/Pogled.info/ The cold wind howled and blew her disheveled hair, but the girl did not prepare to go home, but skillfully set up the tripod, installed the portable hand-held weather instrument and carefully recorded the wind direction, temperature, humidity and other observation data. She has been engaged in the preservation of the Great Wall of China near Jiayuguan City, Gansu Province for more than three years, and this was her forty-sixth visit to the starting point of the west end of the Ming Dynasty Great Wall of China.
Lu Tintin was born in the 1990s in the city of Jiayuguan. After graduating from college, she returned to her hometown to work on the preservation of the Great Wall of China from the Ming Dynasty.
In the beginning, Lou Tintin worked in an office for two years. In October 2020, she applied to be transferred to a position that would allow her to defend the wall in place. Lou Tintin says with a smile that at that time she wanted to get out of the office and work outdoors, ie. to go to the Great Wall of China to see it up close. Then she realized that it involved about 400 inspections of 30 immovable cultural heritage sites every month, scattered in the mountains and forests of the Gobi desert and off the beaten track.
During his first mission, he had to travel through the Gobi and the sands to reach his destination. The “clay wall” in front of her was quite different from the Great Wall of China in her imagination. Is this also part of the Great Wall of China? The colleague who was with her told her that the Great Wall of China in Jiayuguan is made of local materials and is typical of the northwestern part of the country.
When it comes to the Great Wall of China, Lu Tintin’s thoughts first come to the solid walls of bricks and stones, not the “clay” ones. Although she had grown up under the Great Wall of China, she had never noticed these unwelcoming remains in the past, nor had she assumed that her knowledge was insufficient. After starting work, Lu Tintin decided to refresh what he had learned and borrowed all kinds of materials, consulted with colleagues and experts and constantly enriched his knowledge about the preservation of the Great Wall of China.
Lou Tintin herself does not expect that she will be engaged in this work for more than three years.
Every time she goes out on patrol, she carries different tools and equipment. When he arrives at the inspection point, he launches the drone and surveys the site thoroughly before working with the various measuring instruments to take the measurements of the Great Wall of China. Data is collected, compared, and then various types of protective measures are taken to slow down further destruction as much as possible, laying the foundation for a feasible scientific and reasonable repair program later. Approaching the repaired wall, the difference between its original part is small, even the color is the same.
“The key to good conservation is not to change the original condition of the heritage, not to destroy its value, and to exclude the possibility of its destruction and disappearance,” says Lou Tintin.
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