Went to THE KANGXI EMPEROR exhibits at the Asian Civilisation Museum. I must say to kill time and making it educational, why not?

And NUS students have free entries to all museums in town!

The exhibits are really good and what fascinates me is those imperial painting, like the one you see above. Depicting himself 57 years old. This painting is actually about 4 metres high! Because the fact that Kangxi's imperial painter is actually a foreigner, the use of perspective drawings and shadows are clearly shown on the painting.

And the next thing is the imperial edict, that we normally tend to see them on movies. The imperial guards tolding a scroll, with the receiver kneeling down in reverence, listening to the emperor's order. But do you know the actual size is about A2 size in width but longer, about 2.5 metres???

I concluded that those scrolls shown in movies are bluff!

Went to THE KANGXI EMPEROR exhibits at the Asian Civilisation Museum. I must say to kill time and making it educational, why not?

And NUS students have free entries to all museums in town!

The exhibits are really good and what fascinates me is those imperial painting, like the one you see above. Depicting himself 57 years old. This painting is actually about 4 metres high! Because the fact that Kangxi's imperial painter is actually a foreigner, the use of perspective drawings and shadows are clearly shown on the painting.

And the next thing is the imperial edict, that we normally tend to see them on movies. The imperial guards tolding a scroll, with the receiver kneeling down in reverence, listening to the emperor's order. But do you know the actual size is about A2 size in width but longer, about 2.5 metres???

I concluded that those scrolls shown in movies are bluff!