In 1931, Japan launched the September 18 Incident, occupying our territory and killing our compatriots. In less than 100 days, it quickly seized the vast land of the three eastern provinces. At this time, Japan accelerated the pace of aggression, posing a huge threat to North China.
Under the leadership of Yi Peiji, then director of the Palace Museum, many People of the Forbidden City began to move south to protect national treasures. However, the process of moving south was accompanied by countless difficulties and ups and downs. At that time, President Yi Peiji organized personnel to lead some national treasures to go abroad for exhibition, so that the Nanjing National Government finally began to face the preservation of cultural relics because of this exhibition, and built a warehouse in Chaotian Palace to store cultural relics moved south, and then all the cultural relics moved south were transported to the Chaotian Palace warehouse.
?????? The 19557 boxes of cultural relics moved south, from leaving the Beiping Forbidden City in 1933 to moving into the Chaotian Palace warehouse in 1936 for 3 years, finally gained a firm foothold and had a stable residence. However, this stability lasted for less than a year, and the staff of the Forbidden City in the storehouse of the Chaotian Palace in Nanjing received an order that the transfer of cultural relics should not be delayed for a moment.
The Lugou Bridge Incident broke out, and shortly after the fall of Peiping, the Japanese army launched the August 13 Incident, and Shanghai also fell. At this time, the Japanese army was gathering troops to march to Nanjing, the capital of the Nationalist government, and the cultural relics moved south could certainly not be placed here, but must be transferred immediately. After several fierce discussions, the staff of the Forbidden City unanimously decided to divide the troops into three roads and move to the rear. This time, the turnaround of cultural relics was much more difficult and dangerous than the previous southward migration, but in the end, the Forbidden City people still saved them and made them intact, which is a great miracle. ??????
??????
The cultural relics were moved south from 1933 to the later soldiers divided into three roads, stored in different places, ah, I don't know how many times have been transferred.
But every time they were transferred, it was related to the changes in the war situation at that time. As soon as the war situation changes, the situation between the enemy and ourselves changes, and so does their fate.
After the War of Resistance Against Japan, it was the War of Liberation. Some of these artifacts were relocated to Taiwan during the Liberation War, resulting in the Palace Museum in Beijing and the National Palace Museum in Taipei facing each other across the sea.