Various secret treasures are exposed for the first time!The Taiwan Literature Museum’s “Literary Thousand Layers” is recruiting

Various secret treasures are exposed for the first time!The Taiwan Literature Museum’s “Literary Thousand Layers” is recruiting

The special exhibition displays the official calligraphy and calligraphy of Zhu Jingying, an itinerant scholar during the Qing Dynasty who was restored by the Taiwan Literature Museum. It is engraved on a wooden sign made of Taiwanese red juniper and eggplant. It is 240 years old. The bottom of the wooden sign is You can see the Yin and Yang seal carvings. (Photo by reporter Dong Boting)

[Reporter Dong Bo-Ting/Tainan Report]The National Taiwan Literature Museum launches the special exhibition “Thousand Layers of Literature. Stories Across the City: A Journey Through Time and Space Beginning in the 17th Century”, which will be held at the National Taiwan Literature Museum from now until September 22. The opening ceremony today (25th) was attended by Li Jinghui, Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Culture, Lin Jinli, Director of the National Museum of Taiwan Literature, Xie Shiyuan, Director of Culture of the Tainan City Government, Zhang Longzhi, Director of the National Museum of Taiwan History, Chen Wensong, Deputy Director of the National Cheng Kung University Museum, Taiwan History and Jiang Shusheng, an expert on ancient Dutch literature, and others were present to attend the opening ceremony. Li Jinghui said that the exhibition uses the image of “thousand layers” to show the accumulated thickness of history and literature, space and time, echoing the concept of Tainan as a “city” connected to the world.

The Taiwan Literature Museum’s “Thousand Layers of Literature. Stories Connecting the City” special exhibition is on display until September 22, showing the integration of Taiwan’s local ideological trends and foreign cultures. (Photo by reporter Dong Boting)

Lin Jinli pointed out that one of the highlights of the exhibition was the loan of Zheng Jing’s autographed letters from the Leiden University Library in the Netherlands. Special thanks to Kurt De Belder, Director of the Leiden University Library in the Netherlands, and Marc Gilbert, Director of the Special Collections Department of Chinese Rare Books, who facilitated this Ma Rixin and Hello Taiwan Goodwill Ambassador Wang Lijing. The Taiwanese Literature Museum shares and communicates with the world through literature, allowing the world to see the splendor, richness, and diversity of Taiwanese literature.

The “Chongwen Academy Course Paper” of Shi Qiongfang, the only scholar in Taiwan who won the first place (the highest ranking) before winning the tribute in 1837, was exposed for the first time at the exhibition. (Provided by Taiwanese Library)

The Taiwanese Literature Museum explained that the special exhibition also displays the official calligraphy and calligraphy of Zhu Jingying, an eunuch scholar during the Qing Dynasty who was restored by the Taiwanese Literature Museum, and is engraved on wooden plaques made of Taiwanese red cypress and eggplant, as well as yin and yang seal carvings. It was signed 240 years ago; and the “Chongwen Academy Textbook” which was awarded the first place (the highest ranking) before the tribute was awarded by Shi Qiongfang (the other was his son Shi Shijie), the only two Jinshi in Taiwan in 1837, was also signed in 1837. The exhibition venue is exposed for the first time; other collections such as Yang Kui’s “Bujing’s Doctor of Medicine” manuscript and a group photo of the Tainan Cultural Theater Troupe are also worth seeing.

The original manuscript of Zheng Jing’s autographed letter, “Letter from the Successor Crown Prince to the King of the Netherlands,” borrowed from the library of Leiden University in the Netherlands, is on display in Taiwan for the first time. (Provided by Taiwanese Library)

In addition, this special exhibition also borrowed precious collections from the Tainan City Museum, the National Cheng Kung University Museum, and the Siraya Cultural Association, including the oil paintings of Kobayakawa Atsushiro’s “Sunset Scene of the City of Purominja” and “Morning View of the City of Relanja” , ancient maps of the town of Jelanje and Damuan in the Dutch period, ancient Siraya ballads, Xu Shi vinyl records, manuscripts and photos of poets in the salt zone, etc.

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Source: China