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28 May 2012 Editor: Su Yanxian, Lu Xiaofeng 5991-0729 skysea2929@163.com 3 Old craftsmen repair relics with an eye for authenticity Liu Jingxian and Qian Tong relatively easy if craftsmen stuck to Temple, a 3.35-meter sculpture of Con- and made the parts one by one, then the renovation blueprint. However, fucius is seated in a big shrine. Chen combined these parts together. Finally hanghai Changshuo Construc- Xu, with over 40 years of experience, Hongye, now 57 years old, restored the he restored the shrine. tion Decoration Engineer- wanted everything to be authentic. Af- shrine and still remembers how dif- ing Co is the only company ter checking the designer’s blueprint, ficult it was. Ancient buildings S in Shanghai’s suburbs with a Xu realized a lot of details were simply The shrine in the temple was an When repairing Huilongtan Park for qualification certificate for relic pro- not local. For example, the curved antique. When repairing the temple the first time, workers found it dif- tection projects in the city. patterns of the roofs were more often in the 1980s, the shrine was badly ficult to design eaves tile on ancient The company has a group of experi- used in gardens while the residential damaged. Since there were no design buildings. Without the original mould, enced masons and carpenters. When houses in Zhouqiao Old Street always papers, Chen could only imagine how Pan Yunxing designed a wooden one. repairing Zhouqiao Old Street, Hui- had flat roofs.