【新唐人2011年10月10日訊】臺灣臺北投資新臺幣三百億元擴建故宮博物館，將展覽面積增加五倍，並強調台灣要扮演中華文化領航者。網友聲稱：台灣這個「大故宮計劃」讓大陸故宮情何以堪。
10月7號，台灣正式宣佈啓動「大故宮計劃」，將耗資臺幣三百億元，費時至少十年擴建臺北故宮博物館。 「大故宮計劃」使故宮展覽面積增加五倍，原先正館僅能同時展出三千件展品，擴建後，可以同時展出一萬五千件展品。
中華民國總統馬英九出席了「中華民國建國100年大故宮計劃」宣佈儀式，他強調，台灣要成爲中華文化的領航者。
台灣的「大故宮計劃」引起了大陸網友的關注，有留言表示「支持，同時希望北京故宮博物院把重要文物都交到臺北去保存」。還有網友喟嘆：「唉，臺北大故宮計劃叫‘大陸故宮’情何以堪啊！！！」。
就在臺北故宮推出「大故宮計劃」的當兒，北京故宮又引來非議。
上週，大陸媒體報導，故宮午門外共有十多個廁位收取遊客1元的費用，遊客詫異表示「北京的公廁不早就全都免費了嗎？」 但東城區環衛局回應聲稱，上述公廁確實為私營性質，自負盈虧，收費不違規。
有網友質問：「誰給公廁做了‘變性’手術？」，也有網友發文：「如果故宮門口的廁所可以由私人投資修建，那麼我也想在故宮門口建一個收費廁所，行嗎？」
網友不禁又把臺北故宮和北京故宮拿來對比。有網友說：「我想去台灣看看故宮，台灣故宮的廁所收費嗎？？？？請台灣同胞隔海喊一聲。」
北京故宮從今年傳出許多醜聞，包括文物輕易被盜、錦旗寫白字、建福宮變成私人會所、私下拍賣故宮文物、宋代哥窯瓷器被毀、清代屏風浸水、「文革」期間3000套清代御林軍鎧甲減價被賣、內部人員私分門票票款等，現在又閙出「廁所門」。
對比臺北和北京兩個故宮的作為，難怪網友要說：「幸虧中正先生49年帶了一批寶物過去，不然文哥（文革）10年都砸了」。
台灣從上個世紀40年代把故宮64萬件文物轉移帶臺北故宮博物院到今天，所有文物保留完整，相對於大陸文革對中華文化、文物的破壞，功過不可同日而語。
《漢書•藝文志》記載孔子的話：「禮失而求諸野」，意思是有些禮的內容喪失，可以在中原以外的地方探求到。經歷文化大革命之後，有些民間的傳統藝術在中國大陸已經消失或式微。如，《新紀元》週刊文章《剪黏藝師葉進祿父子的百年傳承》報導，深具歷史價值的寺廟裝飾藝術——剪黏，在中國已經消失，卻在臺南百年相傳。
此外，台灣堅持使用正體字，相對於大陸使用簡體字，也更完整的繼承了五千年的中華文化。
看來馬英九借「大故宮計劃」，強調要台灣成爲中華文化領航者，而台灣保留了豐厚的中華文化遺產，的確有一定的優勢。
新唐人記者吳惟、葛雷綜合報導。
Taiwan』s Leading Role in Culture Preservation Embarrasses Beijing
Taipei has announced it will invest one trillion US dollars
to expand the National Palace Museum.
This plan will increase the exhibition area by five times.
Taiwan stresses its determination
to play a leadership role in Chinese culture.
People commented on-line: “Taiwan』s Grand Museum Project
is unbearable to the Palace Museum in Beijing.”
October 7, Taiwan officially announced the launch of the “Grand National Palace Museum Project.” This 10-year project has a projected cost of 30 trillion New Taiwan Dollars. The Grand project will increase the exhibition area by 5 times. The expansion will allow display of more than 15,000 articles, instead of 3,000 at the present time.
President Ma Ying-Jeou attended the launch ceremony to announce “the 100th year National Birthday of Republic of China Grand National Palace Museum Project.” He emphasized that Taiwan will be the leader of Chinese Culture.
Taiwan’s Grand Museum Project draws mainlanders』 attention. Someone commented on the website by stating, “Support it and also hope Beijing Palace Museum will hand over valuable articles to Taipei for protection.” Another one commented, “Sigh, how unbearable is Taipei』s Grand Museum Project to Beijing』s Museum!!!”
While Taipei launches the Grand National Palace Museum Project, Beijing Palace Museum is facing criticism.
Last week, the mainland media reported that toilet seats outside the Meridian Gate of the Palace Museum charged a service fee of one yuan. Tourists were surprised and questioned, “Aren』t Beijing』s public toilets already free of charge?” The Sanitation and Management Bureau of Dongcheng District responded that the Meridian Gate toilets were indeed privately owned and the charge is not illegal.
Someone questioned on-line, “Who did the 『transgender』 surgery to these public toilets?” Another post stated, “If toilets by the Palace Museum gate can be built by private investment, can I also build a fee-based toilet by the Museum?”
People could not help but compare Taipei』s National Palace Museum to Beijing』s Palace Museum. Someone commented, “I want to visit the National Palace Museum in Taiwan. Do they charge the toilet usage fee? Please, compatriots across the Taiwan Strait, tell me.”
There have been a number of scandals coming from the Beijing Palace Museum this year, including easily stolen artifacts, wrongly used characters in display banners, the turning of Jianfu Palace into a private club, private auction of Museum collections, a destroyed china piece from the Song Dynasty, a soaked screen from the Qing Dynasty, 3,000 armors from the Qing Dynasty royal guards were sold at a reduced price by the Museum during the Cultural Revolution, staff embezzlement, and now the toilet issue.
Comparing the two Palace Museums between Taipei and Beijing, no wonder people claimed, “Luckily, Mr. Chiang Kai-Shek brought those treasures to Taiwan during 1949. Otherwise, they would have been smashed in the 10 years of Cultural Revolution.”
Taiwan has preserved 640,000 artifacts in Taipei National Palace Museum since the 1940』s. All of them are still in tact, as opposed to the damage the Cultural Revolution has brought to the Chinese culture and artifacts; there』s no comparison between Taiwan and China.
“Han Yi Wen Zhi" records the words of Confucius: “Seek and restore the lost manners from the folks.” It means when the ritual is lost, it can be found in places outside of the Central Plains. After the Cultural Revolution, many traditional arts have disappeared or declined in China. However, as reported by the New Epoch Weekly, “Hundred years of heritage of Jiannian sculpture transcended by craftsman Ye Jin-Lu and his son,” the historical art form, Jiannian, to decorate temples, has disappeared in China and yet has been inherited in Tainan (a city in Taiwan) for over a century.
In addition, Taiwan insists upon the traditional Chinese characters as the official written form, as opposed to the simplified characters used by the mainland Chinese. The five thousand years of Chinese culture has been more completely inherited by the use of traditional Chinese characters.
President Ma Ying-Jeou seems to emphasize Taiwan』s claiming of the leadership role in Chinese culture by taking on the Grand National Palace Museum Project. The fact is that Taiwan has retained rich Chinese culture and Taiwan indeed has certain advantages.
NTD reporters Wu Wei and Ge Lei
