How a jade cabbage grew to become museum’s star attraction
Among the lots of of 1000’s of treasured artefacts housed in Tawian’s National Palace Museum, maybe essentially the most well-known is a small cabbage, exquisitely carved out of jade. Every day it attracts strains of people that marvel at its uncanny resemblance to the actual vegetable it’s modeled after. Celebrating its centennial this yr, the museum homes a world-renowned assortment of Imperial Chinese objects, protected by ultra-secure vaults and tunnels. CNN’s Will Ripley explains.