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13th August 2012

wuxifrisbee: Apparently, during the Cultural Revolution, the hotel staff covered up this ceiling design in the Dragon Phoenix restaurant on the 9th floor of the Peace Hotel. They used newspaper to hide the extravagant plasterwork because the Red Guards would have smashed it up. It was hard to get a full picture of the ceiling because it was quite low but it had Dragons, Phoenixes and bats all over the place.

wuxifrisbee:

Apparently, during the Cultural Revolution, the hotel staff covered up this ceiling design in the Dragon Phoenix restaurant on the 9th floor of the Peace Hotel. They used newspaper to hide the extravagant plasterwork because the Red Guards would have smashed it up. It was hard to get a full picture of the ceiling because it was quite low but it had Dragons, Phoenixes and bats all over the place.

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Source: wuxifrisbee

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    My dad stayed at the Peace Hotel back in the 80s and it was pretty run down. I hear they’ve done it up recently.
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    The Cultural Revolution did some good for the people of China, but the threat of gorgeous artwork like this being...