On June 5438+1October 12, Zhao came to the museum again, made a detailed record of the materials and objects, and photographed the remains of Princess Ming from different angles. 65438+1October 19, Zhao, who returned to Shenyang, plunged into the laboratory and made his first attempt without rest. Before his formal rehabilitation, Zhao consulted a large number of historical and folk materials of the Ming Dynasty and made a detailed study of people's lives and costumes in the Ming Dynasty. He put on his reading glasses and continued to operate on the computer. After dozens of hours of intense work, on October 22nd, 65438/kloc-0, the first photo of a 60-year-old princess was recovered. According to the analysis of physiognomy experts, the similarity of this map is over 95%. This is the first photo restored for the ancients in China. According to the "Police Star CCK-Ⅲ System", the age characteristics can be enlarged or reduced at will. He restored two photos of Princess Ming in her twenties and thirties. These two photos of youth show the beautiful face of Princess Ming. Round face, slender eyebrows and eyes, small mouth, there is a sense of intelligence between the brow. These three restored photos have been enlarged and placed in the exhibition hall of Jiangxi Provincial Museum for the audience to watch. A scientific investigation team composed of multidisciplinary experts from China found a large number of natural mummies on a sandy mountain in Lop Nur Desert. Moreover, due to the high temperature and windy climate in the desert, many mummies have maintained good facial features for many years. There is no doubt that studying these mummies has considerable academic value. Among the many mummies, there is a famous mummy, which people call Loulan Beauty. After learning this news, Zhao once again started a severe challenge to time. He tried to uncover the veil of time and restore the original appearance of Loulan beauty. Prior to this, Zhao had begun the restoration of many ancient figures and was faced with some relatively complete information. However, there are relatively few materials available for the restoration of Loulan Beauty.
Zhao is still doing his work in an orderly way. During the three years of restoring Loulan's beauty, Zhao's hard work is unimaginable. Sometimes in order to find an eyebrow, we have to compare hundreds of faces with different eyebrows back and forth, and then finally determine the most suitable choice. Compared with the appearance before death, the similarity rate of the restored Loulan beauty can reach more than 90%. For Zhao, restoring ancient portraits is only a sideline, but he can still feel his great efforts and achievements. By the end of Loulan Meiren, the appearance restoration of 14 ancient corpses has been completed, which has produced good social and economic benefits. The restoration of ancient people's faces in Zhao has never stopped. In March 2002, Hunan Provincial Museum asked him to restore the female corpse of Mawangdui in Changsha more than 2,200 years ago. This is the wife of Li Cang, the prime minister of Changsha in the Western Han Dynasty. Her name was Xin Zhui, and she was about 50 years old when she died. Zhao stroke by stroke, unconsciously entered a hazy state. When he was young, Xin Zhui suddenly appeared in front of him ... Xin Zhui was more beautiful than Princess Ming, and it was more difficult to recover this time because of the long excavation time and large deformation of the body. For more than ten nights, Zhao seems to have traveled through time and space and returned to the time when Xin Zhui lived. He savored Xin Zhui's psychology. On April 19, four portraits were successfully restored. 18 years old shocked the world, 30 years old mature charm, 50 years old vicissitudes.
Wu Cheng'en, a novelist in the Ming Dynasty, a beautiful girl in Loulan, Xinjiang, and the mummy of Tutankhamun, the Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty ... one celebrity after another became the object of Zhao's restoration. He * * * completed the restoration of 16 ancient Chinese and foreign figures, among which 14 ancient figures appeared in perfect form on the stamp of ancient Chinese and foreign figures in Millennium Review. In May 2008, the news that the head of the most famous Pharaoh Tutankhamun in Egypt was successfully restored by experts from Egypt and other countries attracted global attention. Coincidentally, on the same day, Ye Zhao, a professor at China Criminal Police College, completed the restoration of the China version. Recently, with the special reputation of "Chinese detective painter" and "founder of China's criminology", he completed the restoration of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses I. The Pharaoh lived for 96 years and had 150 children, with the most achievements.
China's Pharaoh is 90% similar.
Author: How did you come up with the idea of restoring the young Pharaoh?
Zhao: I have long had the idea of repairing the Egyptian Pharaoh. In April this year, a friend in Beijing sent me a newspaper with a CT image of a young Pharaoh. I went online to find the original picture and a lot of information. Through careful observation of CT films, I felt that I had the conditions for recovery and officially began to resume work on April 27.
Author: Have you encountered any problems in the process of recovery?
Zhao: After the first draft of 1 came out in May, everyone was dissatisfied-they looked thin, like China people. After two days of thinking, I found that the crux lies in the fact that all the five senses in the inventory are made by China people. I reanalyzed the CT film and found that Lao Wang's eyes were bigger, and his nose root was not too high, but his nose was wider, his teeth were everywhere, his lips were thick and his forehead was particularly large. Mastering these characteristics, I re-created my five senses, and then adjusted the color, which felt very similar. I think the image similarity of China's restored Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun can reach 90%.
Author: Comparing the restored pictures of Tutankhamun's head between the Egyptian version and the China version, there are great differences between the two versions: the Egyptian version of Pharaoh looks dignified and beautiful like a woman, while the China version of Pharaoh looks thin and childish.
Zhao: Egyptians have straight heads, wide noses and good eyes. But eyes, nose and mouth look more like Mona Lisa in oil painting. According to another record, Tutankhamun was only 18 years old when he died, but the Egyptian version of Pharaoh seems to have reached the age of 27 or 28.
Author: Why do you think foreign versions are different?
Zhao: The data taken by foreign experts are the same, and the instruments and equipment used, such as CT scanners and 3D software, are exactly the same. The way to recover is actually to scan the mummy to millimeter. Then using three-dimensional technology, plus the thickness data of soft tissues such as skin and fat, it is restored to a three-dimensional portrait. But this method can't restore the details, and it's not easy to show his personalized eyes and expressions. Restoration is just to restore the original image, like this. Resurrection has expressions, including people's mental outlook, expressions and thoughts, which is very important.
Author: What is the significance of restoring Pharaoh?
Zhao: It is also the pride of China people to respect the Egyptian people and ancient civilization. Sometimes, looking at the head of the completed young Pharaoh, I feel that his body thousands of years ago was left to me for this moment today. The young Lao Wang stared at me, and I could feel his expectation and yearning, even what he wanted to say to you.
Restored a historical figure who caused a sensation in the world.
Author: Up to now, you have completed the restoration of 17 ancient bodies of Princess Ming, Lady Xin Zhui, the female corpse of Mawangdui Han Tomb, Wu Cheng'en, a writer of Ming Dynasty, Loulan Beauty, Pharaoh, etc. How did you restore the five senses of a found corpse?
Zhao: The police star portrait simulation combined system developed by me and Northeastern University can not only paint the suspect, but also copy the eyes, nose and lips of the deceased according to the skull of the deceased and the theory of "three courts and five eyes", and then simulate the portrait.
Author: Please give a concrete example to describe the recovery process.
Zhao: For example, restore the beauty of Loulan. Firstly, the X-ray of Loulan's female corpse was scanned into the computer, and her "three courtyards" and "five eyes" were measured to determine the width and length of her face, and the positions of her brow ridge, eyelashes, eyes, nose bridge and lips were calculated. Then draw the inner and outer eyeliner, alar line, nasal bottom line and hairline on the skull. Referring to the photos of Loulan's female corpse and related materials, five facial features matching the skull were found from the system component library. Finally, it is made with the knowledge of aesthetics, anthropology and medicine.
Author: Where did you get the five senses in the computer?
Zhao: I mainly go to prisons to take pictures of prisoners or the labor market, and there are also students in universities. After taking photos, they will be scanned in categories and stored in the photo folder. Usually, I have the habit of carrying my camera with me. When I see people with distinctive facial features, I will take pictures of them. This system can combine 9 billion different portraits. Repairing ancient bodies is only Zhao's hobby, and his main energy is devoted to criminal investigation and painting suspects. Not long ago, Zhao used CCK portrait simulation software, which condensed his painstaking efforts for more than 30 years, to help the police solve the first case of deaf-mute girl abduction in China. A 19-year-old girl from a school for the deaf was rescued on the third day after the portrait came out. Over the years, Zhao has participated in more than 600 cases nationwide and helped solve more than 300 cases. Among them, 100 is a major national case.
Every day, the phone in Zhao's office keeps ringing, and calls from all over the country are asking for his portrait. Besides going out to handle cases, Zhao stays in the office almost all the time, even the Spring Festival is no exception. Every time I hear the news that criminals have been arrested and people praise me, Zhao feels very busy.
Social conscience and sense of responsibility are all Zhao has. At present, a folk body has been found in the restoration work. Zhao restored a group of historical figures who caused a sensation in the world, but they didn't get a penny in return. He said he was satisfied to leave information for history.
Zhao invented many patents. Once, an American paid a huge sum of money to buy the "rescue connector for arterial rupture" he invented, and he flatly refused. Zhao doesn't want Americans to make money from Chinese people after putting it into production ... Despite all kinds of regrets, Zhao is still immersed in his own world day after day, doing what he should do.