Recently, the Eastern Theater Command conducted practical military exercises around Taiwan Island, effectively deterring the "Taiwan independence" forces. At the same time, a rumor that "the DPP authorities are preparing to select Taipei Palace Museum collection to transfer to the United States" attracted widespread attention. As soon as this statement was made, public opinion was in an uproar, and everyone expressed their anger and opposition. In response to this, the Taipei Palace Museum quickly issued a public statement saying that "there is no such incident" and "the cultural relics are left in place, which is the unanimous idea of all the retirees of the Palace Museum (Taipei)".
Obviously, this explanation did not convince everyone. It was at the end of July this year that the Palace Museum in Taipei held an evacuation drill when "cultural relics meet war" in response to the request of Taiwan's legislative body. Regarding the details of the drill, the "Dean" Wu Micha 's office said, "It is inconvenient to explain the relevant details because the matter involves the safety of cultural relics."
Why is the movement of the Palace Museum in Taipei so affecting the hearts of both sides of the Taiwan Strait? This starts with the history of the Forbidden City in Taipei.
At the end of 1948, the victory of the People's Liberation War was about to be achieved, and the National Government ordered the Palace Museum to select valuable cultural relics to transport them to Taiwan with warships. The former Palace Museum's cultural relics were transported away 2,972 boxes in three batches. There are 852 boxes of cultural relics and other units of cultural relics transported to the Taiwan platform together. After the cultural relics are transported to the Taiwan Taiwan, they will be stored in Taichung City and rented into the Taichung Sugar Factory Warehouse for storage. In April 1950, the warehouse in Jifeng Village, Wufeng Township, outside Taichung was completed, and the cultural relics in Taiwan were moved into the new warehouse for storage. In 1957, under the sponsorship of the Asian Association, a small exhibition room was built outside the warehouse to publicly display the cultural relics in its collection. This batch of cultural relics in Taiwan has a wide variety, including calligraphy and painting, bronze, porcelain, jade, lacquerware, , enamel , carving, stationery, books, documents, etc. The initial number was 230,863 pieces. After the "Central Museum" was incorporated, it increased to 242,592 pieces. Together with more than 300,000 files compiled and more than 10,000 gifts and purchases, there are currently 600,000 pieces.
Yuan Dynasty painter Huang Gongwang The second half of the volume is now in the Palace Museum in Taipei
In order to compete with mainland China for the "orthodox" representing China's legitimate government, the Kuomintang authorities began to think about how to effectively utilize these cultural relics after the situation in Taiwan was initially decided. In 1965, the Kuomintang authorities announced the "reconstruction" of the "National Palace Museum" in Taipei. The "National Palace Museum" and "reconstruction" in Taipei are a grand event. At the beginning of the opening, they have held academic seminars and lectures such as "International Chinese Porcelain Symposium" and "International Chinese Ancient Painting Symposium" and encouraged scholars from all walks of life to study cultural relics in the museum. Behind such a high profile, its purpose is nothing more than to cooperate with the Kuomintang authorities' claim that "China is in Taiwan."
Scene when the Taipei Palace Museum was completed in 1965
Behind the rich collection of the Taipei Palace Museum, is it true that "China is tracing in Taiwan" as the Taiwan authorities boast?
In fact, the Taipei Forbidden City, which contains a large number of treasures of Chinese civilization, not only did not fulfill its responsibilities of inheriting "Chinese orthodoxy" as some people advocated, but even changed its flag and became a tool for "Taiwan independence" elements to promote "de-Sinicization". As early as 2007, the "Regulations on Organization of the National Palace Museum" was amended by the "Legislative Yuan" in Taiwan. Among them, historical terms such as "Ancient Chinese Cultural Relics and Arts" and "National Palace Museum of Peking" that highlight the inheritance of civilization and blood connection were all deleted and modified.
In 2018, on the day Chen Qinan, the new "dean" of the Palace Museum in Taipei, openly threatened to advocate "Taiwan independence" and clamored that the Palace Museum would become "the Forbidden City for the people of Taiwan." He also claimed that the Forbidden City in Taipei did not "snatch other people's cultural relics", but "these things went to Taiwan if they didn't know how." In addition, the "dean" also has incredible "high theory" such as "the one who preserved the best and carried forward the essence of the East, especially the Chinese culture in modern history is Japan" and "even if he advocates 'Taiwan independence', he can also pay attention to Chinese cultural relics." The absurd remarks of the "top leader" of the Forbidden City in Taipei regarding the thief as his father have made the blood-connected compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait feel disgusted.
"Director" Chen Qinan
In the same year, during the local election campaign in Taiwan, the Democratic Progressive Party's Taichung mayor Lin Jialong was in an urgent election. In desperation, he actually thought of using the "treasure of the museum" of the Taipei Palace Museum Qingyu cabbage to boost popularity. Chen Qinan, also a member of the Democratic Progressive Party, nodded rashly and agreed. Therefore, under the imperfect security, the green jade cabbage was sent to a simple iron house in Taichung for exhibition. In the end, Lin Jialong, a politician who used the national treasure collected in the Forbidden City in Taipei to manipulate the election, lost the election.
In addition to the above-mentioned ugly behavior of "Taiwan independence" elements kidnapped cultural relics, the Taipei Palace Museum collection Yan Zhenqing " Commemoration for Nephew " was even more uproaring.
, known as the "No. 2 in the world, running script ", "Commemoration for Nephew", has gone through the vicissitudes of time, and the aging paper and silk fibers are easily brittle and broken, and they are rarely seen on the island of Taiwan. In 2019, the Taipei Palace Museum generously borrowed the original "Memorial to Nephew" cultural relics to be exhibited at the National Museum in Tokyo. This loan not only did not follow the approval process for cultural relics loans, but directly "dead first and report"; on the exhibition poster released by the Japanese side, the Taipei Palace Museum, which lent a lot of money to the treasure of the museum, was almost invisible to the naked eye. Faced with the Japanese side's contempt, the Forbidden City in Taipei was still willing to accept it. Even the borrowed exhibits from the museums were not "requested" by the Japanese side.
"Memorial to Nephew" was exhibited in Japan. The propaganda poster
Anshi Rebellion , Yan Zhenqing's cousin Yan Gaoqing guarded Changshan , and fought bravely against the rebels, blocking his pace of going south, but he was eventually captured because he was outnumbered. Yan Gaoqing and his son were killed for refusing to surrender, and the family was more than 30 were wiped out. Two years later, when Yan Zhenqing counterattacked and recovered Changshan, he wrote this grief and angry "Memorial to Nephew" facing the remains of his relatives. A rare treasure representing the blood, tears and integrity of the Chinese nation has completely become a toy for flattery and glory in the hands of the Taiwan authorities. It is really shameful and hateful!
No matter how some groups use the Taipei Forbidden City to distort and erase history and promote the "Taiwan independence" proposition, the cultural imprint carried by the Taipei Palace Museum is always in line with the mainland of the motherland. The magnificent collection of the Palace Museum in Taipei is a precious witness to the passage of Chinese civilization over thousands of years. The cultural relics collected by the Palace Museum in Taipei belong to all Chinese people. Compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait who are connected by blood should despise any political farce that uses the treasures collected in the Palace Museum in Taipei as bargaining chips, and jointly fight against the smuggling, destroying, and trampling on cultural relics!
Source: Central Committee of the Communist Youth League
