Issued on: 20 May, 2008
Description: There are the most representable collections of National Taiwan Museum.
Formerly the Taiwan Governor-General’s Museum, the National Taiwan Museum, founded in 1908, is the oldest museum in Taiwan. The museum’s focus is on natural history. 2008 is the 100th anniversary since the founding of the National Taiwan Museum. To commemorate the occasion, this Post is issuing a set of two stamps and a souvenir sheet featuring the museum’s most treasured pieces: the Yellow Tiger Flag of Democratic Taiwan, a portrait of Jheng Cheng-gong, and a map of Taiwan dating from the Emperor Kangsi’s reign during the Cing Dynasty. The NT$5 stamp depicts the Yellow Tiger Flag of Democratic Taiwan and the NT$25 stamp portrays Jheng Cheng-gong with the detail of a map of Taiwan dating from the Emperor Kangsi’s reign during the Cing Dynasty as background. The souvenir sheet includes one each of the mentioned stamps with a large detail of the above-mentioned map as background. On its upper right and left corners, there are the designs of the museum and the logo of the 100th anniversary. The designs follow:
1. The Yellow Tiger Flag of Democratic Taiwan: In 1895, the Cing Dynasty of China ceded Taiwan to Japan. The local gentry petitioned unsuccessfully for the Cing court to reverse the decision. Without China’s support, people in Taiwan declared independence and established the Republic of Formosa. The republic’s flag featured a yellow tiger on a blue ground. They intentionally chose the tiger, which, however formidable, falls behind the Cing court’s dragon.
2. A portrait of Jheng Cheng-gong: This portrait is the earliest and most lifelike of all the extant Jheng portraits. It is believed that Jheng commissioned an artist to paint this portrait in Tainan. In 1911, it was included in the collection of the Taiwan Shrine. Later, a Japanese governor of Taiwan ordered a Japanese painter to make a copy and put it in Kaishan Shrine. That copy is also part of the museum collection today.
3. A map of Taiwan: This is the earliest extant map of Taiwan painted on a horizontal silk scroll in the style of Chinese landscape painting. It is 569 cm in length and 70 cm in width. In 1902 the Office of the Taiwan Governor-General bought this map. It then became one of the important holdings of the Taiwan Governor-General’s Museum. The museum commissioned painters to paint copies of it, and these copies are likewise found in the National Taiwan Museum’s collection.
國立臺灣博物館前身為「臺灣總督府博物館」，創立於1908年，是臺灣歷史最悠久、以臺灣自然史為特色的博物館。本年適逢該館建館百週年，本公司特選其最 具代表性的珍貴藏品「臺灣民主國藍地黃虎旗」、「鄭成功畫像」、「康熙臺灣輿圖」為主題，發行「國立臺灣博物館建館百週年紀念郵票」1組2枚及小全張1 張。
本組郵票5元面值以「臺灣民主國藍地黃虎旗」為主圖，25元面值以「鄭成功畫像」為主圖，背景均擷取「康熙臺灣輿圖」之局部鋪陳；小全張以上 述郵票各1枚組成，背景襯以「康熙臺灣輿圖」之局部，左、右上角並納入國立臺灣博物館館貌圖案及該館建館百週年logo。茲將郵票主題圖案簡介如下：
一、臺灣民主國藍地黃虎旗：西元1895年，清廷將臺灣割讓予日本，臺灣士紳希望朝廷收回成命，但清廷不接受臺灣方面的陳情；得不到大清國的支援，「臺灣民主國」於焉成立，以藍地黃虎的「虎旗」為國旗；「虎旗」是相對大清皇朝的「龍旗」，不敢僭用清廷之象徵。
二、鄭成功畫像：為傳世最早、最接近真實的鄭成功畫像，傳說該畫是鄭成功在臺南差人為他所畫，明治44年典藏於臺灣神社，其後總督命那須豐慶摹擬1幅藏於開山神社，目前典藏於該館。
三、康熙臺灣輿圖：為現存臺灣地圖中最早的山水畫式彩繪於絹布上的橫幅地圖，畫心長569公分、寬70公分。明治35年(西元1902年)臺灣總督府購入此圖，為總督府博物館重要之收藏，並依原圖摹製，成為今日該館鎮館藏品。
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