China News Agency, Lhasa, April 30 (Zhao Lang) A reporter learned from the management office of the Potala Palace in Tibet on the 30th that since the protection of ancient books (Bayeux) was carried out in December 2018, the Potala Palace has been completed. More than 2,000 letters of nearly 30,000 volumes of more than 100,000 documents of census registration work.
Since the beginning of 2019, China will invest a total of 300 million yuan (RMB, the same below) in 10 years of special funds to carry out the largest work on the protection and utilization of ancient books and documents in the Potala Palace to date.
According to Jue Dan, director of the Potala Palace Management Office, after the previous three national surveys of movable cultural relics in China, the Potala Palace has more than 60,000 letters and 100,000 ancient books, including Han, Tibetan, Manchu, Mongolian, and Vatican. Multilingual, involving Thangka paintings, Tibetan medicine, Buddhist scriptures, biographies, etc.
Since December 2018, the Potala Palace has initially formed a team of experts to start the research work on the cataloguing, classification, and reconnaissance of ancient books (Bayeux) catalogs.
Since the initiation of the protection and utilization of the ancient books and literature of the Potala Palace (Bayeux), the Central Ministry of Finance has allocated 10 million yuan in preliminary preparation funds. The State Administration of Cultural Heritage has allocated 39.33 million yuan and 19.12 million yuan in approval funds last year and this year. .
Jue Dan said that there are more than 20 storehouses of the Beiyejing and ancient books in the Potala Palace, including 4 precious bookstores. Up to now, a total of 2029 letters 29929 volumes of more than 100,000 documents have been registered, including the Dege edition of the Tripitaka in the first warehouse of ancient books.
Among the ancient books that completed the census, the Potala Palace conducted multi-spectral, hyperspectral and other image information collection of 16 letters 2182 Ye Beiye Jing and ancient book documents, and carried out the data collection and analysis of disease information of ancient book documents, and initially completed the disease scan The experimental research has laid the foundation for the next step of digital scanning and OCR recognition programming.
"The Bayeux of Potala Palace is the largest stock of Tibetan cultural relics protection units. It has a special material and has not yet been repaired." Judan said that it involves fiber testing, preservation environment temperature and humidity testing, and printing of ancient books. Research work such as material solubility test is in progress.
In addition, the Potala Palace tested the preservation conditions of the Bayeux in four types of places, such as the Jingshu Library, Temple Hall, Dilong, and Treasure Hall Exhibition Hall, and carried out safety on 9 kinds of exhibition materials such as currently used pouches and cabinet racks. Evaluation to ensure the scientificity of the next project implementation. (Finish)