The picture shows the "Sweet Yellow and Green Colored Double Dragon Small Bowl" of the Ming Dynasty Hongzhi style, one of the damaged cultural relics. (Records of the Forbidden City in Taipei)
Taiwan’s Kuomintang legislator Chen Yixin revealed that the Forbidden City in Taipei broke many national treasures and tried to cover up the mistakes. The Forbidden City in Taipei issued a statement on Friday (October 28), admitting that negligence during the operation caused the decline and damage of three cultural relics, but they were unintentionally concealed, and all three cultural relics would enter the restoration process.
According to Taiwan United Daily News, the Taipei Forbidden City said in a statement that when the porcelain department of the Forbidden City Artifacts Department organized cultural relics, when opening the cultural relics package on February 3 last year and April 7 this year, they found that "Ming Hongzhi models, delicate yellow green colored double dragon small bowl" and "Qing Kangxi style, dark dragon white li small yellow porcelain bowl" were damaged.
In addition, when organizing cultural relics on May 19 this year, due to the negligence of the personnel during the operation, the "Qing Dynasty Qianlong blue and white flower plate" fell and damaged. The staff immediately reported to the dean according to the procedures.
Taipei Forbidden City President Wu Micha said that after the problem occurred, the hospital reported it according to the procedures, and the investigation was conducted in two ways, with the business unit and the Political Style Department respectively making investigation reports, and there was no concealment. He also said that in the first and second cases, the responsibility cannot be confirmed, but after the responsibility is confirmed, the punishment operation will be initiated in the third case, and it is not hidden.
The Taipei Forbidden City notes that the three porcelains involved are temporarily classified as general antiques according to the Cultural Assets Preservation Law. The first "Sweet Yellow and Green Colored Double Dragon Small Bowl" is currently under repair, the second "Dark Dragon White Little Yellow Porcelain Bowl" is waiting for the repair personnel to deal with, and the third "Qing Qianlong Blue and White Flower Plate" needs to be completed after the punishment procedure is completed, and the restoration procedure will be entered after the responsibility is clarified.
Chen Yixin’s revelation on Friday said that he had received reports recently that more than one national treasure was broken by the Forbidden City in Taipei, and the senior officials ordered “not to collect or report” to try to cover up the matter, hoping that the government would order a thorough investigation of the matter, and said that if the thorough investigation is true, he asked the Executive President Su Zhenchang to apologize and Wu Micha stepped down and took responsibility.
