Since September 2020, nearly 10,000 cultural relics have been unearthed from 6 new sacrifice pits in the Sanxingdui site sacrifice area, and the public is most looking forward to when the newly excavated cultural relics at the Sanxingdui site will meet with the public. Today (December 18) afternoon, the Sanxingdui Museum Cultural Relics Protection and Restoration Hall was officially opened, and newly excavated cultural relics such as golden masks, jade quinces, and bronze villains with faces "Ultraman" and "Zhuge Liang" were exhibited here. Yu Jian, director of the Sanxingdui Museum's Cultural Relics Column Preservation Department, introduced: "Visitors can not only see the restoration process of cultural relics here, but also see the style of excavated cultural relics. ”
▲Sanxingdui Museum Cultural Relics Protection and Restoration Hall.
Visitors get a closer look at the restoration of cultural relics
Red Star News reporters saw in the Cultural Relics Conservation and Restoration Hall that many tourists came to visit. Tourists said that they visited the Cultural Relics Restoration Museum to see the newly excavated cultural relics of Sanxingdui.
Entering the Cultural Relics Protection and Restoration Hall, the transparent glass room is a different functional partition, namely the cultural relics storage area, the pottery restoration room, the jade restoration room, the metal restoration room and the ivory restoration room.
There are also some restorations on display in the museum. Including the gold mask unearthed in the No. 3 sacrifice pit in 2021, the pottery pig that hit the face of the "Angry Bird", the jade chun and other cultural relics that were hotly searched on the fire. There are also bronze small lirens who are jokingly called "Ultraman" and "Zhuge Liang" by netizens, as well as fine cultural relics such as copper heads and jade zhangs.
▲ Gold mask.
▲ "Angry Birds" pottery pig.
▲ Newly unearthed Yu Chun.
▲ The bronze villain who bumped into the face of "Zhuge Liang".
In the restoration room, the staff wearing white coats are carrying out various tasks such as the collection and restoration of cultural relics. Standing outside the transparent glass wall, visitors can see the whole process of restoration. On the message board, there are "punch card" messages from tourists from all over the country, praising the mystery of Sanxingdui and the charm of ancient Shu culture.
▲Cultural relics conservators carry out restoration work on the spot.
"It is indeed a bit of a surprise that there are so many cultural relics, and seeing the restoration of cultural relics can cause some resonance, one is the reverence for cultural relics, and the other is the inheritance of culture." Mr. Pan from Beijing introduced that he was the first time to see the open restoration of cultural relics by cultural relics workers. "It takes a lot of time and energy to restore cultural relics, and the restored cultural relics make people feel the exquisite Chinese culture." He believes that through the sorting and restoration of cultural relics restorers, the integrity of cultural relics is protected and the culture can be better passed on.
Newly excavated artifacts from sacrificial pits 3-8 will be displayed
According to the news from Sanxingdui Museum, Sanxingdui Cultural Relics Protection and Restoration Museum is located in Sanxingdui Cultural Relics Protection Center, with an area of about 1,000 square meters, which is an integrated cultural relics restoration, cultural relics display, visiting experience, science education and other functions, using the latest cultural relics protection and restoration concepts, modern cultural protection facilities and equipment and first-class protection and restoration technology, to create an integrated working platform for the protection and restoration of cultural relics unearthed from sanxingdui sites.
The museum also has a special analytical instrument room, equipped with advanced instruments such as scanning electron microscopy, laser Raman spectroscopy, X-ray color meter, etc., to detect and analyze the composition of cultural relics, so as to provide a scientific basis for cultural relics restoration. Using the platform, Sanxingdui Museum also invites experts from different fields to come here to consult newly excavated cultural relics, develop the best restoration plan, and cooperate in the research of cultural relics protection and restoration.
"The cultural relics protection and restoration hall combines the exhibition area and cultural relics restoration, and visitors can see the process of cultural relics restoration at close range after entering the restoration hall, and can also see the style of excavated cultural relics" Yu Jian introduced, the newly excavated cultural relics of the No. 3-8 sacrifice pit will be displayed here, through the form of multimedia pictures and texts, so that visitors can understand some knowledge of the restoration and protection of Sanxingdui cultural relics, and understand the entire process of cultural relics excavation to restoration.
According to reports, the Sanxingdui Open Cultural Relics Restoration Museum has established a cultural relics storage area, pottery, jade, metal, ivory restoration room, etc., which can protect and restore different types of cultural relics.
According to Yu Jian, the main functions of the Sanxingdui Cultural Relics Protection and Restoration Museum include: allowing the audience to truly enter the behind-the-scenes work of the whole process of archaeological excavation, cultural relics sorting, restoration, etc., popularizing archaeological knowledge and strengthening the close relationship between the audience and cultural protection; realizing the real integration of the audience and the archaeological and cultural relics restoration and other work processes; the living real scene display, static knowledge display and immersive interaction complement each other; the visiting line and the work line are designed in parallel, forming the physical space between the audience and the cultural relics restoration workers, and the technical space is separated Displays the means of cultural relics restoration and the protection and restoration equipment, and shows the work behind the little-known cultural heritage.
Red Star News reporter Wang Mingping
Edited by Peng Jiang
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