A few years ago, a news came into the eyes of the editor: it is said that there is a stone lion in a place in north China on the mainland that has been a thousand years old so far, and its appearance has been very tattered and very bad, and it collapsed for some unexpected reasons at the beginning, and at that time, due to insufficient Chinese technology, it was impossible to manage these things.
In recent years, with the development of science and technology for the protection of cultural relics are also more and more attention, so it invited the relevant "experts" to restore cultural relics, which was a good thing, but the final results of the experts are surprising, originally a good stone lion after the "repair" of experts is more and more broken, the original stone lion is only the surface damaged inside but still intact, but after the expert's hand even the interior has begun to corrode.
Therefore, this also makes people more and more disgusted with these "pseudo-experts" who only know how to talk a lot, to know that everyone has the responsibility to protect cultural relics, but after such a blind tinkering with cultural relics, it is a large-scale damage, can this not make people sad?
At this point, we also have to ask a rhetorical question, some cultural relics that have gone through thousands of years have not been damaged, why are the hands of modern "expert professors" repaired more and more bad?
For example, the most spectacular spectacle of our ancient history, the Great Wall, has been two thousand years since Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall, after which the Han, Tang, and Ming dynasties have repaired the Great Wall to resist the invasion of nomads, but even after experiencing war, the Great Wall has not collapsed.
On the contrary, it has entered the modern era, and the Great Wall has exposed more and more problems, such as nearby residents digging bricks on the Great Wall, carving words on the Great Wall, etc., a series of acts that cannot repair cultural relics. So to this we can also lead to today's topic, how does the Great Wall ensure that it has endured two thousand years of wind and rain? What's the secret behind this?
Strict quality control
Now a variety of buildings we often see developers in the process of development in order to cut corners, often shoddy use of inferior materials to build a variety of buildings, so the situation is naturally seriously unqualified quality.
In ancient times, this is simply unimaginable, but when it comes to this kind of large project, it will go through strict checks, such as Zhu Yuanzhang needed a lot of bricks in order to build the palace in Nanjing, but he was worried that they would be shoddy or indiscriminately charged in the firing process, so he ordered people to engrave names on the bricks, and then burn the year, and put an end to the phenomenon of shoddy charging from the root.
So this is also one of the important reasons why the Great Wall can endure for a long time, because no one dares to fish in such a muddy water on this kind of issue that concerns the fate of the country, even if some people want to do so, but in the face of the emperor's butcher's knife, ten lives are not enough to cut.
Therefore, they are not sloppy in the use of materials, and naturally they will not collapse because of a little problem, which is also one of the reasons for enduring.
The ancients also had "black technology" in architecture.
Modern industry, we generally use "cement" to build houses, whether it is commercial houses or various facilities, it is indispensable to build houses.
With the advancement of science and technology, ancient architecture is certainly incomparable with today,but we should not underestimate the wisdom of the ancients.
It is true that in ancient times, there was no "black technology" in the construction industry such as "cement", but this does not mean that they could not build strong houses, the magnificent Great Wall and the Forbidden City in Beijing are good examples, which is one of the ancient "black technology", they added something to the process of building houses: rammed earth.
Ancient people were not sloppy at all when it came to the city wall, so in addition to the material, they often used various black technologies to strengthen the city wall, and rammed earth was one of them.
In ancient times, in the process of building the city wall, something similar to rammed earth would be burned and placed on the outside of the city wall, and the outer side was reinforced by using bluestone bricks, because only this double reinforcement could ensure that the city wall would not be breached so quickly, and only in this way could the city wall become more solid.
In addition, in order to integrate the hardness of the two, the ancients often fired and mixed special adhesives mixed with glutinous rice, hydrated lime and limestone in the process of building the city wall, in order to achieve adhesion.
Nowadays, glutinous rice is often used to make various kinds of pasta, but the ancients can use it to build walls, and sometimes we have to admire the wisdom of the ancients.
Of course, in addition to the above two points, there is also a very important point, that is, there will not be some "pseudo-experts" who do not understand the fur, and the ancient craftsmen are really after thousands of hammers, all from the lowest level, whether it is theory or practice They are very proficient, so they know how to repair and build such facilities.
The editor has something to say
This is also one of the reasons why the Great Wall can endure for a long time, and the case of the collapse of the thousand-year-old stone lion tells us that the protection of cultural relics is an urgent matter, because the Great Wall, as the "witness" of Chinese civilization, has also experienced various damages in recent years.
However, the protection of cultural relics should be based on reality, relying on some theories alone will not work, and the example of the millennium stone lion is close at hand.