The Terracotta Warriors and Horses are exhibited in the United States in compliance, and if they are

The terracotta warriors and horses were sent to the United States for exhibition, which can be regarded as a way of cultural relics exchange, the so-called cultural relics exchange is the cultural exchange between two regions or countries. Of course, the Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Exchange Center said that there is no protection value if it is not exhibited, and such a statement is obviously problematic in the understanding of cultural relics. Is it true that you have to wait until something goes wrong before you can protect it?

For example, the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is still not allowed to be excavated, so does it have no protection value? But today, February 22, the news published by Science and Technology **. The stolen thumb has been recovered, China and the United States are in communication, and in accordance with the agreement and legal procedures previously agreed by both parties, the incident is being handled in an orderly manner, and the exhibition will continue as usual.

However, for this report at the time, the most critical sentence of this issue was not raised: "If you don't exhibit it, there is no protection value".

Terracotta warriors and horses are cultural relics, and cultural relics do not necessarily have to be exhibited to have their own value.

This is the culture inherited by the Chinese nation, and it is something left by the ancestors, which must be well protected.

The terracotta warriors and horses are ancient Chinese culture, and we should respect and protect the culture. This statement is simply ridiculous.

Should be exhibited. There are such terracotta warriors and horses, you just say that you don't let people see who knows, besides, you should let future generations see the craftsmanship of the skilled craftsmen of the older generation.

The Terracotta Warriors and Horses are precious historical and cultural relics, and the protection of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses is to better reflect their value. However, it cannot be simply said that if it is not exhibited, it has no protection value, and even if it is not exhibited, it has the value of studying ancient history, culture, military, technology and many other aspects. To use an inappropriate analogy, exhibiting is like beating a rabbit in the grass – just a side hustle.

The exhibition reflects its use value, of course, it has its positive significance, but it must be exhibited under the premise of good protection, if you look at the exhibition with the thinking of a businessman, and pursue the maximization of practical interests, it will cause irreparable damage to the terracotta warriors and horses, and reduce the value of its existence. In fact, the mobility of the terracotta warriors is directly proportional to its efficiency, and inversely proportional to its security. Therefore, it is necessary to reduce external exhibitions as much as possible, implement protective measures, and do a good job of market evaluation and the best exhibition plan before each exhibition, so that it can receive the desired effect.

The value of cultural relics is not determined by the number of people on display and viewers, what determines the value of a cultural relic? It is the culture it contains, the history it represents, the events it participates in, and so on, rather than simply limiting the value of cultural relics to whether they are exhibited or not. What age is it now?

Is it worth protecting foreigners? Our value of protection is to be cut off by foreigners? Is it damage to cultural relics?

Many of our experts keep saying that the quality of Chinese needs to be improved, but is the quality of foreigners necessarily high? Not necessarily. You can see it from this incident.

In any country and any race, there are those with high quality and those with low quality, and we cannot generalize from one side to the other. For the Cultural Relics Bureau, there is no value of cultural relics if they are not exhibited, and in my opinion, this is a legitimate reason to make money for themselves. If the conclusion is established in advance, all the cultural relics will go out for a walk and bring a lot of income to the Cultural Relics Bureau, won't it become a tool to make money?

According to reports, the cause of the accident was that the American Museum did not close the exhibition halls after closing, allowing people who were partying on the side to slip in; Then the finger was broken for 18 days before they discovered the problem. Although I agree with the cultural relics expert in Shaanxi Province who said, "With the improvement of people's literacy, those who can be exhibited should not be nested, and those who can be exhibited naked should not be exhibited in the cabinet as much as possible." "But we should also see that in the country to the terracotta warriors, or the figurines are separated, and there is no opportunity to come into contact with, in foreign countries is a naked exhibition, people can shuttle in the terracotta warriors and horses casually, so that foreign friends can feel the charm from the ancient oriental countries to the greatest extent, but also do not forget, although the people's literacy is improving, there are also some people who ignore the rules, not only in China, but also in many foreign countries.

It is ridiculous that we should not relax our vigilance because we feel that the foreign masses are of high quality!

Why does outreach have to be done? Why does terracotta outreach have to be done? Let's not talk about the significance of exchanging Chinese culture and so on, but let's ask, such as the British Museum Exhibition of 100 Objects and the Exhibition of Afghanistan's National Treasures, which have caused huge repercussions in China in recent years, and some of them have even gone to more than one domestic city, have made a great contribution to enriching the cultural life of Chinese audiences?

Because we choke on food, we wait for others to send us, but we cover things and don't show them to others, which is something that immature countries may do. The Terracotta Army, on the one hand, has a deep mass base abroad, on the other hand, there are many of them, and the exhibition conditions are relatively sufficient, so it is reasonable for it to become the protagonist of outreach. The bronze chariots and horses of the terracotta warriors and horses are not allowed to go abroad because they are too cherished, so they are not allowed to go abroad to exhibit more than 300 cultural relics, such as the four sheep Fangzun, Xiao He Yuexia chasing Han Xinyuan blue and white, etc., these national treasures foreigners can only come to China to see.

In October last year, I traveled to Xi'an and visited the Terracotta Warriors! In 1974, several farmers fought drought and dug wells and found that they were all crooked and fragmented! The Terracotta Warriors and Horses Standing in front of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum are less than 2,000 pieces, less than a third!

The restoration of these terracotta warriors is also extremely delicate and intricate, and it takes three to five months to restore a terracotta warrior! First of all, classify the excavated terracotta warrior fragments, and then match and splice them one by one, and you can find 3 to 5 pieces that match the broken terracotta warriors and horses in a day, which is very good! A series of measures such as modern equipment are also used to formulate a repair plan!

And those terracotta warriors and horses waiting to be repaired still need to be wrapped in plastic film to slow down the rate of oxidation in the air! With the help of modern restoration technology, the experts strive to bring these historical imprints back to life! Therefore, even if the terracotta warriors and horses are exhibited, they should be cautious!

A certain amount of security measures! Although the material civilization has improved, there are still people with low quality! And going to the United States to exhibit is obviously lacking in security!

After all, its restoration is also time-consuming, labor-intensive, and costly! The purpose of excavating it is to pass on the culture of our ancestors to the world! Show me that my Chinese culture is broad and profound!

The Franklin Museum was ridiculously wrong about the broken finger. According to reports, the cause of the accident was that they did not close the exhibition hall after closing, allowing the people who were partying on the side to slip in; Then the finger was broken for 18 days before they discovered the problem. What is good about managing a lax museum like this?

We must be held accountable. Some people asked if there was any problem with the Shaanxi cultural relics exchange department. I thought that theoretically speaking, it was unlikely that the Shaanxi side would have kept an eye on whether the doors of the American Museum were locked tightly every night, and it was unlikely that they would send a staff member of their own to check the exhibition hall every day.

Think about it from another perspective, if this is the case, then there is indeed some distrust of the partner. Of course, we should find reliable foreign museums to cooperate, but how to define "reliable" or not? Of course, the work should be done in too detail, for example, in the future, how to review the undertaking unit of the outbound exhibition?

Can we achieve more oversight of the undertaking through regular reporting, etc.? There are still a lot of outreach in China every year, and this incident can be regarded as a wake-up call: it is also very scary for foreigners to be unreliable.

I have traveled to Xi'an and visited the Mausoleum Museum of Qin Shi Huang in Xi'an. The No. 1 pit of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses was discovered in 1974 when several farmers fought drought and drilled wells, and when it was opened, it was also fragmented and crooked. The restoration work is quite time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it can take 3 to 5 months to restore a single terracotta army, and archaeological conservators can find fragments that match the terracotta warriors in a day.

Three or five films, the work results that day are quite good! It is also necessary to formulate a splicing repair plan according to the fragments sorted out, and the matching terracotta warriors, and according to the observation of the inner and outer surfaces of the terracotta warriors. It may be a few simple words to summarize the work, but the actual difficulty of the work and the degree of patience required may be far beyond what we think!

Since such a delicate and complicated restoration work, the incident of our exhibition of terracotta warriors and horses in the United States also exposed that our staff who went to the United States to exhibit cultural relics did not consider the safety of the exhibition, and the local exhibition institutions did not really do the security work! Although the material civilization of the American people is highly developed, there are still people with low quality, and there may be some special enthusiasts! Therefore, with the help of modern restoration technology, archaeologists are trying their best to "preserve" the imprints left by these histories.

Let me inherit the Chinese civilization to the world and show my Chinese long-standing culture!

In fact, the reason why this terracotta warrior is not allowed to be exhibited abroad is mainly because it is too peculiar. Because it is currently found in China, the only green-faced kneeling figurine. Most of the other terracotta warriors are either gray or pink.

You must know that the terracotta warriors and horses are the national treasures of our country, even if there are many of these maids, but each one of them is a priceless art treasure. Moreover, scarcity is expensive. The green-faced terracotta warriors and horses are the only ones among our national treasures, and its value must be higher.

In fact, many times, when we ** terracotta warriors, it is not difficult to find that these terracotta warriors and horses are gray or earth-colored. Whether it's looking at ** or visiting a museum, it's hard for us to see terracotta warriors and horses in other colors.

However, in the beginning, the terracotta warriors were not of this color.

Many terracotta warriors and horses, when they were first unearthed, they were basically colorful. However, because these pigments are old and sealed in the soil, they have no contact with the outside air at all, so they can be preserved for so long.

Unfortunately, no matter how well the protection measures are done, there will still be many problems.

Some of these terracotta warriors and horses were unearthed because the air contained a lot of oxygen and water vapor. When these pigments come into contact with oxygen, they are quickly oxidized and lose their original color, and gradually, they become the gray they see now.

However, later people found that there is such a terracotta warrior, after being unearthed, his color has always been green, and after contact with the air, it has not faded.

The experts were amazed when they saw it.

After all, when the other terracotta warriors and horses were unearthed, the colors they saw were basically pink or flesh pink.

However, the color of this statue is different from other terracotta warriors.

In addition, the green mystery of this terracotta warrior has not yet been solved. So, in order to protect this national treasure,The state does not allow this unique product to be exhibited abroad, just to avoid mistakes and irreparable losses when the time comes.

Because the faces of other terracotta warriors and horses are pink, but the face color of this one is green, which is more precious.

It's not because it's too secret, but because that one is not well preserved, so it makes it inconvenient to go abroad so as not to damage it.

Because this terracotta warrior itself is particularly precious, it is easy to be stolen if it is exhibited abroad.

It should be very special, unique, and very valuable for research.

The Great Wall is still there, and Qin Shi Huang is not seen. This is a poem from "Six Feet Alley", at that time many people thought that Qin Shi Huang was no longer there, but only some buildings were left. Although this is true, Qin Shi Huang has infinite vitality.

Until more than 2,000 years have passed, people's respect for Qin Shi Huang is still the same.

After 1962, the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang was listed as the first batch of key cultural relics in China. In 1974, it was discovered that there were terracotta warriors and horses in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, and now it has become a key tourism development project in Xi'an. The original state inside the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is not at the same level as the state that people see when they travel now.

Because at that time, cultural relics experts discovered that there was a mysterious face in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, but this face could only be preserved for 5 minutes. As the time to bind to oxygen was slowly postponed to 5 minutes, the mysterious face could only say goodbye to people.

But fortunately, there was an archaeologist with a camera next to him at that time, and he captured the ** of this mysterious face. In 1976, the state established the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum. At that time, many of China's top archaeologists entered the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang to study the Terracotta Warriors, but when the project slowly progressed, people also discovered that there were many things in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang that people did not know.

When people were not prepared, people continued to delve into the terracotta warriors, and the more they studied, the more something went wrong. For example, in 1986, archaeologists conducted the second large-scale research work, but after digging up a deeply buried terracotta warrior, they found that the terracotta warriors and horses had colors on their bodies.

The terracotta warrior's armor is red, the face is covered with flesh-colored colors, the hair bun above the head is black, and the hair rope tied in the bun is orange-red. The discovery was a big surprise for archaeologists, but it was soon discovered that the colors were slowly fading. At that time, the archaeologists happened to have a camera next to them, so they pressed the shutter and took a picture of a precious colorful terracotta army**.

As for the cause of the fading, archaeologists have now given a more objective explanation. It is said that the terracotta warriors and horses were originally carefully arranged by people before they were put into the ground. Like the colorful terracotta warriors is not a rare phenomenon, but a reality that exists on a large scale.

It's just that with more than 2,000 years of erosion, the color of the terracotta warriors and horses is easy to oxidize.

When people don't take more scientific protection measures, the terracotta warriors and horses will slowly fade their color. This is also one of the reasons why people are reluctant to study the terracotta warriors and horses in depth, because people's science and technology have not yet reached the state of being able to protect the terracotta warriors and horses.