Showing posts with label Chinese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chinese. Show all posts
Friday, July 21, 2006
Golden Dragon museum and Chinese Garden Bendigo
The Chinese Gardens based on the Imperial Palace in Beijing, includes a Buddhist Temple, the Guan Yin Miao - Temple of The Goddess of Mercy.
Inside the temple is a statue of Kuan Yin, the goddess of mercy who holds a fly - whisk a symbol of authority and a pearl a symbol of purity and knowledge.
Golden Dragon Museum : the dragon -Sun Loong - is believed to be the world's oldest surviving imperial Chinese dragon in the world. It is over 110 years old and the longest - over 100 metres.
Chinese Bedroom - The museum depicts the cultural history of the Chinese in Bendigo since the gold rush in 1850s
The Chinese herbalist at work
Chinese Laundry
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