The National Palace Museum,is a museum in Taipei,Republic of China (Taiwan). It has a permanent collection of nearly 700,000 pieces of Chinese artifacts and artworks,many of which were moved from the Palace Museum in the Forbidden City in Beijing,as well as five other institutions throughout mainland China during the ROC retreat. These collections had been transferred to several locations before finally being established in 1965 at its present location in Shilin,Taipei. The museum building itself was built between March 1964 and August 1965,with many subsequent expansions making it one of the largest of its type in the world. There is also a Southern Branch in Taibao,Chiayi which opened in 2015.
The Forbidden City is a palace complex in Dongcheng District,Beijing,China,at the center of the Imperial City of Beijing. It is surrounded by numerous opulent imperial gardens and temples including the 22 ha (54-acre) Zhongshan Park,the sacrificial Imperial Ancestral Temple,the 69 ha (171-acre) Beihai Park,and the 23 ha (57-acre) Jingshan Park. It is officially administered by the Palace Museum.
The Palace Museum is a large national museum complex housed in the Forbidden City at the core of Beijing,China. With 720,000 square metres,the museum inherited the imperial royal palaces from the Ming and Qing dynasties of China and opened to the public in 1925 after the last Emperor of China was evicted.
Kunming Lake is the central lake on the grounds of the Summer Palace in Haidian District,Beijing,China. Together with the Longevity Hill,Kunming Lake forms the key landscape features of the Summer Palace gardens.
The Mukden Palace,or Shenyang Imperial Palace,was the former palace of the Later Jin dynasty and the early Qing dynasty. It was built in 1625,and the first three Qing emperors lived there from 1625 to 1644. Since the collapse of imperial rule in China,the palace has been converted to a museum that now lies in the center of Shenyang,Liaoning.
A Chinese palace is an imperial complex where the court,civil government,royal garden and defensive fortress resided. Its structures are considerable and elaborate. The Chinese character gong represents two connected rooms (呂) under a roof (宀). Originally the character applied to any residence or mansion,but it was used in reference to solely the imperial residence since the Qin dynasty.
The Wanshou Temple is a temple located at No.121,Wanshousi Road,Zizhuyuan Subdistrict,Haidian District,Beijing. In addition to being a Buddhist temple,the Wanshou Temple also houses the Beijing Art Museum.
Xia Gengqi (夏更起) was born in Aug 1933 in Hebei Province,China and is a curator in Beijing Palace Museum. From 1950 to 1971,he engaged in administrative work in the Chinese Writers Association. In 1972,he was transferred to the Beijing Palace Museum and custody of the department engaged in Chinese lacquer,enamel art on glass,silver items,and other types of heritage management and research until now.
Shih Shou-chien is a Taiwanese scholar,writer,and professor at National Taiwan University. He served as Director of National Palace Museum from May 2004 to January 2006. He is an academician of Academia Sinica.
Zhuang Yunkuan,courtesy name Sijian,art name Baohong,was a Chinese calligrapher and Qing dynasty and Republic of China politician. He was born in Wujin County,Changzhou Prefecture,Jiangsu. He was prefect of Pingnan County,Guangxi,Sicheng and Wuzhou. He was a delegate to the conference to create a provisional constitution for the Republic of China. In 1925,he served on the board of directors for the National Palace Museum.
The Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum is a museum in Taibao City,Chiayi County,Taiwan.
The Hong Kong Palace Museum is a public museum in the West Kowloon Cultural District,Hong Kong,exhibiting artefacts from the national Palace Museum at the Forbidden City in Beijing. Construction began in April 2019 and the museum officially opened on 3 July 2022,in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong.
Shu Pu is a representative Chinese calligraphic work by the Tang Calligrapher Sun Guoting. The work of about 3500 Chinese characters was written in 687AD and can be currently observed in the National Palace Museum in Taiwan. However,whether this is the whole,part or the preamble of an unfinished work is still in debate.
Shan Jixiang is a Chinese politician,scholar,architect,serves as Dean of Gugong Academy of the Palace Museum. He served as curator of the Palace Museum between 2012 and 2019 and formerly as Director of the National Cultural Heritage Administration.
Wang Xudong is a Chinese researcher and curator of the Palace Museum since 8 April 2019. Previously he served as director of Dunhuang Research Academy. He is an alternate member of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
Yang Xin was a Chinese art historian and curator who served as Vice Director of the Palace Museum in Beijing from 1987 to 2000. He edited the 60-volume The Palace Museum‘s Essential Collections as well as its 10-volume English edition,and co-authored Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting.
Palace of Eternal Longevity is one of the Six Western Palaces in the Forbidden City. It was a residence of imperial concubines since 1420.
Palace of Earthly Honour is one of the Six Western Palaces in the Forbidden City,which used to be a residence of imperial concubines. The palace is northern to Palace of Eternal Longevity,southern to Palace of Gathering Elegance,eastern to Palace of Eternal Spring,north-western to Hall of the Supreme Principle and south-western to Palace of Universal Happiness.
Wu Guiying is a Chinese politician and the current communist party secretary of Changsha,the top political position in the city.
