Good cultural relics restorers are even rarer than cultural relics
2023-05-29
Holding a spray gun in one hand and ceramic pieces in the other, a cultural relic restoration technician is conducting ceramic restoration. The table was filled with design drawings, several dark brown bottles, and two paint trays with dozens of different pigments. Another cultural relic restorer wrapped his left index finger around gauze, held the bronze ware with four fingers, and held a rust removal tool in his right hand, carefully "beautifying" the cultural relic... These scenes come from the scene of the 2022 National Cultural Relics Industry Vocational Skills Competition held recently in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province. In this competition, the organizers provided 149 cultural relics such as ceramics, metals, and murals. 219 contestants from 27 provinces (districts, cities) competed on stage, and after 14 hours of competition, a total of 74 contestants won first, second, and third prizes. How attractive is a cultural relic restorer as a new profession to young people? What difficulties do young people face when they want to join? To this end, a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Network conducted an interview. The team of cultural relic restorers is eager for more young people to join in 2016. With the broadcast and popularity of the documentary "I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City", cultural relic restorers, who were originally a niche profession, have entered the public eye. In 2021, the "National Vocational Skills Standards for Cultural Relics Restorers" (hereinafter referred to as the "Standards") were introduced, and cultural relics restorers, as a new profession, received a lot of attention. Cultural relic restorers have entered the Occupational Classification Code of the People's Republic of China Occupational Classification Canon and have specific division of labor and industry standards, which has also gone through a long process. In 1999, China's first "Classification of Occupations" was issued, in which there were no cultural relic restoration workers, only "cultural relic restoration workers". It was a profession in the category of cultural relic protection workers under the sixth category of "production and transportation equipment operators and related personnel", and under the category of radio, film and television production, broadcasting, and cultural relic protection workers. "Before the official promulgation of the Standard, the National Cutural Heritage Administration organized a meeting for the preparation of the standard. That morning, I ran in front of the hotel and saw the words" National Professional Skill Standards for Cultural Relics Restorers "on the LED screen at the door. At that moment, I could not help but cover my eyes. Years of research and exploration are finally bearing fruit." Zhang Xiaotong, a researcher at the Education and Training Institute of the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage, is the Standard The main participant in the formulation of the standard, she said in an interview with a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Network that the standard involves 13 career directions and 65 career levels, mainly including four parts: career overview, basic requirements, job content, and weight table. In fact, for the purposes of the Standards We have been working hard for nearly 20 years to introduce, from the establishment of professions, to the comprehensive revision of the definition of profession names, and to clarifying the skill standards for each profession direction. Not only can it fundamentally ensure the quality of cultural relic restoration, but it also provides guidance for the cultivation and use of talent in cultural relic restoration. This has increased confidence for young people to enter this field, and the team of cultural relic restorers is eager for more young people who have undergone professional learning and training to join Zhang Xiaotong said. Zhang Xiaotong provided a set of data to reporters from China Youth Daily and China Youth Network: As of the end of 2019, China has registered approximately 766700 immovable cultural relics, 108 million movable cultural relics per set, and currently has various types of cultural relics
Edit:Luo yu Responsible editor:Wang er dong
Source:China Youth Daily
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