"Ancient buildings are the memory and soul of a city, and it would be very sad to destroy them and the whole city has neither a soul nor a memory." Recently, Ma Jin, an enthusiast of ancient architecture protection, said.
According to reports, Ma Jin was born in a family of scholars in Fengjie County, Chongqing, and was influenced and influenced by local ancient buildings and ancient cultural relics since childhood, and vowed to "help" valuable cultural relics and historical and cultural buildings. In 2000, Ma Jin began to visit Chongqing's local historical buildings with the cultural relics conservation scholars around him. Every time he found so many unknown historical buildings around him, he was always very touched in his heart, and he also collected large and small ancient architectural components.
Ma Jin, a lover of ancient architecture conservation
At the beginning of 2016, by chance, Ma Jin participated in the renovation of an ancient town project in Ya'an City, Sichuan Province, mainly responsible for the transformation of characteristic courtyards, the planning of ancient towns and the design of cultural relics repair. The ancient town has a history of 1500 years, so in terms of cultural relics restoration, Ma Jin insists on "repairing the old as old" to the greatest extent possible and trying to protect the original style of the ancient building complex. At the same time, the structure of the ancient town has stone blocks and wood, of which more than 80% are wooden structures, detailed pedestals, columns, bucket arches and roof structures are complex, doors, windows and ceilings are diverse, patterns are all-encompassing, and the internal structure is rich in content. Because of this, the "all-round" protection and restoration of the details of these ancient buildings has increased the difficulty of construction and can be said to be a great requirement for technology.
Ma Jin buys ancient architectural components from the collection
To this end, Ma Jin visited everywhere, inspected and learned the experience of successful cultural relics and ancient buildings at home and abroad, and through the expert technical team around him, using new scanning technology means, the information of ancient buildings was truly restored and archived, and quickly, accurately and multi-directionally applied to reverse engineering such as the reconstruction of ancient buildings and ancient cultural relics.
It is understood that since the beginning of the road of ancient architecture exploration and protection, Ma Jin has always wanted to try to understand the story behind each historical building, and then take the initiative to spread it, so that more people can understand the cultural significance behind them.
Ma Jin believes that the protection of cultural relics is not simply to find some abandoned historical buildings, and to walk around is finished. Ancient buildings are the carrier of historical information, and the biggest difficulty in ancient building protection projects is to retain historical information. In fact, the more ancient the ancient building, the richer the historical information it contains, and it is important to retain this information, which is conducive to deepening everyone's understanding of history.
It is reported that in the more than ten years of experience in the protection of ancient buildings, Ma Jin understands that the memory of a city is inherited by the city's architectural and planning carriers, and ancient buildings are not only the private property of individuals, but also the treasures of the state and society, and are indispensable witnesses of history, and the value is immeasurable.
"China is an ancient historical country, we can't just look for history from historical records and literary works, we need real historical witness." Ma Jin said that as an immovable cultural relics and ancient building, if it is not used for a long time, it will not be popular, no one will take care of it, and it is not conducive to protection. Therefore, "revitalization and utilization" is the best protection of ancient buildings, with the purpose of making ancient buildings an organic part of modern people's lives, so that more people can visit and understand it.