日批在线视频_内射毛片内射国产夫妻_亚洲三级小视频_在线观看亚洲大片短视频_女性向h片资源在线观看_亚洲最大网

US EUROPE AFRICA ASIA 中文
Culture

Palace Museum clock repairman keeps history in time

By Wang Kaihao ( China Daily ) Updated: 2016-02-02 07:35:41

Palace Museum clock repairman keeps history in time

Wang Jin repairs antique clocks at the Palace Museum, which houses 1,500-odd such royal treasures. Photos by Jiang Dong/China Daily

Wang Jin has been repairing antique timepieces at Beijing's Palace Museum for decades, in a job that keeps him close to some of the world's most unique collections. Wang Kaihao reports.

Perhaps, what 55-year-old Wang Jin deals with everyday are the liveliest exhibits housed in the Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City.

Since the reign of Qianlong (1735-95), many made-in-Europe clocks (most of which came from the United Kingdom), were donated or ordered by China's royal families, whose interest in these exotic machines lasted until the final days of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).

These royal treasures inevitably lost their luster due to old age. However, almost every clock which has passed through Wang's hands gets its shine back and ticks again.

However, despite the dazzling appearance of the treasures, his studio looks like a factory workshop from decades ago-gray and smelling of kerosene.

"The layout here is almost identical since I first came here," he says, staring at his 60-square-meter studio hidden in maze-like alley in a closed section of the museum. "Well, maybe we have some advanced lathes."

When Wang was young, he used to take care of his ailing grandfather, who was a longtime librarian at the Forbidden City, and this made him a familiar face to other museum staff. In 1977, when his grandfather passed away, he was allowed to take a job in the museum, though he had just graduated from junior high school.

He was assigned to the antique clock department. It took him about two years to hone his skills.

And now, his small department has developed some of the world's best antique clock repairing techniques.

Wang is not a talkative man who brags about his skills, but a recent popular three-episode TV documentary, Masters in the Forbidden City, shows this behind-the-scenes hero to the public again.

"What I do is not different," says Wang. "The basic work of clock repair in the palace is similar to what others do elsewhere.

"But it is almost impossible to be confronted with so many timepieces with such complications elsewhere. This makes everything different."

Previous Page 1 2 3 Next Page

 
Editor's Picks
Hot words

Most Popular
 
...
主站蜘蛛池模板: 亚洲在线视频播放 | 久热精品视频 | 艳母动漫在线免费观看 | 欧美激情在线观看视频 | 三级五月天 | 久久精品蜜桃 | 操综合网| 欧美a视频 | 美女视频毛片 | 成年人视频在线观看免费 | 九一在线| 张津瑜国内精品www在线 | 久久成人综合 | 中文字幕在线日亚洲9 | 亚洲在线视频观看 | 精品国产三级 | 国产伦精品一区二区三区四区视频 | 黄色在线免费视频 | 亚洲精品黄 | 四虎视频国产精品免费 | 99国产精品一区二区 | 亚洲第一黄网 | 成人免费看片'在线观看 | 国产永久 | 久久国产精品久久久 | 久久久国产精品久久久 | 一本色道久久综合亚洲精品酒店 | 久久精品视频中文字幕 | 五月婷网 | 69老司机| 中国av免费 | 黄色免费网站在线看 | 免费看av在线| 国产欧美精品区一区二区三区 | 日韩精品久久久久久久 | 成人免费视频a | 国产成人免费观看 | 影音先锋国产在线 | 在线观看精品视频 | 综合99 | 亚洲a视频在线观看 |