Restoring ancient texts a painstaking art
By Liu Jun | China Daily | Updated: 2008-08-26 07:32
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With a microscope, Meng Xiaohong of the Rare Books Restoration Center studies the fiber content of a Peking Opera performance list used about 100 years ago in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) imperial court . Gao Er'qiang |
Bending over a brown scroll unfolded over a huge desk, Hu Yuqing meticulously picked on the edge of a new piece of paper that she had glued to the old scroll with a pair of tweezers. She spread the feathery fibers of the paper, which are less than 0.5 cm long, onto the scroll evenly.
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