What does restoration mean?

Repairing is a process of making or restoring cultural relics, ancient books and other cultural heritages, usually with the help of highly skilled craftsmen and professionals, through a variety of processes and materials for processing and treatment. In traditional Chinese culture, restoration has an extremely important position, is regarded as an important means of inheritance and promotion of traditional culture.

China's history of restoration is very long, in ancient times, many emperors have attached great importance to the restoration of ancient books. In the Tang Dynasty, there are many famous scribes and calligraphers to devote themselves to the restoration work. They not only made topography and reproduction of ancient books, but also reproduced and organized different styles of calligraphy, such as cursive and official script, thus leaving many precious fragments of valuable ancient books for future generations.

With the change of the times, modern means of restoration have undergone great changes, and although modern technology has made it easier for us to preserve and restore cultural relics and ancient books, many traditional crafts of restoration are facing great challenges due to the scarcity of raw materials, the shrinking of manual skills and other problems. In order to make these valuable cultural relics and ancient books better preserved, we need to pay more attention to and support the restoration work more widely, and continue to explore and innovate, so that these precious cultural heritage can be better inherited and developed in the future.