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Taipei Palace Museum
At the
end of 1948, with the People's Liberation Army (PLA) victorious in the Liberation War,
during the retreat from Nanjing to Taiwan some of these artifacts were
shipped in three batches by the Kuomintang government. In 1965, the Taipei
Palace Museum was constructed, offering a permanent place for housing
and exhibiting the national treasures.
The composition of the artifacts in the Taipei Palace Museum was largely
compiled in accordance with the perspectives of prevailing scholars at the time
the artifacts were selected and shipped from the mainland to Taiwan. The
museum's collection mainly includes ding (ritual tripod caldron) and other
bronze ware, which are considered a symbol of Chinese culture; paintings and
calligraphy, which are highly valued by scholars and were easily transported;
and jade articles, which were traditionally worn by men of honor as an
adornment. In addition, there are also refined porcelains selected from the
PalaceMuseum in Beijing.
In the collection of the Taipei Palace Museum is the 28-character calligraphy tracing book "Clear Day after
Brief Snow," attributed to the highly revered historic calligrapher Wang Xizhi and
praised by Qing Emperor Qianlong as "28 Shining Beads." It is regarded
as one of the "Three Rarities," the other two being "Letter to Boyuan," attributed
to Wang Xun, nephew of Wang Xizhi, and "Mid-Autumn Festival," attributed to Wang
Xianzhi, son of Wang Xizhi, both among the collection of the Palace
Museum in Beijing. Among the invaluable ancient paintings of China, Guo Xi's
Early Spring is housed by the Taipei Palace Museum, while Zhang Zeduan's
UpperRiver during Qingming Festival is preserved by the Palace Museum in
Beijing. The Palace Museum in Taipei does not hold a single "dragon
robe" worn by an emperor, because the robes collected in Beijing's Palace
Museum were all of the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, and were not
considered to be of much value by scholars in 1948.
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