CHINA-SICHUAN-SANXINGDUI-CULTURAL RELIC RESTORER (CN)

CHINA-SICHUAN-SANXINGDUI-CULTURAL RELIC RESTORER (CN)

(240501) -- CHENGDU, May 1, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This file photo taken in 1990 shows Guo Hanzhong restoring a bronze sacred tree. Guo Hanzhong is the vice head of the cultural relics storage department of the Sanxingdui Museum in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The 56-year-old man is skilled in the craft of restoring cultural relics. In the past 40 years, he has restored more than 6,000 cultural relic items and was deeply involved in the excavation of all the eight "sacrificial pits" found at Sanxingdui Ruins site. After the completion of the field work in the Sanxingdui Ruins site, sorting, protection and restoration of newly unearthed cultural relics have become the most important work in the current research. "There are probably tens of thousands of relics waiting to be restored, and I can't finish the job in my generation. It needs to be done from generation to generation," Guo Hanzhong said, "Repairing cultural relics needs experience. And I will try my best to pass on what I have learned to younge

Cambodia breaks Guinness world record for largest display of origami hearts

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COLIN FARRELL as Alexander the Great, ELLIOT COWAN as younge

COLIN FARRELL as Alexander the Great, ELLIOT COWAN as younge

COLIN FARRELL as Alexander the Great, ELLIOT COWAN as younger Ptolemy and director OLIVER STONE on the set of the action adventure drama “Alexander,” distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. PHOTOGRAPHS TO BE USED SOLELY FOR ADVERTISING, PROMOTION, PUBLICITY OR REVIEWS OF THIS SPECIFIC MOTION PICTURE AND TO REMAIN THE PROPERTY OF THE STUDIO. NOT FOR SALE OR REDISTRIBUTION. COLIN FARRELL as Alexander the Great, ELLIOT COWAN as younger Ptolemy and director OLIVER STONE on the set of the action adventure drama Alexander, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. PHOTOGRAPHS TO BE USED SOLELY FOR ADVERTISING, PROMOTION, PUBLICITY OR REVIEWS OF THIS SPECIFIC MOTION PICTURE AND TO REMAIN THE PROPERTY OF THE STUDIO. NOT FOR SALE OR REDISTRIBUTION. COLIN FARRELL as Alexander the Great, ELLIOT COWAN as younger Ptolemy and director OLIVER STONE on the set of the action adventure drama Alexander, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. PHOTOGRAPHS TO BE USED SOLELY FOR ADVERTISING, PROMOTION, PUBLICITY OR REVIEWS OF THIS SPECIFIC MOTION PICTURE AND TO REMAIN THE PROPERTY OF THE STUDIO. NOT FOR SALE OR REDISTRIBUTION.