Computer enhanced version
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Welcome to Linda's and Garr's China pictures. |
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Shanghai. Computer enhanced version |
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Skyline across street from Museum of Fine Arts in Shanghai. Computer enhanced version |
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| Female lion nursing baby lion at Shanghai Museum of Fine Arts. More often the baby is simply under the mother lion's left front paw. Compare here. |
| Art in the Shanghai Museum of Fine Arts by Qing Feng, 1778. |
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| Art in the Shanghai Museum of Fine Arts by Cui Zizhong, (ca 1574-1644.) |
| Art in the Shanghai Museum of Fine Arts, Anonymous. From the Song Dynasty, in 1142, the coffins of Zhao Je and Queen Zhen are brough to south China. Western art had not achieved this level of sophistication at this time. |
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| Gold coin from the Qin Dynasty in the Shanghai Museum of Fine Arts. This is from the Qin and Han Banliang Coinage System, 221 BC - AD 220. |
| Shanghai Museum of Fine Arts. |
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| Shanghai Museum of Fine Arts. |
| Molds to make coins in the Shanghai Museum of Fine Arts. |
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| Coins in the Shanghai Museum of Fine Arts. The Five Dynasties and Ten States Period, AD 907-979 was a time of chaos with no standardization. |
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| Shanghai Museum of Fine Arts. From 1644-1911. |
| Shanghai Museum of Fine Arts. Plate to make paper money, 1375-1644. |
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| Shanghai Museum of Fine Arts. Paper money, Qing Dynasty |
| Sign about the coin collection in the Shanghai Museum of Fine Arts. |
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| Shanghai Museum of Fine Arts. |
| Garr and Linda outside the Shanghai Museum of Fine Arts. |
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| View from the bus on the way to the Moslem Longhua Temple where we had a very nice vegetarian lunch. Note all the trees. |
| View from the bus on the way to the Longhua Temple. Planter boxes are located on the side rails of the road for miles. Trucks come by to water the plants at night. This is another aid to controlling pollution. |
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| Inside the Moslem Longhua Temple. |
| Incense burner at Longhua Temple. |
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| Offerings at the Longhua Temple. |
| Elderhostelers at the Longhua Temple for a Vegetarian Lunch. |
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| Praying at the Longhua Temple. |
| Longhua Temple and Vegetarian Lunch. Melanie took a very similar picture. |
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| Female lion with her left foot on her baby lion at the Longhua Temple. |
| Sign at the Longhua Temple. (or is this the Shanghai office of i2? -- just joking, of course.) |
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