[Global Times Special Correspondent Zhang Ruo] The Ming Dynasty dragon pattern bowl and Qing Dynasty blue and white porcelain plates collected by the Palace Museum in Taipei were broken one after another last year and this year. This is the first time in history that the Forbidden City in Taipei has broken cultural relics, but the president, Wu Micha, ordered the closure and intention to conceal it. In recent days, this matter has continued to ferment on the island, and calls for the "Premier Administrative" Su Zhenchang to investigate thoroughly and Wu Micha's step down have been high. The Taipei Forbidden City has been involved in the "de-China" controversy many times in recent years, and has also attracted great attention.
Taipei Palace Museum said that after opening the cultural relics package on February 3, 2021 and April 7, 2022, it was found that "Ming Hongzhi model, delicate yellow and green colored double dragon small bowl" (top left) and "Qing Kangxi model, dark dragon white little yellow porcelain bowl" (bottom) were damaged; when organizing cultural relics on May 19, 2022, due to the negligence of personnel during the operation, the "Qing Qianlong Blue and White Flower Porcelain" (top right) fell and damaged. (Photo by Taiwan's "Central News Agency" Photo provided by Taipei Palace Museum)
Break 3 cultural relics within two years
Under the strong pressure of public opinion on the island, the Taipei Palace Museum stated on the afternoon of October 28 that the three damaged cultural relics, including the Ming Dynasty , the dragon pattern bowl of the Ming Dynasty during the Hongzhi period and the Qing Kangxi dark dragon white li small yellow porcelain bowl were found to be damaged when unboxing in February and April this year, while the Qing Qianlong blue and white flower plate was broken by staff in May this year, "all followed the procedures and did not hide." In the evening of that day, photos of the damaged cultural relics were finally released. Taiwanese media said, "Two of them were almost broken, which was shocking."
Korean Party Chairman Zhu Lilun said that this incident shocked Taiwan society and the Chinese world, and was a scandal and serious mistake that had never happened since the Palace Museum moved to Taiwan. If someone had not reported it to "legislator" Chen Yixin, when would the DPP authorities conceal it? The Executive Yuan must hold the responsibility for this "world-class joke". When questioning the Democratic Progressive Party’s “legislator” Gao Jiayu said that the first time a cultural relics in the Forbidden City in Taipei had three damages within more than a year. According to its inventory every 20 years, after three inventorys, there should be records or videos to track down. The damage cannot occur naturally. How can it be impossible to clarify the responsibility? The literary and historical writer Cai Dengshan called for the Taipei Forbidden City to announce the surveillance scene from the warehouse to the workroom, "How to break it, the truth will naturally be clear, and whether it is hidden is not something that your dean can explain." Senior actor Li Liqun said angrily on Douyin , "I heard for the first time since I was a child that something was smashed in the Forbidden City! It can be seen that the people sent by this ruling party are not professional, and I will not let it smash it even if I care about it."
China Times Electronic News html published an editorial on the 229th saying that the above speculation shows that the public has very low trust in the DPP authorities. The Taipei Forbidden City has been strictly controlled since the Chiang Kai-shek period to prevent the national treasure from being stolen. First of all, the procedures for entering the warehouse where the national treasure are located are quite rigorous. The staff responsible for utensils, documents, calligraphy and paintings, etc. have each have warehouse authority. There are two programs for anyone to enter: one is the electronic record of swiping the card, and the other is the record signed by himself, which can be compared with each other. Therefore, if the two pieces of porcelain that were damaged in February and April this year are held accountable, they can be found. Secondly, there are strict regulations on entering the warehouse. Even the director of the Forbidden City in Taipei does not have the authority to enter the warehouse separately. According to the regulations, two people must go in together, and a worker must be accompanied by. "Whoever has moved any cultural relics should be traced. Otherwise, the facts can be found out when the three people confront each other." The article said that what the people cannot forgive is that the cultural relics of the Forbidden City in Taipei have been transported thousands of miles away and were preserved without any damage. However, in the era of Chengping, three national treasures were damaged continuously in more than a year. This makes people question the lack of professionalism, and they will only spank on ideological . If he does not take responsibility this time, it will be difficult to convince the people.
Even the word "Ming Dynasty" must be avoided
How did so many Chinese cultural treasures come to Taiwan? In 1931, Japan invaded the Northeast and coveted Beijing. In order to prevent cultural relics from falling into the hands of invaders, the Forbidden City's "Cultural Relics Migration" began secretly since 1933. Under the smoke of artillery fire, they went from Beijing to Shanghai, to Nanjing, and then to Sichuan and Guizhou. It took more than ten years and took tens of thousands of kilometers, but nothing was damaged or lost. Countless people worked hard for it.After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, these treasures were transported to Nanjing one after another. At the end of 1948, the victory of the People's Liberation War was about to be achieved, and the finest products of these southward migration treasures were shipped to Taiwan in three batches. In November 1965, the Taipei Forbidden City, located in Shuangxi, a suburb of Taipei City, was completed. It covers an area of 1,200 acres and contains 700,000 precious cultural relics.
After the Democratic Progressive Party came to power, the Taipei Forbidden City also suffered. In January 2007 when Chen Shui-bian was in power, the Executive Yuan passed a resolution to amend the "Palace Museum Organization Regulations", completely deleting the treasures in it from "Peking Palace Museum" and "Central Museum". In May 2017, the Taipei Forbidden City launched a special exhibition of "Emperor Yongle Porcelain of Ming Dynasty", but the curator called it "the pinnacle of East Asian arts and crafts" in the media. United News Network said, "In order to avoid the word "Ming Dynasty", Greater China's history was cut off by East Asia, and the intention to go to China is clear at a glance."
In 2019, Wu Micha was appointed as the president of the Forbidden City in Taipei. He is 66 years old. In 2001, he served as the deputy chairman of the " Cultural and Construction Association" during his tenure as Chen Shui-bian. After retirement in 2010, he participated in the "New Taiwan National Policy Think Tank" founded by Gu Kuanmin, a tycoon of the "independence faction". Under Wu Micha's manipulation, the cultural relics of the Forbidden City in Taipei gradually became political tools of the Democratic Progressive Party.
On October 18, Facebook "Crow Against the Wind" wrote an article saying that the most ridiculous thing about the South Court of the Forbidden City in Taipei was that it had a special exhibition called "A Taoist The influence of emperor on porcelain production", which made him laugh. Is it difficult to write out the Ming Dynasty and Jiajing ? "This is not a difficulty, it is an inner demon." On October 19, many souvenirs in the Forbidden City in Taipei were found and manufactured at the location of "Made in China". When questioning the Democratic Progressive Party’s “legislator” Fan Yun asked the Taipei Forbidden City to make souvenirs 100% “Made in Taiwan”. Wu Micha promised on the spot that the contract would be passed from now on, requiring souvenir manufacturers to achieve this goal.
Store cultural relics and no longer renews the contract
Just as three cultural relics were exposed to be damaged, the Taipei Forbidden City was caught in the "non-renewal controversy". According to Taiwan's China Times on the 30th, Wu Micha decided to store the cultural relics in the Forbidden City in Taipei without renewing their contract after the expiration of the period, including the well-known "Lan Qianshan Pavilion" cultural relics. Among them, the most representative "Lanting on Yellow Silk of Chu Suiliang in Tang Dynasty" and "Tang Huaisu's Thousand Characters of Little Grass" are priceless treasures, worth far more than 3 damaged porcelains.
article stated that the so-called "reservation" means that folk collectors authorize cultural relics to be kept and exhibited for free by the Palace Museum in Taipei, but the name of the depositor must be marked. This is a glory for collectors. It not only encourages the public to share collections, but also provides the most complete and professional preservation of cultural relics, and provides audiences with diverse visiting content. The Taipei Forbidden City claims that the storage is no longer accepted because the warehouse space is limited. However, the "New Palace Museum Plan" that cost tens of billions of NT$ 2 is mainly about expanding the space. It is understood that grassroots professionals in the Forbidden City in Taipei all believe that the contract should be renewed, but Wu Micha "resisted the opposition" and insisted on sweeping national treasure-level storage out.
Zhongshi Electronic News published a comment published on the 29th that the Forbidden City national treasure did not damage a single bit of it during its arrival in Taiwan. Now, it is good that three antiques were dropped in a row within a year and a half. "The Democratic Progressive Party is indeed not a Chinese. Why do you still occupy Chinese antiques? Or have you secretly sold them?" "The treasure of the Forbidden City has returned to the original owner." Writer Los Angeles wrote an article saying that if someone hadn't taken these treasures of his ancestors seriously, they would have treated the heirloom as a broken bowl? On the other side, anyone who dares to steal or destroy national antiquities may have to sit in prison; however, doing things in Taiwan’s “independence” authorities has broken the old Chinese people, and it is nothing great. As long as the top and bottom are in a state of unrest, the list of cultural relics will be sealed for 30 years, and it will ensure that nothing will happen. The article said that since the "Taiwan independence" authorities look down on and hate Chinese culture so much, they suggest that starting this year, the cultural relics of the Forbidden City in Taipei will be returned to the original owners and safely transported them back to Beijing Forbidden City , so that experts can more professionally classify, maintain, classify and organize these treasures.They will never repeat the mistakes of the Forbidden City in Taipei, use the "Ming Dynasty" as the "Qing Dynasty" sign, use the urinal as a wine glass, and throw the box containing antiques to the ground, causing a laughable and international joke.
