Zhang Daqian Painting Exhibition

Jilin Provincial Museum
Zhang Daqian Painting Exhibition
Rachel Zhao 10-E March 15, 2009
The title of exhibition is “The whole wide world, magnificent Chinese calligraphy-- Jinlin Provincial Museum Zhang Daqian Painting Exhibition”. I went there with my mother at 10:00 am on Feb 15. The exhibition showed from Feb 1 to Feb 15. It was in the Nanjing Museum. When I first time went to the exhibition, I felt that I come to the art world, I walked along the glass barrier and enjoyed the beautiful paintings. Zhang Daqian is the most famous artist in China and I really like arts, so I choose this exhibition. It was a good experience for me to learn more about the Chinese paintings. All the paintings are from Jilin.
The one of painting was called “Dong Puo Ju Shi”. It was my favorite painting. It showed a man wears traditional Chinese clothes and hats. He also held a bamboo stick and wore a smile on his face. I thought the main idea of painting was to use Su Dong Puo to describe the Chinese Confucianism. It told people to become peace and do not seek fame and gain, etc. Su Dong Puo is the Chinese famous poet and writer. The painting also showed us the Zhang Daqian personal hobbies. Maybe he admired Su Dong Puo.
I really liked the exhibition. I thought it was very exciting and interesting because the paintings just like the story to show us the people life, society, transportation and many other things. At that time, Zhang Daqian was a good painter and good at painting people, flowers and animals. When I saw each painting, I felt that I am to be personally on the scene and talked to people in the painting.
Zhang Daqian’s paintings showed us the ancient Chinese painting skills that gave me many suggestion in the art class such as arts is a long process that need us to be patient. Don’t want yourself success immediately that arts need us to paint more carefully and smoothly.

Nagoya Japanese Restauran

Nagoya Japanese Restaurant
Rachel Zhao 10-E March 15, 2009
Nagoya is the first Japanese restaurant in Nanjing. When I was 6 years old, I went there and had a birthday party there. I am very familiar with Nagoya. The food is delicious that I can not use words to describe it. Now, I came to Nagoya second time to have a big lunch with my family. We went these at 12:00 on December 31.The last day of 2008. Nagoya Japanese restaurant is on 208 Guangzhou Lu, Grand Hotel, 4F. It opens 11:30-13:00 and 17:30-21:30.The restaurant gave me a deep impression, so I choose Nagoya again to enjoy my last day of 2008.
I really like the Japanese. The carefully arranged Japanese sushi caught my attention in the way the colorful ingredients were thoughtful combined to achieve the best overall taste and visual appeal. I quickly dug my teeth into the crunchy deep fried prawns and vegetable, only to discover that my eyes had already drifted to the steaming seafood soup waiting to be sampled. As I leaned forward to breathe in the around of the heaving spiced soup, I discovered fresh prawns swimming in the sea.
The Japanese food is totally different from Chinese food. It tasted not greasy or rich. A delicate fragrance in my mouth and I felt very comfortable. Each kind of food has it own special. The environment is great there. The sun shined through the window and made people feel warm. These were few people there and almost everyone was from Japanese. They eaten food and read books from the hotel’s bookshelves. It was very quite. The servers were friendly, kind and can speak Japanese fluently. I would recommend other people to eat there because the master fully prepared dishes and cozy atmosphere in combos with a welcoming staff makes Nagoya a required destination for Japanese food junkies.