Restoration project at Buddhist grottoes completed in Henan, China

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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

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