Day 5

It’s Saturday!!! We are going out on tour on wu han , we gathered at 0750 and walk to our bus which has been waiting for us at the front gate of the university, sleep dead in the bus because I only slept for 3 hr last night busy chit chatting so the journey doesn’t feel long.
Our first stop is east lake it is actually something like garden with quite a lot of pavilions didn’t manage to visit all because it was too big and our time doesn’t allow us to do that so we only visited two of them.
One of it is the famous qu yuan’s it is because of him we have dragon boat festival, we learned about his history what kind of person he is and we he actually do for the county.
After taking some pictures we head back to our back for our 2nd destination which is the museum in wu chang.
There were tight security there we need to scan our staff before going in, there are quite a lot of different types of stuff that is displayed.
With the explanation of our tour guide we are able to understand the history of the zhu which is in the war dynasty where many great power fight to conquer china as one, we learn that bronze in that period of time is essential to the succeed of a country, were by they are able to make weapons and useful tools out of it to make their country prosper, we also learned that 2000 years ago china already possessed highly advance knowledge on bronze were they are actually able to weld bronze together at that time.
After visiting the chu dynasty’s artifacts we also visited other artifact like the tomb of duke yi we saw the biggest coffin cover, what are the floor plan of the tomb and the biggest (bian zhong) which is a kind of instrument at that time made of bronze.
Duke yi died in early age actually is because they doesn’t know that the bronze utensil produces toxic which is poison if consume for long term, these bronze utensil is only affordable for the rich so the rich in that dynasty averagely die of early age as compared to the poor.
We also went in to see some antique pottery after doing that we also took some group photos we head back to our bus and go our next destination which is a food street for our lunch.
We tried quite a lot of different foods there like chee cheong fan , bbq squide and strawberry caramel they are all very tasty very satisfying to my taste bud and stomach.
After our lunch we head to our last destination of the day the yellow crane tower it was within walking distance from the food street, we walked there the tower was magnificent and beautiful.
we get to know that the know is well known for being a place where a lot of well know poet from the history have wrote their famous poem there.
But the sad things is the tower we see now was not the 1st tower this tower was rebuild several time because of natural disaster and is devastated by wars.
It was rebuild in every dynasty since the tang dynasty find that the ming’s dynasty yellow crane was the most beautiful grand and magnificent one.
In the tower the scenery was not very good got no idea it is air pollution of just misty I could see the yellow river form the tower and han cou city across the river.
In front of the tower to took our picture together with crane and the tower , behind the tower there is this big bell which is the only left over of the previous yellow crane tower too some picture with it too before heading back.
We meet up for dinner at 6.30 pm we went to the back alley behind our dormitory as the food there was really good cheap and comes with a lot of varieties.
For those that can’t eat pork goes to the halal eatery we went previously as for me I went to a porridge shop I got myself a bowl of mushroom mince me at porridge wasn’t very nice taste kind of weird in a way centry egg porridge taste better, after eating porridge we went to a dissert shop for some Chinese dissert ordered honey gui lin gao because I have been eating quite a lot of fried food recently it was very refreshing and delicious.
After dinner we go back to our dormitory to settle stuff and prepare for tomorrow’s trip.