The cultural relics of the National Palace Museum in Taipei are part of the cultural relics of the National Palace Museum in Beijing. The two houses are combined into one, which is the complete Forbidden City. Which is better? It should be said that each has its own merits, but it is not complete. The 700,000 pieces of the National Palace Museum in Taipei are the treasure house of China's culture and art, and the 6,543.8+0,000 pieces of the National Palace Museum in Beijing are also unparalleled. Scholars who moved to Taiwan Province thought that stone was the most important thing and the tripod was the symbol of the country, so they took away a large number of bronzes (2,382 pieces). Scholars attach importance to calligraphy and painting, which is easy to carry. They took as much as they could, and * * * took 5424 yuan. Among them, there are 943 paintings in the Song Dynasty alone, and the series of landscape paintings in the Song and Yuan Dynasties can constitute the best special exhibition of the National Palace Museum in Taiwan. China has a saying that a gentleman wears jade, so he also took a lot of jade. Only a part of the ceramics was taken away, accounting for 17934 pieces, but the fine products of various porcelain showrooms and sacrificial rooms in the Palace Museum in Beijing were concentrated, which can be described as a famous kiln. Sanxi Hall's famous post, the Palace Museum in Beijing has two of the "three wishes", and Taipei has one. Guo's Picture of Early Spring is no longer available in Taipei or Beijing. Beijing has a Qingming Riverside Map, but Taipei doesn't. Only the Qing Dynasty left the dragon robe in China. At that time, scholars thought that things from the Qing Dynasty were of little value and were not taken away, so there was no 1 dragon robe in the Palace Museum.
In the autumn of the thirty-seventh year (1948), the situation of the * * * war was reversed. The Forbidden City, the Central Library, the Institute of History and Language of Academia Sinica and the China Expo Preparatory Office decided to select fine cultural relics and transport them to Taiwan Province Province. At the end of that year, the first batch of cultural relics boxes were shipped out of Nanjing by the navy and arrived in Keelung. The following year, the second batch of cultural relics were carried by merchant ships, and the third batch of boxes were still carried by the navy. The 2,972 boxes of cultural relics transported by the Forbidden City to Taiwan Province are only 22% of the boxes (13,491box) moved south from Beiping, but there are many high-quality goods. There are 852 boxes shipped to Taiwan Province by the preparatory office of China Expo, most of which are fine products.
When sending books and cultural relics to Taiwan Province, the government set up a joint management office of the National Central Museum of Natural History. The joint management office moved the cultural relics to the newly-built hillside warehouse in Beigou, Wufeng Township, Taichung County, and dug a bomb shelter. During the joint management office, the cultural relics were counted; Later, I engaged in cataloging, published various books, and had a small showroom open to the public. In the meantime, he also selected fine works to go to the United States, exhibited them in five places, including the National Gallery of Washington, and participated in the new york World Expo.
After the Forbidden City moved to Taipei, it was expanded several times in succession, and the exhibition space gradually expanded. In fifty-seven years (1968), books and documents were separated from the painting and calligraphy group, which expanded the collection unit of cultural relics from the original antiquities and painting and calligraphy group to three places: utensils, paintings and calligraphy, books and documents. In 59 (1970), the Ministry of Literature was added to the library. Its business is a bit big: for example, the review, collation and detailed registration of cultural relics; And cooperate and exchange with other institutions. For example, since 1960, the Institute of History of Taiwan Province Provincial University has been assisted to set up the China Art History Group, which is the predecessor of the Institute of Art History of National Taiwan University. The group has trained many art history researchers, some of whom worked in the Forbidden City. In sixty-seven years (1978), he collaborated with the National History Museum to collate the draft of Qing History, which was later updated and published by the National History Museum. The Forbidden City also carried out editing and research work, and published a variety of periodicals, specialized books and catalogues, as well as books, mounted scrolls, hand scrolls and so on, such as paintings and calligraphy, utensils, rare books and documents of the Qing Dynasty. The Forbidden City actively sent personnel abroad for training, inspection and participation in international academic activities. Hosted many international academic seminars, such as "China Ancient Painting Seminar" in 1959 (1970); At the Osaka World Expo and the China Exhibition in Seoul, South Korea, the selection of high-quality products for overseas exhibitions was well received.