Management recently stopped destroying temples. Unless you have a lot of time and patience, it's best to follow a loose schedule here. Calligraphy has been China's most important form of visual art throughout the ages. A person's character was once judged by the elegance of their handwriting.
Decorative calligraphy is all over China.
Despite the destruction of past events there's still a lot to see architecturally. Great buildings of the past include the imperial structures of Beijing, the colonial buildings of Shanghai, the occasional rural village and Buddhist, Confucian and Taoist temples. Funerary art is also great, ranging from ritual vessels and weapons to pottery figures, jade and sacrificial vessels made of bronze. Earthenware production has been around forever also, with the world's first proto-porcelain produced in China. China's language is officially Mandarin.