Whilst rummaging through her recipes, Kit found a 1984 restaurant menu of our 1984 visit to the Kwangchow (Guangzhou) Snake Restaurant. The calligraphy, presumably by the chef, was quite artistic, to an untrained eye like mine.
It brought back memories of the souvenirs we bought on that 1984 trip, of which were PRC postal stamps immaculately arranged in booklets, lovingly stamped, and described in careful details. I have digitised three of them to share.The first is of the “Theatrical masks of Peking Opera”. There are 8 stamps in all, ranging from the Monkey God to the Ghost Catcher, and the colours are brilliant as the masks are.
The second is of Qi Baishi's paintings, a total of 16 stamps. Qi Baishi died in 1957, but his Chinese ink paintings of flora and fauna are world renown. Black and white with splashes of colour, they are beyond words, and the images do not do him justice.The third is “the 12 beauties of Jinling, from A Dream of Red Mansions”, a Chinese classic. I have not read the “Dream of Red Mansions”, but names like Daiyu, the heroine, is known to all Chinese.
We bought other stamps in booklets, including “the bronze vessels of the Western Zhou Dynasty”, “the Terracotta Warriors and Horses from the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang”, and “the art of potted landscapes”, all art pieces in their own rights.
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