Happy Birthday, mom!!! Hallowmas….as at least one Chinese bar advertises it. Today we headed to the Shanghai museum, which has 120,000 pieces of art in the collection with ancient Chinese bronze, ceramics, jade, coins and calligraphy and painting as its special features. Overall the Chinese bronze collection was both Scott’s and my favorite exhibit. Many of the bronzes were either food or wine vessels, in varying forms and shapes. The interesting part is that it can be a called a wine vessel but depending on its name, determined its function. Such as a Flower Zun, shaped like a flower it would be large or medium and have wine contained in it, while a Flower Gu, would have wine drunk from it, or a Flower Jue, would be a vessel that wine is poured from into a
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