Taipei museum to lend prized jade cabbage to Japan  

台北故宫镇馆之宝将赴日展出 业者称大陆客会失望

据台湾媒体报道，台北故宫镇馆之宝“翠玉白菜”和“肉形石”将首度出境赴日本展出。台北故宫16日表示，馆内共典藏3颗玉雕白菜，出借的是最受欢迎的清朝“翠玉白菜”，该作品原放在紫禁城永和宫，外形激似真实白菜，菜上螽斯和蝗虫雕得维妙维肖。有台湾旅游业者表示，翠玉白菜出境展示，势必让台北故宫参观人数最多的大陆客很失望。[查看全文]

(ECNS) -- Taipei's Palace Museum is set to send hundreds of artifacts to Japan next year, including its most treasured masterpiece the jade cabbage, according to Taiwan media.

A signing ceremony was held Wednesday with Japan.s Tokyo National Museum and Kyushu National Museum. Taipei's Palace Museum said it will lend 231 pieces and sets, ranging from painting and calligraphy to bronze, ceramics, jade and embroidery, from June to November 2014.

The most-prized items, the jade cabbage and a meat-shaped stone which have never been displayed overseas, are also included, but will be on loan for a period of only two weeks, it said.

Ma Ying-jeou, the leader of Taiwan, estimated that Taiwan.s artifacts will attract more than one million visitors in Japan.

To return the favor, Japan will lend 150 artifacts to Taiwan in 2016.

The museum has held exhibitions in the United States, France, Germany and Austria in the past 20 years.

The jade cabbage is a piece of jadeite carved into the shape of a Chinese cabbage, with two insects on the leaves.