Together at last
June 2 2011
Picture: China.org.cn
The two halves of one of China's most famous paintings have been re-joined for the first time in 360 years. From AFP:
The painting [by Huang Gongwang], which is more than 600 years old, was partly destroyed in about 1650 when its owner, a rich collector, ordered it burned.
This was shortly before his death, and experts have speculated he was hoping to take it with him to the afterlife.
The collector's nephew managed to salvage most of the painting, but not before it was torn in two, and for the next three and a half centuries they were never reunited.
Wednesday's event at Taipei's National Palace Museum came a little more than three years after China-friendly politician Ma Ying-jeou became the island's president, ushering in a period of warmer relations with the mainland.
