BEIJING - The Chinese military released an animated short film on National Day showing pieces of a scroll painting torn in two more than 300 years ago being reunited, in a show of the mainland's determination to bring self-ruled Taiwan into the fold. The pieces of the The Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, one of China's best-known ancient paintings, are.
China’s military released an animation on Sunday depicting the journey to reunite two halves of a torn scroll across the Taiwan Strait, a thinly veiled reference to the country’s longstanding goal of “reunification” with the democratic, self-ruled island.
A 14th-century painting was brought up recently by the Chinese military to invoke the historical associations between China and Taiwan. Here is its story.