Xinhua News Agency, Jinan, May 7 (Reporter Zhang Liyuan) The reporter learned from the Shandong Provincial Cultural Relics Conservation and Restoration Center that on the 7th, the Lingyan Temple stone carvings and part of the Arhat statues of the Thousand Buddha Temple (Phase I) passed the acceptance check.
The project has protected and restored 465 stone cultural relics and 12 painted clay sculptures of Luohan.
Lingyan Temple is located in Wande Town, Changqing District, Jinan City, Shandong Province. It was built in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It is an important part of the world's natural and cultural heritage Mount Tai and a key national cultural relics protection unit.
According to Wang Chuanchang, director of the Shandong Provincial Cultural Relics Conservation and Restoration Center, there are 40 Arhat statues in the Song and Ming dynasties in Lingyan Temple, and the overall structure is relatively complete.
The protection and restoration lasted for nearly 2 years. The cultural relics were dust-removed, cleaned, reinforced, etc., and the surface pollution of the cultural relics, the peeling of the paint layer, and the color shedding were solved.
The protection and restoration project (Phase I) of the Lingyan Temple stone carvings and part of the Arhat statues in the Temple of Thousand Buddhas (Phase I) was jointly completed by the Shandong Provincial Cultural Relics Conservation and Restoration Center, the Cultural Heritage Research Institute of Shandong University, and the Qufu Regional Center for the Protection and Restoration of Movable Cultural Relics of Shandong Province.