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Act III Metrology of the Ancient Tea-Horse Road

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 The revelation of the bronze gilt watch clock At 11:05 midnight, I touched the lotus pattern of the bronze gilt watch clock on the west side of the Baohe Hall. This was the closing time specially approved by CET. Mr. Li, an expert on ancient clocks and watches at the Palace Museum, gently pushed the knob, and the gears of the Swiss clock machine made in 1799 suddenly engaged, emitting the same time-telling sound as two centuries ago - history was embodied as a tangible sound wave at this moment. Act I: Book Revitalization Experiment In front of the simulated photocopy of the Yongle Encyclopedia in Wenyuan Pavilion, we wore special microscopic gloves and used the "butterfly binding" technique of the Northern Song Dynasty to repair the remaining pages. A professor from the History Department of Peking University demonstrated how to judge the fire disaster memory of this great book during the Jiajing period from the binding traces of the "leap" character. The sudden r...

The dividing line written by water

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  All memories of the Central Plains begin with a liquid wound. When the snow water of Tongbai Mountain and the rain water of Funiushan embraced at the Huai River, this great river , which was called one of the "Four Rivers" in "Yu Gong", was destined to become the dividing line drawn by the heaven and earth with a level. The willows on both sides of the Huai River know that their branches leaning to the south and their trunks bending to the north are the river bowing to the geography of China. Chapter 1:  The dialectics of water The ferry crossing at Zhengyangguan understands the temperament of the Huai River best. When the peach blossom flood comes in March, the river water will submerge the iron bulls that guard the river in the Ming Dynasty to the horns, but it will reveal the mottled inscriptions on the sluice built by the Soviet Union in 1954. The oars of the ferryman Lao Zhao always draw question marks in the vortex - his father used this boat to transport th...