The Palace Museum in Beijing, also known as the Forbidden City, has set a quota for the number of visitors to its ongoing popular exhibition of landscape paintings to avoid long queues. "New methods have been made to keep visitors in a good mood," Shan Jixiang, director of the Palace Museum, said. I can visit other parts of the museum before my turn to see A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains." In 2015, when Alongside the River During the Qingming Festival, one of the best known Chinese paintings, also from the Song Dynasty, was exhibited in the Palace Museum, visitors stood in long lines to see it. During the exhibition's final days, the Palace Museum had to prolong the hours of its exhibition hall past midnight, and staff even prepared bottled water and instant noodles for those waiting a long time to see the painting.

Source: The China Post September 25, 2017 04:30 UTC