It's that time of year when the young (and old) in Shanghai love to dress up in traditional clothes and take advantage of the Spring blossoms. As an expat here I am still as entranced after 23 years as I was when I first arrived. These all taken at the Pottery Archeological Site & Museums at Guangfulin.
Beautiful images! We visited Guangfulin a couple years ago while visiting my mother-in-law, really enjoyed seeing the history of the area. It was a rainy July day, hopefully we visit in the spring and can see this.
AGeoJO wrote:
Wonderful images, Kevin! Those images remind me of Chinese costume dramas . I would love to attend that festival. The first two images are golden!
Joshua
Thank you Joshua !
Actually this costume wearing goes on all over the country in places of interest. Almost everywhere you can find these costume shops which seem to have proliferated over the past few years as the tradition has grown in popularity.
Ischgl99 wrote:
Beautiful images! We visited Guangfulin a couple years ago while visiting my mother-in-law, really enjoyed seeing the history of the area. It was a rainy July day, hopefully we visit in the spring and can see this.
Thank you Ischgl !
Haha I've lived here for 23 years and didn't know about this place (16 kms from my home) until we spent our quarantine on returning to China , in a hotel overlooking part of the site ! *slaps forehead
dallvr wrote:
Lovely images! What a nice custom for people to dress in traditional clothing to greet the spring blossoms!
Thank you Shirley ! Yes I love seeing the people dress up in traditional costumes, the ladies especially, so soft and elegant even when they are well into their 70s/80s and the flower has faded..
Frogfish wrote:
Thank you Shirley ! Yes I love seeing the people dress up in traditional costumes, the ladies especially, so soft and elegant even when they are well into their 70s/80s and the flower has faded..
Good point, those traditional clothes make the wearer look elegant whether she is a young child or an older woman, as your photos show!
Haha I've lived here for 23 years and didn't know about this place (16 kms from my home) until we spent our quarantine on returning to China , in a hotel overlooking part of the site ! *slaps forehead
I'd like to visit in Autumn too.
My wife said it is relatively new, but at least you got to stay in a nice place for your quarantine! We stayed a few days in a hotel up the hill near the amusement park, can’t remember the name, but it was a Marriott that had a small lake next to it and a humungous yellow duck floating off the beach! There are a couple radio telescopes we could see from our balcony and one night I woke up at about 2am and they were moving all over the place, fun to watch.
When you go back, there was a big shopping mall near there that had a great Korean BBQ place, at least it was there a couple years ago.
Ischgl99 wrote:
My wife said it is relatively new, but at least you got to stay in a nice place for your quarantine! We stayed a few days in a hotel up the hill near the amusement park, can’t remember the name, but it was a Marriott that had a small lake next to it and a humungous yellow duck floating off the beach! There are a couple radio telescopes we could see from our balcony and one night I woke up at about 2am and they were moving all over the place, fun to watch.
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Yes, Guangfulin opened in 2018 after previously having been an archeological dig. The hill is called Sheshan (actually at about 108m I think, it is the highest natural point in Shanghai.
It also has both a cathedral on top and the astrological dishes you saw, at the base is one of the world's best 100 golf courses, used as the home for the HSBC annual open, the superb Sheshan GC.
Shanghai is remarkably flat so of course the thousands of towers here are far higher
Frogfish wrote:
Yes, Guangfulin opened in 2018 after previously having been an archeological dig. The hill is called Sheshan (actually at about 108m I think, it is the highest natural point in Shanghai.
It also has both a cathedral on top and the astrological dishes you saw, at the base is one of the world's best 100 golf courses, used as the home for the HSBC annual open, the superb Sheshan GC.
Shanghai is remarkably flat so of course the thousands of towers here are far higher
Right, Sheshan. The weather was bad when we were there, so didn’t get to the cathedral. Hopefully we get back there one of these and experience the rest of the area. Thanks for the walk back down memory lane.
. I would love to attend that festival. The first two images are golden!