🤒🗽 No Chinese Leaves The Met Without Tears 🏛️💔

One week in the US, and my throat felt like I’d swallowed a cheese grater. But even a razor-blade throat couldn’t stop me from conquering the world… or at least, the Metropolitan Museum of Art! 🏛️💊 (Armed with aspirin, Contac, and a pack of Chinese herbal lozenges, I marched in.) This BEHEMOTH has 248 galleries and 3 MILLION artifacts—a literal encyclopedia of human civilization. Today’s immersion in art + history? Life-changing. 🤯✨ The China Galleries on the 2nd floor… 😮💨 Where do I even BEGIN? Treasures from EVERY dynasty, so stunning I just started snapping photos blindly. But here’s the thing: You. Can’t. Finish. 📸💥 Sculptures, murals, crafts, calligraphy, paintings, jewelry, royal furniture… Bronze vessels, porcelain, Tang Dynasty tricolor pottery, jade… Each piece is priceless—some literally invaluable. 🏺🖼️💎 Walking through those galleries? Mixed emotions. As the internet meme goes: “No Chinese leaves the Met without tears.” Think I’m overreacting? Come see for yourself. 😢💔 Since the Opium Wars, China’s treasures have scattered to museums worldwide. The government’s fought to repatriate them, but it’s a Sisyphean task—long, hard, and uncertain. 😔⏳ #UStravel #NYC #TheMet #CulturalTreasureHunt #HistoryHurtsButHeals