Last day! Packed up and airplane ready! Will we or will we NOT be allowed to take alcohol on the airplane even if it's in our checked luggage? I say yes! She says no! We'll see... Museum day, Chengdu, Sichuan, and Dufu? Should be easy enough. 城里人 - city people 冒险 - adventure 拖鞋 -slippers Chengdu Museum: downtown, BUSY! FULL of families! Most likely meant for kids anyway. Pretty big, five floors total ranging from animals of the province to traditional Chinese medicine (with flavour samples!), history of the city from ancient times to the present, replica city street, figurines and bamboo writings, to Sichuan opera and Chinese paper cutting. Quite the selection with interactive exhibits along the way. Cycled over to Sichuan Museum, a little smaller but wider exhibit halls. Water colours on the main floor, ..., was also famous in Taiwan. He painted copies of all the murals at the Dunhuang Grottos. Took him a long time and cost him a lot of gold. Such dedication. Prehistoric pottery and fragments, how can people tell if a brick is an axe, cutting tool or just a narrow-shaped rock? Same with finding teeth or the bone fragments of little animals... always wondered. Late Qing dynasty Buddhist figurines, paintings, cloth works. Clothing from around the province as textile work is a long-standing business here. Basement floor full of Han Dynasty steles and other artefacts. Then... the Ba-Shu history which was taken over by the Qin who then went on to become rather powerful in the area. Lots of bronze works, notably some large face sculptures. Neat, but 2/3s of the way through the Museum blinked the lights off to signal closing time. No time to get to see Dufu's cottage, apparently it's something to see. Last Sichuanese hot pot at ... Eeeee spicey! Sound clips: Children at the Museum, Hot pot, Airplane Takeoff Show notes and tracks up on stevensirski.com Thanks for listening! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stevensirski/message
