Bronze restoration is a traditional skill that has existed since ancient times. After generations of development, it has become a comprehensive technical system that integrates welding, shaping, patching, and coloring. It has formed two major technical factions represented by the Suzhou School (Southern School) and the Beijing School (Northern School). A group of bronze restoration masters such as Jin Yunsong and Zhang Taien have emerged, occupying an important position in the history of cultural relics protection and restoration. Jin Yunsong, the founder of the Southern School of Bronze Restoration, was a famous "golden coppersmith" in Suzhou during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. He specialized in bronze repair and casting, and was good at repairing and imitating Shang Dynasty bronzes. He had unique attainments in engraving inscriptions. His sons Jin Runsheng and Jin Mansheng not only inherited his skills, but also surpassed him. They were familiar with the shape, style, and decoration of the objects. After they entered the Anhui Provincial Museum, they restored a large number of bronzes unearthed from the tombs of Cai Zhaohou and Cai Shenghou, and took root here, passing down the restoration skills from generation to generation. Today, the Southern Bronze Restoration Technique has been passed down to the fifth generation in the Anhui Museum, which has restored more than 10,000 bronze cultural relics, including the Chu Great Tripod, the Dragon and Tiger Patterned Drum Stand and other national treasures. As the third-generation inheritor, Jin Xuegang won the "Bronze Galloping Horse" Award issued by the Ministry of Culture in 1985, and undertook the three national bronze restoration technology training courses entrusted by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage to the Anhui Provincial Museum from 1985 to 1987, and trained more than 40 bronze restoration technicians for 27 provincial and municipal museums across the country. - On the basis of inheriting traditional restoration techniques, the inheritors Jin Peng and Cao Xinyang have continuously explored and improved traditional craftsmanship, innovatively introduced modern scientific and technological protection means and methods, integrated tradition and technology, and better adapted to the development of cultural relics protection. In more than 30 years of cultural relics restoration work, dozens of restoration projects in and outside the province have been completed, and nearly 10,000 cultural relics have been restored and protected, making outstanding contributions to the cause of cultural relics protection. Information source: Anhui Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center Information source: Anhui Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center