Staff members repair a piece of broken porcelain at the archaeological workstation under the management office of Yuanmingyuan in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 24, 2020. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang)
BEIJING, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Recently, Beijing's Yuanmingyuan, or the Old Summer Palace, has launched the third phase of a restoration project to repair broken cultural relics that had been unearthed.
The Old Summer Palace was sacked and destroyed in 1860 during the invasion of Anglo-French allied forces.
Staff members repair a piece of broken porcelain at the archaeological workstation under the management office of Yuanmingyuan in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 24, 2020. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang)
A staff member reconstructs unearthed porcelain fragments at the archaeological workstation under the management office of Yuanmingyuan in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 24, 2020. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang)
A staff member lays a glazed building component to be repaired at the archaeological workstation under the management office of Yuanmingyuan in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 24, 2020. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang)
A staff member uses an airbrush to add glaze color to a piece of porcelain under repair at the archaeological workstation under the management office of Yuanmingyuan in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 24, 2020. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang)
Cultural relics restoration expert Wang Mian shows a repaired glazed building component at the archaeological workstation under the management office of Yuanmingyuan in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 24, 2020. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang)
A staff member lays a repaired porcelain at the archaeological workstation under the management office of Yuanmingyuan in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 24, 2020. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang)■
