Beijing – It is a very technical work in the laboratory like the museum: part of the glazed roof tiles from The forbidden city of Beijing It is analyzed in the modern X -raying machine that produces images, which are then displayed on computer screens.
The part that is examined contains a dark area on its surface that the restorers want to understand. Their goal is to maintain the artifacts in the sprawling imperial palace, the former homeland of China’s emperors and the strength of the power for hundreds of years.
“We want to learn what a black matter is,” said Kang Pakang, one of the restored in the complex. Today, a museum that attracts tourists from all over the world. “Whether it is a deposit in the atmosphere or as a result of a major change from the inside.”
About 150 team workers integrate scientific analysis and traditional techniques for cleaning, correcting and reviving more than 1.8 million spots in the museum group.
They include scrolling panels, calligraphy, bronze, and ceramic – somewhat unexpected, somewhat decorative watches that were talented for the first European visitors.
Below the hall of the X -ray room, two other restorers correct holes on a plate of decorated green silk with the Chinese character to sew “longevity”, with a carefully adding color in a process called “Inpainting”.
This piece is believed to have been a birthday gift for Dowager Cixi, the power behind the throne in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
A large part of the work is hard and monotony – it takes months to complete it.
“I do not have great dreams in protecting the traditional cultural heritage that people talk about,” said Wang Nan, one of the restored. “I simply enjoy a feeling of accomplishment when an artifact is fixed.”
Now a A major tourist site in the heart of BeijingThe forbidden city is the name that gave the sprawling compound by foreigners in imperial times because entry is forbidden for most strangers. It is officially known as the Palace Museum.
Several treasures were hurriedly moved during World War II to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Japanese Gazian army. during A civil war brought the Communist Party to power in 1949The defeated nationalists took many of the most valuable pieces TaiwanIt is now in the National Palace Museum.
The Beijing Palace Museum has been rebuilt since then.
Queen, head of the museum’s conservation department, said that restoration techniques have also evolved, although old roads remain the basis of work.
When we keep an artifact, we “protect the cultural values ​​it holds.” “This is our final goal.”
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The Associated Press Olivia Chang video contributed to this report.
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