Taiwan national treasure Qing Dynasty mummy “Ke Xiang” legend displayed at National Taiwan Museum

Li Zining, head of the research group at the National Museum of Taiwan History, explained that most mummies usually rest undisturbed in tombs, but unlike them, the "Co Elephant" has had a dramatic and legendary "life story" even after becoming a mummy. Therefore, for most people, death signifies an end, but for the "Co Elephant," death is just another beginning.After Japan began ruling Taiwan in 1895, numerous armed anti-Japanese uprisings occurred across the island. In June 1912, local villagers Huang Chao and Huang Laoqian from Tuku in Yunlin used the mummy of "Ke Xiang" as a symbol to rally support for an anti-Japanese revolt, but were arrested and killed by Japanese authorities before taking action. This incident is historically known as the "Tuku Incident."After the failure of the Huang Chao uprising, the mummy in question was confiscated and seized by the Japanese colonial government as "criminal evidence." It was later transferred and preserved in police institutions, surviving from the Japanese colonial period through the postwar era, the 1949 relocation of the Nationalist government to Taiwan, until 1994 when the Police Academy decided to transfer it to the National Taiwan Museum for permanent collection.2009, the museum and related scholars restarted investigation and research, and the background and whereabouts of the "Ke Xiang" mummy were once again revealed to the public; in September 2011, thanks to the efforts of devotees, "Ke Xiang" finally returned to his "former home" of nearly a hundred years—the Beiji Temple in Dadu Village, Dapi Township, Yunlin County—where it was publicly displayed until May 2012, marking exactly one hundred years since the 1912 "Tuku Incident."

 

 

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