Across the sea in the Taiwan Strait and Beijing’s Forbidden City Palace Museum in Taipei, together with the vast collection of ancient Chinese imperial treasures. This year, the two sides to break the 60 years the National Palace Museum’s “ice”, to reach consensus on cooperation. Set foot on both sides to join with the National Palace Museum Splendors of Imperial China crack the mystery of the co-operation of the tour.
Chen Dong, and (left) to the Beijing Palace Museum’s “masters” to study in the Qing Dynasty palace of Qin Shi Ming clock maintenance.
Out of Beijing Forbidden City Palace Museum in Taipei who control zones
In mid-July of this year, the Taipei National Palace Museum, an assistant researcher Dr. Chen Donghu, with “scientific examination of ancient ceramics” and “watch repair study” the two subjects entered the Imperial Palace in Beijing.
Despite the often scorching sun overhead, or “sauna-day” Steam was dripping sweat, 41-year-old Chen Dong, and pleased to enjoy a day cycling in Beijing’s Palace of those brick red walls of the “Royal Road”, the leisurely and had the feeling of .
“I am very fortunate to be 60 years to get a work area within the Beijing Forbidden City Palace Museum in Taipei passes, and this is the last thing did not dare to imagine.” Chen Dong Ho says. Use this magnetic passes, he can arbitrarily and out of the museum Conservation Studios, as well as laboratory control zone.
This year in March, the two sides president of the National Palace Museum for the first time in 60 years to achieve exchange of visits, the two sides jointly announced the establishment including the “research personnel exchanges”, etc., exchange mechanism. The next year, the two sides will each send Palace 1-2 researchers, to the other units involved in cooperative research.
In mechanical engineering, materials science and cultural heritage protection, multi-disciplinary research background, Dr. Chen Donghu, became the first came to Beijing to participate the study of cross-strait cooperation in the National Palace Museum National Palace Museum in Taipei people.
He told reporters that the choice of “ancient ceramics scientific detection” and “watch the Qing court protection and maintenance of” two projects is the National Palace Museum in Taipei the most concern and problems to be solved. In both respects, Beijing Forbidden City has accumulated a considerable wealth of experience.
A small ceramic fragments revealed the Royal secret
Once home to the Forbidden City Yan Xi of Qing Dynasty palace concubines, and now sits quietly testing ancient ceramics research laboratory, where world-class for materials analysis and testing of advanced equipment, the mainland can be observed in a handful of ancient ceramics Atomic and molecular scale laboratory.
Chen Dong, and the cooperation of researchers testing ancient ceramics Miao Jianmin, director of Research Laboratory, told reporters through modern precision instruments, composition analysis of ancient ceramics and help make more accurate of ancient pottery identification, and to reproduce the lost of the provide the basis for the ancient firing techniques.
Taipei’s National Palace Museum collection of 25,000 pieces of porcelain, about 95% of Beijing Forbidden City. These ceramic treasures a collection of Ru, the government and Colombia, will be, Jun Sung Top 5 famous kilns of the representative, as well as a large number of Ming and Qing dynasties fine. Known as the peak period of ancient Chinese ceramics Kang, Yong, dry enameled porcelain, Taipei National Palace Museum collection of more than 300 pieces, accounting for the vast majority of the world’s stock. In order to further reveal the ancient mysteries of ceramic firing process, the Taipei National Palace Museum’s heritage science labs are starting to test the purchase of new equipment, plans to conduct more analysis of ancient ceramics research.
“Porcelain enamel process has long been monopolized by the Qing court, this technique will be in the future Qianlong was gradually lost. Pairs of porcelain enamel process research, is the National Palace Museum in Taipei, one of the key research subjects.” Chen Dong Ho says. And he is currently studying the subject, it is porcelain enamel paints on the sources and usage analysis.
In this laboratory, Chen Dong, and colleagues used the Beijing Forbidden City of Beijing Forbidden City Raman spectroscopy to provide a sample of ancient ceramics were tested to study its composition and molecular structure of the relevant.
“Although only a small piece of debris, in the spectrometer under a wealth of information is disclosed, including the ceramic raw materials and firing process technology.” Chen Dong, and said the two sides if the future of the National Palace Museum’s lab a number of common issues in partnership will help unlock the mystery of a number of ceramic technology.
“Kung Fu” Fun Western Bell
“National Palace Museum moved to Taiwan, taking into account the conditions of transport, had to abandon the ‘body’ heavy more than 1000 pieces of the palace clock, only take away some of the small clock and pocket watch. 60 years, due to the lack of repair technicians and restoration of Taiwan’s experience and did not repair these clocks. “Chen Dong Ho says. Therefore, the Qing repairing clocks and watches as the two sides were also the first collaborative research projects Forbidden City.
Only three repair divisions of Beijing Forbidden City Room bear here to watch more than 1500 blocks watches repair work. According to the masters of Qin Shi Ming introduced here, the Beijing Palace Museum collection of clocks and watches produced at the court in the 18th century to the early 20th century. Both the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland and other Western countries during the industrial revolution, the representative, but also in the Qing Dynasty palace built to do independent research and development at work. Court Watch as the “emperor’s toys”, not only has to go, the RBI’s functions, but also to acrobatics, magic, turn flowers, music, Diego water ever-changing performances.
Sweep aside the magnificent palace clock shell, revealing a complex transmission system, who studied mechanical engineering in Chen Dong, and there is a feeling of both familiar and strange. “A lot of watches there are many sets of transmission, each transmission there are many parts. How the connection between them? What is the role of each part? If there is no masters pointing really not easy to understand . ”
The Imperial Palace is a kind of watch and clock repair techniques rely on the traditional words and deeds, which by virtue of experience and memory of the craft by way of inheritance has not changed. Chen Dong, and the “masters”, Qin Shi-ming, 63, has been in the Forbidden City Table Group’s work for 35 years.
In the Qin Shi-ming, masters of the “Inspiration”, the Chen Dong, and gradually worked out the maintenance of the royal family watch the technical know-how. He pointed to the clock to be demolished down a bird, told reporters: “only is to study the vibration of its wings and the call and spent a lot of time, and now it has been repaired.”
An eye-opener for Chen Dong and repaired clocks and watches also had their own ideas. One hand, he carefully follow the old master who studied the principle of ever-changing linkage to record the precious repair notes; the other hand, the internal clocks of the mechanical structure will draw up and use the camera to record the repair process. He believes that if these fix the data made public, will help people understand the history of the early scientific and technological development.
Chen Dong, and for the idea of, Qin-ming, said that it was the older generation had never thought of the problem. “Very creative, interesting, certainly support.”
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