Monday, May 22, 2006

Calligraphy Exhibition

As we walked around on Tiananmen we were approached by the usual 'friendly' person. "Hi where you from, how can I help", the usual. Only this time it was from a couple of students who were studying at the arts museum (yin building opposite yang). For once we were happy to hear from one of these oppose to the usually pushy people, and went along to see there exhibition as it was the last day. As we looked around there was a load of impressive art work of very high standard. There were inks, oils, watercolours and calligraphy. One of the artists kindly offered to write our names and a message in Chinese style calligraphy for us.
Upon regular visits through Tiananmen Square we were approached once again, another student who was on his way to the museum and also offered us a visit to his University's exhibition as it was the last day, when its seemed to him that we were kinda adamant to go our way he offered to do us a calligraphy of our names too.
It soon came apparent this appeared to a regular stunt they pulled in order to get the public in to the museum in order to sell there art work.

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