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The controversy spread when it was belatedly revealed that damage to three national treasures at Taiwan’s National Palace Museum was revealed

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Broken porcelain (from left) during the Qing Kangxi, Ming Hongqi and Qianlong eras

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(Taipei = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Cheol-moon = Taiwanese media, such as the Chinese Times and Yonhap News, reported on the 30th of an incident involving an incident in which three national treasures of the National Palace Museum ( National Palace), one of the four largest museums in the world, were damaged.

According to the report, Legislative Council member Cheon Yi-shin (member of the National Assembly, Nationalist Party) revealed that three pieces of pottery were damaged in the old building in a statement by the Legislative Council (National Assembly) on the 28th.

In addition, a senior palace official said he issued a “Hamgu-ryeong” and withheld relevant evidence.

In response, the director of the National Palace Museum Woo Mi-cha denied the allegation that he had tried to hide it and said it was assumed that two of the three damaged porcelain pieces were natural damage and the other was broken due to an artificial error, and disciplinary proceedings are currently underway.

If it is a national treasure or an important relic, he must report it to the Ministry of Culture according to the relevant procedures, but the three damaged objects are secret relics. He explained that he found the damaged porcelain during the Qing Kangxi era.

Later, it was revealed that the Qianlong Dynasty porcelain was broken by a worker who accidentally dropped it on May 19 this year while cleaning.

Director Woo added that the two porcelains, which are presumed to be naturally damaged, are in an ongoing and pending state of restoration, and the artificially damaged ones will enter the restoration process at the end of the disciplinary process.

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Umicha, Director, National Palace Museum
Umicha, Director, National Palace Museum

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However, Zhu Lirun, Kuomintang chairman of the main opposition party in Taiwan, criticized, saying, “How long will the Democratic Progressive Party government try to hide the truth if it was not revealed by Representative Chen Yi-shin?”

He then asked the administrative agency to form an investigative team to thoroughly investigate the state of conservation of the palace’s relics and determine the responsibility and cause to the end.

Zhu pointed out that the Kuomintang safely transported and stored hundreds of thousands of artifacts to the Imperial Palace (Taiwan) even during the war.

He also raised suspicions that he did not want to preserve the prized possessions of Chinese culture according to ideology, saying the relics were damaged after the Democratic Progressive Party came to power.

Legislative Commissioner Li Gui-min urged the administration and audit departments to thoroughly investigate the reason and process of the damage and the position of the perpetrator and immediately investigate the existence of a similar case of damage to the relics.

Tsai Deng-Shan, a famous Taiwanese writer, said: “The truth will become clearer” when closed circuit TV (CCTV) video of the entire process from the relic warehouse to the studio is released.

Some Taiwanese netizens are raising suspicions about the relic replacement.

In this regard, the National Palace Museum announced on the 31st that it would submit an investigation report and closed-circuit video footage to the Culture and Education Commission of the Legislative Council on the two allegedly damaged artifacts.

When the incident became known in China, Chinese netizens asked the Taipei Palace to return the artifacts to the Beijing Palace.

A Chinese netizen replied, “Moving also doesn’t work” to the Taiwan building’s explanation that there was a gap between the porcelain and porcelain in the box and it was broken in transit.

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