[Explanation] Walking into the Anhui Museum, Chen Huafeng, the person in charge of the Anhui Workstation of the cultural relics technology protection center of the institute and the key scientific research base of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage for the protection of unearthed wooden lacquerware, is working with his colleagues to restore the unearthed cultural relics of the Western Han Dynasty-lacquerware.

  [Explanation] It is understood that the craft of lacquerware painting has a history of more than 7,000 years in China. Ancient ancestors used lacquer liquid to draw a continuous and bright cultural scroll in Chinese civilization, leaving countless exquisite lacquerware treasures for us today. .

  [Concurrent] Chen Huafeng, Deputy Director of the Cultural Relics Science and Technology Protection Center of Anhui Museum

  The history of lacquerware, it should be said, has never been interrupted from the Neolithic Age to today. The production and invention of lacquerware is an extraordinary creation of ancient Chinese ancestors, which condenses the wisdom of ancient ancestors from generation to generation.

Through lacquerware, we can also see the progress of our country in technology and materials.

  [Explanation] According to Chen Huafeng, whether handed down or unearthed lacquerware cultural relics, most of them have wood as the main carcass. In southern China, due to relatively abundant rain, the unearthed tomb lacquerware was soaked in water for a long time, which made the lacquerware peel off. Lacquer, deformation, cracking...it becomes "rotten", so it is called "water-saturated wood lacquerware".

  [Concurrent] Chen Huafeng, Deputy Director of the Cultural Relics Science and Technology Protection Center of Anhui Museum

  Before repairing this type of lacquerware, it needs to be dehydrated and strengthened. The technical method we are currently using is the glyoxal method. This method has been widely used nationwide. From the actual dehydration effect Look, this method has a high degree of applicability, and another protective effect is also very ideal.

  [Explanation] It is understood that a piece of water-saturated wood lacquer is cleaned from pollutants, soaked in chemical reagents, dehydrated and strengthened, and then used traditional lacquer and tile ash to complement, paint, and draw patterns on lacquerware until the final restoration is completed. , It takes about four years, and dehydration reinforcement is the top priority in the whole process.

  [Concurrent] Chen Huafeng, Deputy Director of the Cultural Relics Science and Technology Protection Center of Anhui Museum

  Lacquer ware unearthed from the same tomb has different preservation conditions, and lacquer ware unearthed in different regions has different preservation conditions. Therefore, we must prescribe the right medicine in the process of operation and evaluate it according to its preservation condition. Penetration strength, this is the most difficult technical link in the protection and restoration of saturated wood paint.

  [Explanation] In 2011, Chen Huafeng entered the Cultural Relics Science and Technology Protection Center of Anhui Museum to work. In more than ten years, he completed projects such as the protection and restoration of water-saturated wooden lacquerware unearthed from the Tianchang Jizhuang Han Tomb and the Tianchang Triangle Wei Han Tomb. There are nearly 300 pieces of saturated wood lacquerware.

  [Concurrent] Chen Huafeng, Deputy Director of the Cultural Relics Science and Technology Protection Center of Anhui Museum

  The lacquerware unearthed by archaeology should be said to be very precious at that time, and they can represent some aesthetic concepts of people in that period, and the living customs of people in these regions at that time can also be seen from the lacquerware itself.

At the very beginning, an object is in such a bad state in your hands, and after four or five years of our patient operation, it is finally repaired into an object that can be displayed and used. The heart is very satisfied.

  [Explanation] At present, the Anhui Cultural Relics Protection Center is also a key scientific research base of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage for the protection of unearthed wooden lacquerware. sexual outcomes.

  [Concurrent] Chen Huafeng, Deputy Director of the Cultural Relics Science and Technology Protection Center of Anhui Museum

  If we regard cultural relics as a patient, we operators are equivalent to doctors, and our institution is equivalent to a hospital for restoring cultural relics.

We want to further standardize the process of our cultural relics hospital from the aspect of software and system standardization, and finally build a comprehensive cultural relics protection institution that can meet the needs of diagnosis, treatment and maintenance after restoration.

  Liu Honghe reports from Hefei, Anhui

Responsible editor: [Li Ji]