{"id":3745,"date":"2009-08-31T00:31:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T00:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abcplanet.com\/cheap-hotel-near-shanghai-art-museum-shanghai-china\/"},"modified":"2009-08-31T00:31:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T00:31:05","slug":"what-is-the-shape-of-shanghai-art-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/?p=3745","title":{"rendered":"What is the shape of Shanghai Art Museum ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Shanghai Museum is a museum of ancient Chinese art. The new building was designed by a local architect in the shape of an <strong>ancient bronze cooking vessel<\/strong> called a <strong><em>ding<\/em><\/strong>. The inspiration for the design may have been specifically provided by the <strong><em>Da Ke Ding<\/em><\/strong>, now on exhibit in the museum. The building has a round top and a square base, symbolizing the ancient Chinese perception of the world as &#8220;round sky, square earth&#8221;.<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3745 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Shanghai_Museum-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Shanghai_Museum-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Da_Ke_Ding-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Da_Ke_Ding-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>[vols]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shanghai Museum is a museum of ancient Chinese art. The new building was designed by a local architect in the shape of an ancient bronze cooking vessel called a ding. The inspiration for the design may have been specifically provided by the Da Ke Ding, now on exhibit in the museum. The building has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[407,408,409],"class_list":["post-3745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-museums","tag-china","tag-shanghai","tag-shanghai-museum","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}