Re-creating ancient history
Team of specialists painstakingly restores Huizhou-style houses by replacing missing components with carefully crafted replicas, a complex job requiring patience and broad knowledge, as Zhu Lixin and Ma Chenguang report in Hefei.
As one of six members of an ancient architecture restoration team, Li Changyun has already spent eight months collaborating with his colleagues on reassembling an old, two-story residence that was removed from its original site in a rural village years ago. But the complicated work is far from completion.
Before working on the centuries-old Yuan De House, which literarily means house of great virtue, the team reassembled four such old residences in the private Anhui Yuanquan Hui-Culture Museum, located in Shushan district of Hefei, capital of East China's Anhui province.
