Chapter 65: The Artifact of the Restoration Room

Walking into the Jingzhou Cultural Protection Center, Chen Han's first feeling was that it was very quiet.

It's as if you've stepped into another world.

The Cultural Preservation Center is large and has many different restoration rooms.

When he followed Ronghua inside, he passed by several different restoration rooms in a row, and Chen Han stretched out his head to look at it curiously.

The door of each restoration room is a glass door, so people from the outside can easily see the staff who are seriously restoring the cultural relics inside.

In Chen Han's eyes, every staff member is so serious and meticulous, and no noise is made.

Only the footsteps of Chen Han and Professor Li could be heard in the entire corridor.

Along the way, Chen Han deeply felt the meticulous patience of the cultural relics restorers.

In the silk fabric restoration room, the staff is attentive, repairing the silk cultural relics with a needle and a thread.

In the lacquerware restoration room, there is a pile of lacquerware that is either beautiful, or has been broken, or has even broken into a pile of pieces, waiting to be restored.

Several restoration experts in the lacquer restoration room are carefully and meticulously repairing a painted lacquer coffin.

Ronghua's footsteps also stopped at the door, stretched out his finger and pointed to the lacquer coffin, and said to Chen Han: "This is a painted lacquer coffin in the late Ming Dynasty. ”

Chen Han raised his eyes and saw that the lacquered coffin in front of him was actually a coffin more than 400 years ago, and he really couldn't see it.

The left and right coffins of this coffin are respectively painted with patterns such as Tiggo, auspicious clouds, flying cranes, and swords.

In particular, the Tiggo and the flying crane, one left and one right, have a strong and stretched body, strong and powerful lines, the tiger has the tendency to jump, and the crane also has the shape of spreading its wings and wanting to fly.

The whole pattern is smooth, exquisitely crafted, full of charm and lifelike.

At the beginning, Chen Han thought that this coffin was in a better state of preservation when it was unearthed, so it could be so beautiful and even amazing.

But Ronghua introduced: "When the lacquer coffin was first delivered last year, the edge was broken, the surface of the coffin lid was painted and discolored, the paint film fell off, and the paint surface was cracked, mutilated and curled, which can be said to be broken to the extreme. ”

"You may press a little harder, and it may fall apart."

"However, Director Du of the lacquerware restoration room and his team have strengthened the decayed parts in more than a year, and then repaired them according to the shape of the broken parts, so as to achieve the effect of repairing the old as the old."

"The carcass repair work such as repairing the paint film, painting, and plastering gold has basically been completed."

"If it's fast, it is estimated that the restoration of this painted lacquer coffin will be completely completed next month."

“.... Terrible. Chen Han couldn't use any words to describe his mood at the moment except sighing.

Ronghua nodded, and introduced very seriously: "The restoration of cultural relics requires the ultimate craftsmanship, and there is no room for sloppiness." ”

"The shape, material, manufacturing process, pattern style, color and so on of each artifact require a lot of preliminary research until we fully understand how the artifact was made, and then we will start to develop a restoration plan."

"In the subsequent repair process, we must be more careful and careful, and we cannot tolerate sloppiness and mistakes."

"One link after another, any small mistake may lead to the loss of previous efforts."

Ronghua raised his eyebrows: "This is also the reason why every restoration room in our center is so quiet. ”

"Everyone is at work, and they really don't have that time to be distracted and chat."

"Understood, understood." Chen Han nodded.

"Let's go, let's go to the Bamboo Repair Room." Rong Hua didn't say anything more, and took Professor Li and Chen Han to a restorer in the deepest part of the corridor.

Wood lacquerware dehydration room, wood lacquerware fetal bone repair room, wood lacquerware painting restoration room, textile restoration room, leather relics restoration room......

Along the way, they passed by many restoration rooms, and the shelves of cultural relics in each restoration room were filled with all kinds of cultural relics from all over the country, waiting to be restored.

However, the ace restoration room of Jingzhou Cultural Protection Center has to belong to the simple restoration room.

The Jingzhou Cultural Preservation Center is committed to the scientific and technological protection of unearthed organic cultural relics such as bamboo and wood lacquerware, bamboo and wood slips, textile cultural relics, and earthen sites.

However, in the protection and restoration of unearthed bamboo and wood lacquerware and bamboo and wood slips, it is the most outstanding technical advantage!

Like the domestic general bamboo and wood lacquerware composite glyoxal dehydration technology.

Sodium dithionite decolorization technology of bamboo and wood slips.

All of them were developed by Jingzhou Cultural Protection Center.

There are also 11 basic extraction methods for the on-site extraction of bamboo and wood lacquerware cultural relics, combined with the characteristics of the cultural relics ontology and the environment of the cultural relics on the basis of classification.

In view of the extraction and sorting of bamboo slips, the swelling and shaping method of dehydrated and shrinking bamboo slips was studied.

Glyoxal pre-reinforcement method for extremely rotten bamboo slips.

There is also computer orthophoto technology for bamboo slip arrangement.

Including Kong Jianwen, they are extracting temporary reinforcement materials such as ethyl cellulose used in the extraction of fragile bamboo mats, straw ropes, hemp ropes and other bamboo, rattan and straw cultural relics at the excavation site.

All of them were studied by the Jingzhou Cultural Preservation Center.

If archaeologists are in charge of digging.

The Jingzhou Cultural Preservation Center is responsible for researching how to extract and protect the excavated things completely.

The two complement each other, and neither can live without the other.

"Come, come, follow me."

"Our newly built scientific research building was just put into use last year."

"In order to build this scientific research building, the top invested more than 50 million yuan to purchase more than 40 sets of advanced tests and special equipment!"

"Now the technical equipment of our center can be said to exceed most of the provincial cultural and museum units in China."

"Of course, compared with the Forbidden City Cultural Relics Hospital, it is still slightly inferior."

"But I dare to say that in the restoration of bamboo slips, even the people of the Forbidden City Cultural Relics Hospital are not as strong as our Jingzhou Cultural Preservation Center!"

Ronghua is very proud, and he can indeed be proud.

The Jingzhou Cultural Protection Center has completed the protection of the slips, accounting for 70% of the total number of water-saturated slips unearthed in the country!

The protected wood lacquerware accounts for 60% of the total number of protected and unearthed saturated wood lacquerware in the country!

If you want Chen Han to say, he even thinks that the Jingzhou Cultural Protection Center is undoubtedly the first in China in the entire bamboo and wood restoration!

After all, Hubei was originally a large province for the excavation of bamboo slips and lacquered woodware, and since 1973, the unearthed lacquered woodware has often been sent to Jingzhou for restoration from all over the country.

This allows Jingzhou Cultural Preservation Center to have rich experience in restoring such cultural relics, and even a mature technical inheritance system!

"Lao Rong, in the restoration of bamboo slips, we must trust you Jingzhou Cultural Protection Center the most, so you don't have to blow this in front of me." Professor Li smiled helplessly.

Ronghua is good at everything, but just one point, love comparison.

In particular, in front of the people of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, I compared the Jingzhou Cultural Preservation Center with the Palace Museum.

In 2016, when the Palace Museum Cultural Relics Hospital was listed, Ronghua stopped a little.

But when the new scientific research building of the Jingzhou Cultural Protection Center was put into use last year, he immediately trembled again.

Fortunately, the journey to the Bamboo Slip Restoration Room is not far.

That is, after chatting a few words, Rong Hua took Chen Han and Professor Li to the Jian Mu restoration room.

As soon as he entered the restoration room, the first thing Chen Han saw was a precision instrument full of high-tech.

Seeing Chen Han's gaze lingering on this high-tech instrument for a long time.

A middle-aged man in his forties who was greeting them in the restoration room of Jian Mu said with a smile:

"This is a hyperspectral image analysis system, don't look at this thing looks high-tech, it has nothing to do with the handmade restoration of simple slips."

"However, this artifact is an artifact for you archaeologists!"