While a 5,000-year-old cultural legacy was being smashed to smithereens on the mainland, the ROC's commitment to "revive classical Chinese culture and carry on traditional ways" represented a difficult burden for the small island of Taiwan to bear by itself. President Chiang Kai-shek would serve as head of the "Council for Chinese Cultural Renaissance." Peking opera and classical Chinese painting were deliberately promoted and local Taiwanese culture suppressed.
眼見五千年文化遭受浩劫，「復興中華文化、承續道統」成了台灣這蕞爾小島不可承受的重；總統蔣公親自出任「文化復興運動推行委員會」會長，京劇、國畫被刻意提倡，台灣本土文化則受到壓抑。