Cave treasures saved
2 years ago

Cave treasures saved

China Daily  

Mati Temple complex finalizes digitization project to preserve and research grottoes, Fang Aiqing and Ma Jingna in Lanzhou report. A digitization project of the Mati Temple Grottoes in Zhangye, Northwest China's Gansu province, that aims at high-fidelity preservation of its grottoes was completed recently, according to the city's cultural relics preservation office. Launched in June last year, the project, with a subsidy of 3.89 million yuan from the central government, was set up to collect digital information of the temple's surroundings, scan the murals in the grottoes, make 3D reconstruction of the painted sculptures and caves, as well as a panoramic roaming system. Zhang Zhiyong, director of the administration office of Zhangye's cultural relics preservation and research institute, says the data collection and processing work was over in August.

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Beijing's Xicheng launches new round of historical vitalization
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Beijing's Xicheng launches new round of historical vitalization

China Daily  

Yongquan An, a historical building that dates back to the Ming Dynasty. On Wednesday, the government of Beijing's Xicheng district announced the third round of vitalization projects for cultural heritage sites. This includes seven historical buildings destined for public use, including the Guandi Temple in Zhuanta hutong, Zhenwu Temple, Yongquan An, and the Wuyuan Guild Hall. Notably, the Zhenwu Temple …

Beijing's Xicheng launches new round of historical vitalization
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Beijing's Xicheng launches new round of historical vitalization

China Daily  

Yongquan An, a historical building that dates back to the Ming Dynasty. On Wednesday, the government of Beijing's Xicheng district announced the third round of vitalization projects for cultural heritage sites. This includes seven historical buildings destined for public use, including the Guandi Temple in Zhuanta hutong, Zhenwu Temple, Yongquan An, and the Wuyuan Guild Hall. Notably, the Zhenwu Temple …

Archeologists make 5,000-year-old discovery while excavating an ancient burial site
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Archeologists make 5,000-year-old discovery while excavating an ancient burial site

Daily Mail  

A 5,000-year-old discovery made at an ancient burial site in Northern China could finally reveal how Chinese civilizations formed. Archaeologists found three dragons among 100 jade relics at an ancient burial site in China The relics were found beneath a circular tomb at the Yuanbaoshan burial site The team determined that the Hongshan civilization may have exchanged artistic ideas with …

Digital wizardry makes broken Buddhist statues whole again
3 months, 1 week ago

Digital wizardry makes broken Buddhist statues whole again

China Daily  

A 3D model of Cave 17 at the grottoes created by Taiyuan University of Technology is seen on display. With their heads removed and bodies broken into pieces to be sold around the world, Buddhist statues taken from sacred grottoes in North China are being made whole again, but in digital form. The painstaking restoration work is being done with …

Digital wizardry makes broken Buddhist statues whole again
3 months, 1 week ago

Digital wizardry makes broken Buddhist statues whole again

China Daily  

A 3D model of Cave 17 at the grottoes created by Taiyuan University of Technology is seen on display. With their heads removed and bodies broken into pieces to be sold around the world, Buddhist statues taken from sacred grottoes in North China are being made whole again, but in digital form. The painstaking restoration work is being done with …

Digital wizardry makes broken Buddhist statues whole again
3 months, 1 week ago

Digital wizardry makes broken Buddhist statues whole again

China Daily  

A 3D model of Cave 17 at the grottoes created by Taiyuan University of Technology is seen on display. With their heads removed and bodies broken into pieces to be sold around the world, Buddhist statues taken from sacred grottoes in North China are being made whole again, but in digital form. The painstaking restoration work is being done with …

Digital wizardry makes broken Buddhist statues whole again
3 months, 1 week ago

Digital wizardry makes broken Buddhist statues whole again

China Daily  

A 3D model of Cave 17 at the grottoes created by Taiyuan University of Technology is seen on display. With their heads removed and bodies broken into pieces to be sold around the world, Buddhist statues taken from sacred grottoes in North China are being made whole again, but in digital form. The painstaking restoration work is being done with …

Digital wizardry makes broken Buddhist statues whole again
3 months, 1 week ago

Digital wizardry makes broken Buddhist statues whole again

China Daily  

A 3D model of Cave 17 at the grottoes created by Taiyuan University of Technology is seen on display. With their heads removed and bodies broken into pieces to be sold around the world, Buddhist statues taken from sacred grottoes in North China are being made whole again, but in digital form. The painstaking restoration work is being done with …

Safeguarding the cultural landscape
3 months, 1 week ago

Safeguarding the cultural landscape

China Daily  

The Nankan cliff statues in Bazhong, Sichuan province, from the Tang Dynasty. Forum highlights remarkable progress in conserving cave temples, report Wang Ru in Dunhuang, Gansu province, and Ma Jingna in Lanzhou. Together, they form cave temples — a special cultural landscape embodying the reverence of ancient people for divine blessings. China boasts many dazzling cave temples, including the Mogao …

Safeguarding the cultural landscape
3 months, 1 week ago

Safeguarding the cultural landscape

China Daily  

The Nankan cliff statues in Bazhong, Sichuan province, from the Tang Dynasty. Forum highlights remarkable progress in conserving cave temples, report Wang Ru in Dunhuang, Gansu province, and Ma Jingna in Lanzhou. Together, they form cave temples — a special cultural landscape embodying the reverence of ancient people for divine blessings. China boasts many dazzling cave temples, including the Mogao …

Safeguarding the cultural landscape
3 months, 1 week ago

Safeguarding the cultural landscape

China Daily  

The Nankan cliff statues in Bazhong, Sichuan province, from the Tang Dynasty. Forum highlights remarkable progress in conserving cave temples, report Wang Ru in Dunhuang, Gansu province, and Ma Jingna in Lanzhou. Together, they form cave temples — a special cultural landscape embodying the reverence of ancient people for divine blessings. China boasts many dazzling cave temples, including the Mogao …

Decades of excavation brings Han Dynasty back to life
3 months, 3 weeks ago

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China Daily  

A replica of a scroll unearthed at Mawangdui. Li Qun, head of the National Cultural Heritage Administration, said the tombs demonstrate the achievements of the Han Dynasty in economics, philosophy, culture, art, medicine, and science and technology. It is important to continue research, focusing primarily on areas such as bamboo and silk manuscripts, philosophy, art and traditional Chinese medicine, to …

Decades of excavation brings Han Dynasty back to life
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Decades of excavation brings Han Dynasty back to life

China Daily  

A replica of a scroll unearthed at Mawangdui. Li Qun, head of the National Cultural Heritage Administration, said the tombs demonstrate the achievements of the Han Dynasty in economics, philosophy, culture, art, medicine, and science and technology. It is important to continue research, focusing primarily on areas such as bamboo and silk manuscripts, philosophy, art and traditional Chinese medicine, to …

Dunhuang Academy's protection team work to ensure relics not lost to sands of time
9 months ago

Dunhuang Academy's protection team work to ensure relics not lost to sands of time

China Daily  

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Repairing the past, restoring our future
1 year, 2 months ago

Repairing the past, restoring our future

China Daily  

Rock carvings at a cave temple in Beishan cluster in Dazu district, Chongqing. JIANG DONG/CHINA DAILY "Some data have to be acquired by our inspectors," says Feng Xuemei, an officer who has been working with the center for five years. "One of our responsibilities is to compare new data with the past to ensure everything is all right," Feng says. …

Repairing the past, restoring our future
1 year, 2 months ago

Repairing the past, restoring our future

China Daily  

Rock carvings at a cave temple in Beishan cluster in Dazu district, Chongqing. JIANG DONG/CHINA DAILY "Some data have to be acquired by our inspectors," says Feng Xuemei, an officer who has been working with the center for five years. "One of our responsibilities is to compare new data with the past to ensure everything is all right," Feng says. …

Cave treasures saved
2 years ago

Cave treasures saved

China Daily  

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Dunhuang's ancient beauty shared in digital form
2 years, 4 months ago

Dunhuang's ancient beauty shared in digital form

China Daily  

A poster for the Dunhuang exhibition in Beijing. By the end of 2021, the "digital Dunhuang project" had completed the digital collection of 268 grottoes, the image processing of 164 grottoes, and the 3D reconstruction of 45 painted sculptures, 146 grottoes and seven large relics sites. In the process, it has not only applied various mature technologies to the digital …

Evidence of ancestral wanderers carving out civilization along the ancient Silk Road is all across China
2 years, 7 months ago

Evidence of ancestral wanderers carving out civilization along the ancient Silk Road is all across China

China Daily  

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Digitalization of 1600-yr-old grottoes completed in China's Gansu
3 years, 3 months ago

Digitalization of 1600-yr-old grottoes completed in China's Gansu

China Daily  

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Restoration of ancient grottoes begins in China's Gansu
3 years, 3 months ago

Restoration of ancient grottoes begins in China's Gansu

China Daily  

The Mati Temple Grottoes cover about 100 square kilometers in Sunan, a Yugu ethnic autonomous county 600 kilometers from Gansu's provincial capital Lanzhou. Northwest China's Gansu province has launched a restoration project in a key part of the Mati Temple Grottoes in Zhangye city, a national key cultural relic protection site, local authorities said. The work is focused on one …

Digital technologies used to rebuild 1,500-year-old grottoes in virtual world
3 years, 7 months ago

Digital technologies used to rebuild 1,500-year-old grottoes in virtual world

China Daily  

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Cutting-edge technology deployed to decode relics' riddles
3 years, 8 months ago

Cutting-edge technology deployed to decode relics' riddles

China Daily  

Archaeologists work in an "excavation capsule", which is equipped with advanced technology, at Sanxingdui Ruins in Guanghan, Sichuan province. "It's like an emergency hospital for the relics," says Wang Chong, a cultural relic conservator working on the site. "The soil is also considered as a cultural relic now," says Ran Honglin, a leading archaeologist at the ongoing excavation. Finding the …

Guidelines elevate grotto temple studies, protection
4 years, 1 month ago

Guidelines elevate grotto temple studies, protection

China Daily  

A digitization team uses a 3D laser scanner to log data on Yungang Grottoes in Datong, Shanxi province, on Oct 19. According to the guidelines, all "major threats" to the safety of the grotto temples should be resolved by 2022, and security arrangements should be made to cover all such sites across China by then. President Xi Jinping, after visiting …

Guidelines elevate grotto temple studies, protection
4 years, 1 month ago

Guidelines elevate grotto temple studies, protection

China Daily  

A digitization team uses a 3D laser scanner to log data on Yungang Grottoes in Datong, Shanxi province, on Oct 19. According to the guidelines, all "major threats" to the safety of the grotto temples should be resolved by 2022, and security arrangements should be made to cover all such sites across China by then. President Xi Jinping, after visiting …

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