China News Service, Taiyuan, October 10th (Yang Peipei and Hu Jian) In the past few days, due to continuous rainfall, many key national and provincial key cultural relics protection units in Shanxi have suffered varying degrees of water damage.
Local officials have adopted temporary protection measures, and repairs will be started immediately after the rain ends.
From October 2 to 7, large-scale rainfall occurred in many parts of Shanxi. Most areas of Taiyuan, Jinzhong, Luliang, Linfen, and Yuncheng set a record of accumulated rainfall in the first ten days of October.
According to incomplete statistics, nearly 20 ancient buildings in Taiyuan, Luliang, Linfen, and Yuncheng suffered varying degrees of damage.
In Taiyuan, the Jinci, Tianlongshan Grottoes, and Mengshan Kaihua Temple sites, which are key national cultural relics protection units, suffered water leakage and collapse.
Among them, the roofs of many ancient buildings in Jinci were leaking, the retaining wall in the southwest corner of the main hall of Fengsheng Temple collapsed; some grottoes of Tianlongshan Grottoes leaked, and the mountain collapsed damaged part of the road surface of the scenic spot.
Liu Yuwei, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Taiyuan Cultural Relics Bureau, said that continuous rainfall has brought more challenges to the protection of cultural relics. The Cultural Relics Bureau of Taiyuan has adopted temporary protection measures for damaged ancient buildings. Start the repair work.
Many national key cultural relics protection units in Yuncheng have also been damaged to varying degrees.
The Yanchi forbidden wall, the East Gate of the Forbidden City, collapsed in a large area, the top of the city platform was severely collapsed, and there were many cracks in the city wall. "Sculpture: The safety of the statue was endangered by the rain leak in the Xinjiang Longxing Temple.
In addition, the city wall of Pingyao, a world cultural heritage; the national key cultural relics protection unit of Linfen Ding Village, the Luliang Thousand Buddha Caves and Ten Thousand Buddha Temples; the provincial key cultural relics protection unit of Linfen Fenxi County Zhenwu Temple Bell Tower, Houmatai Temple Northwest City Wall, Xia County The former site of the Hedong Special Committee's revolutionary activities suffered varying degrees of damage.
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