Xu Bo Forum | A brief account of the protection and restoration of painted pottery figurines unearthed from the Tomb of the King of Chu at Beidongshan

Speaker: Zhao Xiaowei (member of the Cultural Heritage Museum, director of the Cultural Heritage Science and Technology Department of Xuzhou Museum)
Lecture time: 10:00-11:30 am, February 18, 2023 (Saturday)
Lecture venue: Academic Lecture Hall of Xuzhou Museum
Number of applicants: under 30 (adult audience over 18 years old)
Reservation method: free of charge, scan the QR code below to make an appointment
Attention: Please arrive at the academic lecture hall ten minutes in advance, wear a mask and scan the code to sign in.

Introduction to lecture content

In 1986, a number of painted pottery figurines were unearthed from the tomb of the King of Chu at Beidongshan in Xuzhou, especially more than 220 painted terracotta figures in the niches, which are as bright as the original and lifelike as human beings. This batch of painted pottery figurines, even today, are the best preserved, the most colorful and the highest historical and artistic value in the Western Han Dynasty unearthed by archaeology in China.

In the Cultural Protection Science and Technology Center of Xuzhou Museum, there are a group of unknown "cultural relic doctors" who are stripping the cocoon to regenerate the original broken cultural relics and protect the cultural heritage that has been eroded by years. Everyone has their own expertise. With the awe of cultural relics, they overcome all kinds of difficulties and continue the life of cultural relics in obscurity for many years.

After more than 2000 years of underground burial, these terra-cotta figurines have inevitably suffered from various diseases. What protection measures have been taken after excavation, how to protect and repair them after 30 years, and what new understanding have been gained in the process of restoration. In this lecture, the Xuzhou Museum invited Zhao Xiaowei, director of the Cultural, Conservation, Science and Technology Center of the Xuzhou Museum, to review the protection process of the painted terra-cotta figurines in Beidongshan, and also introduced the basic procedures for the protection and restoration of cultural relics.

Introduction to the keynote speaker

Zhao Xiaowei, graduated from the Cultural Relics Protection Technology Department of the College of Culture and Museum of Northwestern University in 2002, has been engaged in the work of cultural relics protection and restoration since the same year, and has successively undertaken the restoration and restoration of copper wisps and jade clothing unearthed from the Han Tomb in Lali Mountain, the restoration and restoration of gold wisps and jade clothing in the collection of the museum, the cleaning and restoration of jade inlaid lacquer coffins unearthed from the No.2 Tomb in Dayun Mountain The restoration and restoration of the jade inlaid lacquer coffin unearthed from the tomb of King Chu at Shizishan and the protection and restoration of the painted pottery figurines unearthed from the tomb of King Chu at Beidongshan.