A revised version of the novel "Shou Zang," which means "treasure keeping" in English, has been published by the People's Literature Publishing House to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the Forbidden City, the now Palace Museum, in Central Beijing.
Written by woman novelist Xuan Se, the novel tells the story of a group of "treasure keepers" escorting a special train transferring treasure from the Palace Museum down south to avoid damage from the Japanese invasion in the 1930s.
From 1933 to 1947, a total of 13,427 boxes of relics from the museum were transported to Nanjing, now the capital of Jiangsu Province in east China, and then to the west of the country until the Chinese people won the victory against Japanese aggression.
The story is also expected to be put on the big screen.
