Just next to our hotel in Beijing was a larger, slightly more luxurious hotel, the Jade Garden Hotel. Surrounding the hotel is a seven foot wall with a beautiful copper landscape. I am lost for the correct term, as it is a city landscape at the same time a historical snapshot. I have been lucky enough to see these in several forms while in China. Here at the hotel’s wall in copper, at the Archery Tower, Zhengyangmen Gate or (Qianmen) (simplified Chinese: 前门; traditional Chinese: 前門; pinyin: Qiánmén; Wade–Giles: Ch'ien-men; literally: "Front Gate") and at the Pagoda in Hangzhou. I am posting several photos from each in the order mentioned above. I would appreciate how these pieces fit into the history of Chinese landscape painting.
Manuscript from the Arrow Tower in Tian' anman Square
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