The left and right side of the room. On the left and right walls just above the flowers were windows shaped like an octagon. The entrance to the garden courtyard was directly in front of me in a shape of a rectangle. It was so perfectly symmetrical that if the split the room in half, each side would look like the other. The moon viewing terrace and the Ming Room on the north side of the court added to the symmetry. The moon viewing terrace is an opened area directly outside of the Ming Room. To the right and left was a pair of stone seats. The Ming Room is a fairly large room with the shape of a rectangle with furniture, a carpet, and paintings arranged well balanced with the right and left sides. The wooden chairs, tables, and wardrobes decorated the room in perfect symmetry. There was a large carpet in the center of the room, and four lanterns dangled from the ceiling corresponding to the four corners of the carpet. In the garden courtyard, the balance of yin and yang elements were present everywhere. There

ed that there were only a handful of people in the room.

The gallery appeared spacious and empty. There was an Asian female guard standing by the exit and a kid around the age of thirteen sitting down on the benches playing with his video game. Some people that looked like tourists were looking at some statues of Buddha. There was also an old man with grayish hair examining the mural that I was just looking at, and another old man looking at a tall statue of Buddha. It seemed that not many people in the museum was interested in the Asian art galleries. Even though that it appeared that not many people were interested in Asian art, it did not change my mind. I was looking forward to this museum visit and was very interested. I was more interested in non-religious art than the religious statues and murals, because of my dislike towards religion. Since I am Chinese and live in Chinatown, I had a clear picture of what Chinese art was like. I have seen statues of Buddha and other gods inside temples, and have seen Chinese paintings and porcelains through store windows along Mott Street. I had also visited the New York Chinese Scholar Garden in Staten Island over the summer and was curious to see the Ming Scholar Garden in the museum. I had never seen the arts of India, except in textbooks and the posters shown in class. There were friendly looking gods and evil looking gods. I wanted to see Ganesh and Hanuman, because they looked like an animal in a human body. They looked very friendly. According to the poster of Shiva, it looked evil and scary. I expected the South East Asian art gallery to disgust me because of that one poster of Shiva. I went to this section at the end of my museum visit. Most of the exhibit required were religious figures of gods. There were many similarities between the gods in arts of India and the arts of China. Almost all of the statues of the gods stood on flowery pedestals. They almost always wore a crown or a holy type of hat. Many gods were decorated with jewelry. Despite the similarities, there were more differences. The portrayal of the gods in India was very different from the portrayal of gods in China. The statues of gods in India were more lively and had more expressions than China. Many of India gods were dancing. While China Standing Bodhisattva stood up straight with small eyes and had an expressionless face, India standing H

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