Xiao Qiongrui, the highest honor of the Tainan Cultural Award, donated all the bonus to give back to arts and education.

Professor Xiao Qiongrui, the winner of the 15th Cultural Award, shared his acceptance speech and announced that all the prize money would be donated.

The "15th Tainan Culture Awards", which symbolizes the highest honor in Tainan's art and literary circles, held an award ceremony today (11th), and Honorary Professor Xiao Qiongrui of National Cheng Kung University received this honor. He has been deeply engaged in Taiwanese art history, local art research and cultural education for many years, leaving important research results on Taiwanese art. What is even more admirable is that Xiao Qiongrui announced in his acceptance speech that he would donate all the prize money to the "Professors Wang Jiacheng and Zhao Yun Mr. and Mrs. Arts Scholarship" at Tainan University, turning his personal glory into a force to support arts education.

Xiao Qiongrui was the first director of the Cultural Bureau of Nanjing City Government before the merger of the county and city, the director of the National Cheng Kung University Art Center and the director of the Museum Preparatory Office. He also served as a member of the Antiquities Review Committee of the Ministry of Culture and the convenor of modern art. From academic research to cultural administration, he has been devoted to the development of Taiwanese art for many years.

In an era when Taiwan's art history had not yet established a complete research system, Xiao Qiongrui devoted himself to the compilation and construction of local art historical materials, and successively published important works such as "Taiwan Art History Outline", "Illustrated History of Taiwan Art", "Post-War Taiwan Art History", and served as the chief editor of "The Complete Works of Chen Chengbo" and "The Complete Works of Yang Yingfeng", leaving precious documents for Taiwan's art history and laying an important foundation for subsequent research.

In addition to academic research, Xiao Qiongrui is also committed to popularizing art knowledge. He is good at transforming difficult art history into cultural stories close to life in a simple and humorous way, so that art can go out of the academic palace and integrate into the daily life of the public and urban memory.

Deputy Mayor Ye Zeshan, who presented the award on behalf of the city government, said that Xiao Qiongrui combines the profound knowledge of a scholar with the macro vision of a cultural administrator. He not only opened up new territories for Taiwan's art history, but also laid an important foundation for Tainan's modern cultural governance during his tenure as the first director of the Cultural Affairs Bureau. He has persisted in popularizing culture for many years and has transformed his art major into a cultural asset shared by all the people. He is well-deserved for the award. In the future, the city government will continue to promote the roots of art and culture, the preservation of cultural assets, and academic research, so that Tainan's profound cultural heritage can continue to exert its influence.