——When a restrained and rigorous cultural relic restorer meets a deviant mural copyist
Introduction
"Every opening of Song Dynasty celadon is history, and you are the only accident I want to repair."
Lin Zhaoye is the youngest restorer of ancient ceramics in the industry and adheres to the iron law of "minimum intervention". She could endure three months of piecing together a piece of broken porcelain, but she couldn't bear to sit on the subway for ten seconds.
Until one day, the mentor's unruly son broke into her restoration room——
Shen Huaizhou, a mural copyist with no academic background, insists that "the incomplete parts should be completed with contemporary brushwork." He grinds mineral pigments like he is mixing cocktails, copies Dunhuang Feitian and dares to add trendy brand patterns without permission, and always uses cultural relic sample bags as snack bags.
Their tit-for-tat daily routines include but are not limited to:
- She was using X-rays to analyze the glaze composition in the laboratory. He put his head in and asked, "Does this look like a cosmic nebula?"
- He broke the imitation porcelain cup and forced her to repair it: "The cracks are more beautiful than the whole thing, just like your angry expression."
- When she exposed him at an international seminar that "there was no such gold weaving pattern in the Tang Dynasty", he backhandedly released evidence that she secretly used rock music as a means of repairing the BGM.
And when they discovered:
- The imperial kiln kettle she restored contains a political code
- The murals he copied contain clues to the lost kiln site
Those disputes about "protection" and "reshaping" suddenly turned into a joint breakthrough that spanned a thousand years...
"Three principles for the restoration of cultural relics: no touch-ups, no more than the lines, no restlessness——"
"I broke the rules a long time ago." He pointed at her chest, which had been repaired with gold.
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Concept: - When a restrained and rigorous cultural relic restorer meets a deviant mural copyist