Beijing – This is a very technical task to look like a lab than the museum: A piece of street tile from the Haram city of Beijing has been analyzed in a sophisticated X -ray defense machine that produces images, followed by 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 major tourist destination in Beijing’s heart, the banned city is the name that foreigners have given a vast compound in the Imperial Times because most of the external people were banned from entering. 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. During a civil war that brought the Communist Party to power in 1949, the defeated nationalists took many valuable pieces to Taiwan, where 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.”
Mortsogo writes for the Associated Press. AP video producer Olivia Zhang participated in the report.
