A statue of the renowned Chinese poet and essayist, Zhu Ziqing.
The house is mostly filled with his writings and creations. It is relatively small and stuffy with nothing much to see. The house also depicts the old furniture from long ago.
Rating: 3/5
Geyuan Garden 个园
Entrance to Geyuan.
Bamboos in Geyuan.
Geyuan is named from the bamboos growing in it. The name derives by separating the Chinese character for bamboo (竹), making it look like the word 个. The Geyuan Garden is open to the public, throughout the four seasons. Spring is demonstrated with a picture of bamboo and rock. Summer is represented by the steel-grey Taihu Stone, a popular tourist attraction. Autumn is depicted by Huangshan stone, and winter by Xuan stone.
Rating: 4/5
Daming Temple 大明寺
Pagoda in the temple.
Danming Temple is a temple at the middle peak of Shugang Mountain, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. This temple is known for a famous monk, Jianzhen, who studied the sutras and initiated people into monkhood here in the first year of the Tianbao reign of the Tang Dynasty (742 C.E.) before he left for Japan.
Rating: 3.5/5
Industrial Visit: Volkswagen
Front counter desk in the factory.
Layout of the factory.
Shanghai Volkswagen is an automobile manufacturing company headquartered in Anting, China and a joint venture between Volkswagen Group and SAIC Motor. It was founded in 1984 and produces cars under the Volkswagen and Škoda marques. Here, we toured the factory and viewed how the cars were made and the processes they had to go through before being put up on the market for sale. We went to the Volkswagen Shanghai Factory in Yangzhou to have a tour of how it works. First we watched a video about the history of Volkswagen. Then we got on a car and it took us through a tour of the inside of the Volkswagen factory. The manufacturing of a car in the factory, I realized that the process is complicated and thorough. Overall, it was an interesting experience, learning about the Volkswagen Factory.
Rating: 5/5
Chinese Paper-cutting Museum
A paper cutting masterpiece depicting a dragon and a phoenix.
A paper cutting masterpiece depicting a tiger.
Chinese Paper-cutting Museum, located at the rear of Wang’s Residence, is the only themed museum focusing on Chinese paper-cutting. It is divided into four parts. The first is the Paper-cutting Exhibition Hall for different schools in China, while the second shows Yangzhou’s paper-cutting and its representative master. The third part is Art Exchange Hall where some ceremonies and other paper-cutting related activities are held. The fourth is a place where you can enjoy masters’ performance on paper-cutting. We had the experience of using the special Yangzhou scissors to cut zodiacs by ourselves. The workers also stood beside us and guided us. This experience was rare. We experience the art of traditional paper cutting, using a paper and a scissors to slowly cut out intricate, complex and complicated - but nonetheless beautiful - patterns. We were given one scissors and some paper each, and we had to cut out patterns of animals from the Chinese Zodiac. It was difficult to keep our patience, considering the rate of cutting is slow and we were making the occasional mistake, but the end result was still good. This experience taught us a lot about traditional Chinese culture and how patient they were, and that paper cutting is truly no easy task. Overall, it was an enjoyable experience.
Rating: 3.5/5
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