Many scholars from the mainland also began traveling to Taiwan. Museum curators from China were taken aback when, during a visit to Taipei's National Museum of History, they came across a stone pagoda dating from the Northern Wei dynasty (386-534) on display there, for the finial from the peak of that pagoda is still to be found in Shanxi Province.
曾經有多位大陸博物館長來台參觀歷史博物館時，發現館藏北魏「九層石塔」而發出感嘆，因為塔的塔剎（塔頂的裝飾）目前仍在山西朔縣。