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I learned about dragon kilns (basically, a very long type of Chinese kiln).
| Ceramics. A Ming dynasty jar.
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| Very detailed.
| | I like this row of 18th century pieces.
| The cracked technique is intentional (and, I imagine, quite difficult to
achieve with such uniformity).
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| This piece of pottery was meant to be a pillow!
| | A row of Tang dynasty pieces from the latter half of the first
millennium.
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| This piece feels like a Hindu temple.
| | This diagram is a nice way of visualizing simultaneous pottery
developments throughout China. Each column represents a geographic
region; each consecutive row is 500 years later in time. Each little
plaque shows pottery shapes/designs.
This could be used in a Game
clue.
| A landscape painting on a scroll, taken partially as a sample of this
part of the museum.
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| An expansive landscape painting: Pictorial Representation of Poem
Pipa Xing by Wu Li.
| The explanation of the previous painting.
| Jade sculptures.
| I really like the feel of this jade sculpture. I'm not sure why.
Perhaps it has to do with the sense of depth achieve with remarkably few
details.
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| Notice the painting on the back panel of the bookcase. If I had a
bookcase like this, I wouldn't be willing to put books on it.
| | Another incredibly detailed Qing dynasty piece.
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| One panel on another cabinet.
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| En Route to Dinner
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| Old villas we passed on the way to dinner.
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| Dinner
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Drunken/wine-ed chicken served chilled in a clay pot. Very good:
chicken in a sweet wine sauce one wants to eat with a spoon.
Di
Yin looks very pleased with this dish.
| The menu description of the previous item: drunken/wined chicken. That
is, chicken in Shaoxing yellow wine sauce: hua1 diao1 zui4 ji1.
| "Steamed dried tofu with ham and bamboo shoots."
| Actually, this best translates as gold label kousansi (kou4 san1 si1).
Kousansi means, roughly, three shredded things buttoned together. It's
always a soup, and at least one of the shredded things is a meat, but I
don't think there's any other necessary requirements to this dish.
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| Stir-fried mushrooms and choy sum.
| Mushrooms and choy sum (the latter is literally "vegetable heart"): mo2
gu1 cai4 xin1.
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