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Sanxingdui Cultural Relics "Moving" Record: Cultural Protection "Escort" Heavy Tools "Moving" Step by Step Carefully

2023-07-27   

One, two, get up! "On an evening in mid July, with the joint efforts of everyone, a bronze statue weighing about 180 kilograms slowly" stood up ", rotated 180 degrees, then untied the fixed strap and removed the back plate. This national treasure, known as the" King of the World Bronze Statues, "entered a new exhibition cabinet and was" moved "for the first time after being unearthed. The staff slowly erected the bronze portrait in the new exhibition cabinet. (Photographed by An Yuan) From the closing of the museum on June 20 to the opening of the museum, the Sanxingdui Museum has been busy with the "moving" of cultural relics. The cultural relics that were "moved in" since the establishment of the museum in 1997 have gradually left the old museum that has been "living" for 26 years, especially for large cultural relics such as the No.1 bronze divine tree and bronze standing portrait, this may be their only "move" after excavation. Appearance of the new Sanxingdui Museum. (Photographed by An Yuan) It is understood that more than 1500 pieces (sets) of cultural relics are on display in the new Sanxingdui Museum, including more than 300 newly unearthed cultural relics in the "sacrificial pits" of Sanxingdui No. 3 to No. 8. In order to ensure the meticulous relocation of cultural relics, the museum has planned in advance and used cultural relic protection methods to "escort" important artifacts. "We have adopted different packaging methods for cultural relics of different materials, such as bronze ware, pottery, jade ware and gold ware, according to their characteristics." Yu Jian, deputy curator of Sanxingdui Museum, told chinanews. com that, except for large heavy objects such as bronze standing figures and No.1 bronze divine tree, which were directly moved from the old hall to the new hall, the other cultural relics were first stored in the warehouse of the new hall, and then displayed one by one in the new hall. Museum staff are inspecting small artifacts placed in the new museum's warehouse. (Photographed by An Yuan) Open the exhibition cabinet and carefully remove the bottom support and fixed line for fixing the cultural relics. Gong Zhaoqian, a staff member of Sanxingdui Museum, takes out the objects with both hands and gently puts them into the packaging box with protective materials such as foam and cotton thread paper. The cultural relics are immersed in it, like "lying" on a custom-made soft bed. Although the temperature inside the museum was very low, Gong Zhaoqian's forehead was still sweating due to nervousness. He pointed to the gray white part in the upper right corner of a jade Zhang and said, "These cultural relics were burned before burial, very thin and fragile, and their movements must be very careful." Gong Zhaoqian carefully took out a jade Zhang. Before moving the popular cultural relic "pottery tripod cookware" on the internet, the staff first laid protective materials inside the cardboard box, and then cut corresponding spaces according to the size of the object's feet, so that the pottery can just be embedded in it, thus maintaining stability during the movement. A large amount of pottery was unearthed from the 1980s to around 2010, and has been mostly repaired and spliced, making it very fragile. Therefore, safety of cultural relics must be given top priority, "said Yu Jian. The staff are putting the internet celebrity cultural relic "pottery tripod cookware" into the packaging box. If it is relatively easy to "move" small cultural relics, then the "moving" process of the No.1 Bronze Divine Tree is quite "thrilling". This national treasure level heavy weapon has a height of 3.96 meters and a total of 9 branches. Each branch has two fruit branches, one tilted and the other hanging. On the fruit branches stands a divine bird, and on the side of the tree, there is a copper dragon winding down from the edge tree. Its complex and exquisite shape is rare in the world, but it also means it is very difficult to move. The divine tree is divided into

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