Taiwan

Painting piece starts tour for reunion in TW

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2011-05-11 19:19

HANGZHOU -- Half of a damaged antique painting on Wednesday started its trip of reunion for Taiwan from east China's Zhejiang Province in a demonstration of improved cross-Strait ties.

A delivery ceremony was held at the Zhejiang Provincial Museum Wednesday afternoon before "The Leftover Mountain Painting" was packed in a case and shipped to Beijing for the first leg of its journey.

It will next be shipped from Beijing to the Taipei Palace Museum on May 18. The two halves will be rejoined and displayed at an exhibition co-hosted by the Taipei Palace Museum and the Zhejiang Provincial Museum from June 1 to September 25.

"The Leftover Mountain Painting" was the smaller half of the 660-year-old landscape painting "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" by famed Chinese painter Huang Gongwang, which was accidentally split into two some 300 years ago.

The smaller half has been stored in the Zhejiang Provincial Museum in the city of Hangzhou, while the larger half has been stored in the Taipei Palace Museum since 1949, when a civil war between the Communist and the Kuomintang ended.