Chin recounts how impecunious the museum was over four decades ago: "The National Palace Museum had no budget for reproductions at that time, so they had to take a credit line of NT $ 10,000 from a printing firm in Taichung."
「那時故宮並沒有文物仿製的經費，於是先跟台中的印刷廠『賒帳』一萬元，」金士先轉述四十多年前故宮財務的窘況。