The latest issue of the rich drunkard guardian world heritage broadcast by the title of the drunkard wine, the variety show "Ten Thousand Miles Walking Single Ride" that made the world heritage come alive came to Chongqing Dazu Stone Carving.
Dazu stone carvings originated in the early Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Song Dynasty, in the Southern Song Dynasty alone as many as 50,000 statues, the text up to more than 100,000 words, can be called an encyclopedia.
Moreover, the Dazu rock carvings entered the World Cultural Heritage List as early as the last century, earlier than Yungang, Longmen, and Kyzyl Thousand Buddha Caves.
Therefore, when the four World Heritage Seekers Shan Dean, Xiao Yang, Zhou Yun, Niu Junfeng, and flying guest Li Yu just arrived at the Dazu Stone Carving, they were shocked by it.
Especially when seeing the Thousand Hands Kannon of Baoding Mountain, everyone was deeply shocked.
The reason why this Thousand Hands Kannon shocked everyone was because most of the Thousand Hands Kannon had only 42 hands, and the Thousand Hands Kannon carved by the Dazu Stone really had nearly a thousand hands, and the back of the entire Kannon was densely packed with many different forms of hands.
What is even more precious is that this Senju Kannon is the largest in the world, and there is only one place in the world with the largest Number of Senju Kannon.
1. The real number and tribulation of the Thousand Hands Kannon.
It is said that this Thousand Hands Kannon of Dazu has nearly a thousand hands, so how many are there?
Shan Jixiang, dean of the Palace Academy, said: "The scientific conclusion is 830 hands. ”
Although it didn't reach a thousand, 830 hands was a lot.
Nowadays, the Thousand Hands Kannon that everyone sees is shining with gold, as if the historical changes and time passage of more than eight hundred years have not had any impact or harm on it.
But in 2008, when the Wenchuan earthquake occurred, the Thousand Hands Guanyin experienced a devastating injury, and was once defined as a "critically ill patient" by the cultural relics restoration staff.
After the earthquake, the entire Statue of Kannon had many cracks, fingers were broken, and gold leaf was cracked, like a rusty iron statue.
Shan Jixiang was one of the first people to rush to Dazu to investigate and repair the Thousand Hands Guanyin, and after witnessing the tragic appearance of the Thousand Hands Guanyin, he immediately listed it as the No. 1 project for the protection of Chinese stone carvings and carried out emergency repairs overnight.
Because one step slower, one day, the damage to this Thousand Hands Kannon may be too serious to repair.
And even if it was listed as the First Project Emergency Repair, the entire Restoration Work of Senju Kannon lasted for 8 years before it was completed.
The golden sparkle we see today, the intact Senju Kannon, is the result of 8 years of labor by the restorers.
Because there are too many problems with the Thousand Hands Kannon, there are 34 major diseases in the whole body, large and small, in addition to the problems that are visible to the naked eye, its internal stone tire is aging, and cracking is the most deadly.
When repairing, not only to do surface repair, but also to do a certain amount of maintenance and repair on the inside of the stone tire, the whole process is very complicated and troublesome.
Because the problem and damage of each hand are different, the repair scheme of each hand is different, and the traditional process must be protected in the process of repair, so the repair time required is very long.
In 8 years, the restoration has become the result of countless staff members.
Why was the 800-year-old Statue of Guanyin restored to look like an 18-year-old?
After Xiao Yang sighed the beauty and shock of the Thousand Hands Guanyin, he also had a lot of questions to ask.
That's "why an 800-year-old thing, repaired like an 18-year-old girl." ”
This problem is not only the doubts of Xiao Yang, but also the doubts of many netizens on the Internet.
Because in the thinking of most people, they feel that old objects should have a quaint atmosphere, and the traces of history are reasonable, that is, repairing the old as old, and many people engaged in cultural relics restoration work know this.
The Senju Kannon carved in the Dazu Stone has been restored more like a product of modern times, and there are no traces of history, which is somewhat difficult to accept.
For this question, Chen Huili, director of the Dazu Rock Carving Research and Conservation Engineering Center, gave a professional answer.
Chen Huili said: "After the repair and restoration of the Thousand Hands Guanyin, after the restoration, we can not only judge from the appearance of its appearance, we have to see whether the diseases that affect the long-term preservation of the health of the Thousand Hands Guanyin have been eradicated, and it is the first priority to ensure its safety and stability."
Then the second priority, whether to carry out the historical, artistic, scientific and social and cultural values carried by this cultural relic is well inherited, which is the most important, in fact, what is more important for our restoration this time is to prolong its life, but also with the passage of time, to leave space for the development of science and technology, to provide space for its protection later, to provide possibilities. ”
Shan Jixiang also said: "This conservation project won the National Cultural Relics Protection Excellence Award. ”
According to the words of the two professionals, the reason why the old object with a history of more than 800 years has been repaired so new is to make it better preserved, so that future generations will not have too much headache when repairing it.
Because if in our generation, it is only a simple repair, and the key diseases are not eradicated, then in the next generation, the next generation, this Thousand Hands Kannon once again encounters natural hazards, or natural aging, and it will be difficult to repair it.
Then such a world's largest, China's largest, may slowly disappear.
The restoration results can win the National Cultural Relics Protection Excellence Award, which proves that this program is recognized by the state and is the best and optimal program at present.
However, in the process of repair, and after the repair is completed, the new way of sticking gold has attracted a lot of scolding for the staff.
Because outsiders do not understand the difficulty of repair, and do not understand that sticking gold is the only way to alleviate the weathering of stone statues.
This issue of "Ten Thousand Miles of Walking Alone" not only makes the World Cultural Heritage of Dazu Rock Carvings come alive, but also justifies the cultural relics restoration staff who have suffered insults and misunderstandings!
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