Chinese classic painting pieces to reunite for 2012 exhibition
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Mar. 18, 2010 -- The Chinese classic landscape painting "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" attracted widespread attention after Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao mentioned it at a recent press conference. The two pieces of the painting kept on different sides of the Taiwan Strait.


The first piece renamed "The Broken Mountains" is kept in the Zhejiang Provincial Museum. (photo: Zhejiang Daily)

Yang Jianxin, who is the head of Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and has long promoted the joint exhibition of the painting, said that Zhejiang is prepared to hold the joint exhibition. The National Palace Museum in Taipei responded that it expects to exhibit the entire paining in the National Palace Museum in Taipei in 2012.

The "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains," one of the 10 classic Chinese paintings, is a representative work of the famed Yuan Dynasty painter Huang Gongwang in his later years and has a history of over 600 years. The long hand scroll painting depicts the beautiful scene along the two banks of the Fuchun River in early autumn and vividly displays a panoramic view of rivers and mountains in ancient southern China.

Yang said that the painting has had a great impact on the development of Chinese landscape painting. The painting was collected by Wu Hongyu at the end of the Ming Dynasty, who liked it so much that he wished to burn it before his death and have it buried with him. Fortunately, Wu's nephew rescued the painting from the fire, but it had already been burned into 2 pieces. The first piece, which is slightly more than half a meter, was renamed "The Broken Mountains" after being remounted. It is currently kept in the Zhejiang Provincial Museum. The over 6-meter long second piece was originally kept in the Imperial Palace in Beijing and was moved to Chinese Taiwan at the end of 1948 along with nearly 1 million Chinese cultural relics from the Imperial Palace in Beijing. It is now kept in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
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