1In July, 963, after graduating from the history department of Peking University, facing the choice of Beijing and Shanghai, Fan Jinshi resolutely chose a small town in the west thousands of miles away and never left Dunhuang again.
For more than 40 years, Fan Jinshi has been devoted to the archaeological research of grottoes. Using the method of archaeological typology, she completed the chronological work of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes in the Northern Dynasty, Sui Dynasty and Early Tang Dynasty in stages, which became the recognized chronological achievement of Dunhuang Grottoes in academic circles. The Hundred Years Review and Prospect of Dunhuang Grottoes Research written by her is a summary and reflection on Dunhuang Grottoes research in the 20th century. The 26-volume large-scale series The Complete Works of Dunhuang Grottoes, edited by her and published by Hong Kong Commercial Press, is a concentrated display of Dunhuang Grottoes research in the past century.
From 65438 to 0998, after Fan Jinshi became the president of Dunhuang Research Institute, he led scientific researchers to embark on a practical road in the scientific protection and management of grotto sites, and initially formed some theories and methods of scientific protection of grottoes. Fan Jinshi first put forward the idea of using computer technology to realize the permanent preservation of Dunhuang murals and colored sculptures. She organized Dunhuang Research Institute and Zhejiang University to apply for the National Natural Science Foundation project "Multimedia and Intelligent Technology Integration and Art Restoration". This project focuses on Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, which is the first time that Mogao Grottoes are presented to people with multimedia and intelligent technology.
Since the mid-1980s, Fan Jinshi has actively sought international cooperation in the protection and research of Dunhuang Grottoes. With the help of UNESCO, Dunhuang Research Institute has successively carried out cooperation projects with institutions in Japan, the United States and other countries, which has gradually brought the protection research of Dunhuang Grottoes into line with international standards.
In July 2004, Fan Jinshi was awarded the title of "National Outstanding Professional and Technical Talents" by four ministries and commissions. On August 14, Gansu Province held a symposium on Fan Jinshi's advanced deeds. As usual, Fan Jinshi dresses simply, showing her free and easy nature. Over the past 40 years, the sandstorm in the Gobi Desert has integrated the roughness and openness of the West into the heart of this 64-year-old Jiangnan woman.
Fan Jinshi closely combined the protection and rational utilization of cultural relics. On the basis of full investigation and study, three cultural relics protection and utilization projects, such as "Mogao Grottoes Sand Control Project" and "Digital Dunhuang Museum Project", were put forward, and a grand blueprint for the protection and utilization of Dunhuang cultural relics in the new century was constructed.
Since the mid-1980s, Fan Jinshi has taken the long-standing problem of Dunhuang Grottoes as a cooperation topic and actively sought international cooperation. Her Dunhuang Research Institute has successively carried out cooperation projects with Tokyo National Institute of Cultural Property, American Getty Protection Institute, American Mellon Foundation and other institutions, which has created a precedent for international cooperation in the field of cultural relics protection in China and achieved a series of research results.
With more than 40 years of persistence and persistence, Fan Jinshi wrote the ordinary and greatness of a cultural relic worker; Her pioneering and innovative work in the protection, research and management of Dunhuang cultural heritage has made her peers in the world proud. Fan Jinshi, the daughter of Dunhuang, is willing to protect Dunhuang with her life.
1963, Fan Jinshi graduated from Peking University and trudged all the way to Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes in the depths of Gobi Desert. Today, at the age of 73, she has white hair and is still working hard for Dunhuang cultural relics.
In Dunhuang for more than 40 years, the protection work has become the most important work of Fan Jinshi, and has also achieved the most fruitful results.
From mural disease prevention to cliff reinforcement, from environmental monitoring to sandstorm control, Fan Jinshi, together with the protection workers of Dunhuang Research Institute, has been exploring and innovating in various fields of Dunhuang heritage protection. It is under her leadership that Dunhuang heritage protection has opened a new chapter and embarked on the road of scientific protection.
Fan Jinshi clearly realized that in the face of such splendid cultural heritage, it is not enough to rely solely on people and technology to protect it, but also to legislate and formulate protection plans. Under her advocacy and promotion, the Regulations on the Protection of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes and the Master Plan for the Protection of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes have been promulgated and implemented in recent years.
Fan Jinshi has served as deputy director, vice president and dean of Dunhuang Cultural Relics Research Institute. Fan Jinshi led scientific research, cooperated with international excellent cultural relics protection institutions, and constantly introduced advanced protection concepts and technologies into Dunhuang heritage protection.
Driven by Fan Jinshi, Dunhuang Research Institute cooperated with many foreign scientific research institutions, and applied a large number of advanced technologies and concepts to the protection of Dunhuang heritage, which improved the preservation environment of Dunhuang cultural relics and improved the safety factor.
Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes is the first batch of cultural heritage listed in the world cultural heritage list in China, and Fan Jinshi is well aware of the social responsibility of world cultural heritage. With her active advocacy and promotion, the contradiction between protection and utilization is being solved, and a brand-new "digital Dunhuang" is coming to people.
At the end of 2008, the protection and utilization project of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes was officially launched. In this huge protection and utilization project, in addition to basic projects such as cliff reinforcement, sandstorm control and safety, we should also use modern digital technology to complete the shooting, processing and database construction of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes 149 A level caves, build the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes Visitor Center, and provide viewers with a new perspective to understand Dunhuang culture, art and value through modern display means such as digital movies.