At the dinner party to welcome the visitors of SEF on Sept.11,2009, Chen Yunlin, chairman of ARATS, sent a valuable red porcelain artwork as a gift to Jiang Bingkun,Chairman of SEF. It was created by the young ceramic master Xu Shaodong, who is the artistic director of Fujian Fuguihong Culture Development Co.,Ltd. The name of the artwork is called "Two Sides One Root", which is of far-reaching meaning and significance because it smbolizes the close relations between the two sides across the Taiwan Strait. Xu Shaodong felt it a great honor that his creation was selected as an important gift to SEF at the turning point when the relations between the two sides across the Taiwan Strait are greatly improving.
The main body of this work is an extremely stable vase, which is used to stand for a stable country. The front of the vase is decorated with a dragon and the back is a phoenix. Both the auspicious dragon and the auspicious phoenix stand for a prosperous nation of China. The two auspicious sheep at the mouth of the vase are closely linked to the vase without any gap,which smbolizes that both sides across the Taiwan Strait are closely related and will never separated from each other. The leaders of the Taiwan Affairs Office expressed their great satisfaction with the innovative creation, because it predicts that Taiwan and the Mainland will be more closely related and become more prosperous in the future.
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