Nanjing Museum captures flow of China's history

Viewing the stone city gate in a vista of flourishing platanes, nostalgic summertime trips to the Zhongshanmen area in the east of Nanjing never bore me. The road was built in the late 1920s to escort Sun Yat-sen's body to his mausoleum.

The capital city of Jiangsu province, witness to the vicissitudes of many dynasties, always feels solemn.

When I step into the Nanjing Museum, which has quietly rested by the tree-lined road for over 80 years, I deeply regret that I didn't take this extraordinary time-travel experience much earlier.