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Businessman collects some 10,000 ancient Buddhist sculptures A local businessman in east China has collected more than 10,000 ancient Buddhist sculptures from almost every historical period in the country. Dou Baorong, 60, is now chairman of board of directors of Shandong Sida Industrial and Trade Company in the city of Zhucheng, east China's Shandong province. Judging from his family tree, Dou acknowledged that he was the eighth descendant of a renowned court scholar named Dou Guangnai in imperial Qing Dynasty (1644-1911 a.d. ). Piling up in two company storehouses, the vivid, life-like sculptures, dating back from the Northern and Southern Dynasties ( 420-589 a.d.) to Qing Dynasty ranged widely in height, from only 0. 3 meters to four or five meters, and only one tenth of them were marked with years and dates, said Dou. According to Sun Xuehai, connoisseur of the National Committee for Cultural Relics Authentication and Preservation, Dou's most valuable collections are those made in the Northern and Southern Dynasties (420-581) and the bigger and taller ones made in the ensuing Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD) and Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), which rated the top of the kind. The 10,000-strong sculptures were succeeded from the ancestors and the rest were collected during the past four decades after the 1960s, said the owner. It was very rare to collect a profusion of Buddhist sculptures and protect them by oneself, noted Sun, who suggested the local government and collectors set up a special museum to protect these priceless cultural relics. |
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