The National Palace Museum in Taipei is located in Shuangxi outside Taipei Shilin. Originally "Sun Yat-sen Museum", it was completed on Sun Yat-sen's birthday 1965. The whole building is like a palace-style building designed according to the style of the Forbidden City in Beijing. Its magnificent appearance is the artistic essence of China's cultural relics collection.
The museum building is divided into four floors, with the main courtyard in plum blossom shape and five halls. The first floor is the lecture hall, office and library. On the second floor are exhibition halls, halls and galleries for displaying paintings and calligraphy. * * * There are eight exhibition rooms around, displaying bronzes, porcelain, Houjiazhuang garden models and unearthed objects in the tomb; On the third floor, paintings, jades, utensils, sculptures, books, documents, inscriptions and embroidery are displayed. The fourth floor is a variety of specialized research rooms.
The collection of the Palace Museum is universally acknowledged, with nearly 700,000 pieces. Due to continuous donations and purchases, the collection is increasing every year, among which ceramics, paintings and bronzes are the most complete. In addition, there are jade articles, lacquerware, Dobiger enamelware, stationery, sculpture, embroidery, printed books, Manchu archives, etc., which are numerous and exquisite. Emerald cabbage, meat-shaped stone on the third floor and porcelain on the second floor are the most attractive to tourists.
The National Palace Museum in Taipei has green mountains on its back, green water in the distance, yellow walls and green tiles, which are magnificent. The whole building is modeled after the Palace Museum in Beijing. Formerly known as "Zhongshan Museum", it is located in Shuangxi, outside Shilin Town, southwest of Taipei. It was founded in 1962 and completed on the birthday of Sun Yat-sen in 1965.
From the front steps of the bronze statue of Confucius in Waishuangxi, on the neat square in front of the hospital, stands a magnificent six-column archway of "Tianxiagong". After passing the bronze tripod engraved with the word "fraternity", it arrived at the main entrance of the National Palace Museum in Taipei. This palace-style building in China is antique, solemn and elegant, and full of national characteristics. Building area1.300m2. Although the venue is small, the collection is very rich, with 650,000 pieces of China cultural and artistic treasures, covering almost the entire 5,000-year history of China. During 1949, when Chiang Kai-shek fled the mainland, there were 2,972 boxes of cultural relics, which were part of the treasures of the former Palace Museum in Beiping (now Beijing) and old collections taken from Shenyang Palace Museum (now Shenyang Palace Museum) and Jehol Palace (now chengde mountain resort). Among them, there are 380,000 Qing Palace archives and nearly 1.6 million rare books. There are also more than 50,000 paintings and calligraphy in Shang and Zhou Dynasties, calligraphy in Jin and Tang Dynasties, famous paintings since Tang and Song Dynasties, porcelain, bamboo ware, sculpture, jade, lacquerware, enamel and inscriptions in famous kilns after Song and Yuan Dynasties, all of which are Chinese treasures and rare treasures. More than 240,000 pieces of cultural relics were transported from Beijing Palace Museum, Shenyang Palace Museum and Jehol Palace to Taiwan Province Province. The inscriptions on bronzes, jades, ceramics, ancient books and famous paintings in Shang and Zhou Dynasties are rare treasures, and the exhibits in the exhibition hall are changed every three months.