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Na Zhiliang (1908- 1998), a Manchu native of Wanping, Beijing, is a scholar and a former researcher at the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Ancestors were Manchu Huang Zheng Banners, who declined due to the decline of the Qing Dynasty. Born in poverty, educator Chen Yuan sponsored him to study and work in the Forbidden City in Beijing. 1933 moved south to the National Palace Museum in Taipei with the antiquities of the National Palace Museum. I have a lifelong relationship with the Forbidden City. It is a recognized authority at home and abroad in the research and appreciation of ancient artifacts, especially jade.
experience
After graduating from primary school, he was admitted to the Third Municipal Middle School of Zujia Street, but his family was unable to provide him with middle school. Just at this time, Mr. Chen Yuan, a famous historian and educator, received donations from overseas Chinese and founded a free civilian middle school, so he and his younger brother Lian Jun were admitted to this middle school. Because he is diligent and studious, he always comes first in every exam and is highly valued by President Chen Yuan.
1925, on the recommendation of Mr. Chen Yuan, Na Zhiliang joined the Forbidden City as a clerk, when he was only 17 years old. By the time/kloc-0 died in Taipei in 1998, he had worked in the Palace Museum in Beijing and Taipei for more than 70 years and was one of the "elders" of the Palace Museum. He has participated in the collection of the Qing Committee, the establishment of the Palace Museum, the London Art Exhibition, the southward migration of antiquities, and the transportation of cultural relics to Taiwan Province.
After he settled in Taiwan Province Province, he edited the Catalogue of Paintings and Calligraphy in the Forbidden City, the Catalogue of Bronze Articles in the Forbidden City and the Calligraphy in the Forbidden City. It can be said that he devoted his life to the Forbidden City.
achievement
From the age of 17 to the age of 1933 to escort the antiquities of the Forbidden City south. In the following 70 years of life experience, he almost never went back to Beijing. During this long time, his life was basically related to the national treasure of the Forbidden City. His experience is recorded in the book seventy years of guarding the national treasures of the Forbidden City. That gentleman has been with the national treasure in the Forbidden City for more than 70 years. He is a recognized authority at home and abroad in the research and appreciation of ancient artifacts, especially jade, but there is no collection in China.