Beijing (AP) – This is a highly technical work that looks more like a lab than the museum: a piece of a glazed roof The forbidden city of Beijing A sophisticated X -ray spread is analyzed in the machine that produces images, which are then offered on computer screens.
There is a dark area at the level of the piece that is being examined, which the restores want to understand. Their aim is to better protect the vast Imperial Palace, the former home of China’s emperors and the samples for hundreds of years on the seat of power.
“We want to learn what black material is,” Kong Bokiang, one of the complex renovating cars, today a museum that attracts tourists from all over the world. “Whether it is a vocalism or the result of a lot of change from the inside.”
About 150 150 workers of the team fuse scientific analysis and to clear more than 1.8 million and live in the museum combination of traditional techniques, and otherwise.
These include Scroll Paintings, Calligraphy, Bronze, Ceramics – and, to some extent unexpectedly, adorned ancient watches that were gifted to the emperors by early European visitors.
From the hall to the X -ray room, two other maintenance cars pierced the holes on the pattern green silk panel, which is stitched with a Chinese role for “longevity”, which is carefully added to the process called “painting”.
The piece is believed to have been a birthday gift for the Empress Dodge Sexy in the late 19th century and in the early 20th century.
Most of the work is hardworking and nerris – and it takes months to complete.
“I do not have the big dreams of protecting traditional cultural heritage that people talk about,” said Wang Nan, one of the rehabilitation cars. “When I get a piece of artifacts, I easily enjoy a sense of success.”
Now a The main tourist site in the heart of BeijingThe prohibited city is the name that foreigners have given a vast compound in the Imperial Times as it was forbidden from entering for most outsiders. It is officially known as the Palace Museum.
During World War II, many of its treasures were snatched quickly to avoid falling into the hands of the Japanese army. While in A civil war that brought the Communist Party to power in 1949Defeated nationalists took many precious pieces TaiwanWhere they are now kept in the National Palace Museum.
Beijing’s Palace Museum has rebuilt its collection since then.
“Rehabilitation techniques have also been developed,” said Koi Feng, head of the Museum’s Department of Protection Department, although old methods are the basis of this work.
When we preserve a piece of artifacts, we “protect its cultural values ​​that it lifts.” “And this is our ultimate goal.”
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Associated Press Video Producer Olivia Zhang cooperated in this report.
