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Changsha, Hunan, is the perfect place for a weekend getaway from south or central China.
Changsha has three highlights for me:
1. The food 🌶️
2. Hunan Provincial Museum 🏛️
3. The Yuelu Academy ⛩️
Hunanese food, 湘菜, is fiery hot and exquisitely flavoured. Numerous restaurants serve barbecue, beef cooked with chilli peppers and other local specialities. It's also famous for its streetfood, particularly Changsha stinky tofu (choudoufu). I'm not a big fan but many people rave about it. Just follow the odour of an open sewer to find some 😆
The Hunan Provincial Museum is excellent. The main exhibit is the treasures excavated from a Han Dynasty tomb discovered near Hunan, including thousands of well preserved grave goods. The prize attraction is a unique 'wet mummy', the body of the wife of a local ruler, which was enbalmed using a chemical process preserving the soft tissue (unlike Egyptian mummies, for example, which are dried out.) The museum entrance and main exhibits are free but some temporary exhibits require a ticket.
The Yuelu Academy (岳麓书院,Yuelu Shuyuan) is an ancient centre of higher learning. Dating back centuries, it became one of China's first modern universities, Hunan University. The original academy can be visited inside the Hunan University campus.
Finally, Changsha is notable for its most famous son, Mao Zedong, who was born in a village outside Changsha city (Shaoshan). Orange Island, a long low island in the Xiang River that flows through Changsha, is a pleasant park home to a massive statue of the handsome young Mao's head. He stares down the river as if looking into the future.
Orange Island is also the best place to appreciate Changsha's modern skyline, which is colourfully lit at night.🌃
On several main railway lines, Changsha is only a few hours from Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Wuhan and other major cities.🚄
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A horse Wangdui supported the Hunan Provincial Museum, and Mrs. Xin Chai's family of three made excellent contributions. After a year, I came to Xiangbo to check in again and retain the track. It was still so popular. Many student parties and young people came to join in the fun, and they felt different every time they came.
The teacher Luo explained is a beautiful and gentle young lady. The whole process is uninterrupted and meticulously explained. It is more efficient than watching and browsing by yourself. There are questions and answers, and the effect is better and it is worth it. Personally booked two explanations on the 3rd and 2nd floors, all of which were told by Mr. Luo. The whole process was 3 and a half hours. Mr. Luo was really amazing. There was no rest in the middle. It was really hard. Thank you very much 😊.
The first time I came to Changsha, in addition to the food is the Hunan Museum, I specially chose Trip.com's tour guide service, and I hope to be able to fully understand the history of Ma Wangdui. The tour guide on the day was also super powerful, nearly two and a half small explanations, vivid and interesting, not only introduced the history of Ma Wangdui, but also told the anecdote of the tomb owner alive. Recommended!
Very good museum. People who come to Changsha usually come.
It's a good place, free, warm in winter and cool in summer
No tickets need to be reserved. Many people are best to make an appointment in advance. The main two exhibitions Hunan and Ma Wangdui have introduced headphones that can be rented. 30 people can visit the remains of Mrs. Xin Chase. If you can make an appointment, you must go to see it.
Hunan Provincial Museum is located at No. 50 Dongfeng Road, Kaifu District, Changsha City, Hunan Province. It is one of the first national-level museums in China, one of the eight national-level key museums jointly built by the central localities, and the largest comprehensive historical and artistic museum in Hunan Province. Hunan Provincial Museum was founded in Qingguangxu 23 (1897), and the current site is its new museum, opened on November 29, 2017, covering a total area of 4.9 million square meters, and a total construction area of 9.1 million square meters. According to the official website of the museum in April 2020, the Hunan Provincial Museum has an exhibition hall area of 2.7 10,000 square meters, and has more than 180,000 cultural relics in the museum's collection, especially the cultural relics unearthed in Changsha Mawangdui Han Tomb, the bronzes of Shangzhou, Chu cultural relics, ceramics of past generations, calligraphy and paintings and modern cultural relics. Hunan Provincial Museum has two basic exhibitions on the display of Changsha Mawangdui Han Tomb and Hunanese-Sanxiang history and culture exhibition, and regularly holds special exhibitions and exchange exhibitions. On May 18, 2008, Hunan Provincial Museum was listed as the first batch of "national-level museums" by the National Bureau of Cultural Relics; On October 11, 2018, Hunan Provincial Museum was selected as the first batch of "National School Students Research and Practice Education Base" by the Ministry of Education. Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 09:00-17:00; Monday is not open all day; Chinese statutory holidays 09:00-17:30; Instructions: Mondays (except national statutory holidays) and New Year's Eve, first month of the first month, second month of the first month are not open Ticket prices: free to the public, regular exhibition halls are free, Admission is free with valid documents; special exhibition is paid for.