Large as Grottoes in Gansu repair tire clay stone Buddha Tang Dynasty

BEIJING, Aug. 11 Xinhua, Lanzhou (Pu Lina) reporter on the 11th from the Gansu Cultural Relics Bureau, the national key cultural relics protection units in the first 6 large as Grottoes Cave a stone Buddha Tang Dynasty clay tire repair has already begun.

Large as the mountain is located in Gangu County, towering mountains, ancient caves and ancient silk road to financial integration remains an important one, its 6 tires Cave stone Buddha Tang Dynasty clay, face solemn, solemn and quiet and kind, the Weihe River The only one Tang Dynasty Buddha statues.

As a long history, bare and weathered the long-term, the head of the Buddha appeared in the blue paint layer off the left temple, right blue hair and thin layer of mud off; head of poultry manure pollution; chest cracking from a, robes pigment layer powder, partial thin layer of mud cracking; Buddha reliefs on either side of suspended plastic and defective; differentiation rock cliff falling off the body and many other issues.

To this end, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage maintenance funds appropriated $ 500,000 to support the Dunhuang Grottoes Protection Research Foundation, $ 200,000, a total of 70 yuan into the Buddha maintenance work.

It is known that the maintenance by the National Heritage Board for approval, according to "repairing the old old, does not change the cultural status quo" principle, commissioned by the Institute for the Conservation Institute of Dunhuang Buddha lot of repair and reinforcement problems. (End)