After New Year's Day in 2022, the Nanyang Municipal Museum organized experts in the restoration of ancient calligraphy and paintings to begin to rescue and protect the calligraphy and painting cultural relics in the collection and the calligraphy and painting works collected by some brother units.
In the early days of the Nanyang Museum, the Technical Department was subordinate to the Ministry of Culture and Security, and the Technical Department was established in the 1980s. After the completion and opening of the new Nanyang Museum to the public, Director Wang Xiaojie attaches great importance to the protection and restoration of cultural relics, and at present, the Technical Department has a cultural relics reproduction studio, a special restoration room for cultural relics, a specimen making room, a cultural relics fumigation room and a paper cultural relics restoration room, which is currently the earliest established in Nanyang, the largest site area, advanced equipment and strong technical force.
Calligraphy and painting mounting restoration technology is a traditional Chinese handicraft, calligraphy and painting collection has a "three-point painting, seven-point mounting" saying, in 2008, the ancient calligraphy and painting mounting restoration technology was selected into the "Second Batch of National Intangible Cultural Heritage List". Wanbo's ancient calligraphy and painting restoration works are from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties to modern times, with a total of more than 40 works, including the famous calligrapher and painter Ke Jingzhong of the Yuan Dynasty "Cherry An Tu", the Ming Dynasty painting master Qiu Ying "Children's Play Map", the Famous Ming Dynasty calligrapher and poet Chen Hongshou "Bo Gu Tu", a famous calligrapher of the Qing Dynasty, and The Prince Cheng of Weng Fanggang, Liu Yong, and Tie Bao, who were listed alongside the "Four Families of Qianlong", "Excerpt of the Sacred Lord's Ode to the Sages" Stele Rubbings, Qing Dynasty Zheng Banqiao Ink Bamboo Works, Zuo Zongtang's Book Couplet, etc., the works are landscapes, flowers, birds, and characters. There are also rare Qing Dynasty Tenghuang Sacred Will, etc., most of the works are affected by reasons such as long history, material materials, preservation, etc., and the degree of damage is serious and needs to be repaired urgently.
Director Wang Xiaojie visited the Ancient Calligraphy and Painting Restoration Center many times to coordinate and guide the restoration work. He stressed that the protection and restoration of ancient calligraphy and painting cultural relics is to prolong the life of cultural relics and is a necessary means to preserve and inherit culture. The process of protection and restoration is also the process of studying the technology and history, memory and technology contained in the cultural relics of ancient calligraphy and painting, and the process of refining cultural genes, so that we can identify with and love our own culture more. He also hoped that this batch of incomplete ancient calligraphy and painting works would be "rejuvenated" in the hands of Wanbo restoration experts, regain a "new life", and leave a batch of precious calligraphy and painting resources for Nanyang.
Some of the pictures were taken by Zeng Hua