It's called the "Heritage Hospital."
On December 16, at the Yangzhou Museum's Cultural Relics Conservation Research Center, two young conservators were restoring lacquerware.
"Physical Examination" for Cultural Relics
The Cultural Relics Protection and Research Center of Yangzhou Museum can be called the "Cultural Relics Hospital" of Yangzhou, where the cultural relics conservators have the power to turn decay into magic, and their hands have made countless decayed or damaged cultural relics reappear in front of the world with their once bright appearance.
Artifacts awaiting restoration
The Yangzhou Workstation, a key scientific research base of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage for the Protection of Unearthed Wood Lacquerware, was established in 2013, and has a team dedicated to the restoration of lacquerware, which undertakes the restoration of a large number of unearthed lacquerware. The repair of unearthed lacquerware generally needs to go through the process of cleaning, dehydration and reinforcement, shaping, repair, sealing, acceptance, packaging, etc., and finally handing it over to the warehouse.
Artifacts under restoration
Some artifact restoration tools
In the more than 600 square meters of semi-underground workstations, most of the space is occupied by water tanks, these are water tanks customized for the "sick number" of wood lacquerware, full of wood lacquerware soaked in special drugs, waiting time, slowly displacing the water. The rest of the repair "surgery" is usually performed in the operation room on the fourth floor, with two desks filled with a variety of tools and chemical reagents.
Restoration of artifacts
Artifacts that have been restored
Li Xin is a cultural relics conservator from the class, graduated from nanjing art college, undergraduate and graduate students are cultural relics restoration major, after graduation into the Yangzhou Museum to work, at first engaged in porcelain restoration, and then into the lacquer restoration team, "the difference is still relatively large, because lacquerware is not as hard as porcelain, when polishing to be more careful." ”
Restored artifacts
Yang Hui, who also graduated from nanjing art academy, originally studied Chinese painting, and is now mainly responsible for the restoration of painted paintings and ornaments, and the colorful patterns that have been dusty and lost in thousands of years have been reborn by their hands.
Reporter Lin Qianwen photographed Si Xinli
【Source: Yangzhou Network_Yangzhou Focus】