The Beijing Palace Museum, Renmin University of China and Beijing Foreign Studies University signed a cooperation framework agreement to establish an institute to research and study palace opera. This signing activity was held at the event of the 100th anniversary of Zhu Jiajin's birth on Oct 15.

Shan Jixiang, curator of the Palace Museum, reviewed the contributions Zhu Jiajin made to Chinese museum science and introduced the relics, spiritual and research legacies he left during the signing ceremony. "For generations to come, the best way to commemorate Zhu is to pass down and innovate his research." Shan said

Zhu Jiajin, born in Xiaoshan, Zhejiang province, was a researcher at the Palace Museum, a relic expert, an opera expert and a historian. He followed his father's will to donate more than 700 Chinese rubbings to the Palace Museum in 1954.

Zhu was an opera lover during his lifetime. So the Palace Museum chose to establish the palace opera research institute on the anniversary of his birth. To promote opera research, the institute will start to compile and publish a chronicle about palace opera in the Qing Dynasty and a Palace Muse encyclopedia related with cultural relics and restore old phonograph records.

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