Master Archaeologist

Chapter 65

Walking into the Jingzhou Cultural Protection Center, Chen Han's first impression is that it is very quiet here.

It's quiet like stepping into another world.

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

When walking in with Ronghua, Chen Han passed several different repair rooms in a row, and Chen Han stretched his head out of curiosity.

The doors of each restoration room are glass doors, and people outside can easily see the staff who are seriously restoring cultural relics inside.

In Chen Han's eyes, every staff member was so careful and meticulous that no noise was made.

The entire corridor could only hear the footsteps of Chen Han and Professor Li.

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

In the silk restoration room, the staff focused on repairing the silk cultural relics stitch by stitch.

In the lacquer ware restoration room, there are a pile of lacquer ware that are exquisite, incomplete, or even broken into a pile of pieces on the workbench, waiting for restoration.

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

Ronghua also stopped at the door, pointed to the lacquer coffin, and said to Chen Han, "This is a painted lacquer coffin from 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, so he couldn't tell.

The left and right coffins of this coffin are painted with patterns such as Ruihu, auspicious clouds, flying cranes, and precious swords, using the technique of leaching powder and pasting gold on the body.

In particular, the tiger and the flying crane on the left and the right have a vigorous and stretched body, with strong and powerful lines.

The whole pattern has smooth lines, exquisite workmanship, full of verve and lifelike.

At first, Chen Han thought that the coffin was in better condition when it was unearthed, which is why it was so beautiful and even stunning.

But Ronghua introduced: "When this lacquer coffin was first delivered last year, the edges were incomplete, the paint on the coffin lid surface was discolored, the paint film peeled off, and the paint surface was cracked, incomplete, and curled. It can be said to be extremely damaged."

"Maybe if you press it a little harder, it may fall apart directly."

"However, Director Du of the Lacquer Ware Restoration Room led his team to strengthen the decayed part for more than a year, and then repaired it according to the shape of the incomplete part, trying to achieve the effect of repairing the old as old as possible."

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

"As soon as possible, the restoration of this painted lacquer coffin will be completely completed next month."

"Awesome." Apart from sighing, Chen Han couldn't use any words to describe his mood at the moment.

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

"The shape, material, manufacturing process, pattern style, color and other issues of each cultural relic require a lot of preliminary research until we fully understand how the cultural relic is made, and then we will start to formulate restoration. plan."

"In the subsequent repair process, we should be more careful and careful, and there is no room for sloppy and mistakes."

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

Ronghua raised his eyebrows: "That's why every repair room in our center is so quiet."

"Everyone really doesn't have the time to distract and chat at work."

"Understood, understand." Chen Han nodded.

"Let's go, let's go to the bamboo slip restoration room." Ronghua didn't say anything more, and led Professor Li and Chen Han to the restoration room at the deepest part of the corridor.

Wooden lacquerware dehydration room, wooden lacquerware fetal bone restoration room, wooden lacquerware painting restoration room, textile restoration room, leather cultural relics restoration room...

Along the way, they passed many restoration rooms, and the shelves of cultural relics in each restoration room were filled with various cultural relics from all over the country, waiting for restoration.

However, the trump card restoration room of the Jingzhou Cultural Protection Center must also belong to the bamboo slips restoration room.

Jingzhou Cultural Relics Protection Center is committed to the scientific and technological protection of unearthed bamboo and wood lacquerware, bamboo and wood slips, textile cultural relics and other organic cultural relics and earthen sites.

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

Like the domestic common bamboo and wood lacquer composite glyoxal dehydration technology.

Sodium dithionite decolorization technology for bamboo and wooden slips.

They are all developed by Jingzhou Cultural Protection Center.

There are also 11 basic extraction methods for the on-site extraction of bamboo, wood and lacquerware cultural relics. On the basis of classification, combined with the characteristics of the cultural relics and their storage environment, Jingzhou Cultural Heritage Center also gave [-] basic extraction methods.

Aiming at the extraction and sorting of bamboo slips, the method of swelling and reconstruction of dehydrated and shrunk bamboo slips was studied.

Glyoxal pre-reinforcement method for extremely bad bamboo slips.

There is also computerized orthophotographic technology organized by bamboo slips.

Including Kong Jianwen and others, who are currently extracting temporary reinforcement materials such as ethyl cellulose when extracting fragile bamboo mats, straw ropes, hemp ropes and other bamboo, rattan and straw cultural relics at the excavation site.

All are researched by Jingzhou Cultural Protection Center.

If we say that archaeologists are responsible for digging.

The Jingzhou Cultural Relics Protection Center is responsible for research on how to fully extract and protect the excavated things.

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

"Come, come, come with me."

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

"In order to build this scientific research building, more than 5000 million yuan was invested in the purchase of more than 40 sets of advanced testing and special equipment!"

"Now the technical equipment of our center can be said to surpass most of the provincial cultural institutions in China."

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

"But I dare say that even the people from the Forbidden City Cultural Relics Hospital are not as strong as our Jingzhou Cultural Relics Protection Center when it comes to the restoration of bamboo slips!"

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

The bamboo slips that have been protected by the Jingzhou Cultural Relics Protection Center account for 70% of the total unearthed water-saturated bamboo slips in the country!

The protected wooden lacquerware accounts for 60% of the total unearthed water-saturated wooden lacquerware in the country!

If Chen Han were to talk about it, he would even think that the Jingzhou Cultural Heritage Center is undoubtedly the number one in the country in terms of bamboo and wood restoration!

After all, Hubei was originally a major province for unearthed bamboo slips and lacquered woodware. In addition, since 1973, unearthed lacquered woodware has been often sent to Jingzhou for repairs from all over the country.

This gives the Jingzhou Cultural Relics Protection Center a wealth of experience in restoring such cultural relics, and even a mature technology inheritance system!
"Old Rong, when it comes to restoring the bamboo slips, we must trust you the Jingzhou Cultural Heritage Center the most, so you don't have to say that in front of me." Professor Li smiled helplessly.

Ronghua is good at everything, but just one thing, he likes to compare.

Especially in front of people from the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences, comparing the Jingzhou Cultural Heritage Center with the Palace Museum.

In 2016, when the Forbidden City Cultural Relics Hospital was listed, Ronghua calmed down a little.

But after 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 slips restoration room is not far away.

After just chatting a few words, Ronghua brought Chen Han and Professor Li to the bamboo slips restoration room.

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

Seeing Chen Han, his eyes stayed on this high-tech instrument for a long time.

A middle-aged man in his forties who was welcoming them in the bamboo slip restoration room introduced with a smile:
"This is a hyperspectral image analysis system. Although this thing looks very high-tech, it has nothing to do with manual restoration of bamboo slips."

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

(End of this chapter)