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Why the ancient buildings of the Forbidden City should be repaired?

The Forbidden City Museum is one of the very few museums in the world that has the characteristics of an art museum, an architecture museum, a history museum and a palace culture museum at the same time, and it is an important carrier of the cultural heritage of the Chinese nation. Over the past 600 years, the Ming and Qing dynasties have implemented many reconstructions and expansions of the Forbidden City's ancient buildings, and the resulting official-style ancient building construction techniques were included in the National Intangible Cultural Heritage List in 2008.

In 2002, a period of 18 years of the Forbidden City, the overall maintenance and protection of ancient buildings to start the project, the "century of repair" in the world's attention, the Forbidden City, the people are cautious and prudent. "In a sense, the current protection and inheritance of the ancient architecture of the Forbidden City encountered problems, not only craftsmanship and technology, but the understanding and attitude of the problem, that is, what kind of concepts should be treated with traditional Chinese culture and cultural heritage of mankind." Shan Jixiang, president of the Palace Museum, said.

In 2015, in the past on the basis of ancient building repair experience, the Palace Museum selected the Yangxin Hall, Qianlong Garden, Dagao Xuan Hall, the Forbidden City walls of the four urgently needed to repair the ancient architectural complex, as a pilot "research protection project", to explore the repair of ancient buildings, the implementation of a new mechanism and inheritance of ancient building repair.

On September 3, 2018, the research protection project of the Palace of Yangxin officially started, two years and eight months after the launch ceremony. Yangxintian research conservation project is China's first movable cultural relics and immovable cultural relics of the synthesis and research restoration project, the Palace has done a lot of preliminary work for this, including the preparation of the "Yangxintian Research Conservation Project Master Plan", the organization of the research team of the original display, the ancient architecture, indoor cultural relics and their preservation of the environment of the historical documents, protection and management of the history of systematic excavation and in-depth research, to establish 33 Specialized research topics, etc., the importance of which can be seen.