Yantai Museum
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Unlike the museum in Beijing and Xi’an, which wow visitors with their culture and historical exhibitions, Yantai Museum attract travelers for its architecture rather than the displays housed within it.
The museum building was originally constructed as a congregate venue for merchants from Fujian Province in south China. No wonder the complex followed the architectural style of exquisitely carved with various designs and resplendently painted.
Construction began in 1884 and finished in 1906 with more than 20 years of effort. The building was designed and completed in Quanzhou, a city in Fujian Province, and shipped for a long distance of 3,500 miles to Yantai for assembly.
The complex covers an area of 3,500 square meters, and is exquisitely decorated and painted. It has been renowned as "A treasure of Sculpture Art" due to the large collage of carvings of birds, flowers, figures important in Chinese legend on the walls, beams, pillars and gates. These carvings portray scenes and tell legends such as the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea is a household legend in China. The story was said to take place in Penglai Pavilion, a pavilion in the fairy-like island of Penglai, where the Eight Immortals Cross the Sea using their formidable power. The popularity of the story among Chinese people has made the immortals subjects of many artistic creations like painting, sculpture.
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