Editing National Palace Museum (section)

=== Carvings ===
One of the most popular pieces of [[jade]] carvings in the museum is the ''[[Jadeite Cabbage]]'',<ref name="npm2008">{{Cite web |url=http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/administration/services/news_02.htm?docno=143&pageno=4 |title=Jadeite Cabbage is Moving to a New Gallery! |access-date=4 June 2008 |publisher=National Palace Museum |archive-date=25 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140325113110/http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/administration/services/news_02.htm?docno=143&pageno=4}}</ref> a piece of [[jadeite]] carved into the shape of a [[Chinese cabbage|cabbage]] head, and with a large and a small [[grasshopper]] camouflaged in the leaves. The ruffled semi-translucent leaves attached is due to the masterful combination of various natural color of the jade to recreate the color variations of a real cabbage.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/collection/selections_02.htm?docno=867&catno=16&pageno=2 |title=Jadeite Cabbage with Insects |access-date=4 June 2008 |publisher=National Palace Museum |archive-date=1 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201033441/http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/collection/selections_02.htm?docno=867&catno=16&pageno=2}}</ref> The ''[[Meat-shaped Stone]]'' is often exhibited together with the Jadeite Cabbage.<ref name="npm2008"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/collection/selections_02.htm?docno=900&catno=12&pageno=2 |title=Meat-shaped Stone |access-date=4 June 2008 |publisher=National Palace Museum |archive-date=11 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011040956/http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/collection/selections_02.htm?docno=900&catno=12&pageno=2}}</ref> A piece of [[jasper]], a form of [[agate]], the strata of which are cleverly used to create a likeness of a piece of pork cooked in soy sauce. The dyed and textured surface makes the layers of skin, lean meat, and fat materialized incredibly lifelike.

Other various carvings of materials such as bamboo, wood, ivory, rhinoceros horn, and fruit pits are exhibited.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/visiting/exhibit/exhibit_04.htm?docno=605 |title=Uncanny Ingenuity and Celestial Feats – The Carvings of Ming and Qing Dynasties |publisher=National Palace Museum |access-date=25 September 2012}}</ref> The ''[[Boat Carved from an Olive Stone|Carved Olive-stone Boat]]'', carved by Chen Zuzhang, is a tiny boat carved from an [[olive]] stone.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/collection/selections_02.htm?docno=904&catno=12&pageno=2 |title=Carved Olive-stone Boat |access-date=4 June 2008 |publisher=National Palace Museum |archive-date=18 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140518101443/http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/collection/selections_02.htm?docno=904&catno=12&pageno=2}}</ref> The incredibly fully equipped skilled piece is carved with a covered deck and moveable windows. The interior has chairs, dishes on a table and eight figures representing the characters of [[Su Shih]]'s ''Latter Ode on the Red Cliff''. The bottom is carved in minute character the entire 300+ character text with the date and the artist's name.