A palace door, double world. Through a thousand years of mystery, the daily in their hands。
As a result of the hot airing of the documentary " my relics of the palace " , the mysterious veil of the palace was slowly lifted, and wang jin, the adorned watch repairer, was "pronounced" by his friends。
From 22 to 30 march, wang zin and his son, chen jianda and chen shuxiang, together with their cousins, held an exhibition called “the seal of time” at the wenzhou city museum, where wang zin and his pupil, zun nan, met and spoke with the citizens of the vast majority of wenzhou in the cultural centre of deer town to share their 40-year-old thoughts on the restoration of the clock at the palace。
As a result, journalists were able to communicate closely with this “moscow of the omnibus” and to enter into the inner world of his quiet appearance。
A craftsman like him
There's only a few people in the world
For 40 years, the clocks that he had repaired through his hands were numerous. According to authoritative sources, everything he fixes is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and those who, like him, are able to independently repair very complex ancient clocks are now only a few people around the world。
In 1601, italy's missionary rimardi gave more than 40 tributes to the emperor of ming dynasty, which included a small one or two western watch, which the emperor praised as a god and played more than one. From then on, the solemn city of the forbidden city began the time of clock counting, and the sound of clocks flowing became the voice of the masters of the subsequent forbidden city who loved to listen to it until the emperor reached his peak, became the largest collection of clocks in the world at that time, and made a national effort to search for him around the world. The clock repair technique in the forbidden city was also born in a thousand calendar years and peaked in the middle and late chong dynasty。
For more than 300 years, the clock repair technology at the palace has never been disconnected. Around the end of the month, a small number of clock maintenance staff, including xu wenwei, continued to work in the palace. After that, xu wenjun raised four students, xu fangchu (son of xu wenjun), bucking tong, ma yulyan and chen hoo, who became second generation heirs to the restoration of the ancient clocks。
Today, wang jin, a third-generation messenger, has taken over his apprentice, junan. This technology has been maintained and has been included in the list of intangible cultural heritage at the national level, and wang jin and yanan have become national masters and well-deserved craftsmen。
I hope i'm getting older
Could fix a few more bells
Wang zin's great-grandfathers and grandfathers all worked in the palace, and he loved the greatest palace in the world since he was a child. In 1977, he began working at his home for 40 years。
“the restoration of clocks is a lifelong business for craftsmen, and now there are more than 1,600 objects of clocks in the palace, all of which will take generations to repair. What we are doing now is rescue repairs, not protective repairs, because there are too few people. Every clock you've been handling is a relic of value, some of national treasures, and people are afraid to do it." wang jin said, "i can't remember how many bells i've fixed, about 200 or 300 in 40 years, and i really wish i could grow older and fix a few more bells for the palace."
On one occasion, a viewer broke a window of glass in the palace, causing damage to a sitting clock that was displayed in the window。
The damaged glass windows belong to the original showroom of the palace of the palace. This palace was built in the 15 years of ming young lok, when it began to be known as the palace of yenkun, where two generations of wives lived. And when the queen of the queen of mercy lived in the house of suu kyi, every great holiday there was a prayer from the princesses. In "the story of whispering", the princess of hua lives in the palace of yenkun。
Her highness' clock was sent to wang jin for repair. Wang jin stated that the clock, called the copper-plated, gold-squirting legal person, was a collection of 18th century british-made second-class national relics。
Chen suh-sang showed wang jin on the scene the composition of the japanese 100-year-old clock
Although the damage was serious, wang jin was very good at repairing it, because there were only two pieces of the bell from the british factory, and the failure to repair the palace was a major loss of the national antiquities, so the responsibility for the antiquities was historical。
As a result of the restoration of wang jin, this precious relic was restored as it was at first sight, and returned to the palace of the princess hua。
“i have been to many large museums in the world, and the western watch collection of the palace is, by comparison, the richest in the world. It is because of the love and importance of many generations of emperors, and through the tireless efforts of the clock mechanics for centuries, that we have the great treasure of today's human watch art.” wang jin is proud to say。
“the clocks of the palace are characterized by complex and unique performances, particularly in the qinji, kang-hee and kan-tao, which are essentially precious toys of the emperor.” wang jin said, “we have repaired many of the clocks, and since foreign experts have visited them, we have been impressed by the fact that they have been loaned to various parts of the world, and this has placed greater demands on our restoration skills, and many foreign experts have found it difficult to fix them, and we will do our best to fix them in the palace, which is also proud to be one of the world's largest museums.”
“there is no reason why we should not be able to fix the clocks in this era of greater technological development, since they can make them at that time, compared not only with foreign experts, but also with modern masters and craftsmen. The difficulty for us is that we do not allow any slippage, that we have the antiquities in our hands, that the restoration process is irreversible, that once the relics are damaged, we will be ashamed of the others, and that, in many cases, the pressure on me and our colleagues is great, but the pressure is too great, because if you don't do it, no one can do it.”
Wang zin, who is a young man, said that this is a time for determination, because indeed in his field, if he does not do it, there is really no one to do it。
What the palace did
There's people in civil society
Every day, wang jin will ride his 1986 phoenix bike, arrive early in the morning and start a long day of work. His monthly salary is less than tens of thousands of dollars, which in beijing is no better than the value of the artifacts he handles, like the glow of fireflies and the moon. But that is the light of the fireflies, which makes the light of the moon an elegant display to the world。
Before the red document, "i'm going to build my palace " , the story behind the palace's relics was almost unknown, but as the documentary was broadcast, the net members of the palace came to the stage to be known。
Wang jin and yannan
“i never thought i was red, red is the relics of the palace and the palace, which is a good thing. For a long time, because of low incomes and the absence of young people, many young people who studied industrial design and mechanics came to join us to join us, and we will have a few young people who graduated as doctors this year.”
“with my skills, i can certainly get myself a better income, but i just like to fix clocks in the palace, and i can't bear to see so many precious things in the warehouse of the palace. It took me 40 years to fix 200 or 300 of them, and if i want to fix all the clocks in the palace, at least two or three generations more, so i'm going to have to fix them until the day i can't fix them。
“for hundreds of years, our heritage and character of our nation has been shaped by these national treasures, and our history as a nation's self-confidence is a cornerstone of our chinese dream.” this is a passage in " my relics of the palace " , which speaks of the significance of the ancient palace for the nation, the value of which is not only in the relics themselves, but also in cultural heritage。
Left: chen shuxian, wang jin, chen jianda, yannan
Wang zin found it a good thing that this 100-year “stamp of time” show was held in wenzhou, where he said: “the state and local governments now attach great importance to cultural heritage and non-remain protection. As part of the upcoming declaration of the zhejiang provincial non-inheritance project, the display of the clocks collected by chen zhangda and chen zhiqiang's sons over the last 100 years was a good example. Next, we will establish a long-term partnership that will bring the clock repair technology to wenzhou. Most of the clocks in the palace are clocks that reflect the traditional chinese culture and the western features of the qing era, while chen's father's son's collection is mainly a reflection of the development of the clock from the end of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century, with strong support from the various levels of government in wenzhou. That's why i have to come to wenzhou to see this exhibition, so what the palace is doing must be good if people are doing it.”
The talk to wang jin has always felt like a spring wind, and this warm, humble, committed and inner-most treasurer, like your master, has come to you patiently, like an old friend who has known you for many years, telling you the story of him over the years, which seems to be flat but vast。
