.7 km,
Height = 12 m and
Thickness ( Wide ) = 15–18 m / 50 feet wide
The Xi’an City Gate
The Xi’an City Wall
- The Xi’an City Wall
On top of The Xi’an City Wall ( 12 m / 40 feet high )
On top of The Xi’an City Wall ( 15 m / 50 feet wide )
With Love,
Foreign Resident.
9 comments
thit min
October 5, 2011 at 2:14 pm
အပေါ်ကနေရေရင်(၅)ပုံမြောက်Donated to the Giant/Big Wild Goose Pagoda. ပုံအရဆိုရင်
တရုတ်ပြည်မှာလည်းဘုရားပရဝုဏ်ထဲဖိနပ်စီးကြတယ်နော်။
ဂျပန်မှာလည်းဂျပန်ဘုန်းကြီးကျောင်း၊ဘုရားတွေမှာဖိနပ်စီးကြတယ်ဗျ။
Foreign Resident
October 5, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Dear Ko Thit Min,
Yes, they do “ဘုန်းကြီးကျောင်း၊ ဘုရားတွေမှာ ဖိနပ်စီးကြတယ်”
I think, this practice is because of their country’s climate.
If the weather is too cold, how can they take off their shoes ( nonsense ).
For Example,
If you are in Siberia, with minus 20 degree Celsius,
After you take off your shoes, to pay homage to Pagoda,
After that, you might lose you toes. 🙁
weiwei
October 5, 2011 at 2:33 pm
တရုတ်ပြည်မှာ ဘုရားဝင်းထဲမှာ ဖိနပ်စီးလို့ရပါတယ် …
တရုတ်ပြည်ထဲမှာ နေရာတော်တော်များများရောက်ဖူးပေမယ့် ရှီးအန်းကိုတော့ မရောက်ဖြစ်ခဲ့ဘူး …
တရုတ်မှာက နေရာတွေတစ်နေရာနဲ့တစ်နေရာ ဝေးပေမယ့် ယဉ်ကျေးမှု ဗိသုကာလက်ရာတွေက တော်တော်လေးဆင်တူကြတာတွေ့ရတယ် …
windtalker
October 5, 2011 at 7:01 pm
အန်ကယ်ဖောကြီး
လောပန်ကြီး
ပုံတွေအားလုံးထဲမှာ
“Recent Painting of Postgraduates Students.” ကို စိတ်ဝင်စားမိတယ်ဗျာ
အနီးကပ် ရိုက်ထားတာလေးများ ရှိရင်
တင်ပေးပါဦးနော်
အနုပညာပြောင်မြောက်မယ့်သဘောရှိနေတယ်ဗျ
🙂
Foreign Resident
October 6, 2011 at 2:49 am
Dear Wind Talker,
Ummmm, you are the only one who really have artistic eye. 😛
Of course, I have ” very closed up pictures” (အနီးကပ် ရိုက်ထားတာလေးများ)
အနုပညာပြောင်မြောက်မယ့်သဘောရှိနေတယ်,
Yes, Yes, really ပြောင်မြောက်. 😛
I took very long time to understand those pictures. 😛
But, I am fear,
you see, some of our villagers/Thu Gyi might criticize, if I post them.
Moreover, if I post those အနီးကပ် ရိုက်ထားတာလေးများ,
then, MG have to change their name to ” Mandalay Play Boy Gazette”. 🙂
Too bad, they cannot understand & feel the real art.
May be, this is because, those art are too high for them,
( not ordinary level, Postgraduates level ) 😛
ကြောင်ကြီး
October 6, 2011 at 10:34 am
အဲဒီ ဘွဲ့လွန်ကျောင်းသူဆီမှာ တဦးချင်းပရိုက်ဗိတ် ကျူရှင်ယူလို့ မရဘူးလားဗျို့…။ သူနဲ့ကိုယ်နဲ့ တယောက်တလှည့်စီ မော်ဒယ်လုပ်၊ ပန်းချီဆွဲချင်လို့ပါ။ 😳
Foreign Resident
October 6, 2011 at 11:44 am
Dear ကြောင်ကြီး ,
I saw a lots of students there, both male & female, but, young.
some were learning & some were practicing,
some are really beautiful.
I didn’t have much chances to compare, who is who in those pictures. 🙁
By the way, I think,
the picture with Chinese fan & cherry branch is the most beautiful & attractive,
Isn’t it ??? 😛
zoe
October 6, 2011 at 11:04 am
Like the last picture… seems well preserved with wide smooth passage.. weather not very ideal at that moment.. I think.
Foreign Resident
October 6, 2011 at 11:32 am
Sorry Zoe,
My photos are not very clear.
Because, at that time, there was a drizzle.
You can even see, some were using umbrellas.