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(240422) -- LUOYANG, April 22, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A staff member makes a peony-shaped porcelain handicraft at Luoyang Peony Porcelain Museum in Luoyang, central China's Henan Province, April 17, 2024. As an imperial capital during 13 dynasties, Luoyang claims to have the country's best peonies. In recent years, Luoyang has actively explored the culture related to peony flowers, encouraging the development of peony-themed porcelain, painting, and many other characteristic activities containing peony elements. This enables tourists to enjoy both the flowers and the vibe of this ancient capital. (Xinhua/Li An)

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(240422) -- LUOYANG, April 22, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A staff member makes a peony-themed porcelain handicraft at Luoyang Peony Porcelain Museum in Luoyang, central China's Henan Province, April 17, 2024. As an imperial capital during 13 dynasties, Luoyang claims to have the country's best peonies. In recent years, Luoyang has actively explored the culture related to peony flowers, encouraging the development of peony-themed porcelain, painting, and many other characteristic activities containing peony elements. This enables tourists to enjoy both the flowers and the vibe of this ancient capital. (Xinhua/Li An)

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(240301) -- DATONG, March 1, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Li Min (R), a staff member of the Yungang Grottoes Research Institute, captures images with his colleague Pan Peng at one of the Yungang Grottoes in Datong, north China's Shanxi Province, Feb. 27, 2024. Yungang Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage site featuring over 50,000 stone Buddhist sculptures in Datong, was built during the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534). It is considered a pinnacle of Chinese Buddhist art and represents the highest level of sculptural artistry in the world during the 5th century. The Yungang Grottoes Research Institute boasts a relics protection and restoration team mainly consisting of professionals in their 20s and 30s, who are trying their very best to keep these statues in their prime condition as long as possible. Dubbed doctors for relics, these young souls armed with modern technologies have gone beyond fundamental protection and restoration, and walked the extra mile to present these statues in a much more vivid way before touris

CHINA-SHANXI-YUNGANG GROTTOES-DOCTORS FOR RELICS (CN)

(240301) -- DATONG, March 1, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Li Min, a staff member of the Yungang Grottoes Research Institute, captures images at one of the Yungang Grottoes in Datong, north China's Shanxi Province, Feb. 27, 2024. Yungang Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage site featuring over 50,000 stone Buddhist sculptures in Datong, was built during the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534). It is considered a pinnacle of Chinese Buddhist art and represents the highest level of sculptural artistry in the world during the 5th century. The Yungang Grottoes Research Institute boasts a relics protection and restoration team mainly consisting of professionals in their 20s and 30s, who are trying their very best to keep these statues in their prime condition as long as possible. Dubbed doctors for relics, these young souls armed with modern technologies have gone beyond fundamental protection and restoration, and walked the extra mile to present these statues in a much more vivid way before tourists and learners from all over th

CHINA-SHAANXI-XI'AN-PAINTED TERRACOTTA WARRIORS-RESTORATION (CN)

(231008) -- XI'AN, Oct. 8, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A staff member repairs a Terracotta Warrior at the pit No.1 of the Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, April 26, 2023. "We are the Terracotta Warriors specialists, and this room is a 'hospital' for the relics in the museum," said Lan Desheng, an expert in the restoration of cultural relics with the Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum. Archaeological research shows that pigments have been found on the Terracotta Warriors. The painted layers of the Terracotta Warriors are very fragile. Once unearthed, with the changes of humidity and temperature, the surface quickly dehydrates and the painted layer comes off. In addition, microorganisms, soluble salts and other factors also cause the color fading. According to Lan, shortly after unearthing, each painted Terracotta Warrior must go through X-ray detection, ultrasonic scanning, 3D images acquisition and other procedures. Staff members clean and restore the

CHINA-SHAANXI-XI'AN-PAINTED TERRACOTTA WARRIORS-RESTORATION (CN)

(231008) -- XI'AN, Oct. 8, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A staff member repairs a Terracotta Warrior at the pit No.1 of the Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, April 26, 2023. "We are the Terracotta Warriors specialists, and this room is a 'hospital' for the relics in the museum," said Lan Desheng, an expert in the restoration of cultural relics with the Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum. Archaeological research shows that pigments have been found on the Terracotta Warriors. The painted layers of the Terracotta Warriors are very fragile. Once unearthed, with the changes of humidity and temperature, the surface quickly dehydrates and the painted layer comes off. In addition, microorganisms, soluble salts and other factors also cause the color fading. According to Lan, shortly after unearthing, each painted Terracotta Warrior must go through X-ray detection, ultrasonic scanning, 3D images acquisition and other procedures. Staff members clean and restore the

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(230325) -- LUOYANG, March 25, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A staff member cleans a stone folding screen of a stone bed unearthed in a cemetery found in Zhucang Village in Mengjin District of Luoyang City, central China's Henan Province, March 15, 2023. A cemetery consisting of three tombs was recently listed as one of the five key archaeological discoveries in Henan Province in 2022. In the tombs probably built between the late period of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534) and the Eastern Wei Dynasty (534-550), large-scale and well-organized stone beds with stone folding screens were found. This is the first time that stone beds dating back to this period have been unearthed in Luoyang City. (Xinhua/Li An)

CHINA-HENAN-LUOYANG-ZHUCANG-ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY (CN)

(230325) -- LUOYANG, March 25, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on March 15, 2023 shows a staff member cleaning a stone folding screen of a stone bed unearthed in a cemetery found in Zhucang Village in Mengjin District of Luoyang City, central China's Henan Province. A cemetery consisting of three tombs was recently listed as one of the five key archaeological discoveries in Henan Province in 2022. In the tombs probably built between the late period of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534) and the Eastern Wei Dynasty (534-550), large-scale and well-organized stone beds with stone folding screens were found. This is the first time that stone beds dating back to this period have been unearthed in Luoyang City. (Xinhua/Li An)

Restoration project at Buddhist grottoes completed in Henan, China

STORY: Restoration project at Buddhist grottoes completed in Henan, China DATELINE: July 22, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:07 LOCATION: ZHENGZHOU, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the restoration project 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): SHI JIAZHEN, Director of Longmen Grottoes Research Institute STORYLINE: A restoration project of Longmen Grottoes, a world cultural heritage site in China's Henan, has been completed. The project was launched in Dec. 2021 to treat water seepage and reinforce rocks at the Fengxian Temple, the largest cave of Longmen Grottoes. Water seepage and perilous rock bases are the two factors that threaten the existence of cultural relics in the grottoes. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): SHI JIAZHEN, Director of Longmen Grottoes Research Institute "The cultural relics protection project should proceed in a scientific way. It's not easy to build scaffolds here, so we have tried our best to accomplish three types of work with it. (Apart from the restoration) we have also conducted a general survey o

Gold, colored glass found on Buddhist statues in Longmen Grottoes

STORY: Gold, colored glass found on Buddhist statues in Longmen Grottoes DATELINE: June 2, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:18 LOCATION: ZHENGZHOU, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Buddhist statues at the Longmen Grottoes STORYLINE: Archaeologists have found gold and silver elements and colored glass on Buddhist statues at the Longmen Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in central China's Henan Province. The findings, among other scientific and archaeological achievements, have been made since a reinforcement and protection project of the Fengxiansi Cave of Longmen Grottoes was launched in December 2021, said the Longmen Grottoes research institute. Based on advanced technologies, archaeologists found gold and silver elements on the face of Vairocana Buddha, a giant statue that was built in the Tang Dynasty (618-907). "It suggests that skills such as gilding had probably been used in the construction of the Vairocana Buddha," said Shi Jiazhen, president of the institute. On the body surface of

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