New cast iron lion of Cangzhou Botou to complete the design life of 2000

January 28, a major social concern in the iron lion of Cangzhou new company in a cast completed Botou.
Iron Lion of Cangzhou in China"s earliest extant, large-scale cast iron art treasures. After more than a thousand years of wind and rain, and now serious corrosion of iron lion body and the cracking phenomenon appears to rely on support bracket. Last year, the Changzhou municipal government decided to re-cast iron statue of a lion, placed in the Lion City Park.

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Cangzhou City Cultural Relics Bureau, Botou Foundry Association, 17 units of experts and scholars on the iron lion of heritage, technology, materials and other issues of discussion demonstrated, the final identification of new iron lion is about 7 meters high, about 8 meters , body width of 4.2 meters, is 1.32 times the original iron lion design "life" for 2000. New within the hollow iron lion wall thickness of 5 cm, gray iron casting material to the main process uses solid casting, resin sand pit shape. In addition, iron lion in the new design process, the experts combines mechanics, aesthetics, various elements in the original iron lion Jichu adding a tail, the whole Shi Qi more perfect shape.

According to reports, this respect for the new Iron Lion monomer estimated 80 tons of weight, the overall height of the domestic top cast.