The Shanxi Provincial Archaeological Research Institute released to the outside world that with the help of science and technology from China, the United States, Japan, Germany and other countries, the relics of the Sui Dynasty Qiyan Dojo, which is more than 1,000 years old and seriously damaged, can be restored to its original appearance and open up new ideas for the protection and restoration of cultural relics.
Establish an implementation plan for the protection and restoration of stone steles that are separated from the stele and placed on the side of the stele. Image from Shanxi Archaeological Research Institute
The stele is basically complete, preserved in the open air, with more surface dissolution and fissure diseases, and a small number of local depictions, rust and other diseases. The stele body is seriously damaged, indoor preservation, mainly mutilation, fracture and dust accumulation and other diseases, especially the fracture disease is the most serious, the fragments reach more than 100 pieces.
In order to make the stele and the stele in a relatively stable and safe state, on the basis of disease investigation, combined with the results of material, disease, material and finite element simulation analysis, the cultural relics workers established the implementation plan for the protection and restoration of the stele that separated the stele from the stele and placed it on the side of the stele, and basically restored the original appearance of the stele through a series of protection and restoration measures such as cleaning, bonding and filling.
The stele was seriously damaged, and the fragments amounted to more than 100 pieces. Image from Shanxi Archaeological Research Institute
During this period, cultural relics workers used the science and technology of the United States and China to digitally collect the larger fragments of the stele and the stele respectively, and recorded the preservation status of each part of the stele. At the same time, the science and technology of Japan, Germany and other countries are used to analyze composition, lithofacy, microscopic morphology, etc.
The relevant person in charge of the Shanxi Archaeological Research Institute said that the finite element simulation analysis has broad application prospects in the protection and restoration of cultural relics, and plays an important role in promoting and improving the scientific nature of cultural relics protection and restoration.
The Sui Dynasty Qiyan Dojo Stupa Stele is one of the first national calligraphy art monuments, which are now in the collection of the Yongji Museum in Shanxi Province. The inscription "Monument to the Stupa of the Shoushan Qiyan Dojo in Hedong County, Great Sui", with the sui Wendi reviving Buddhism and the Guangjian stupa as the core, commends the merits of Sui Taizu, Emperor Wen, and Emperor Jue in building the Buddhist program and promoting the Taoist Dharma, and provides important physical materials for understanding the development of Buddhism and Buddhist temples in Puzhou in the Sui Dynasty.
(Photo and text transferred from: China News Network)