Exhibition of Nanjing History and Culture

I was at the exhibition centre
A funny picture.

Tickets


A funny artwork

The most interesting artwork, also my favourite one.

At the gate of the Temple

Last week, on March 1st 2009, I went to see an exhibition in Chao Tian Temple with Helen. She told me there was an exhibition called Exhibition of Nanjing History and Culture. In the morning, my mother drove me there and I met Helen at about 10:00 a.m. at the gate of Chao Tian Temple and then we started our visit.

The exhibition is about the whole history of Nanjing. It shows how Nanjing developed and grows into a large city at present. Nanjing is a city with a thousand-year-long history. There used to be the capital of 6 dynasties. Most of the things shown were artworks which were manmade. However, there were also some parts of bones of primitive men.

In the exhibition, I found that an ancient astronomical instrument attracted my attention. It was very famous in Nanjing. I remembered that I used to see it in an astronomical observatory at the top of Purple Mountain. The instrument seemed to be a very complicated machine. Also, it was not only an astronomical instrument but also an excellent artwork. There are some flying dragons carved on it. I can imagine how developed the science was in ancient time in Nanjing. I stood beside the instrument and looked like a scientist controlling it. That’s really cool! At that time, Chinese people like to make research on the space and lots of stars in it. When I taught the instrument, I can even feel that I am close to the sky.

I liked the exhibition very much. It showed me the wisdom of people in Nanjing. I am really proud to see these artworks and scientific instruments as a boy growing up in Nanjing. I also saw some very famous artwork that I had only seen in the TV before like that ancient astronomical instrument. It was really excited to see these cultural relics. I thought some artworks was so excellent and I even want to take them home (just a joke :-). However, there is no brochure to help introduce the exhibition. It might be difficult for us to understand the meaning or the story of every artwork. On the other hand, it will give me more space to use my brain to imagine how it would be used to do. From the exhibition, I know how Nanjing become such a large city, and i am so proud to live in this city which has a long history. I will study hard to help to make our city and our country become stronger.