Chongqing systematically displays 895 pieces (sets) of cultural relics unearthed from the Three Gorges

Pottery unearthed from the Three Gorges Reservoir area in Chongqing.Photo by China News Service reporter Zhong Yi

Jade swords from the Warring States Period, bronze seals of “Barbarian Town Chiefs” from the Han Dynasty, bronze lanterns with feathers to ward off evil spirits from the Han Dynasty, money tree bases from the Eastern Han Dynasty to ward off evil spirits… On the 22nd, the “China Three Gorges Museum in Chongqing and the Chongqing Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology jointly organized Masterful craftsmanship restores Huaguang—Exhibition on the Protection and Utilization of Cultural Relics Unearthed from the Three Gorges” opened at the China Three Gorges Museum in Chongqing.

The exhibition covers an area of ​​about 1,200 square meters and displays 895 pieces (sets) of cultural relics unearthed from various districts and counties in the Three Gorges region, including 198 pieces (sets) of precious cultural relics, including 15 pieces (sets) of first-class cultural relics, which is the total number of cultural relics exhibited in Chongqing in recent years. The largest number of precious cultural relics ever.

According to reports, the exhibition takes the Three Gorges cultural relics protection project as the background, and uses the protection and restoration results of cultural relics unearthed in the Three Gorges Reservoir area as the display object. Through the three parts of “Three Gorges Cultural Relics Archeology”, “Skilled Craftsmen Repairing Cultural Relics” and “Effective Utilization and Bringing It to Life”, the exhibition combines the cultural relics with New discoveries, new achievements, and new technologies in the field of protection will be introduced to the audience on the restoration and preventive protection methods of cultural relics, and the important value of Three Gorges culture and the concept of protection and utilization will be explained.

The reporter saw at the scene that in order to demonstrate the ingenuity of cultural relic restoration workers and the application of the latest scientific and technological achievements in cultural relic protection, a metal restoration laboratory and a ceramic restoration laboratory were specially set up in the exhibition hall. Not only can the restoration work of cultural relics be displayed in real time, but the audience can also Experience it yourself and become a “cultural relic restorer”.

The exhibition also uses multiple means such as multimedia interpretation and information visualization to explain the results of cultural relics protection and utilization. For example, in December 2023, a large round lacquer plate unearthed from the “Guankou Western Han Dynasty Tomb No. 1” in Wulong District, Chongqing was placed in a water-filled display case. The supporting “lacquer wood protection visual monitoring platform” can read in detail the atmospheric environment, Save real-time data on environment, turbidity changes, etc.

Zhao Xiongwei, curator of the exhibition and deputy director of the Cultural Relics Protection and Archeology Department of the China Three Gorges Museum in Chongqing, said that because the lacquer disks had been buried in water for more than two thousand years, a large amount of wood components were lost and the cell wall structure was destroyed, making it impossible to maintain the original properties of the wood. In order to resist curling and cracking during drying, it is necessary to maintain the original state of the unearthed cultural relics and inhibit the occurrence of deterioration. Therefore, they should be preserved and displayed in a saturated state to prepare for deep cleaning for later dehydration and shaping.

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