CENTURY HISTORY

With eyes that see through millennia, he established the order and standards for modern Chinese painting restoration.

Entering the trade at 15 and founding Jin Yi Zhai at 25, he became the personal restorer for Shanghai masters like Wu Hufan and Zhang Congyu. He built a complete business ecosystem from material sourcing to top-tier connoisseurship. His standardized educational model remains globally recognized as the most efficient paradigm, while core secrets were strictly kept within the bloodline. He is the starting point of Jin Yi Zhai and an insurmountable cornerstone in modern restoration history.

In 1954, entrusted by the National Cultural Heritage Administration, he went north to establish the Palace Museum's painting restoration studio, taking on the heavy mission of rescuing the endangered national cultural lineage.

Dedicating over 40 years to restoration, Mr. Zhang built the standardized paradigm for cultural protection in New China. He led his team to rescue-restore ancient treasures like the Warring States silk paintings and Mawangdui artifacts, and advanced traditional techniques into the digital dimension. He nurtured generations of museum pillars, standing as a true defender of the national cultural lineage.

Born into a family of restorers, she inherited a century-old legacy, becoming the guardian and inheritor of the national-level ancient painting mounting and restoration craft.

Sitting quietly at the restoration desk for over 30 years, she deeply integrated family secrets with modern scientific conservation. In the microscopic processes of washing, removing, and inpainting, she restores ruined ancient paintings to their former glory. As a national inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, she herself is a living history book of Chinese painting conservation.

The last heir of the Forbidden City, born and raised within its walls, carrying the mission far from home.

Shouldering the entrustment of four generations, he calibrates the coordinates of Chinese legends in contemporary world civilization from the empirical perspective of global laboratories.

He made a highly strategic choice: declining invitations from top museums to embed Jin Yi Zhai's techniques into the research ecosystems of world-class universities. From the Smithsonian to the University of Michigan Museum of Art, he fuses traditional restoration philosophy with top educational models. This is not just curation; it is a global dialogue on how Chinese legends continue to evolve in the digital age.