Chinanews client, Beijing, September 8th (Reporter Shangguanyun) As the process of urbanization is accelerating, "how to better protect cultural heritage today" seems to be a question that people need to think about.
On the 7th, Shan Jixiang, president of the Chinese Society of Cultural Heritage, was a guest at the famous lecture hall of the 18th Beijing International Book Festival.
In an hour and a half, he shared many stories about world heritage and also talked about the various experiences of fire prevention and theft prevention in the Forbidden City.
More and more young people start to like the Forbidden City
In fact, when it comes to China's world heritage, the Forbidden City is undoubtedly one of the most famous.
Shan Jixiang often laments that he grew up in a Beijing courtyard house, but he did not expect to go to Beijing’s “largest courtyard house” at the age of 57 and become the dean of the Palace Museum.
Data map: On July 30th, tourists visited the Forbidden City in Beijing.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Du Yang
In order to prevent fire, Shan Jixiang said that the Forbidden City continues to develop new fire-fighting equipment, and small-scale fire-fighting equipment is also developed for small courtyards and alleys.
All employees of the Forbidden City shall participate in the fire fighting games to improve fire fighting skills and awareness.
More important is preventive protection.
At the beginning of 2013, the Forbidden City started a three-year environmental renovation, including 10 indoor contents and 12 outdoor contents.
The Forbidden City is also resolutely de-commercializing and has built a comfortable audience service area.
"Today, everyone is walking on the central axis of the Forbidden City, and we can't see any commercial landscape that affects our magnificent environment of the ancient buildings in the Forbidden City." Shan Jixiang said.
Temporary buildings, including the colored steel house, were quickly demolished.
As a result, Nansan obtained to reproduce the original appearance.
The Nandaku area has become a furniture hall, and the small plaza on the east side of the Cining Palace has become an exhibition venue. The peony exhibition is held in spring and the chrysanthemum exhibition is held in autumn.
He was delighted to see that the proportion of visitors had changed a lot: Beijing citizens began to enter the Palace Museum, and more and more young people began to like the Forbidden City and the Forbidden City.
The Palace Museum is becoming a cultural oasis in people's lives.
From point to surface: How to protect cultural heritage?
The start of the world heritage protection movement is not too long.
In 1972, the "World Heritage Convention" that is often referred to today was born.
China joined it in 1985, and in 1987 there were the first batch of "world heritage".
Data map: Shan Jixiang.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Du Yang
In the following decades, the number of world heritages owned by China has gradually increased, and people's understanding of how to protect them has gradually deepened and their horizons have become broader.
Shan Jixiang mentioned an event in the past: "When Wutaishan submitted an application for heritage, we went to the site to see that all more than 20 locations needed remediation." Just after environmental remediation, the artistic conception of "Ancient Temple in Deep Mountains" returned. , This is the power of culture.
The protection of cultural relics to cultural heritage is gradually expanding from point to surface.
So, can the living Grand Canal be protected as a whole?
Many people, including Shan Jixiang, have made unremitting efforts for this.
In the process of applying for the World Heritage Site, they re-understood the Grand Canal. "The Grand Canal is not only a river that has flowed for thousands of years, but also has rich cultural and natural resources."
It is also in the above process that they analyzed a large number of cultural landscapes that need to be protected, so that the protection of a canal has become a process of changing the concept of cultural heritage protection as a whole.
Integrate archaeological sites into social life
Cultural relics, archaeology... This seems to be something that has nothing to do with ordinary people's daily life.
But Shan Jixiang believes that archaeological sites can also make people feel.
Data map: Shan Jixiang.
Photo by Jin Shuo, China News Network reporter
"In 1961, the Daming Palace site was announced as a national key cultural protection unit." Shan Jixiang said that in 2005, the Hanyuan Palace site was protected and displayed.
Later, the entire Daming Palace site was planned as an archaeological site park.
He mentioned that today, the Daming Palace Archaeological Site Park is still under construction, but it has shown some magnificent landscapes.
For example, a semi-underground museum was built, and an archaeological exploration center was built at the same time to become a field for young people to learn about archaeology.
The establishment of this archaeological site park inspired Shan Jixiang a lot.
He summed it up as “five gains without losing”. For example, cities have access to large-scale cultural parks; the people really get benefits; the spirit of the city has also been improved.
He believes that in the process of protecting cultural heritage, we must pay more attention to the overall protection, and we must be determined to change its long-standing problems, so that it can truly enter people's social life.
What is the most important aspect of cultural heritage protection?
Whether it’s the Forbidden City or the Grand Canal, at a deeper level, perhaps people should think about, “What is our purpose of protecting cultural heritage today?”
Data map: The 100th lecture of the "Forbidden City Forum" was held in the Palace Museum in Beijing, and Shan Jixiang gave a lecture on the theme of "Expressions in the Palace Museum".
Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Guanguan
"The two most important points of cultural heritage protection are the inheritance from generation to generation and the public participation." Shan Jixiang concluded that today these cultural heritage protection concepts have entered thousands of households, and our cultural heritage protection is shared by hundreds of millions of people. Career.
As a result, he felt that the right to know, the right to participate and the right to supervise, and the right to beneficiary of cultural heritage protection should be informed to the community and the public to the greatest extent, so that people can form a common protection force.
"Protection is important, utilization is important, but they are not the most important. What is really important is to pass on the splendid culture created by our ancestors through our hands, through our age, and pass them on to future generations." He said.
Sharing the stories of world heritages, Shan Jixiang hopes that they can go to the future through our tangible protection actions.
For the Palace Museum, it has also realized an ideal: to hand over the magnificent Forbidden City to the next six hundred years.
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