Old Beijing Painting Museum

On the way home from work, I see many scenes every day: aged men playing cheese on the street, women bringing vegetables to cook at home; children back home after school; baby dogs skipping across me happily. What I have seen shows you Beijing’s life in modern times. If you want to experience the old Beijing life, there is a place where you can see thousands of people’s lives from one and one huge electronic-painting, which will bring you back to the 1930’s old Beijing.

The electronic exhibition in the old Beijing Museum is a perfect combination of high-tech and traditional painting art. Nowadays, more and more visitors choose to have a sight in this museum in their Beijing Xian package tour. The pictures are originated from the famous painter Wang Daguan. After 50 years painstaking, he finally finished the series of Old Beijing Looking around Paintings. Even his first vision has won many highly praise, not only because of his outstanding painting skills, but also because of the real passion he has invested in.

It is complicated and difficult to present such a big Beijing with numerous people and life screens. With the help of people from different fields, Mr. Wang figured out to begin his painting from the east part of the ancient capital to the west Tongzhou district, passing Chaoyang Door and large and small Hutongs and streets, and end up at the Tian’anmen Cheesing Street. Same is the directions of north and south. In this way, the paintings have unfolded the whole layout of the ancient capital logically and clearly before one’s eyes. Actually, in my Xian trip, I bought the famous farmers’ painting in Huxian County, which vividly depicts the daily lives of the people in Huxian County, Xian City.