「破壊性修復」 - Living, Loving, Thinking, Again

五角楓「朝陽雲接寺令人髪指的修復」http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_435f91d10101f7h9.html
Tania Branigan “Chinese temple's garish restoration prompts outrage” http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/22/chinese-temple-restoration-qing-dynatsy-china
新華社「網友質疑遼寧朝陽雲接寺修復”粗製濫造” 古寺壁画変”大紅大緑”」http://quxianlianmeng.radiotj.com/system/2013/10/21/000451556.shtml
遼瀋晩報「朝陽古寺清壁画遭”破壊性修復”」http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2013-10-16/160028450562.shtml

遼寧省朝陽市*1の雲接寺*2の清代の壁画の「修復」があまりにアレなこと、繊細な線画が単純化されべた塗りになってしまった等々が某bloggerに告発され、雲接寺が含まれる「鳳凰山風景区」の管理責任者が更迭される騒ぎになっている。
『ガーディアン』の記事から中国一般の問題に敷衍している部分をカットしておく；

Li Zhanyang, an archaeologist with Henan's Culture Relics Bureau, condemned the local government as "uneducated, unreasonable and ignorant of the law". It warned that similar incidents happened each year.
"They just use the name 'restoration' for a new project," he said.
He complained he had not heard of anyone being punished with legal action in such cases, adding: "We have the law, but we don't implement the law."
He Shuzhong, the founder of Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Centre, said most restorations were "over-restored". Experts as well as officials lacked understanding of the value of cultural relics and the need to preserve the original – rather than recreating or altering it. They also wanted to finish projects quickly, while real restoration was a process of scientific research requiring time rather than high levels of investment, he said.
"China's modern circumstances … lead to the situation where either no one cares about the cultural relics, or there is over-investment, and over-restoration," he added.
But He also blamed the Chinese public's aesthetic standards.
"Most Chinese people do not enjoy the beauty of ancient, real ruins. Instead, they like dazzling, new, high, big things … The restoration of old architecture, in the hutongs [narrow alleys in cities with traditional courtyard houses], at Badaling [a stretch of the Great Wall] and the Forbidden City are like this."

ところで、日本の「ラッセン」*3談義が好きな方々の感想もお聞きしてみたいとは思う。また幸いにして、雲接寺の仏塔には「破壊性修復」は施されていないようだ*4。

*1:http://www.zgcy.gov.cn/ See eg. http://baike.baidu.com/subview/4971/5596308.htm

*2:See eg. http://www.51766.com/jingdian/1100007019.html

*4:http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_5f9ebe7001017upv.html