Jade Mountain

In 1998, Dr. Chen and his wife Lucia were invited to participate the international conference of the “State of World Forum” in San Francisco. They are also arranged in the “Our Common Enterprises” to plan cultural programs for the world. Returning to Taiwan Dr. Chen thought he had to plan for Taiwan too which resulted in his art tour in Taiwan entitled “Sacred Jade Mountain, Love and Peace”. Besides a series of Jade Mountain landscapes, Dr. Chen created three big artworks using Taiwan Aborigines as subject, one of them is this bright and colorful painting.

These are more than a dozen tribes of Aborigines in Taiwan they have been living in this “Beautiful Island Formosa” since several thousand years. They are the real residents of the island and now most of them live in or alongside the Central Mountain Range which occupied 2/3 of Taiwan. One of the tribe is called Taiwan and Dr. Chen described a Head of the tribe and his wife in their traditional costume appearing before their stone-plank house and the Jade Mountain behind them which is the spiritual symbol to all aborigines. Dr. Chen in his art tour of “ Sacred Jade Mountain. Love and Peace” to promote the Jade Mountain, the highest of the Far-East Asia, 3,952 meters-high to be the sacred mountain like the Fuji Mountain in Japan to unite people in Taiwan.