(Observer Network) According to Taiwanese media reports on February 13, Taiwan’s administrative agency announced the new , Taipei Palace Museum director Wu Micha in the morning. Wu Micha said in an interview that he would promote the "friendship of the Forbidden City" to allow tourists on and outside the island to get closer to the Forbidden City. As for the controversial "Taiwanized Palace Museum" that caused aroused previous controversy, Wu Micha believed that it was a false issue. "The cultural relics of the Forbidden City in Taipei are an important heritage in the history of human civilization. No matter where they are hidden, people in any place have the obligation to treasure it."
Wu Micha’s data picture. The picture comes from Taiwanese media
Wu Micha revealed that during the Chinese New Year, he was asked about Su Zhenchang’s intention to be the president of the Forbidden City in Taipei. His first reaction was “Is it me?”. He thought for a full week and thought that "I need someone, I can go", so he nodded in agreement.
Speaking of the controversial "New Forbidden City Plan" recently, Wu Micha said that this is a very important and complex plan, and he must study it carefully before answering reporters' questions.
He pointed out that when the DPP first came to power, "Executive Yuan President" You Xikun shouted out a plan to double tourists (Observer Network Note: Data shows that after the DPP came to power in 2001, Wu Micha was appointed as the "Deputy Chairman of the Executive Yuan Cultural Construction Committee" and stepped down in 2004.). At that time, the Taipei Forbidden City had two million tourists a year, and now it has increased several times. The Taipei Forbidden City North Court built in 1965 was not enough to deal with the current situation. Especially now that computer technology is developed, the display methods are completely different from the past. How to use new display methods and concepts to make the cultural relics collected by the Forbidden City in Taipei closer to the people is the most urgent issue of the Forbidden City in Taipei.
As for the South Court of the Forbidden City in Taipei, Wu Micha believes that the software and hardware of the South Court meet modern needs, but the location is not good. Therefore, how to make the way tourists go to the South Courtyard more convenient is also an important task of "friendlyness of the Forbidden City".
"The Taiwanization of the Forbidden City is a false issue." When asked about the hustle and bustle of "The Taiwanization of the Forbidden City", Wu Micha said, "The cultural relics of the Forbidden City in Taipei are an important heritage in the history of human civilization. No matter where they are hidden, people in any place have the obligation to treasure them." He also used the example used by former President Chen Qinan when he declared that the Forbidden City was Taiwanized. British Museum as an example, saying that "no one will question the British Museum's treasures of world cultural relics." He pointed out that in Taiwan, we must keep the cultural relics in the Forbidden City and display them with new techniques from the new era to make modern audiences closer to ancient cultural relics.
According to previous reports by Observer.com, Chen Qinan, then director of the Palace Museum in Taipei, took over as the president of the Palace Museum in Taipei in July last year (Observer.com Note: Because of lending "Memorial to Nephew" for exhibition on Sunday, it caused protests by the people on the island. Chen Qinan was forced to resign on January 13, and served for only more than 180 days, which is the shortest president of the Palace Museum in Taipei). After he said that one of his important tasks after taking office was to Taiwanize the Palace Museum, saying that no one would think that the Palace Museum in Taipei is the Palace Museum in Taipei, and that it would be considered the Palace Museum in Beijing. So what he wanted to do after taking office was to make the Forbidden City "indigenous" and "Taiwanized" and let the inner connection of the Forbidden City return to Taiwan. He also claimed that even if he advocates "Taiwan independence", he can pay attention to the preservation of Chinese cultural relics. He also hopes that the Forbidden City can be the "successor of ancient civilization" like the British Museum and retain world civilization assets for the whole world and future generations.
The famous Taiwanese host and political commentator Huang Zhixian criticized this, is the DPP even breathing on the road of "Taiwan independence"? Yes. Between every breath, we must make Taiwan and the mainland a little further away. She emphasized that the Forbidden City is not "Taiwan independence". It belongs to all Chinese. In the future, when the country is unified, the Forbidden City must be complete and go back to Nanjing and Beijing. Nothing can be missing. We are just stewards.
Former "legislator" of the Kuomintang Qiu Yi also said that the precious cultural relics in the Forbidden City in Taipei are the common assets of all Chinese people. If Tsai Ing-wen wants to "sinicize", it means that she is no longer willing to be a Chinese. She should return the cultural relics of the Forbidden City in Taipei to the Chinese and the mainland, rather than to make some unjustified "Taiwanization".
