Picture: Three Cultural Relics Destroyed in Two Years in Taipei Palace Museum

Since the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities took office, they have been engaged in "de sinicization" all the time, and the cultural relics symbolizing Chinese civilization in the Forbidden City of Taipei have also been regarded as "eyesore" by some green camp people. In recent years, news about the damage of cultural relics and the "disfigurement" of buildings in the Palace Museum in Taipei has been reported frequently. Recently, when a staff member was handing over the important cultural relic "Cuiyu Cabbage", he even signed for it directly next to the cultural relic. If he was close, he might touch the "Cuiyu Cabbage" and damage it. After the incident, the Taipei Palace Museum admitted that it had made mistakes and punished the relevant personnel.

According to the comprehensive global network and Taiwan media, the Taipei Palace Museum last year cooperated with Tainan Municipal Art Museum (South America Museum) to hold the grand exhibition of "Thousands of Years of Nanfeng: the National Treasure of the Palace Museum in Tainan", which ended on March 10 this year. It is reported that Huang Jianhao, the "legislator" of the Kuomintang, revealed on the 7th that the South America Pavilion had uploaded relevant photos recording the exhibition tidbits on Facebook, one of which was the staff of the two pavilions who were signing for the handover of the "treasure of town hall" of Taipei Palace Museum. Looking closely at the photos, we can see that the South America Pavilion's collection staff actually signed directly next to the jade cabbage, which is less than 3cm away from the pen and paper without the protection of glass partition.

Huang Jianhao bitterly criticized that the Taipei Palace Museum had broken the cultural relics bowl before, but now there is a "jade cabbage incident", and the relevant personnel did not realize that this behavior might cause harm to precious cultural relics. What's more, there are also cases of cleaning personnel breaking into the warehouse without reason. He asked the Taipei Palace Museum to clarify these issues and release the monitor images.

Missing video, suspected of stealing cultural relics

Wu Xiaojun, Director of the Utensils Department of the Palace Museum in Taipei, recently admitted that according to the standard operating procedures, the depositors should check and confirm the status of cultural relics before signing after the cultural relics are evacuated. The collection staff responsible for signing the South America Pavilion may be anxious, so they signed the report on the table where the jade cabbage is placed. "There is indeed a mistake between the two sides", and Xiao Zonghuang, the president of the Palace Museum in Taipei, has given a solemn oral warning to the business director and the executive.

The "Jade Cabbage Incident" is just a microcosm of the poor management of the Forbidden City in Taipei. The Palace Museum in Taipei has a collection of nearly 700000 cultural relics. In recent years, cultural relics of the Ming and Qing dynasties have been damaged and personnel have been neglected. In October 2022, three important cultural relics were broken in the Palace Museum in Taipei: on February 3, 2021, when opening the cultural relics bag, it was found that the "delicate yellow green double dragon bowl of Ming Hongzhi" was damaged; On April 7, 2022, when opening the cultural relic bag, it was found that the "Qing Kangxi style dark dragon white li small yellow porcelain bowl" was damaged; On May 19 of the same year, when sorting out cultural relics, the staff accidentally dropped them, resulting in the fragmentation of the "Qing Qianlong Blue and White Flower Plate". In November 2022, under the strong appeal of the island, the Palace Museum of Taipei released the relevant investigation report, but the information was quite incomplete, and no video was retained after the incident, only screenshots were provided. Many "legislators" questioned the secret operation of "civet cat for prince" in the Forbidden City of Taipei, taking the opportunity to steal cultural relics.

In the face of such a major mistake, Wu Micha, the then president of the Taipei Palace Museum, argued that there were 359 restoration records over the years, of which at least 250 were broken into pieces, and the time of damage can be traced back to 1973. It is obviously intended to draw the Kuomintang into the water.

With regard to the frequent scandals in Taipei's Forbidden City after the Democratic Progressive Party came into power, Chen Xizhen, a Taiwan funded deep media person, wrote an article saying that whether it was unintentional or intentional, or someone followed the eunuchs of the late Qing Dynasty to resell cultural relics in order to make them fake? "All possibilities must be thoroughly investigated in order not to be misused or indulged!"