Restoring the past
8 months, 1 week ago

Restoring the past

China Daily  

Zhao Xiaolong works on the restoration of an artifact. At the Hubei Provincial Museum, there is a notable couple: Zhao Xiaolong, the husband and a specialist in restoring ancient Chinese calligraphy and paintings, and Zhang Xiaolong, the wife and an expert in cultural relic analysis. Growing up near the museum, Zhao had a deep love for history and antiques, often crafting small items like tinny tables and bird cages with wood or cardboard. Working at the museum, Zhang realized that relic preservation required knowledge and talents from both humanities and sciences as well as other multiple disciplines. "While humanities specialists uncover relic information from a historical perspective, my role in relic analysis leans more toward scientific and technical proficiency," she said.

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Decades of excavation brings Han Dynasty back to life
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Decades of excavation brings Han Dynasty back to life

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Decades of excavation brings Han Dynasty back to life
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China Daily  

A lacquerware vase excavated from the tombs. CHINA DAILY Yu Yanjiao, director and researcher at Hunan Museum's Mawangdui Han Tombs and Collection Research Exhibition Center, said the quantity of unearthed artifacts from the tombs is massive, with a broad interdisciplinary scope. There are still many unsolved mysteries despite 50 years of excavation, requiring extensive research by scholars through multidisciplinary collaboration …

Furnishing a career steeped in heritage
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7 months, 1 week ago

Giving the past a future

China Daily  

Clad in a white coat and wielding tools akin to surgical instruments, Ren Wei describes his daily work as a practice of healing, like a doctor tending to patients. Over the past 12 years, the relic restorer at Shandong Museum in Jinan, Shandong's provincial capital, has breathed new life into more than 3,000 cultural relics, restoring them to their former …

Restoring the past
8 months, 1 week ago

Restoring the past

China Daily  

Zhao Xiaolong works on the restoration of an artifact. At the Hubei Provincial Museum, there is a notable couple: Zhao Xiaolong, the husband and a specialist in restoring ancient Chinese calligraphy and paintings, and Zhang Xiaolong, the wife and an expert in cultural relic analysis. Growing up near the museum, Zhao had a deep love for history and antiques, often …

Work on cultural relics recognized
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Work on cultural relics recognized
2 years, 5 months ago

Work on cultural relics recognized

China Daily  

Seventy-nine outstanding individuals involved in cultural relics, including archaeologists, museum employees and conservators, and 49 organizations and academies were bestowed awards at the national cultural relics-related working conference in Beijing on Friday. The sector was also urged to "better explore values of cultural relics and make them 'alive'," according to the country's new guiding principle of cultural relics-related work, which …

The art of restoring ancient ships
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