Biography of Ping Trace Serial 1415 (Author: Li Min)
The van continued on its way, and everyone came to the old town of Milan. Milan is a thousand-year-old city, and the existing buildings are generally hundreds of years old. Milan was one of the centers of the European Renaissance movement, where Leonardo da Vinci lived for a long time. In the galleries and museums of Milan, you can see many masterpieces of world-famous masters, such as Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, Michelangelo's last sculptures and paintings by Raphael and Picasso. It was from this place that the academic Italian opera spread to the world. Known to the world as Opera Mecca, it is the La Scala Theatre, which represents the peak of the world's opera art.
In the history of Europe, Milan is one of the birthplaces of Christianity and the cradle of Western civilization. In the fourth century AD, Milan was once the capital of the Western Roman Empire, and it was a prominent figure. The Basilica of the Nativity is the historical symbol of Milan, which is the world's largest Gothic building, and the second largest church in the world, which began construction at the end of the thirteenth century and was completed in the early eighteenth century, with the stars moving by, time flies, it took five centuries, condensing the painstaking efforts of generations of masters and craftsmen, and the central tower is dedicated to the gilded statue of the Virgin Mary all year round. The basilica preserves the remains of the archbishop of Milan from the fifteenth century, with a silver sculpted head and a body that is the real body of the bishop. The square in front of the church erects a bronze statue of the first king of the Kingdom of Italy on horseback. Napoleon, a generation of tyrants, once held a coronation ceremony here. When the American writer Mark Twain saw the Cathedral of Milan, he called it "a poem written in marble."
The splendid Milan Cathedral towers straight into the sky, people climb on the roof to admire more than 2,000 marble statues, while looking at the continuous Alps, and looking down on the majestic former imperial capital, the idea of Dapeng spreading its wings, where people understand the tolerance and greatness of Milan City. On the right side of Piazza del Duomo is the Royal Palace in the neoclassical architectural style, and on the left is the Promenade of Vedolio II, with its vaulted roof, stained glass canopy, and marble paved with colorful patterns, which is a must-visit place for tourists.
For these humanistic buildings and masterpieces, Huang Zhang and his wife know nothing, and they usually have no time or interest in visiting these places. The younger generation of the Qingtian group is to see with relish, "plum blossom fragrance from the bitter cold", they and their predecessors to Europe to make a living and start a business, hard-working and hard-working is not inferior, at the same time, the higher level of education and education, so that they have a broad vision, and the possibility of cross-cultural social integration, indicating the near future, the rise of a generation of Confucian merchants in European Chinese society.
