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Palace Museum criticizes photo shoot featuring naked model

Xinhua, June 1, 2015 Adjust font size:

The Palace Museum at the Forbidden City, Beijing, on Monday criticized photographs of a scantily-clad model at the complex, saying the incident was disrespectful to the former imperial palace.

The official statement came after pictures showing a woman leaning on a white marble handrail and sitting on the head of a marble dragon went viral.

The photos were first posted on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo by photographer Wang Dong on May 17.

The Palace Museum said that it had not been informed about the shoot in advance, but confirmed that on the morning of May 17 four people involved in an "improper" photo shoot in front of the "Taihe" (the Hall of Supreme Harmony) were told to stop by Forbidden City employees.

The shoot harmed public order, social morality and the cultural atmosphere of the museum, as well as "profaned the dignity of the cultural relics", the statement read.

Such behavior should be criticized by all of society, it added. Endi